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Why Go-OO Conference 2008 Prague, (Czech Republic) ?

While OOoCon is a great conference, in 2008 it will be held in Asia, which is likely to reduce the number of Europeans able to attend. Of course, developers still need to meet, talk, drink beer & so on - so, we're tacking a mini-meetup / hack-fest to the end of our team meeting planned for next month.

Prague is a great location - easy to get to in Europe, and a (compatively) low-cost location.

Schedule

  April 10th - arrive in the evening, meet up for dinner.
  April 11th - ad-hoc presentations, hacking
               evening drinks / meal.
  April 12th, am: more of the same
              pm: fun ropes course / team building; meal
  April 13th - leave, or stay to enjoy historic Prague.

Programme

To be decided; there will be a network, so hacking in groups is entirely possible. Presentations on tangled pieces of the OO.o code-base, discussions of the merits (or otherwise) of 'boost', sessions on Emacs vs. Vi, the internals of Calc's calculation engine, Impress' rendering model, Writer's layout system etc. appreciated.

Hopefully we'll aim to have a broad selection of talks which together give a nice high-level overview of the internals of OpenOffice.org, the problems & what people are hacking on now.

Logistics

Everything you need to know to attend, print out, cover in marmalade & accidentally leave behind the sofa.

Location

The SUSE Office in Prague Google map.

Travel

There are plenty of cheap flights available to Prague, from England, Italy, Switzerland & Germany (EasyJet), Ireland (Ryanair), and perhaps others (?).

Shelter

We recommend the Hotel Carol which is 1 block from the SUSE office: ~2 minutes walk even for a geriatric hacker. A double room for the duration is around Euro:250.

Contact

   Email: Lucie Louzecka <llouzecka@suse.cz>
   Phone: +420 775 928 867

Politics

To make the event even more accessible, there will be a ban on political discussion of the form: "Sun screwed me over" or "Kill the SCA today". In addition we are encouraging primarily hackers to attend, ie. this is a pure developers meeting, with a horribly technical agenda: we promise you won't enjoy it if you're not writing code. In addition no talks of the form "ODF solves the problems of world hunger" or "OpenXML - hell-spawn in text form" will be tolerated.

Ropes Course

No particular climbing ability required, though decent footware is essential, and non-flismy clothing helpful.