Hi everyone, time to get serious about our next hackfest. After some discussion within official hackfest planning commitee[1] we decided to do our hackfest at the Linux Hotel [2] (Essen, Germany). The Linux Hotel is a conference hotel specialized in all kinds of training courses around Open Source software. Their rooms usually aren't very cheap, however they offer a very steep discount to Open Source projects [3]. However this offer is usually restricted to weekends when no courses are planned and as discussed on our last Hackfest in London, we'd like to have a few days more this year. But I contacted the owner and it turns out he's a big DokuWiki fan and would be thrilled to have us. Of course he still has to earn his money, but he named one week (July 29th to August 4th) where he has no courses scheduled and could accommodate us at the usual community rates. So in IRC we talked about staying 5 or 6 nights. Which would probably mean arriving on Monday or Tuesday and leaving on Sunday. At the community rates this would be 90 EUR per Person for 6 night (shared double rooms) which is ridiculously low. We might decide to take up their offers for breakfast, lunch and dinner but we could also do self-catering - but all this can decided later. What we need now is a authorative list of attendees. Please add yourself to http://doodle.com/ycvqw42qp3ck4qap to join our Hackfest. Hope to see you all, Andi PS: even though accommodation is dirt cheap this time, I know that travel costs can be a major pain in the budget. if you'd like to come but have trouble financing, please contact me by private mail and we might be able to work something out. please don't be shy about this. [1] http://irc.dokuwiki.org/index.php?d=2013-03-03#msg444392 [2] http://www.linuxhotel.de [3] http://www.linuxhotel.de/community.html -- splitbrain.org -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://www.dokuwiki.org/mailinglist