OsmoDevCon2024¶

• Table of contents
• OsmoDevCon2024
• Osmocom Developer Conference 2024
  • When
  • Where
  • Format
  • Sponsors
  • 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 contributors for contributors.
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¶

Not every event at OsmoDevCon must be a formal lecture/talks. Individual events can also be more like workshops or "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.

Sponsors¶

We'd like to thank our confirmed sponsors:

Status	Name	Logo
Gold	Africa Mobile Networks
Silver	sysmocom

We're happy to accept additional sponsors.

Registration / Who¶

If you would like to attend, please add your name to the below Requested list ASAP, no later than March 7th, 2024. We will review your request and move you to the Confirmed list if you are eligible.

sysmocom is taking care of all room reservations if you're listed below, irrespective on whether you pay for the room yourself or have your room sponsored. You do not need to make a room reservation yourself.

Requested¶

Name	Arrival	Departure	Requesting free of charge hotel+conference (volunteer)	Dietary preferences

Confirmed¶

Name	Arrival	Departure	Room type	Requesting free of charge hotel+conference (volunteer)	Dietary preferences
laforge	Friday	Monday	Classic	No (sysmocom)	none
keith	Friday	Monday	Classic	Yes	vegetarian
neels	Friday	Monday	Classic	No (sysmocom)	vegetarian
tnt	Friday	Monday	Classic	Partially (conf)	I'll manage
osmith	Thursday	Monday	Classic	No (sysmocom)	vegan
pespin	Friday	Monday	Classic	No (sysmocom)	none
jolly	Friday	Monday	Classic	No (sysmocom)	vegetarian
fixeria	Friday	Monday	Classic	No	none
dexter	Friday	Monday	Classic	No (sysmocom)	none
iedemam	Thursday	Sunday	Classic	No	none
Sec	Friday	Sun/Mon	?	No	no fish
herlesupreeth	Friday(night)	Sunday (afternoon)	Classic	Partially (conf)	vegetarian
steve-m	Friday	Monday	Classic	Yes	none
acetcom	Thursday	Sunday	Deluxe	Yes	none
lynxis	Friday	Monday	Classic	No (sysmocom)	vegetarian
ant	Friday	Monday	Deluxe	No	none
roch	unknown	unknown	?	No	none
manawyrm	Friday	Monday	Classic	Yes	none
rafael2k	Friday	Monday	Classic	Yes	none
roox	Friday	Monday	Classic	Yes	none

Costs¶

Sponsoring (see above) 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. sysmocom of course will also cover everything for its own software development team.

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

• hotel room rates
  • EUR 129 per night for Classic Plus room, or
  • EUR 139 per night for Deluxe room
• conference rates
  • EUR 151 daily conference rate (fri/sat/sun)
  • EUR 99 on monday

Included (in conference package)¶

• conference room including projector, wired internet and wifi
• unlimited coffe, tea and soft drinks, juice, mineral water, club mate
• afternoon snack (sweet)
• lunch (3-course meal)
• dinner (3-course meal or buffet)

Included (in room night)¶

• "Classic Plus" or "Deluxe" room as selectet
• breakfast buffet
• free parking
• complimentary access to pool and sauna

Schedule¶

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 Südkreuz.

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
2	sBitx HF trx	rafael2k
some	RF accessories	rafael2k