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# Note this page is in draft still
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# 21st Developer Meeting in Zanzibar, September 2018
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## Period and location
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* The developer meeting will take place from 1 to 4 of September, 2018.
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## Organizers:
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Tim Sutton, tim@qgis.org
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Yves Barthelemy, yvesbarthelemy@gmail.com
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(more to be added)
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## Contact
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Lene Fischer lfi@ign.ku.dk
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## Venue
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The **provisional** (unconfirmed) venue is the [Maru Maru Hotel](https://www.marumaruzanzibar.com) in [Stone Town](http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/-6.16188/39.19111), Zanzibar (same venue as the hotel below).
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## Sponsors
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* QGIS.ORG
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* Sponsors needed!
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## Program
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TBD
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## Accommodation
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The developer meeting **proposed** to be inside the [Maru Maru Hotel](https://www.marumaruzanzibar.com) in Stone Town. There is some financial overhead to using this hotel for the venue so you should plan for this. We will try to set things up to keep the costs down as much as possible.
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We have the **alternative** option of using rooms at the local university but this will mean daily commutes by bus or Taxi since there is no accommodation nearby.
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Please take notice of the prices for accommodation at Maru Maru Hotel:
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- Single with breakfast = ~80USD/day (x 4 days = 320USD)
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- Double with breakfast= ~120USD/day (x 4 days = 480USD)
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We will try to negotiated better rates for this event. If you want to stay at the hotel send your reservation to the hotel through the email reservations@marumaruzanzibar.com referring the event *QGIS meeting Zanzibar September 2018*, so that you can benefit from any reduced price we negotiate, otherwise it may be more expensive.
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Other hotels nearby the developer meeting venue:
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There are many other accommodation options - try AirBNB or just google searching - there will be cheaper places near by.
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## Dining
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* TBD
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## Transportation. How to arrive
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### By air
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Zanzibar / Stone Town is served by [ferry](http://www.azammarine.com) from Dar es Salaam.
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Zanzibar has it own international [airport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abeid_Amani_Karume_International_Airport) - if you are going to FOSS4G2018 you may want to consider routing your flight in via Zanzibar.
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## Topics
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*
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*
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## Participation
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You can apply for refund of travelcost to finance@qgis.org - Deadline for application 2 weeks before the event. Use this [form](https://goo.gl/forms/YKm5fo7ll5GfQEJI3) to apply for funding support.
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## Register
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!!!IMPORTANT!!!! : Arrival and departure date/time for planning accommodation and food. Also remember to add e-mail.
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| # | Name| Arrival | Time | Depart.| Time | Room/Shelter/Tent|Country|Share with|Notes/Food|Email|
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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |---|
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| **1** | Tim Sutton | 1 September | 4 September |TBD| - | TBD | ZA | - | Food: Vegetarian | tim@kartoza.com |
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| **2** | Name| TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | room | Country | | | Email|
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| **3** | Name| TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | room | Country | | | Email|
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## Mentor streams
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If you are coming to a QGIS Developer event for the first time, you may be a little lost and confused about what you should do when you get there. For this event (and hopefully future events if it works well), we will have mentors to help you get started in the QGIS Community. If you would like to be a mentor for a topic not listed, add a new table below. If you need mentorship, add your name to the appropriate table below:
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### Making your first Pull Request to QGIS
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This is a mentored walk through of the entire process of getting your development environment set up, building QGIS and fixing your first small issue, submitting a Pull Request and having it approved by someone in the community.
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**Stream leader:** e.g. Nyall Dawson
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**Participants:**
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| # | Name | Email |
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| - | --- | --- |
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| 1 | ||
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### Making your first Pull Request to QGIS Documentation
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This is a mentored walk through of the entire process of getting your documentation environment set up, building QGIS docs and fixing your first small issue, submitting a Pull Request and having it approved by someone in the community.
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**Stream leader:** e.g. Yves Jacolin
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**Participants:**
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| # | Name | Email |
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| 1 | | |
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### Reporting and validating bug reports
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This is a mentored walk through of the entire process of creating a new issue on the QGIS issue tracker, verifying existing issues and generally participating in the effort to triage the issue queue.
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**Stream leader:** e.g. Giovanni Manghi
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**Participants:**
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| # | Name | Email |
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| 1 | | |
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### Writing tests for QGIS
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This is a mentored walk through of the entire process of creating and running tests for QGIS. Contributing tests to QGIS can hugely help improve the quality of the code base and prevent regressions coming into the code. you should already have python or C++ skills and a a working QGIS development environment to participate in this stream.
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**Stream leader:** e.g. Matthias Kuhn
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**Participants:**
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| # | Name | Email |
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| 1 | | |
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### QGIS Certification Birds of a Feather
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**Stream leader:** e.g. Tim Sutton
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**Participants:**
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| # | Name | Email |
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| 1 | Tim Sutton | tim@qgis.org |
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| 2 | | |
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### The QGIS organization and how to become part of it
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This is a presentation of the organization structure and different tasks within it. This should be a good starting point for first time developer meeting visitors who are looking for a way to be helpful in the project.
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**Stream leader:** Tim Sutton
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**Participants:**
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| # | Name | Email |
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| 1 | Tim Sutton | tim@qgis.org
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## Individual Preparation
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* Bring your own computer (and power supply!). Power socket etc. details [here](https://www.africaguide.com/country/zanzibar/info.htm)
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## Run/Walk/Bike/Swim/Paddle
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## FAQ
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*
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* Contact Lene Fischer lfi@ign.ku.dk or Tim Sutton tim@qgis.org
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