KDE Mobile/Sprints/November2010-Planning: Difference between revisions

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General

The mobile sprint would be the first sprint with KDE on mobile in mind. The idea here is to put together people from different KDE's sub-projects to discuss about problems that affects them all when going to mobile platforms.

Date

November, 18th - 21th

Location / Travel Information

~~Dublin~~

We couldn't find a place or somebody to organize the sprint in a proper way in this city. Thanks a lot for the people that tried making it happen in Dublin, but it just got harder and more expensive than doing in Berlin. Let's try again Dublin the next time :(

Berlin

Office

Attention: KDAB moved since last time!

KDAB
Tempelhofer Ufer 11
10963 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49-30-5213254-70

Google Maps

Getting there by public transportation:

subway lines U1 or U6 to "Hallesches Tor"
subway lines U1 or U7 to "Möckernbrücke"
bus line M41 to "Hallesches Tor" (leaves from Berlin Hauptbahnhof)

Getting in:

If the big front door is closed, there is a door bell on the right, labeled 'KDAB'.
After passing the main gate, there are two options:
- Take the stairs on the right, go up one floor, take the door on your right and go up one more floor. You'll find a door labeled KDAB in front of your with a door bell on the right (that one might need some more pressure to trigger).
- Be lazy and go through the second big door right in front of you, turn right and take the entrance to the elevator on your right. KDAB is on the second floor.

Hostels

http://www.meininger-hostels.com/ -> starting at €8,67 / night
Hallesches Ufer 3 Berlin D-10963 Berlin
tel: +49 (0)30 9832 1075

http://www.meininger-hostels.com/ -> starting at €8,67 / night
Tempelhofer Ufer 10 D-10963 Berlin
tel: +49 (0)30 983 21 075

http://www.grandhostel-berlin.de/ -> starting at €18,00 / night
Tempelhofer Ufer 14 10963 Berlin
Tel:  +49 (30) 200 95 45-0
Fax: +49 (30) 200 95 45 15
email: [email protected]

Public Transportation

Some general notes on public transportation in Berlin, more relevant this time with hotel and office not in walking distance from each other.

Reginal trains/S-Bahn/U-Bahn/Tram/Bus Tickets

Zones

Everywhere you need to go is covered by the 'AB' zone tickets, with the exception of SXF, for that you need one for the 'ABC' zone.

Buying Tickets

Tickets can be bought at ticket machines which you'll find at every station and the bus stop at TXL. On stations with long-distance connections you might find two types of ticket machines, use the ones labeled 'BVG' in black on a yellow square, not the ones labeled 'DB' or 'Deutsche Bahn'.

Ticket machines always take coins, and sometimes bills and ec cards (no credit cards IIRC).

Prices and Price Optimizations

Single trip costs 2.10€ in 'AB' zone and 2.50€ for 'ABC'. The ticket if valid for a single trip (including changing trains, as long as you go roughly into one direction) for all means of transportation listed above, ie. you don't need two tickets when switching from S-Bahn to U-Bahn for example. Tickets have to be stamped before entering the train once.

There are a number of optimizations though:

You can purchase a batch of four tickets at once ("4 Fahrten Karte"), which costs 8€ for 'AB'.
If you plan to do more than 2 trips a day, purchase the day ticket instead, 6.10€ for 'AB'.
If you do two trips a day with 4 or 5 persons, consider the group day ticket ("Kleingruppenkarte"), which costs 15.90€ for 'AB'.
If you only travel for three stops, there is the short trip ticket which costs 1.30€. This might be interesting in combination with the next option.
If you are traveling together with a local who has a monthly ticket, one additional person can tag along for free after 20:00 on workdays and during the entire day on weekends and public holidays.

Schedule

Schedule can be checked online (see link below), which makes sense when traveling outside of the normal working hours on weekdays (where trains go every 5 minutes). During weekdays service ends at around 1am. On weekends, public holidays and nights leading up to those trains usually go all night but only every 15 or 20 minutes.

