Date: 2021-12-03 to 2021-12-05
Location: Virtual Event
X2Go: The Gathering 2021 - AKA “Over 9000!” - will be an entirely virtual event and will take place from Friday afternoon, 2021-12-03, to Sunday afternoon/evening, 2021-12-05.
If you're wondering what the “Over 9000!” is about, take a look at Wikipedia for the meme and at this website here, especially the box titled “COVID-19-Fälle” (active Covid-19 cases), which is way over 9000.
Under normal conditions, X2Go: The Gathering would be the annual event where users, admins, and developers (including the i18n volunteers) of X2Go, as well as members from the Arctica project and the orca e.V. nonprofit meet face to face, to discuss current X2Go-related issues, fix open bugs, and have a good time getting to know each other.
Sadly, due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this year's X2Go: The Gathering will have to remain entirely virtual.
Due to various reasons, we were unable to schedule the event earlier in the year, where Covid-19 infection numbers were lower and where meeting outside or keeping the windows open all day might have worked, so we're stuck with this late event date, which sadly coincides with the fourth Covid-19 wave here in Germany.
You can join in any time, even on short notice, no sign-up required .
Current plan is to have a fully virtual event, with live streaming and recording (YouTube):
We plan to release (at least) three new features for X2Go at or at least shortly after this year's X2Go: The Gathering, namely:
The former two are currently already available via nightly builds, but we intend to declare them stable and turn them into a proper release. The latter should become available with the next Remmina release. Also, we intend to present the current state of X2Go-TCE on the Raspberry Pi.
If time permits (and the individuals required for this are available for it), we will also attempt to move our bugtracker and git to our own gitlab instance (at least for new bugs).
Usually, this section would read “As always, we are open to sponsorships”, but Covid-19 changes that as well.
As this year's event is an entirely virtual event, there is not really a need for event sponsorships.
However, if you're a company that had planned to sponsor the event, we'd appreciate it if you'd redirect the money to some paid work on X2Go instead.
A list of companies/individuals available for this can be found here.
If you're not sure what to sponsor - while the features already mentioned above are ready to be included in a stable release, they could still use some more love and affection.
For example:
And of course, you can also make donations, either in general or specifically earmarked for X2Go, via orca e.V.
ALL TIMES CET
For Q&A, we will try to take questions via Jitsi, but also via YouTube chat and possibly IRC - we'll see how that goes.
Friday is a purely virtual event
Live stream / recording will be made available here.
Time Slot | Topic | Speaker / Moderator |
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~18:00h | Official Welcome | Stefan |
18:00h-18:05h | today's agenda | Stefan |
18:05h-18:15h | X2Go's State of the Union Address | Stefan |
18:15h-18:20h | 5min break | |
18:20h-18:40h | HTML5 Client for X2Go | Stefan, standing in for Alex |
18:40h-18:50h | 10min break | |
18:50h-19:10h | (Lib)X2GoClient & X2Go Internals 2021 | Mihai |
19:10h-19:20h | 10min break | |
19:20h-20:00h | Introducing GitLab to X2Go | Melroy |
20:00h-20:10h | 10min break | |
20:10h-20:30h | X2Go Plugin for Remmina | Daniel Teichmann (prerecording?) |
20:30h-20:40h | 10min break | |
20:40h-21:20h | ??? | TBA |
21:20h-21:30h | 10min break | |
21:30h-evening | Open Coding/Bugsquashing | Stefan |
For Q&A, we will try to take questions via Jitsi, but also via YouTube chat and possibly IRC - we'll see how that goes.
Live stream / recording will be made available here.
Time Slot | Topic | Speaker / Moderator |
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11:00h-11:05h | today's agenda | Stefan |
11:05h-11:25h | Last year's changes and improvements to NX-libs | Uli |
11:25h-11:35h | 10min break | |
11:35h-11:55h | X2Go-TCE-Live on the Raspberry Pi | Stefan |
11:55h-12:05h | 10min break | |
12:05h-evening | Open Coding/Bugsquashing | Stefan |
You will most likely hear us talk in German, but don't let that stop you from interrupting us and asking questions in English. We'll be monitoring the IRC channel #x2go on irc.libera.chat as well as the YouTube chat.
Topic | Participants |
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the dreaded NX Clipboard bug - is it still an issue or gone for good? | Uli, Stefan |
X2Go connections freeze after a while on Ubuntu 20.04 when used as a server | Stefan → Uli/Mihai |
X2GoClient: Desktop Environment selection | Mihai, Mike#2 |
macOS issues in X2GoClient | Mihai, Mike#2 |
libx2goclient | Mihai |
review of ORCA finance report | Juri, if still required |
TCE on Pi | Juri, maybe Stefan and Mihai |
EnterpriseLibre VHost? | Juri |
Gitlab? | Juri, but will probably require Mike#1, so → Sunday or another time |
Broker Demo on Buster/LDAPS | Stefan, if time permits |
Live stream / recording will be made available here.
Time Slot | Topic | Speaker / Moderator |
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11:00h-13:00h | ORCA Annual Meeting, see below | Stefan / Mike |
13:00h-evening | Open Coding/Bugsquashing | Stefan |
End of Event | Official Goodbye | Stefan |
This event item has its own sub-agenda:
Vorläufige Agenda - Ergänzungen/Änderungen können bis zur und auch während der Versammlung per Antrag erfolgen!