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WineConf - Hotel reservation possible from now on
by Hans-Ulrich Schmid 22 Jan '05

22 Jan '05

Hi, the "Telekom Tagungshotel Stuttgart" has confirmed the reservation of DATES - April 28 - 5 rooms - April 29 - 50 rooms - April 30 - 50 rooms - May 1 - 20 rooms PRICES - April 28 - 58 Euro - April 29, 30 - 81 Euro (for the two nights together) - May 1 - 42 Euro - These prices include breakfast and VAT RESERVATION - Please reserve the room on your own per mailto:Rezeption.Tagungshotel-Stuttgart(a)telekom.de - Please use the keyword "WineCon" - Please reserve at least four weeks before the beginning of the conference (March 29) - If you´ll arrive after 6 p.m. please inform the hotel, otherwise your reservation will be canceled. FIND THE HOTEL http://www.training.telekom.de/telekom-training/filecatalog/S_TH_Anreise.pdf You´ll find the directions also as an attachment MORE INFORMATION ON THE HOTEL (only in German) http://www.training.telekom.de/telekom-training/standorte/stuttgart.jsp#Tag… Brian: will you add these informations to the website. See you in Stuttgart Hans-Ulrich Schmid Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation FIR_st - Forum IT-Region Stuttgart Friedrichstr. 10 70174 Stuttgart www.first.region-stuttgart.de www.opensource.region-stuttgart.de www.competenzatlas.de www.region-stuttgart.de Tel ++49.711.22835 - 27 Tel mobil ++49.172.7310463 Fax ++49.711.22835 - 55

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Local organisation
by Ulrich Gemkow 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

Hello, Michael has already described the most important aspects of the local organisation, please let me add some remarks and also answers to questions asked before. Sorry for the delay - it was a rather busy week... 1. Local organisation --------------------- I propose to form a local organisation group (LOG). It would be helpful if some people living in the region with a feeling for the needs of our guests would join this LOG. This LOG (or a part of it) should meet in the next few weeks here at the university to check the location and collect ideas how to organize wineconf. Hopefully WRS will join this LOG too. We should get a feeling for the "financial" aspects (who pays what and what are the limits). It is no problem to find a catering service (we have one about 200m near the building) for coffee and breakfast/lunch or a good pizza service, but somebody has to decide how much this may cost and provide some kind of deficit guarantee. I will try to hire students from our students organisation, so that there will be (including me) good support from people who know the location and the building. If a list of the people expected to come will be available, we can prepare name plates. We will some help for cleaning after the conference - the universities cleaning staff will not be available at sunday and the rooms must be in "perfect" condition on monday morning at 8am (because then the lectures start). 2. Location/Traveling --------------------- The exact location will be University of Stuttgart Campus Stuttgart-Vaihingen Pfaffenwaldring 47 D 70569 Stuttgart Lecture halls V47.04, V47.05 and V47.03 The hosting organisation is University of Stuttgart Institute of Communication Networks and Computer Engineering Pfaffenwaldring 47 D 70569 Stuttgart The small room has about 80 seats, the two bigger ones 150 and 300 seats. If more or bigger rooms are needed, this should be no problem, the biggest one in the building (which is not available on Saturdays morning) has 850 seats :-) Michael already described perfectly how to reach Stuttgart and the University campus in Vaihingen. We have a web page which also contains travel information (http://www.ikr.uni-stuttgart.de/en/Content/TravelInfo) I can easily generate a "wineconf-customized" release of this webpage (which will point to the halls, not to the institute) if this is helpful. We can provide markers which guide the guests from the railway station and the parking site to the entry of the building. 3. Equipment ------------ LC-Projectors should be no problem - each of the halls has a projector installed. Overhead-projectors and blackboards are available too. The bigger halls have microphone, the small room does not need one in our experience. Internet access is a little bit more difficult - not from a technical point of view but because of security concerns in our central computing center which is responsible for the campus network. You should give me a feeling what services are needed, i.e. - is WWW-access through a proxy enough (probably not) - do you need direct outgoing connections (ssh, ...) - do you think that incoming connections to (Mail, ...) are required (which would be rather difficult) As soon as I have some feeling I will negotiate the connectivity with our computing center (which should be no problem). Our institute can provide WLAN-APs and switches for interconnection of notebooks. I can provide some equipment for audio/video archiving of the conference but have no own experience in doing so. Please feel free to add questions/comments/corrections or better ideas Greetings Ulrich -- |----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Ulrich Gemkow |----- | Universität Stuttgart | Institut für Kommunikationsnetze und Rechnersysteme (IKR) | (bisher: Nachrichtenvermittlung und Datenverarbeitung (IND)) |----- | University of Stuttgart | Institute of Communication Networks and Computer Engineering (IKR) |----- | Pfaffenwaldring 47, D 70569 Stuttgart, Germany | mailto:gemkow(a)ikr.uni-stuttgart.de http://www.ikr.uni-stuttgart.de |-----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Hotel reservation
by Tom 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

