KDE Games/Sprint 2011

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Live coverage from the sprint.

• Josef 26.03.: [1]
• Stefan 26.03.: [2]
• Josef 25.03.: [3]
• Stefan 24.03.: [4]
• Leinir 24.03.: [5]

Goals

• Recoat rusty parts of libkdegames.
• Bridge the gaps between kdegames, Gluon and non-KDE games.
• According to the TUD's (venue) motto, Wissen schafft Brücken - knowledge creates bridges. We will look into current scientific work to see how the desktop of the future might be affected.
• Add more bridge puns here.

Space-time coordinates

• Date: Friday-Sunday, March 25-27, 2010
• Location: Technical University Dresden, Faculty of Computer Science, room INF/3080

The venue is also available on Thursday (March 24) afternoon for early arrivers.

Travel from/to Dresden

By airplane to Dresden

Dresden has an international airport (IATA code: DRS). If you plan to come to Dresden via DRS, plan an additional 4 euros for the train from the airport to the city.

By airplane via Berlin

I have found that flights to Dresden often are either seldom or expensive or both. If you plan to fly, you should therefore also try to find a cheaper route to Berlin's airports Tegel (TXL) and Schönefeld (SXF).

Berlin is only 200 kilometres away, and there is an approximately bi-hourly bus service from both TXL and SXF to Dresden for 32 euros (round-trip ticket, can get as cheap as 18 euros with early bird rebate). Of course, this means three to four additional hours of travel.

If you plan to fly to Berlin and take the bus from there, look at the timetable (link above) and enter the times for the bus you want to take into the registration table, too. Count a round-trip ticket (i.e. Berlin->Dresden and Dresden->Berlin) as 32 euros in your travel cost estimation.

By train

German's national railway service is Deutsche Bahn. The target station is "Dresden Hbf", i.e. the main station.

Travel inside Dresden

Reaching the venue by car

There's a good description at the webpage of the Faculty of Computer Science.

Public transit

Dresden has an extensive public transit system. The dominant provider of bus and tram services is DVB. Single-trip tickets cost 2 euros, day passes are available for 5 euros. Those who have booked accommodation via KDE e.V. are provided with day passes for the duration of their stay.

Next to the venue is the stop "Helmholtzstraße" of bus line 85. Day-time service is every 20 minutes. Other near-by stops are "Münchner Platz" (tram line 3) and "Mommsenstraße" (bus line 66). Both lines depart every 10 minutes from the main station.

Reaching the venue by public transit

From the airport...

Take the suburban railway ("S-Bahn") line S2 and exit at "Hauptbahnhof" (main station).

From the main station...

Exit the station through the main entrance hall, and take either tram line 3 (towards "Coschütz", exit at "Münchner Platz") or bus line 66 (towards "Mockritz", "Coschütz" or "Gittersee", exit at "Mommsenstraße"). From there, if you do not have a GPS device, just ask someone for the Faculty of Computer Science. The faculty building has a destinctive look with light green facade elements and atrium.

Tram/foot route from train station to faculty

Lunch and Drinks

On Thursday and Friday, the campus mensa Alte Mensa Mommsenstraße is open from 11:00 till 15:00. Meals cost about 4,50 to 6,00 euros (including 3 euros surcharge for guests). Vegetarian meals and salads are available. They even have Sushi.

On the weekend days, there are some nearby fastfood shops and restaurants with vegetarian options, including Dersim (turkish) and Irodion Pallas (greek), and a number of nice restaurants and cafes in the nearby old village centre of DD-Plauen.

We will have drinks at the venue, several bottles of juice and ginger ale and fruity water. The in-faculty cafe ASCII might also be available, and there are snack vending machines for the really desperate ones...

Program

• Thursday: arrival
• Friday: opening, lightning talk session, lunch, discussion/hacking
• Saturday: discussion/hacking (lunch inbetween)
• Sunday: discussion/hacking (lunch inbetween), departure

Lightning talk session

Friday will start with a session of lightning talks to present our work. Below are the confirmed talks in no particular order:

• Josef Spillner: Welcome - KDE at the Faculty of Computer Science at TUD
• Stefan Majewsky: The state of Project Tagaro
• Josef Spillner: Online gaming infrastructure alias KGGZ
• Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen: The Gluon Vision, and State of the Project
• Please add yourself here if you want to present your work.

Participants

• organizer: Stefan Majewsky (work: Tagaro)
• organizer (venue): Josef Spillner (work: GGZ in KDE)
• further participants: (see field key below the table!)

The deadline for early registration is over. You can still add yourself to the list below if you want to come, but shared accommodation has already been booked, and any additional expenses can only be reimbursed after the sprint.

Name	Email	Work	Arrival	Depart	Est. travel cost	Need sponsor?	Need hotel?	Food	Airport	Flights	Remarks
Laszlo Papp	[email protected]	Gluon	Thursday	Monday	300 EUR	Yes	Yes	Veggie	TXL	Air Berlin 8921, 6436 inbound and Air Berlin 8308 outbound	Train from Berlin
Arjen Hiemstra	[email protected]	Gluon	Friday	Sunday	200 eur	Yes	Yes	Vegetarian	Berlin Schoenefeld	EasyJet 4564 Inbound - EasyJet 4577 Outbound	Train from Berlin
Shantanu Tushar	[email protected]	Gluon	Thursday	Sunday	60 EUR	Yes	Yes	-	TXL	Lufthansa LH178 inbound Lufthansa LH179 outbound	Train from Berlin
Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen	[email protected]	Gluon	Friday	Sunday	300 EUR	Yes	Yes	-	SXF	EasyJet 5409 inbound and EasyJet 5410 outbound	Airport bus from Berlin
Johannes Bergmeier	[email protected]	KSudoku + others	thursday or friday	sunday	125 EUR	no	no	-	-	-	attendance unsure
Jeffrey Kelling		Magnetik Planet	N/A	N/A	0 €	no	no	-	-	-	from Dresden
Julian Helfferich	[email protected]	KBreakout	Thursday	Sunday	10 €	no	no	Vegetarian	-	-	From Berlin
Friedrich Kossebau	[email protected]	Touchscreen/Fullscreen support	Friday 8.52 am Hbf	Sunday evening	30 €	no	no	-	-	-	From Berlin
Felix Lemke		Koushin	N/A	N/A	0 €	no	no	-	-	-	from Dresden

Field description:

• Arrival: When will you arrive?
• Depart: When will you depart?
• Est. travel cost: How much are your estimated travel expenses?
• Need sponsor: Do you need KDE e.V. to pay your travel expenses, or can you afford the travel yourself?
• Need hotel: Do you need KDE e.V. to book an accommodation for you?
• Food: Any restrictions (e.g. vegetarians, vegans, allergies)?
• Work: On what topics, projects will you be working at the sprint?
• Airport: If you're flying, from where do you come? (reminder for booking: Dresden's airport code is DRS)
• Flights: If you're flying, you might want to enter the flight numbers for reference (or for picking you up.)
• Remarks: Got anything more to say?