OsmoDevCon2024¶

• Table of contents
• OsmoDevCon2024
• Osmocom Developer Conference 2024
  • When
  • Where
  • Format
  • Registration / Who
    • Requested
    • Confirmed
  • Costs
    • Included (in conference package)
    • Included (in room night)
  • Schedule
    • Video Recordings
    • Proposals / Call for Papers
  • Avoiding dehydration during the day
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Travel
    • Airports
    • Train / Public Transport
    • Car
  • Who brings what kind of equipment/supplies?
    • Technical Equipment

This page is used to plan and coordinate regarding the Osmocom Developer Conference 2024

Osmocom Developer Conference 2024¶

Contrary to OsmoCon, the Osmocom Developer Conference 2024 (OsmoDevCon2024) is an event by project members for project members.
As such, the primary audience is people who have been contributing to at least one of the Osmocom projects.

It is not targeted at users.

Attendance requires registration (see below) and notification of acceptance. The number of participants is limited to about 25.

When¶

May 3rd-6th, 2024

Time: We will start at 10am in the morning, will take lunch break around 1pm, a dinner break around 8pm and have an open end at night.

Where¶

Contrary to our past OsmoDevCons (which have all been rather low budget, grass roots events), laforge felt that particularly after the long COVID-related break, it would be nice to do something slightly more fancy: Stay together with the entire group for four days, in a conference hotel.

The selected venue is Van der Valk Hotel Berlin Brandenburg which is actually not in Berlin, but slightly south of Berlin, very near the BER airport. The street address is Eschenweg 18, 15827 Blankenfelde, GERMANY

We will have a 120 square metre meeting room for our meetings. The conference/event hotel has many amenities including a garden as well as spa/sauna, indoor swimming pool, bar, etc.

Format¶

The format of this workshop is not primarily formal lectures/talks. It's more like "guided discussions", i.e. there are topics and each topic will get an "owner" who should introduce the topic and lead the discussion related to it.

Registration / Who¶

If you would like to attend, please add your name to the below Requested list ASAP, no later than March 1st, 2024. We will review your request and move you to the Confirmed list if you are eligible.

Requested¶

Name	Arrival	Departure	Requesting free of charge hotel+conference (volunteer)	Dietary preferences
fixeria	unknown	unknown	no	none
dexter	unknown	unknown	no (sysmocom)	none
iedemam	unknown	unknown	no	none
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Confirmed¶

Name	Arrival	Departure	Requesting free of charge hotel+conference (volunteer)	Dietary preferences
laforge	Friday	Monday	No (sysmocom)	none
keith	Friday	Monday	Probably, yet it is also difficult to 100% confirm b4 March 1st	ohne Fleisch
nhofmeyr	Friday	Monday	No (sysmocom)	vegetarian
tnt	Friday	Monday	Partially (conf)	I'll manage
osmith	Thursday	Monday	No (sysmocom)	vegan
pespin	Friday	Monday	No (sysmocom)	none
jolly	Friday	Monday	No (sysmocom)	vegetarian

Costs¶

sysmocom (and likely other sponsors, as soon as we found some) will cover the accomodation (hotel room) for 3 nights as well as conference/catering costs for community members working on Osmocom for fun in their spare time.

However, anyone working professionally with/on Osmocom software for a company is expected to cover the costs, which are:

• EUR 137 per night in the hotel
• EUR 149 daily conference rate (fri/sat/sun) + EUR 97 on monday

Included (in conference package)¶

• conference room including projector, wired internet and wifi
• unlimited coffe, tea and soft drinks, juice, mineral water
• morning break snack (savoury)
• afternoon snack (sweet)
• lunch
• dinner

Included (in room night)¶

• "Classic Plus" room
• breakfast buffet
• free parking
• complimentary access to pool and sauna

Schedule¶

TBD.

We intend to start at 10am on the first day, and finish around 3pm on the last day.

The latest tentative schedule can be seen at https://pretalx.sysmocom.de/osmodevcon2024/schedule/

Video Recordings¶

Will likely be availble from https://media.ccc.de/b/conferences/osmocon/osmodevcon24

Proposals / Call for Papers¶

Please make your submissions at https://pretalx.sysmocom.de/osmodevcon2024/cfp

Avoiding dehydration during the day¶

Coffee, Tee and soft drinks, juice and mineral water are included in the conference package. Alcoholic beverages must be paid individually.

Lunch¶

Included in the conference package each day, see above

Dinner¶

Included in the conference package on Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Travel¶

If you have difficulties covering your travel costs to OsmoDevCon, please contact laforge@gnumonks.org to determine if sysmocom or a third party can help you with covering that.

Airports¶

Berlin only has one active airport during OsmoDevCon2024: Berlin Brandenburg International (BER). It is best to take a cab for the ride to the hotel, as public transport doesn't have a decent connection without changing multiple times.

Train / Public Transport¶

The closest train station is Blankenfelde, served by S2 trains connecting from Berlin main station and Berlin Suedkreuz.

From Blankenfelde train station it is a 12min bus ride to the hotel (Bus 792 to "Dahlewitz, Eschenweg Hotel")

Car¶

The hotel offers complimentary parking for all hotel guests. The hotel is easily accessible from Autobahn A10 suedlicher Berliner Ring

Who brings what kind of equipment/supplies?¶

Technical Equipment¶

Qty	Description	Who
3	power strips with 10 outlets	laforge
1	Fan-less 16-port Ethernet switch for main table	laforge
plenty	Ethernet cabling in various length	laforge
1	Duct Tape	laforge
>=1	sysmoBTS (any model)	laforge
>=1	nano3G	laforge
>=1	RBS6402	laforge