Plasma/Tokamak3
Here you'll find details about the Tokamak3 Plasma meeting in Switzerland.
Plasma Meeting Tokamak 3 2009
The third Tokamak Plasma Meeting will take place in Randa, Switzerland on August 28 to September 5, 2009.
Location
The meeting will take place in a Chalet in Randa. Randa is a small village in the middle of the Alpes surround by more the 30 mountains higher than 4000 meters. It's near to Zermatt, a very famous summer and winter tourist place.
There will be several rooms, hardware, wireless and wired LAN and a phenomenal surrounding. See here for some pictures of the house and the panorama.
Accomodation
The Chalet has the following rooms:
- Dining room (size: large)
- Kitchen (size: small)
- Living room (size: medium)
- 3 Bed rooms (size: medium)
- 2 Rest rooms (size: small)
- Basement and garage
- Hallway and stairs
Sleeping
I intend to accommodate up to 10 people in the Chalet. 3 to 4 (depending on your preferences) in two bed rooms. 2 to 3 people in the living room and me and another organizer in the parents bed room. There is a double bed in one bed room (and a special bag couch ;-) and two singles beds in the other bed room. For the rest I'll try (no I will ;-) to organize mattresses.
For additional people I'll either organize an appartement 1 minute away or an appartement further away or some hotel rooms. Depends on your preference below (see and fill the table).
And there is still the possibility for a tent ;-). But, and that's very important in general, take warm clothes with you. We are on 1440 meters over sea!
Food
I'll organize this as well for sure. And some Raclette.
Infrastructure
I'll organize a wired LAN and a wireless one. The house has a decent DSL internet connection but I'll see what else I can organize.
Furthermore there should be some icecc infrastructure and special hardware to play with.
In Switzerland we have our own connectors. Please don't forget to bring some adapters. I'll organize some myself.
Travelling
Randa and Switzerland is in the middle of Europe and as this reachable from several directions. There are three possible airports:
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Milano Malpensa, Italy
From these airports you'll take the trains to reach Randa (which takes approx. 3 hours). Information about the train schedules can be found on the webpage of the Swiss federal railways SFR.
Airport Zurich -> Randa
By train via Zurich and Visp (change the train there). Duration: 3 hours and something.
Airport Geneva -> Randa
By train via Visp (change the train there). Duration: 3 and a half hours.
Airport Milano Malpensa -> Randa
By train via Visp (change the train there). Duration: atm unknown. Still investigating.
Special train from Visp
The track from Visp to Randa is frequented by a very famous train: the Glacier Express which is known as slowest fast train of the world ;-).
Hiking
And don't forget your walking shoes. What about a Plasma BoF near a glacier ;-).
Road to the Chalet
Ok, when you arrive in Randa by train go up to the street (you get out of the train at left). Then follow the street to the right up to the crossroads (and a big house called "Maria am Weg"). There left up to the church where the road turns left. At the next branching take the right on and follow the street several 100 meters. After some stables at right right the Chalet "Nachtigall" appears. Final destination. It takes you 10 to 15 minutes.
If you'd like a map. Go to http://www.randa.ch (in german only) click to "Ortsplan" at the top. The red dot is the train station. Search for the Chalet Nachtigall at "Ferienwohnungen" at the left side.
