-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody! The last four years several Wesnoth devs have been meeting at FOSDEM in Brussels. FOSDEM usually takes place at the first weekend of Febuary and is, as said before, in Brussels. This year it will be on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th. Commonly we tend to meet already on Friday.
This year there is a difference though since there will be a dev room dedicated to open source gaming which takes place on Sunday. If you have not heard about it yet, please have a look at the call for speakers [1]. Yes, I am still looking for more speakers. I am already asking right now because it makes sense to book the beds in the Hostel/Hotel rather early (several thousand geeks do need some beds, too...). The last three years most of us spent the nights at 2go4 [2] and IMO it was rather okay. To help coordinating things I created a wiki page [3]. I already know of several devs being interested, though it would be nice to start to coordinate the booking of the beds in the hotel/hostel. Personally I propose to again book beds in 2go4. I'd go for the 4/6 bed rooms which cost 27€ per night. In case you have not been to FOSDEM yet and got no idea how much it will cost you, here is a rough list of the expenses I had in 2010. This includes travel expenses (depends for everyone based on how you travel and from where) as well as expenses for the hostel, going by bus through town (to/from campus) and eating/drinking during FOSDEM itself and in the evenings (those numbers are based on what I got listed from 2010, so they might partly be outdated but should give you a rough idea): * Driving to Brussels by car, 300km per way (requiring about 35l Diesel): 45€ * 2 nights at 2go4, each 24€ (if in the 4 bed dorm rooms): 48€ * Public transport in Brussels (using the bus 4 way to/from campus): ~13€ * Dinner at the Greek restaurant (including some beers): 15€ to 20€ per evening * Breakfast at the campus (for something to drink as well as some sweet rolls; no food included at 2go4!): ~4€ per day * Lunch at the campus (some french fries as well as a burger or hot dog and a can of coke for drink): ~5€ per day * Some cans of coke during the day: ~3€ per day So overall expenses for me were around 170€ from Friday "late afternoon" till "Sunday evening". You will have to keep in mind that your travel expenses are likely to differ depending on how you travel. Without travel costs expect costs around 125€. If you stay at 2go4 you should not forget to take a towel with you, since those are not provided by the hostel. Beside this a padlock might make sense, depending on the room we get and if the room does include a locker (in '09 we had a room with lockers, in '10 there was no locker in the room). General packlist for FOSDEM (will resend this closer to FOSDEM2012): - Bring Euro coins (1, 2, .5, .2 and .1)! The reason is simple: Close to the hacking room is a vending machine that is a little cheaper than the official sale of drinks at FOSDEM and the drinks are cooled (~0.70€ vs 1€ per can). The problem: you need coins to feed it! Beside this buying tickets is cheaper when getting them from the automate available at basically every station. When buying from the driver you pay a little more. - Don't forget your laptops plus power supplies if you plan on hacking. - Don't forget to take your mobile phone with you and take the power supply for it either. - Some people should take power extension cords as well as some multi outlets with them. That is I will take some with me and last year mordante had some, too. Though if you are coming over to FOSDEM by car you might want to consider putting some into your trunk. Please make sure to add yourself in the wiki if you are interested in joining us during FOSDEM and also make sure to tell me if you want to be included in a "common booking". Over the last years it was usually boucman and me each booking for a part of us. I'd propose that we should gather the list of people who want a bed at 2go4 till Monday next week at 20:00 GMT+1 (local time in Germany). Feel free to discuss possible topics to talk about with fellow wesnoth devs or even stuff to present in the game dev room in our IRC chan #wesnoth-dev. Cheers, Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic [1] https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/open-source-gamedev-devroom/2011-November/000009.html [2] http://www.2go4.be [3] http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Fosdem2012 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk7nsnwACgkQfFda9thizwUoyQCfRETkrRhTp6zgVQk4EwXFyPs6 YZoAnAw4I79dVxA+9Kmz2ZoXdzzuPsnR =LWMm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
