Saltlabs Sprint: last minute information

Earl Zope is now nearly settled down in Python 3 wonderland. On the Zope and Plone sprint from Monday, 1st until Friday, 5th of October 2018 in Halle (Saale), Germany we will work towards the final Zope 4 release aka the final permission for the Python 3 wonderland.

We are currently 33 participants for the sprint. So be prepared for a huge sprint with many interesting people. The Saltlabs have a café (called KOFFIJ) we can use, a big meeting room with big display (aka the Thronsaal) and many smaller rooms including the offices of gocept. So there will be enough room to work in bigger and smaller groups.

To keep the organisational overhead low with this amount of participants, we plan to separate in two teams: Zope and Plone. Those teams will organise themselves individually and we will have a short daily meeting after lunch to share the status in a condensed manner with the other team. Direct communication in case of a difficult problem is, of course, always possible.

We reserved up to one hour after the daily meeting for talks and presentations by you about interesting topics around Zope and Plone, successful migration stories, or something else you want to share with the community. So if you have some interesting slides, please bring them with you and register during the week for a slot.

Our current schedule:

• Sunday
  • 19:00, there is a table reserved at Grober Gottlieb, so if you’ve already arrived and want some company, you are invited to join.
• Monday
  • 9:00 Breakfast at KOFFIJ (This is the café in the ground floor of Saltlabs aka the window to the left on the picture above.)
  • 10:00 Welcome at KOFFIJ and start sprinting afterwards
  • 12:30 Lunch
  • 13:30 Sprint planning and introduction for all sprinters at Thronsaal
  • between 15:00 and 17:00 coffee break at KOFFIJ
  • 18:00 Lights out
• All other days:
  • 8:30 Breakfast
  • 9:00 Standup in the team (Zope, Plone)
  • 12:30 Lunch
  • 13:30 Daily meeting at Thronsaal
  • 14:00 (Lightning) Talks at Thronsaal
  • between 15:00 and 17:00 coffee break at KOFFIJ
  • 18:00 Lights out
• Tuesday:
  • 11:00 till 17:00 Massages, there will be a list to register on Monday
  • 19:00 social evening at Eigenbaukombinat (local hacker space) with pizza, beer and mate
• Friday:
  • 13:30 Closing meeting with presentations at Thronsaal
  • 17:00 Lights out

If you cannot make it to the Welcome meeting, ask at KOFFIJ for one of the gocept staff to get a personal introduction.

Parking: As Saltlabs in located in a pedestrian zone, the availability of parking spots is rather low. Please use one of the parking decks nearby.

• Charlotten-Center – 3.50 € first day, 10.00 € over night.
• K&K-Parkhaus – Up to 12.00 € per day.

As organizational tool to coordinate the work, we try to use Github projects this time, as it allows cross-repository tracking of issues.

One last hint: The location of the sprint is Leipziger Str. 70, Halle (Saale), Germany.

Author: Michael Howitz

I am a software developer at gocept in Halle (Saale). To develop software, I mainly use Python, Zope, ZTK and Pyramid. View all posts by Michael Howitz