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preview - WineConf announcement and web pages
by Brian Vincent Jan. 17, 2005

Jan. 17, 2005

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 Jan. 17, 2005

Jan. 17, 2005

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 Jan. 17, 2005

Jan. 17, 2005

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AW: Date/Rooms
by Hans-Ulrich Schmid Jan. 13, 2005

Jan. 13, 2005

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 Jan. 13, 2005

Jan. 13, 2005

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 Jan. 10, 2005

Jan. 10, 2005

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 Jan. 9, 2005

Jan. 9, 2005

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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Update on WRS offer & Stuttgart University
by David Gümbel Jan. 3, 2005

Jan. 3, 2005

Hi everybody, - some news: I tried to contact Mr. Gemkow of the University of Stuttgart several times (via telephone), but no luck so far - maybe he's on a conference, sick, or simply overworked. Mr. Schmid, the head of the WRS, has asked me to forward the offer to you (see below). Bye, David *** WINEConf Stuttgart Region - About and support of Stuttgart Region The Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation (WRS) is - founded to provide services to industry and communities in the field of economic development - a subsidiary of the administrative body of the larger Stuttgart Region - provides marketing for the Stuttgart Region - assists in cluster management of specific industries - advises and assists companies during the search for available sites and buildings In the context of our initiative "Open Source Region Stuttgart" http://opensource.region-stuttgart.de the WRS supports conferences and meetings of Open Source projects of various aspects when held in the Stuttgart Region. For example the WRS is co-organizer of the KDE Community World Summit 2004 in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart http://conference2004.kde.org/ . The Perlworkshop 6.0 , GUADEC6 (GNOME Conference) http://2005.guadec.org/papers.html , ApacheCon Europe and more than 40 other Open Source Events in the Stuttgart Region are organized or supported by the WRS as well. WRS would like to help to organise a successful WINEConf 2005 in Stuttgart Region. We did some resarch on possible conference venues. As there are: QUADRIUM WERNAU, http://www.quadrium-wernau.de Wernau is easily reachable in 25 minutes from Stuttgarts main railway station. As the Stuttgart Region is located in the middle of Europe there is absolutely no doubt that the conference can be reached easily with direct flights from nearly every European country. Overseas guests can reach Stuttgart from the Frankfurt Airport in 1,5 hours or directly with Delta from Atlanta. Conference venue in Wernau has been opened in April 2005 and is completed by a wellness-area http://www.wellness-wernau.de/ . The infrastructure of the venue fullfills "Wineconf Requirements List v0.2". The possible date is from 23th-25th of April 2005. WRS can pay the rent for the conference venue if we can become a co-organizer of WINEConf. The costs for the technical equipment ans personal staff has to be organised and paid by the WINE project. WRS will try to find local (technical) sponsors in the region. There is no hotel for more than 60 persons in Wernau. Conference guest have to sleep in two different hotels. Pricing of hotels is ok. K3N, NUERTIMGEN, http://www.k3n.de Nuertingen is easily reachable in 25 minutes from Stuttgarts main railway station. The infrastructure of the venue fullfills "Wineconf Requirements List v0.2". The possible date is from 23th-25th of April 2005. There are enough hotels next to the conference venue. WRS can pay the rent for the conference venue if we can become a co-organizer of WINEConf. The costs for the technical equipment ans personal staff has to be organised and paid by the WINE project. WRS suggests Nuertingen as conference venue. WRS can help and organize · Local/regional and German wide press work to jointly market the conference · Suggestions for social program & infrastructure for attendees (in part by our sister organization Regio Stuttgart Marketing) · Assistance in targeting potential local sponsors of the event · Help to recruit local helpers from the 10 Linux user groups in the region CONTACT 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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wineconf: action items
by Brian Vincent Dec. 7, 2004

Dec. 7, 2004

(mailing list working???? ... we'll see) Okay, taking in everything on the list, it looks like the #1 item that needs to happen is Jeremy needs to put David and Ulrich in touch with each other. I say we give it a few days. At that point, maybe we should see if Michael or Andi can find a contact there. Everything else seems to rely on finding a meeting place. Second, I heard a tip that Linux New Media might be interested in giving some $$$ in return for some modest promotion. I'll pursue this once we seem to have a definite location. -Brian

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Re: Wineconf committee
by Jeremy White Nov. 30, 2004

Nov. 30, 2004

Shachar Shemesh wrote: > First of all, there used to be a mailing list "wineconf(a)winehq.org". I > think it would be better to dust that one off, so that we make sure no > one is dropped off the loop. Good point; in theory, we should all get way too many copies of this email, and then we can just shift to the mailing list. On other points, I have not yet heard from Ulrich Gemkow; I think if he can arrange cooperation with the University of Stuttgart, that would be ideal. David, does that change what our target location should be? Are there hotels right by the University campus? As far as sponsoring, I think the more sponsors the better. Last year, we spent about $3,000 (not counting travel), and the Wine donations covered about another $1,600 in travel sponsorships. We seem to be on course for spending less money this coming year, but perhaps LinGnu could pick up the cost for a morning coffee/donut session. We could also charge an admission fee if we feel that we need more. The key question is whether we'll need to cover custodial and other charges for the University facility; if we do, that could be significant money. My preference would be to have it open to all, if we can afford that. Cheers, Jeremy

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