Projects/Digikam/CodingSprint2009

KDE Graphics Coding Sprint 2009

The KDE Graphics coding sprint 2009 will take place in Essen, Germany, from November 13th to 15th.

Location

Hotel

Hotel Schönberger
Laupendahler Weg 18
42579 Heiligenhaus

Directions

By Plane

The closest airport is Düsseldorf International.

There is a regional train from Düsseldorf airport. Go to "Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen Terminal S" which is not the main train station of the airport ("Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen"). From there, take the S7 direction Solingen. Get off after five minutes in Düsseldorf-Derendorf. From platform 2, take the S6 direction Essen Hbf. Get off at Werden S. The fare is €4.50 ("B"). Text me (Marcel) when you board the train in Derendorf or when you have got lost.

By Car

• Arriving from the West: A52, exit Essen-Kettwig
• Arriving from the East: A40, change to A52 at Kreuz Essen-Ost, exit the A52 at Rüttenscheid.

From either exit, follow the signs to Werden and Velbert. You will cross southbound the river Ruhr entering the little town of Werden. Follow the main route (B224) staying on the right hand lane. You will pass the basilica, then 1.5km further on you will pass an "Aral" petrol station on the left side. Turn left on the next junction into Fischlaker Straße (turn left before passing the traffic light!). Follow the Fischlaker Straße for 600m, then take the slight left fork into Bernhardstraße. It's house number 12, third on the right side.

By Train

Main train station is Essen Hauptbahnhof. From there

• take either express bus SB 19 from Hauptbahnhof (number 7 on this map) and get off at the stop "Am Schwarzen".
• or go to platform 12, take the regional train S6 Köln-Nippes. Get off at Werden S.

For either choice the fare is €2.30 ("A2"). Text me (Marcel) when you board the bus or the train to be picked up.

Information about local bus or train schedules is available here.

Coding Location

Bernhardstr. 12, Essen, Germany

Participants

Name	Project	Arrival	Travel Arrangements
Gilles Caulier	digiKam	Th night	DUS, arrival arranged
Marcel Wiesweg	digiKam	n/a	n/a
Andi Clemens	digiKam	Fr evening	car
Kåre Särs	ksane	Fr morning	DUS, arrival arranged
Patrick Spendrin	Marble, KDE/Win	Th evening	train
Luka Renko	Kipi Plugins	Th evening	DUS, arrival arranged
Pieter Edelman	digiKam (new contributor)	Fr morning
Michael G. Hansen	digiKam (new contributor)	Fr morning	car
Holger Förster	digiKam (MySQL database backend)	Fr evening	train
Johannes Wienke	digiKam (new contributor)	Fr evening	train
Guillaume Paumier	KIPI plugin (new contributor)	Th evening	DUS, arrival arranged
Special guests:
Tom Albers	Mailody and Akonadi developer, giving a presentation about Akonadi	Saturday	car

Preparation

To bring

• notebook
• network cable

Experience shows that wireless usually breaks down at the beginning of a coding sprint, so ethernet is preferred and we need a

• network hub or switch
  • Michael: I will bring two hubs, five ports+uplink each (in spite of 5/5+uplink in my e-mail) and also power extension cords with multiple outlets (at least one 5 port and one 8 port).
  • Pieter: router giving three extra ports, old 10MBit 8-port switch
  • Luka: I can bring 8-port 1GBit Ethernet switch if needed. Let me know.

Common Topics for Discussion and Coding

• Marble
  • Clustering
  • Geo-view: icon view with a map in background?
  • OpenStreetmap, Nokia Ovi, Google Maps API v3
• Model / View
  • Introduction to the concept?, sharing experience
  • Current status in digikam
  • porting for 1.1
• Color Management
  • ksane + digikam: sharing experience & code?
• MySQL
  • Current status of branch
  • Merge with HEAD
  • Test, make it work
• libkexiv2 - API changes
  • bug 183171
  • Exiv2::PreviewManager
• Image Versioning
  • use cases
  • a format to describe and store editing operations
  • storage in database and metadata
• Face detection
  • existing solutions / libraries, feasibility of task
  • UI drafts for integration
• Kipi interface improvements
  • Album actions - bug 175224
  • Tagging downloaded photos with web IDs - bug 181863
  • Load kipi-plugins on demand - idea from Aurélien
  • Simplified export API - see Kamoso requirements
• Akonadi and cached web album collections
  • Tom Albers joins us Saturday to give a talk about Akonadi and get us on the right track regarding Akonadi support
  • Colin's proposal
  • bug 199848

Food

My suggestions:

• semi-self-made Pizza for Friday evening
• Spaghetti for lunch Saturday

Last year in Genoa we went to a restaurant for dinner Saturday evening, I enjoyed that quite much. I would suggest we continue in this tradition this year as well.