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The postmarketOS Conference

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We are very excited to organize and present to you the inaugural postmarketOS conference in Autumn later this year. It's the perfect place for discussions, workshops and collaboration in the postmarketOS and Linux Mobile space, including our upstream projects. We want to connect developers and users with each other, provide room for technological deep-dives, governance round-tables, hands-on learning and hacking sessions.

📍 Location

The conference will take place in Aachen, a city at the tripoint of Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands, on the premises of RWTH Aachen University, Germany's second largest technical university. We will welcome you in the "B-IT" rooms 5053.1 and 5053.2 in building E2 of the Informatikzentrum (center for computer science).

Address: Ahornstraße 55, 52074 Aachen, Germany (OpenStreetMap)

🎫 Tickets

Participation in the conference is free of charge, but you need to register your attendance in advance. This is because we only have limited space for guests. You will be able to register for a free ticket in the upcoming weeks, the time for registration and further details will be announced via our communication channels on the Fediverse and Matrix.

You will also find the link to the registration form here when it's ready!

Students of RWTH Aachen University do not need to register and are welcome to show up at the conference at any time.

👩‍🏫 Participate

If you're working on postmarketOS, any of our upstream projects or topics in the Linux Mobile space, we'd be glad to hear from you at the conference! We're able to offer various timeslots for

and more! We will try to record all presentations and possibly also live-stream them. If you're unsure whether your proposal is a good fit, please submit it anyways. We'll review all of them and want to cover a broad spectrum, since our audience is very diverse: you'll be presenting to kernel hackers, desktop environment maintainers, activists and end users, all at once. Your proposal does not need to cater to everybody, but we will try to find a mix with something for everyone!

The CfP is already open and closes on June 30th. You can find it here.

🚄 Travel

If you're from The Netherlands, you can take an IC train with Nederlandse Spoorwegen from the direction of Alkmaar to Maastricht or Enkhuizen to Heerlen. From there, Arriva Sneltrein RE 18 goes from Maastricht via Heerlen to Aachen Hbf.

From Belgium, there are bi-hourly ICE and Eurostar services respectively from Brussels (Bruxelles Midi) to Aachen Hbf via Liège-Guillemins. Two ICEs every day also go to Aachen Hbf from Antwerp via Brussels Airport and Leuven. Alternatively, you could hop on one of the IC trains from Ostende to Eupen and change to the S 41 to Aachen Hbf at Welkenraedt.

From Austria, ÖBB Nightjet services provide a direct connection from Vienna to Aachen via Munich on a few days every week.

In Germany, the regional express lines RE 1, 4 and 9 connect Aachen with Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen, Wuppertal and Hamm every hour. The ICE on the line Frankfurt - Cologne - Brussels stops here every two hours, and a handful of ICE services from Berlin via Hannover and Cologne or Mönchengladbach end here every day.

If you're flying by plane, the nearest airports are Cologne/Bonn (CGN), Düsseldorf (DUS) and Brussels (BRU), all of them little over an hour away from Aachen.

For a close-up map of the building and its entrances, please refer to the website of the University

Aachen has a very dense bus network, which lets you reach the Informatikzentrum of RWTH Aachen from anywhere in the city. There are two bus stops right next to the building - Hainbuchenstraße and Halifaxstraße. Bus lines 12, 22, 23, 33, 73 and 75 stop here. Please use the entrance at Mies-van-der-Rohe-Str., it's the one closest to the conference rooms.

If you're coming directly from the central station, take bus 3A and get off at Seffenter Weg, it's a 5 minute walk from there. Alternatively, you could take the trains RE 4, RE 18, RB 20 or RB 33 from Aachen Hbf to Aachen West and walk 15 minutes.

🤝 Conduct

Please be excellent and kind to each other! Our code of conduct applies at the event.

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This conference is made possible thanks to the support of the Student Council Math/Physics/Computer Science of RWTH Aachen University and the Chair for Information Systems & Databases.