Motto: Back to life, back to reality!

Date: 2024-06-28 to 2024-06-30

Location: Linuxhotel, Villa Vogelsang, Antonienallee 1, 45279 Essen-Horst, Germany

X2Go: The Gathering is the annual event where users, admins, and developers (including the i18n volunteers) of X2Go meet face to face, to discuss current X2Go-related issues, fix open bugs, and have a good time getting to know each other. As there is some overlap between X2Go, Arctica, and orca e.V., you can expect to see members of those groups as well.

As usual, this was a three-day event, and a “work and play” gathering; We'll have grid power, WiFi, hotel style rooms, youth hostel-like service, recreational facilities available, group entertainment available in the evening.

The recording of Saturday's discussions can be found here: https://youtube.com/live/J6hY59JqsKk

Dinner costs for Friday (Pizza delivery) will be sponsored by (up to 300 EUR total) - Thanks a lot!

Warm meal/cold cuts on Saturday: We had one warm meal on Saturday. Everybody interested in a warm lunch will head to Unperfekthaus - we have a reservation there for an all-you-can-eat buffet, softdrinks included, and free access to the exhibition - which was scheduled for 13:00 CEST, but was postponed to 14:00 CEST. For dinner, we had cold cuts. Some of us preferred a warm meal for dinner instead, with cold cuts for lunch, so Stefan was granted access to the Linuxhotel kitchen to cook for those.

• The nearest subway station is “Essen-Horst”
• This subway line is operated by Deutsche Bahn, so you can book your railway ticket to destination Essen-Horst and have the subway ticket included in your regular train ticket. Advantage: no need to figure out how the local ticket vending machine works (plus it's probably cheaper that way).
• It's a ~ 15 Minute walk from Essen-Horst to the Linuxhotel, please use the route as suggested here: http://goo.gl/maps/wJWrv
• NB: some navigation systems plot a shorter pedestrian route that leads through the woods, but from personal experience I (Stefan) can tell you that you do not want to use that path when carrying luggage, possibly in the dark, when you've never walked it before.

• The usual “X2Go: State of the Union” talk
• X2Go and Wayland/Waypipe → investigate, provide rough sketch/outline
• In addition to working on closing some bugs and migrating others to our Gitlab instance, we'll also take a look at https://apply.opentech.fund/foss-sustainability-fund/ :
  • Do we already qualify?
  • If not, what could we do to qualify in the future?
  • Do we qualify for other opentech fund offerings like https://apply.opentech.fund/security-lab/?
• shell.segfault.net and X2Go → try it out, document it
  • FAQ https://www.thc.org/segfault/faq #13 seems relevant
  • libssh doesn't support SetEnv in config
  • using secret@segfault.net returns a prompt where the secret can be entered manually, X2GoClient could try to parse this like a 2FA auth …
• Bugsquashing and Maintenance

• This is an additional general meeting (“außerordentliche Mitgliederversammlung”) of orca e.V., a German public-benefit nonprofit association
• This is not the regular, annual meeting that is required by law, but an additional one, due to certain circumstances requiring timely decision-making.
• orca
  • stands for Open Remote Computing Association
  • has been founded at X2Go: The Gathering 2017
  • includes members of several open remote computing projects, like Arctica and FreeRDP, not only X2Go
• Donations to orca e.V. are tax-deductible in Germany (and maybe in other countries as well)
• The meeting will take place on Sunday, as shown in the schedule above. Current orca e.V. members will be invited to this event by individual e-mail.
• The language of this event item is German.

This event item has its own sub-agenda, as listed below.

Jitsi-URL zur Teilnahme (bitte Copy & Paste nutzen): https://coremeet.workadventu.re/wsql20-estatesphere#userInfo.displayName="BitteHierDeinenNamenEintragen"

Tagesordnung:
 1.  Eröffnung
     a. Begrüßung
     b. Feststellung der Beschlussfähigkeit
     c. Festlegung des Schriftführers für diese Versammlung
        (muss kein Vereinsmitglied sein)
 2.  Antrag: Abstimmung bezüglich der Nutzungsregeln für gitlab.x2go.org
 3.  Antrag: Information und Abstimmung zu weiterem Vorgehen 
     "Möglichkeit der Auftragsvergabe an Mitglieder/deren Firmen"
 4.  Antrag: Abstimmung bezüglich möglicher Satzungsänderungen
     (75% Ja-Stimmen notwendig)
     a. zu eventuell notwendigen Änderungen, u.a. falls das Finanzamt
        unseren Status als gemeinnütziger Verein aufhebt
        (dieses Jahr steht eine entsprechende Prüfung an)
     b. zu Ehrenamts- und Übungsleiterpauschalen
 5.  Bericht der Vorstände
 6.  Entlastung des Vorstandes (gesamt; im Verweigerungsfall einzeln)
 7.  Zwischenbericht des Kassenwarts
 8.  Neuwahl des Vorstandes:
     a. Kandidatenvorstellung
     b. (wenn gewünscht) Fragerunde
     c. Wahl
 9. (Neu)wahl des Schriftführers (bislang vakant):
     a. Kandidatenvorstellung
     b. (wenn gewünscht) Fragerunde
     c. Wahl
10. weitere Anträge
11. Sonstiges
12. Ende

Die Reihenfolge der Punkte ist mit Absicht so gewählt, dass die Entscheidungen zuerst kommen, die eine
möglichst breite Mehrheit unter den Mitgliedern haben sollten - falls Teilnehmer nicht in der Lage
sind, für die gesamte Dauer anwesend zu sein.