Working together for a week in the Alps.

:::: Community Media Summer Sprint ::::

22 - 26 AUG 2005, Alberschwende, Austria.

A number of radio stations, who use StreamOnTheFly as their repository and to exchange content in the SOTF network is growing steadily. Developers, partners and potential future users have requested a Sprint Event, which will now take place end of August 2005 in the Alps. On the technical side, we would like to get some pending issues done, such as scheduling, video support, XBMF and life radio integration. Furthermore, we will have sessions on operational, legal (CC) and political issues in the community media sector and preparations for the AXMEDIS conference, which has accepted our latest paper on StreamOnTheFly for IEEE publication.

The sprint will take place in a small village in Bregenzer Wald (http://www.alberschwende.at/). We will have Mesmer's Stadl as a big workshop room and meeting rooms at Telesis and OSalliance (formerly PUBLIC VOICE Lab). We will organize Bed, Brunch, Rooms, Beamer, WLAN Network, Technical Support and Evening Events (cheese making, summer-toboggan, hut, etc).

After the Sprint, some people may visit the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz (www.aec.at/festival/), which is starting 5 days later. In thiis period, you can make some holidays in the alps or in the Bodensee or Salzburg lake area or we extend the workshops for a few days and combine it with hiking.

A Sprint events means: achieve real results with concentrated efforts in a nice working environment. And have a lot of fun together ;-)

Here is an archive of sprint events, we had organized as part of the Open Source Initiative Vorarlberg: http://sprint.telesis.at/ ::  http://www.osiv.at

Alberschwende can be easily reached from Dornbirn (largest city in Vorarlberg/Austria) by Bus in 20 minutes. Dornbirn has frequent train connections to Vienna or Zurich and an overnight train connection from Budapest via Feldkirch. Next airports are Friedrichshafen and Altenrhein. Both airports have buses to Dornbirn.

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[ ]  Yes, I will visit the Sprint Event on the following days: __________

[ ]  I need accomodation and can afford 0 | 20 | 30 | 40 EUR per night plus

[ ]  EUR 40.- per day for full service (includes workshop room rent, brunch, network, evening events with transfers).

[ ]  Please try to allocate co-funding for my attendance.

Please send your registration to Silvia Fetz, sf@pvl.at, +43 5579 717141. She can be reached usually from 8-12, but not 1-15 AUG.

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We would be glad to arrange a nice week for building another brick dedicated to the community media sector.