1st Marble Developer Weekend Sprint, Nov. 5-7 2010

We'd like to invite all people who are interested in Marble Development: may it be through coding, graphics design, promotion, packaging, documentation, website or other areas. You have an interesting story to tell about Marble? You'd like to make Marble a great educational tool? You've built some software based on Marble? You're a Marble newbie and you'd like to get involved with KDE-EDU or Marble development? You dream of Navigation and Routing with Marble? -- We'd like to see you at the sprint!

Dates

The Marble Sprint will be held from November 5h to November 7th, with the following basic schedule:

5.11. arrival, starting from 16:00 local time (Friday). We will probably do some quick sight seeing tour in the evening and have dinner together.
6.11. sprint (Saturday), Lightning talks after noon.
7.11. sprint (Sunday) and departure starting from 18:00 local time.

Location

The Marble Developer Weekend will be held at the basysKom Nuremberg office which is located at Südwestpark.

http://www.nuernberg.de/internet/portal_e/index.html

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.42656&mlon=11.01848&zoom=17&layers=M

How to get there

Nurember is a city in the German state of Bavaria. There are several ways to reach the sprint location by train or by flight.

via the Nuremberg Airport: Take the subway U2 (direction "Röthenbach") from the airport to the central railway station (Hauptbahnhof). At the central railway station change into the subway U3 (same platform, direction Gustav-Adolf-Platz). At Gustav-Adolf-Platz change into the Bus line 69 and leave the bus at the station Südwestpark. If you continue to go straight in the same direction that the bus had when he arrived at the "Südwestpark" then you reach the office within 2 mins of walking.
via Nuremberg central railway station (Hauptbahnhof):

At the central railway station change into the subway U3 (direction Gustav-Adolf-Platz). At Gustav-Adolf-Platz change into the Bus line 69 and leave the bus at the station Südwestpark. If you continue to go straight in the same direction that the bus had when he arrived at the "Südwestpark" then you reach the office within 2 mins of walking.

Accomodation

There is the Südwestpark hotel located directly at the sprint location:

http://www.suedwestpark-hotel.de/frameset.asp?lang=en

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.42893&mlon=11.0198&zoom=17&layers=M

In the city center of Nuremberg there are loads of hotels you can choose from. One of the more affordable ones is probably the Motel One which is located very close to the central railway station:

http://www.motel-one.com/uk/index.html

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.44708&mlon=11.08751&zoom=17&layers=M

Attendees List

The column "Sponsoring needed?" is to know if you need sponsoring from the KDE e.V. or if you pay the travel/stay by yourself.

Name	email	Arrival	Departure	Airport	Flight	Food preferences	Estimated travel costs	Sponsoring needed?	Work	Special
Torsten Rahn	rahn AT kde DOT org	5.11.	8.11.	none	none	No apples ;-)	0 €	no	Marble Core Developer	Event organization
Dennis Nienhüser	earthwings AT gentoo DOT org	5.11./6.11 (not sure yet)	7.11.	none	none	none	fuel from/to Karlsruhe and Hotel	no	Routing, Maemo	Yeah, I'm special :-P
Thibaut Gridel	tgridel AT free DOT fr	5.11	7.11	NUE	TBC	any	175 € + hotel	yes	GeoData, Gps track
Jens-Michael Hoffmann	[email protected]	5.11	7.11	none	none	none	60 € + hotel	yes	Tile loading, blending
Bernhard Beschow	bbeschow AT cs TU berlin DE	5.11	7.11	none	none	none	93 € + hotel	yes	OpenGL, Custom Maps, API-Design
Sebastian Wiedenroth	[email protected]	5.11	7.11	none	none	none	fuel from/to lindau + hotel	no	Mac Packaging

Topics

To be discussed: Since we will only have little time available for presentations and workshops we thought about having some short lightning talks on saturday or sunday.

Feel free to make suggestions. State of :

- MeeGo, MeeGo Touch/Maemo UI and port (Marble Mobile).
- UI (desktop/small devices)
- Routing
- OpenGL

- Tiles
- GeoPainter / drawing
- GeoData / ModelView
- Plugin APIs
- Architecture/Design/APIs
- Coding Style
- Maps: Natural Earth