Projects/Plasma/Tokamak3

Here you'll find details about the Tokamak3 Plasma meeting in Switzerland.

Disclaimer: This page is work in progress atm!!!

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 ;-).

Participants

Name	Email	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
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	Zurich
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	20090906	~350 EUR	yes	whatever (I have a sleeping bag)	whatever	D-Bus interface	Zurich
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
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	Zurich
Diego Casella ([Po]lentino)	[email protected]	~20090828	~20090905 (but still not sure at all)	~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

Day 1 Presentations

• Introduction & State of the Plasma: Aaron Seigo
• Netbook: Artur (MoRpHeUz) and Marco (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 QGraphicsEffectMagnify.

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
• Deeper integration of the web

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 ;-).