Hello, As of today 81 euro's come to $105.81 and I would guess there is VAT on top of the 81 euro's. I plan to book a double room from 29th to the 1st. If anyone is on a tight budget and looking to share accomodations feel free to contact me. Tom

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preview - WineConf announcement and web pages
by Brian Vincent 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

First, here's a preview of some web pages I put together for WineConf 2005: - http://www.theshell.com/~vinn/wineconf05.html - http://www.theshell.com/~vinn/wineconf05-travel.html Below is a preview of an announcement to be sent to wine-devel and samba-technical. Anyone have any changes I should to either the announcement or the web pages? ---------------------- WHAT: WineConf 2005 WHEN: April 30 - May 1, 2005 WHERE: Institute of Communication Networks and Computer Engineering Stuttgart-Vaihingen Campus University of Stuttgart WHO: Anyone interested in Wine development. This is a developers-only conference. HOW: Check out WineHQ for travel details. We still have quite a lot to work out, including the actual agenda, but we'll update these web pages as more info becomes available: http://www.winehq.org/site/wineconf05 The website has details on joining the wineconf mailing list. At this point there's a lot of planning that remains, so you'll have to bear with us as that discussion occurs. For those of you interested in Samba development, you might want to check out the SambaXP conference (http://www.sambaxp.org) since it's going to occur the two days following WineConf. WineConf 2004 was a lot of fun and I hope everyone can make it again. With a little luck we'll be able to attract everyone who couldn't make it to balmy, breezy Minneapolis last year. ---------------------- -Brian

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Hotel reservation
by Hans-Ulrich Schmid 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

Hello, Ulrich Gemkow and me did some research about the hotel facilities next to the WineCon venue. The Telekom Tagungshotel will probably be the best solution for the partcipants of the conference. You´ll find some information about the hotel on the (german) website: http://www.training.telekom.de/telekom-training/standorte/stuttgart.jsp - partcipants would have to pay 81 Euro per night (breakfast included) - WRS can reserve rooms like this (what do you think about it): April 28 - 5 rooms April 29 - 50 rooms April 30 - 50 rooms May 1 - 20 rooms - each partcipant would have to arrange his room reservation on his own (Keyword "WineCon"). Reservations must be done at least four weeks before the beginning of the conference. If you give a positive feedback to these suggestions, WRS will do the reservation. See you in Stuttgart Hans-Ulrich Schmid Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation FIR_st - Forum IT-Region Stuttgart Friedrichstr. 10 70174 Stuttgart www.first.region-stuttgart.de www.opensource.region-stuttgart.de www.competenzatlas.de www.region-stuttgart.de Tel ++49.711.22835 - 27 Tel mobil ++49.172.7310463 Fax ++49.711.22835 - 55

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Re: preview - WineConf announcement and web pages
by Ulrich Gemkow 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

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AW: Date/Rooms
by Hans-Ulrich Schmid 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

Hi to all, > 3. I think WRS was going to look into some lodging options? Any > update on that? I imagine you guys are probably still working on > things. I´ve talked to Mr. Gemkow about this. We´ll do the reservations together. Can somebody tell me how much rooms we need a) in the hotel next to the university (60-100 Euro) b) in a youth hostel in Stuttgart downtown (35 minutes to reach the university) for the dates April 29, April 30 and May 1 What do you think about a social event on Saturday evening. I would suggest a wine tasting in a traditional Stuttgart vineyard. WRS can organize this. See you in Stuttgart Hans-Ulrich Schmid Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation FIR_st - Forum IT-Region Stuttgart Friedrichstr. 10 70174 Stuttgart www.first.region-stuttgart.de www.opensource.region-stuttgart.de www.competenzatlas.de www.region-stuttgart.de Tel ++49.711.22835 - 27 Tel mobil ++49.172.7310463 Fax ++49.711.22835 - 55 > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: wineconf-admin(a)winehq.org [mailto:wineconf-admin(a)winehq.org]Im > Auftrag von Brian Vincent > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2005 07:13 > An: wineconf(a)winehq.org > Betreff: Re: Date/Rooms > > > We've gotten over 4m (!) of snow in the past few days, so I'm > taking off > and going skiing. Since I'll be offline for a few days I > just wanted to > follow up and make sure I'm clear on where we're at: > > 1. Mr. Gemkow has a definite reservation for Apr 30 / May 1 for 3 > rooms at the University. At this point, is there any problem with > the meeting space? Can this item be considered completed? > > 2. No one on wine-devel seemed to have a problem with the dates, and > Jeremy confirmed Alexandre can make it. So everything seems good > there. > > 3. I think WRS was going to look into some lodging options? Any > update on that? I imagine you guys are probably still working on > things. > > I mentioned I would put together a web page and announcement at the > end of the week. Michael sent some excellent info on Stuttgart, such > as how to arrange transportation and some hostel info. It's a great > start for a web page. I'd like everyone here to review it first, so > perhaps it would be best if I put those two things off until Monday. > I can put together an announcement and web page on Sunday, email the > list, and then when I wake up on Monday morning I can make any changes > you guys have. > > Regarding SambaXP - I'm quite excited we might be able to coordinate > some developers getting together. I mentioned to Andrew Bartlett I'd > email samba-technical when we had plans together. Anyone care if I > send the announcement to them at the same time? > > Should we come up with a way to keep track of people coming? > I wouldn't > mind just having people email me personally and then adding > them to the > web page. > > -Brian > _______________________________________________ > wineconf mailing list > wineconf(a)winehq.org > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wineconf >