More Information

Local transportation in Berlin

Subway and railway map of Berlin

Taxis

Taxi to TXL costs 20-25€, taxi between office and hotel around 10€. So, if you order a big one this might actually be the cheapest and most comfortable way to travel between office and hotel.

Airports

There are currently two active airports in Berlin: Tegel (TXL) and Schönefeld (SXF). Make sure you know which one to go to, picking the wrong one has only happend to locals so far and you don't want to change that :)

TXL is not connected to any train line, but there is a shuttle bus (called 'TXL') leaving in front of the terminal building towards the city center.

SXF has a station for both regional trains (red 'B' on white square) and a S-Bahn line (white 'S' on green circle).

Berlin airport website (includes airport maps etc.)

Agenda

Qt-Components and KDE
KDE PIM mobile
Plasma mobile
Results of the KDE Session on MeeGo Conference
Deal with the stuff that we already discussed during Akademy
Experiences with MeeGo Touch

Participants

Name	Email	Arrival	Depart	Cost	Sponsor?	Hotel?	Food	Work	Airport	Flights	Option (Dublin or Berlin)	Going to MeeGoConf anyway?
Artur Souza	[email protected]	TBD	TBD		Probably no	Yes	no restrictions	Plasma and Qt-Components	REC		Berlin	Yes
Alexis Menard	[email protected]	TBD	TBD	TBD	Probably No	Yes	no restrictions	Plasma-Mobile	OSL		Berlin	No
Bart Cerneels	[email protected]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Vegetarian
Stefan Majewsky	[email protected]	Thu ~12:00 (estimated)	Sun ~12:00 (estimated)	145 € (flight to Dublin) or 40 € (train to Berlin)	TBD	TBD	no restrictions		DRS	to Dublin	Berlin	No
Marco Martin	[email protected]	At MeeGo conf	TBD	TBD	Yes	Yes	no restrictions	Plasma/QML/QtComponents	mxp/bgy
Volker Krause	[email protected]				not needed in Berlin		no restrictions		TXL/SXF
Friedrich Kossebau	[email protected]	at MeeGo Conf (estimated)	Sun ~12:00 (estimated)	4x50 EUR + 80 EUR (flight back) (estimated)	TBD/not needed in Berlin		no restrictions		TXL/SXF		Berlin	Yes (estimated)
Sebastian Kügler	[email protected]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	no restrictions		AMS
Anselmo Melo	[email protected]	TBD	TBD	~1700EUR	TBD	TBD	no restrictions	Plasma and Qt-Components	REC		Berlin	Yes
Stephen Kelly (maybe/partial)	[email protected]				N/A	N/A	No restrictions
Chani	[email protected]				unless in berlin		veggie
Aleix Pol	[email protected]	At Meego conf					np	KDE Edu			Dublin	Yes

