Developers Workshop 2006

The OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop 2006 will take place the weekend of 8. and 9. April 2006 in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.

News Items
2. January 2006    Initial website online.

Registration
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Workshop Program
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Schedule
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Getting to Biel/Bienne
Biel is the gate to the french speaking part of Switzerland, located in the western part of Switzerland. It is well connected to the railway system in Switzerland and easy to reach from about everywhere.

By train: There are night trains to Basel, called CityNightLine, this is mainly interesting if you want to get to Biel from Germany, Holland or Austria (it works from Denmark as well some days). You reach Biel within one hour from Basel by train.

For other train connections consult your local train office, if you have to travel to Biel from an airport check the homepage of SBB, the railway company in Switzerland. For Geneva and Zurich you have to add Airport in the search field. For Basel and Bern Belp you need to take the local airport bus anyway.

By plane: There is no bigger airport very close to Biel but in Switzerland almost everything is close anyway. So you can choose one of those airports if you want to get to Biel:


 * Zurich (ZRH) - The biggest airport in Switzerland, quite good connections to Biel (every 30 minutes). Takes about 1.5 hours by train.
 * Geneva (GVA) - good for Easyjet. There is just one train per hour to Biel, around 1.5 hours by train.
 * Basel (BSL) - also good for Easyjet. There are bus connections to Basel and from there it's one hour by train.
 * Berne Belp (BRN) - this is a small local airport, close to Bern but you still need to get to Biel and that's probably not much faster than Zurich because the Bus connections from this airport to Bern are not that great. From Bern it will take 30 minutes to Biel.

Accomodation
There are several classes of hotels available in Biel:


 * Lago Lodge - nice backpacker hostel directly at the lake of Biel. University is quite easy to reach by bus and the walk is not that far either.
 * Hotel Continental - 3-star hotel close to the lake as well. The road is quite busy so make sure you get a room towards the lake.
 * Hotel Metropol - 3-star hotel, 15-20 minutes walk to the University or bus.
 * Villa Lindenegg - a very special and cute hotel in an old villa, 2 minutes away from the University, you can't get closer than that :)
 * Mercure Plaza - 4-star hotel in the middle of the city
 * Hotel Elite - 4-star hotel close to the railway station. Takes less than 10 minutes to the University.

If you can't afford a hotel we offer a room at the University where you can sleep with your sleeping bag and your mattress. The room is in the old manufacturing of Rolex and there are showers available too. It's probably not really comfortable but you don't have to pay anything for that :-) Please contact Adrian Gschwend if you want to do that, we have to know how many people do it like this. Email: ktk [at] netlabs.org

Contact
If you have comments or want further information about the workshop, you can always reach us by sending an eMail to: DevelopersWorkshop [at] netlabs.org Adrian Gschwend is mainly responsible for organizing the workshop.

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