Transitous Hack Weekend in July
On July 12/13th we’ll have the first Transitous Hack Weekend in Berlin, Germany.
What is this?
Hack weekends, sprints or however you want to call this are a long established thing in e.g. the KDE or OSM communities, for Transitous we are doing this for the first time.
The idea is the same though: Get a bunch of people into a room together for a few days to discuss and work on topics around Transitous.
There’s organizational, operational as well as technical aspects on the agenda. That’s anything from moving Transitous under the umbrella of some legal entity (for being able to handle money and hold assets such as the domain) over improvements to the hosting infrastructure to things like determining the correct way to display a route or line name from GTFS data.
Client- or application-facing topics are equally in scope, on-trip queries or ensuring the latest MOTIS features are properly supported have been mentioned for example.
Who can join?
The sprint is open to anyone interested in or contributing to Transitous and/or related/adjacent topics. That explicitly includes people working on applications using Transitous as well as people working on obtaining and improving GTFS(-RT)/GBFS/etc data.
We have space for about 15 people, please add yourself to the Wiki page and/or get in touch with us on Matrix.
Time and Location
Wikimedia Deutschland kindly allows us to use their WikiBär venue for this. We’ll start on Friday July 11th on 15:00 CEST and have to end before Sunday July 13th 15:00 CEST as that’s when the next event starts there. You’ll find a more detailed timeline on the Wiki page.
That this is both time- and location-wise adjacent to the DELFI Family & Friends Day is of course no coincidence, several attendees will be at that event as well (DELFI is the entity producing the German national aggregated public transport timetable dataset).
More Events
If you are looking for even more mobility/transport-related events, there’s also the Open Transport Community Conference coming up on October 17/18th in Vienna, Austria. More on that once its Call for Participation is finalized.