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Date/Rooms
by Ulrich Gemkow 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

Hello, because of another conference I was not able to book the rooms preferred for wineconf at the weekend of 23.4./24.4. For the weekend before this, there is the same problem. There are two possible solutions: * wineconf is moved to the weekend 30.4./1.5., for which I have temporarily reserved three rooms. This would be the preferred solution from my point of view because I have full control over these rooms at this weekend. As an additional advantage, the Samba conference follows directly (as Brian wrote). * I look for other rooms at the university campus. It may be possible to find suitable rooms, but then I have much less possibilities to support the conference because these rooms will then be in another building... Would you please form an opinion about what you prefer? Sorry about this and greetings Ulrich -- |----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Ulrich Gemkow |----- | Universität Stuttgart | Institut für Kommunikationsnetze und Rechnersysteme (IKR) | (bisher: Nachrichtenvermittlung und Datenverarbeitung (IND)) |----- | University of Stuttgart | Institute of Communication Networks and Computer Engineering (IKR) |----- | Pfaffenwaldring 47, D 70569 Stuttgart, Germany | mailto:gemkow(a)ikr.uni-stuttgart.de http://www.ikr.uni-stuttgart.de |-----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Uni of Stuttgart ok with Wineconf
by Michael Stefaniuc 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hello, just got an email (i would just forward it but it's in German) from Mister Gemkow where he tells that the University of Stuttgart is ok with the Wine Conference as long as we stay non comercial aka do not make money with the Wineconf (which is what we want anyway). April seems to be the prefered month for the conference and following weekends would be available: 2.4./3.4., 16.4./17.4. and 23.4./24.4. Mister Gemkow wants to book the rooms so we would need to decide when to hold the conference. And he would need to know also the number of rooms needed and the room sizes. Btw. could somebody please put Mister Ulrich Gemkow <gemkow(a)ikr.uni-stuttgart.de> on the wineconf mailing list? bye michael -- Michael Stefaniuc Tel.: +49-711-96437-199 System Administration Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbH Email: mstefani(a)redhat.com Hauptstaetterstr. 58 http://www.redhat.de/ D-70178 Stuttgart

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Some infos about Stuttgart/Transportation
by Michael Stefaniuc 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