And here following you find a photo about the way to the Chalet: 
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Participants
| Name | Arrival | Depart | Cost | Sponsor? | Sleep | Food | Work | Airport | Flights | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mario Fux | [email protected] | 20090828 | 20090906 | 0EUR | no | n | nothing special | Organization | None | |
| Aaron Seigo | aseigo at kde dot org | ~20090828 | ~20090906 | ~$1500 CAD | yes | whatever | vegetarian | Getting the party started, and rocking the code | Zurich | |
| Davide Bettio | [email protected] | 20090828 | 20090905 (I will be away the 2nd of Sept) | up to 100 EUR | yes | whatever | I don't eat fish and cheese | By train | ||
| Rob Scheepmaker | [email protected] | 20090828 | 20090904 | 120 EUR | yes | n | vegetarian | Most likely plasma remote widgets integration and notifications and jobs improvements | Basel | easyjet 1044, 1043 |
| Chani | chani at kde dot org | 20090828 11:20 lh5052 | 20090906 09:35 lh3741 | $1368.54 CAD | yes | vegetarian | ZUI, javascript, randomness | ZRH | lufthansa 9615, 9641, 5052; 3741, 474, ac195 | |
| Marco Martin | notmart at gmail dot com | ~20090828 | ~20090906 | ~100EUR | yes | whatever | whatever | netbook, systray, zui, whatever | By train | |
| Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) | asouza AT kde.org | ~20090828 | ~20090906 | ~1000 EUR (but 80% of this is fine and I can pay the other 20%) :( | yes | whatever | whatever | netbook stuff | Geneva | TAP - TP0152/TP0944 |
| Martin Gräßlin | kde AT martin MINUS graesslin DOT com | 20090828 | 20090831 (perhaps longer) | ~140 EUR | yes | whatever | whatever | kwin/plasma integration | By train | |
| Ivan Čukić | ivan DOT cukic AT gmail DOT com | 20090828 11:20 lh5052 | 20090906 12:20 lx1416 | ~350 EUR | yes | whatever (I have a sleeping bag) | whatever | D-Bus interface | Zurich | LH 3409, LH 5052; LX 1416 |
| Alexis Menard (darktears) | menard AT kde.org | ~20090828 | ~20090903 | ~0 EUR (Nokia) | no | whatever | whatever | Jokiing with amiginho, go to the party with aaron. Hack on QGraphicsView and help people with animations, declarative ui... | ||
| Riccardo Iaconelli | [email protected] | 20090828 | 20090906 | >100 EUR | yes | whatever | whatever | Inspiration depending :-) | By train | |
| Dario Freddi | [email protected] | 20090828 | 20090902 | 0 EUR (Bundled with Riccardo) | yes | whatever | whatever | Inspiration depending :-) | By train | |
| Sebastian Kügler | [email protected] | 20090828 | 20090906 | ~250 EUR | yes | 2 | whatever | web integration, akonadi | By train | |
| Ana Cecília Martins Barbosa | [email protected] | ~20090828 | ~20090906 | ~1000 EUR | yes | whatever | whatever | widgets explorer | Geneva | TAP - TP0152/TP0944 |
| Diego Casella ([Po]lentino) | [email protected] | ~20090828 | ~20090902 | ~190 EUR | yes | whatever | whatever | Improving PlasMate | by train | |
| Ilya Cassina | [email protected] | 20090904 | 20090905 | 0.- | no | vegetarian | n | cooking & watch over shoulders :) | by train (from neuchatel) |
Accomodation possibilites:
- 1 = single room
- 2 = double room
- x = several people in the same room
- a = small appartement
- t = tent
- u = under the roof
- n = no preference
Topics
Day 1 Presentations
- Introduction & State of the Plasma: Aaron Seigo
- Netbook: Artur (MoRpHeUz) and Marco (notmart)
- Media center: brief demo of Alessandro gsoc (notmart)
- Interfacing with interfaces: Ivan
- Networkmanagement Progress (sebas)
- Widgets Explorer - What it was, would, is, should, and will be (annieC)
- Qt: Sneak peek in 4.6 with QGraphicsMagnifyEffect.
- Qt Anchor Layout (4.6): Artur (MoRpHeUz)
- Remote widgets demo: Rob (pinda)
- Mail-Shake - Spam fighting with Akonadi: Martin (mgraesslin)
- Fine granting authorizations and access: why, when and how: Dario (drf)
- PlasMate and its TimeLine: Diego ([Po]lentino)
Development Topics
- ZUI: harmonizing activities and virtual desktops (or lack thereof ;)
- Netbook
- UI for search and launch containment
- Issues with kwin (full screen for example)
- User experience: social containment ?
- Special plasmoids regarding user experience
- Fix of existing plasmoids
- Newspaper scrolling and other potential performance issues on netbooks
- Is the zui any good in this context?
- Kwin integration: how to do the fullscreen windows? windeco or (better?) a set of custom rules?
- Background settings: config ui different->what about plugins?
- netbook session: make the netbook shell somehow an option at kdm
- Deeper integration of the web
- Systemtray
- what we still need?
- roadmap to push the lib out of experimental
- and freedesktop spec submission
- Ubuntu Message Indicator: overlap of targets? sharable? not?
- Kwin and Plasma
- Panel and focus
- welcome plasmoid: a screencast feed client?
- plasma-desktop in large deployments
Party?!?
Even if Switzerland is quite expensive and Zermatt more than ever I want to show you this special village at night guided by some friends. I don't know if we find a karaoke bar ;-).
Special things
A friend of mine is right now building his new house and as he's an eletrical engineer he wants to automate his house. I told him about Plasma and he's very interested about the interface. He tries to be there these days so what about the first automated house controlled by or with Plasma?!?
As you can ski in Zermatt even in the summer ...
BTW: Thanks SebastianTrueg for the template ;-).