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 November, 18th - 21th
-==Place==
+== Location / Travel Information ==
-'''''Dublin''
+<del>'''''Dublin''</del>
-The place: <del>Tog (Dublin shared workspace - http://www.tog.ie/)</del> ''looking for alternatives in Dublin''
+We couldn't find a place or somebody to organize the sprint in a proper way in this city. Thanks a lot for the people that tried making it happen in Dublin, but it just got harder and more expensive than doing in Berlin. Let's try again Dublin the next time :(
-Places to stay:
+'''''Berlin''
-''(prices for 4 person room or better)''
+=== Office ===
-* Hotel:
-* Hostel:
-** [http://www.avalon-house.ie/index.html Avalon House]  '''€18'''
-** [http://www.abigailshostel.com/ Abigails Hostel]  '''€22'''
-'''''Berlin''
+<b>Attention:</b> KDAB moved since last time!
-The place: KDAB's office
 <pre>
@@ Line 45: / Line 39: @@
 ** Take the stairs on the right, go up one floor, take the door on your right and go up one more floor. You'll find a door labeled KDAB in front of your with a door bell on the right (that one might need some more pressure to trigger).
 ** Be lazy and go through the second big door right in front of you, turn right and take the entrance to the elevator on your right. KDAB is on the second floor.
+=== Hostels ===
+<pre>
+http://www.meininger-hostels.com/ -> starting at €8,67 / night
+Hallesches Ufer 3 Berlin D-10963 Berlin
+tel: +49 (0)30 9832 1075
+</pre>
+<pre>
+http://www.meininger-hostels.com/ -> starting at €8,67 / night
+Tempelhofer Ufer 10 D-10963 Berlin
+tel: +49 (0)30 983 21 075
+</pre>
+<pre>
+http://www.grandhostel-berlin.de/ -> starting at €18,00 / night
+Tempelhofer Ufer 14 10963 Berlin
+Tel:  +49 (30) 200 95 45-0
+Fax: +49 (30) 200 95 45 15
+email: [email protected]
+</pre>
+=== Public Transportation ===
+Some general notes on public transportation in Berlin, more relevant this time with hotel and office not in walking distance from each other.
+==== Reginal trains/S-Bahn/U-Bahn/Tram/Bus Tickets ====
+===== Zones =====
+Everywhere you need to go is covered by the 'AB' zone tickets, with the exception of SXF, for that you need one for the 'ABC' zone.
+===== Buying Tickets =====
+Tickets can be bought at ticket machines which you'll find at every station and the bus stop at TXL. On stations with long-distance connections you might find two types of ticket machines, use the ones labeled 'BVG' in black on a yellow square, not the ones labeled 'DB' or 'Deutsche Bahn'.
+Ticket machines always take coins, and sometimes bills and ec cards (no credit cards IIRC).
+===== Prices and Price Optimizations =====
+Single trip costs 2.10€ in 'AB' zone and 2.50€ for 'ABC'. The ticket if valid for a single trip (including changing trains, as long as you go roughly into one direction) for all means of transportation listed above, ie. you don't need two tickets when switching from S-Bahn to U-Bahn for example. Tickets have to be stamped before entering the train once.
+There are a number of optimizations though:
+* You can purchase a batch of four tickets at once ("4 Fahrten Karte"), which costs 8€ for 'AB'.
+* If you plan to do more than 2 trips a day, purchase the day ticket instead, 6.10€ for 'AB'.
+* If you do two trips a day with 4 or 5 persons, consider the group day ticket ("Kleingruppenkarte"), which costs 15.90€ for 'AB'.
+* If you only travel for three stops, there is the short trip ticket which costs 1.30€. This might be interesting in combination with the next option.
+* If you are traveling together with a local who has a monthly ticket, one additional person can tag along for free after 20:00 on workdays and during the entire day on weekends and public holidays.
+===== Schedule =====
+Schedule can be checked online (see link below), which makes sense when traveling outside of the normal working hours on weekdays (where trains go every 5 minutes). During weekdays service ends at around 1am. On weekends, public holidays and nights leading up to those trains usually go all night but only every 15 or 20 minutes.
+===== More Information =====
+[http://www.bvg.de Local transportation in Berlin]
+[http://www.bvg.de/index.php/de/binaries/asset/download/21115/file/1-1 Subway and railway map of Berlin]
+==== Taxis ====
+Taxi to TXL costs 20-25€, taxi between office and hotel around 10€. So, if you order a big one this might actually be the cheapest and most comfortable way to travel between office and hotel.
+==== Airports ====
+There are currently two active airports in Berlin: Tegel (TXL) and Schönefeld (SXF). Make sure you know which one to go to, picking the wrong one has only happend to locals so far and you don't want to change that :)
+TXL is not connected to any train line, but there is a shuttle bus (called 'TXL') leaving in front of the  terminal building towards the city center.
+SXF has a station for both regional trains (red 'B' on white square) and a S-Bahn line (white 'S' on green circle).
+[http://www.berlin-airport.de Berlin airport website] (includes airport maps etc.)
 ==Agenda==