Hello Brian, you wanted to do the Wineconf web page ;) so here is some info you could use: Location ******** Stuttgart, Germany - http://www.stuttgart.de/ - The town of Stuttgart with tourist information in 5 different languages. You can find there town maps and the location of tourist information centres. University of Stuttgart - http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/ were the Wine conference will take place. Be aware that the University of Stuttgart is split into two big parts. One is located downtown, is smaller and holds the non-techies. We will be in the upper part (natural sciences, engineers) which is 10 minutes away by S-Bahn from Stuttgart downtown. The S-Bahn station is called "University" and during the day you have a train going at least every 10 minutes between there and Stuttgart downtown Our actual hosts: Faculty 5 http://www.f-iei.uni-stuttgart.de/ and more specific the Institute of Communication Networks and Computer Engineering http://www.ikr.uni-stuttgart.de/ . Don't know if Mister Gemkow wants this advertised on the Wineconf web page. At least you can get from the last page the probable address of the Wineconf. Traveling ********* By Plane -------- * Airport Stuttgart - http://www.stuttgart-airport.com/ located 27 minutes away from downtown by S-Bahn or around 20 EUR for the taxi. The airport is even nearer to the University and the S-Bahn going downtown passes by the University and needs only 17 minutes to get you there. Not being one of the top biggest airports in Germany offers some advantages: not being that bound to the old big airlines it was picked by the cheap airlines. * Cheap Flights: Cheap airlines (for US guys: this are like your SouthWest Airlines) with direct flights to Stuttgart: - Hapag-Lloyd Express http://www.hlx.com - Air Berlin http://www.airberlin.de/ - Germanwings http://www.germanwings.com/ If you are (un)lucky to live in a spot were germans like to spend their vacation then you can check out this two charter airlines because you can get some cheap flights with them too: - Condor http://www.condor.de/ - Hapag-Lloyd http://www.hapagfly.com/ * Normal Flights: Any major european airline should have some flights into Stuttgart. Like always with the traditional airlines if you have a stop over in the major hub of that airline the tickets get way cheaper. * US and non european flights: - Delta has a direct flight into Stuttgart from Atlanta. - All other flights will go over Frankfurt and maybe some few over Munich * Flights over Frankfurt: If you fly over Frankfurt you may want to check your stop over time at the airport in Frankfurt. That's because the airport has a train station where national and international trains stop. If you are lucky you can be in a little bit more than 1 1/2 hours after grabbing your luggage in Stuttgart downtown. You have connections between Franfurt airport and Stuttgart main train station at least every hour (during the day/evening) and the duration of the trip is around 1 hour 15 minutes. At least Lufthansa has a deal with the Deutsche Bahn (german railways) where selected trains have Lufthansa flight numbers and you check in and check out at the Stuttgart main station (far far far less crowded than the Frankfurt airport). If you can not get one of those "flight by rail" try to get with your flight a "feeder train ticket". That's a train ticket valid only with your plane ticket from the airport to your final destination in Germany. It's a fixed fee independent of the distance by train and it's way cheaper than normal train tickets. But if you don't feel comfortable in switching from plane to train nobody stops you to fly the stone throw distance from Frankfurt to Stuttgart. * Flights over Munich: What was said for flights over Frankfurt is NOT valid for Munich. Munich might look on the map as neer to Stuttgart as Frankfurt but this is valid only to downtown to downtown connection by train (2 hours). But from the Munich main train station you will need almost 1 hour to get out to the Munich airport by S-Bahn. Put in the time you loose between switching trains and you can easily need 4 hours from Munich airport to Stuttgart downtown. If you plan to take anyway a rental car you should be able to get with that in 2.5 hours to Stuttgart (no traffic, good navigation skills or navigation system). By train: --------- Train is a viable alternative to get to Stuttgart. But look for special discounts for the train tickets because around here flighing is normaly cheaper than going by train. If you are still young (afair below 27 or 25) you can get cheap InterRail tickets. Deutsche Bahn (german railways) http://www.bahn.de By bus: ------- There are different companies that have regular bus connections to Stuttgart (As i don't like to travel by bus i don't know one. You may want to ask your local travel agency). For different parts of Europe this could be the cheapest way to get to Stuttgart (especialy true for Eastern Europe). By car: ------- 2 Autobahns pass by Stuttgart: A8 and A81. But i figure if you come by car you will use your navigation system or your favorite map and guide service. Address to type in to get to the University: Universitaet Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 47 70569 Stuttgart Traveling in Stuttgart: ----------------------- VVS, the Stuttgart public transportation system http://www.vvs.de . You can get there schedules, price informations (group tickets), etc. The S-Bahn is the main device you will use. It's a suburbs train and in most of Stuttgart it's underground. The main S-Bahn station which you will probably use: - Flughafen - Stuttgart Airport - Universität - University of Stuttgart (upper part where the conference will take place) - Hauptbahnhof - Main train station - Stadtmitte - Stuttgart "middle of the city" (downtown). Actualy the Stuttgart downtown is in between the S-Bahn stations Hauptbahnhof and Stadtmitte. S-Bahn's to take if you want to travel between those stations: - To the airport: S2 and sometimes S3 - downtown to the University: S1, S2 and S3 - Airport to downtown or University: the first S-Bahn that comes (will be S2 and sometimes S3 ;). Lodging ******* Mister Gemkow has a better overview of the hotels neer the University. Here is only information for youth hostels. Youth Hostels: -------------- - The Stuttgart Youth Hostel http://www.jugendherberge-stuttgart.de/ - More youth hostel style lodging (sorry, it seems to be available only in German) http://www.stuttgart-tourist.de/deutsch/hotels/jugendherbergen.html bye michael -- Michael Stefaniuc Tel.: +49-711-96437-199 System Administration Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbH Email: mstefani(a)redhat.com Hauptstaetterstr. 58 http://www.redhat.de/ D-70178 Stuttgart

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