Archived/Hackathon/April2015
When and Where ?
Intel Shanghai, April 29-30
Intel will be hosting this years Xen Project Hackathon on April 29-30, 2015 at their Shanghai Site.
We will start at 9AM and finish at 5PM each day. There will also be an evening social event on April 29th : more details will follow.
Address in English:
- Intel Asia-Pacific Research and Development Ltd.
- No. 880, Zixing Road
- Shanghai Zizhu Science Park,
- Min Hang District
- Shanghai (200241)
Address in Chinese:
- 闵行区紫竹科学园区紫星路880号
- Tel: 86-21-61165000
Check out the event location on the map
Schedule
May 29th
8:45 - 9:30 Registration & Breakfast (Breakfast will be provided) 9:30 - 9:45 Welcome 9:45 - 10:30 Scheduling 10:30 - 11:30 Sessions 1 11:30 - 12:30 Sessions 2 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 14:30 Sessions 3 14:30 - 15:30 Sessions 4 15:30 - 16:00 Break 16:00 - 17:00 Sessions 4 17:00 - 17:30 Plenary
Information about The Old Vinyl Factory
May 30th
9:00 - 9:45 Breakfast 9:45 - 10:15 Scheduling 10:15 - 11:30 Sessions 1 11:30 - 12:30 Sessions 2 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 14:30 Sessions 3 14:30 - 15:30 Sessions 4 15:30 - 16:00 Break 16:00 - 16:45 Plenary: Share achievements 16:45 - 17:00 Closing
Recommended Hotel Options
We will be organising a bus from and to one of the hotels below. They are all within walking distance from each other. More details will follow.
Sheraton Shanghai Hongqiao Hotel,
Renaissance Shanghai Yangtze Hotel
Cost: around USD 150
Address:
Transport Information
Buses from hotels to the Intel Campus
We will be organising a bus service from the recommended hotels (see above) to the Intel site in the morning and the evening. Exact pick-up and return times will be published later.
Other ways to get to the Intel Campus
Taxi's in Shanghai are relatively cheap. You are looking at a cost of around $20-$25 for a 1-1.5 hour taxi ride of about 30-35 km's. There is no easy way to get to the Intel site by public transport. Should you chose to use a taxi or chose to stay in a different hotel to those recommended, please make sure you organise the taxi with the concierge at your hotel. Printing out a map of the Intel site's location and the address in Chinese as well as your hotel address also helps.
Reference distances to the Intel site:
- The Bund : 38 km's - approximately 1.5 hours
- Pudong : 40 km's - approximately 1.5 hours
- Recommended hotels in Hongqiao : 27 km's - approximately 1 hour
Getting from the airport to the Hotels
To get from the airport to one of the recommended hotels, you can take a taxi. It is about a 50 km drive and will take 1-1.5 hours depending on the day of time. It will cost around $25. Make sure to go to the airport's taxi stand and do *not* use one of the offers for a taxi when you come out of the gate. These are normally limousine services which will cost you several times more than a regular taxi. You should also print out the name and a map of the hotel, just in case.
Alternatively, you can use public transport: see the following map
Taxi's in Shanghai
taxi's in Shanghai are relatively cheap. For more information see the Travel China Guide
Visa Invitation Letters
If you require an invitation, please send an e-mail to community dot manager at xenproject dot org. You should leave make sure that you have at least 2 weeks to organise a visa with your local Chinese Embassy after you have received the visa invitation letter. Please provide the following information:
Personal Information
- Name
- Gender
- Date of birth
- Nationality
- Passport number
- Full name of the company which you work for
- Job title
Other Information
- Date of arrival and leaving - note that you need a full itinerary in the visa application, but that in practice after you received the visa modifications to the schedule without notifying the Chinese Embassy is OK
- State your role in the Xen Project Community
- You will need to state who will bear the cost of travel to/from China and your accommodation in China
We will be processing invitation letters from the first week of March. Note that you do need to provide hotel information, when you apply for a Chinese visa. General information about receiving visa's to China can be found here.
Topics to Discuss, Code, Work on, ... at the Hackathon
Instructions
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Please use the {{Project}} template to add any discussions that you want to have at the Hackathon. Feel free to comment on discussions using {{Comment}} and your support for a specific topic - i.e. you indicate that you want to participate in this topic - by using {{Vote}} or {{VoteNo}} in the Review section of the project. To do this, use the Review section of the {{Project}}.
The code will look like {{project=Name
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|Review=
{{comment|~~~~:}} Some text/comment
{{vote|~~~~}} Some explanation
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Make sure you read the template documentation of {{Project}}, {{Comment}}, {{Vote}} and {{VoteNo}}. Mark unused fields of {{Project}} with {{N/A}}. |
Topics
Please add topics you want to discuss in this section as described above
I want to attend
Request an Invitation
In previous years we have requested for attendees to fill out a form and request an invitation. This was overly complicated, so we will revert back to a simpler approach. Please add your name to the table below. If your email address is not known in the Xen Community, please also add the name of your employer and send your e-mail address to community dot manager at xenproject dot org using "Request for Hackathon 2015 Invite" as subject line. This is important, such that we can e-mail more information to you.
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- Add your name and org here
Confirmed attendees
Note that we only have a maximum of 50 spaces : please add your name below
- Lars Kurth, Citrix
