If anyone is going to FOSDEM, Cyberpipe (meta)hackerspace and LUGOS are organising a “HackerTrain to FOSDEM” on part of its journey (night train from Prague to Brussels, 28-29 Jan, to be exact), and you are hereby warmly invited
I am reaching out to you, because you are roughly on the route the train is taking.
We negotiated a 10% discount for the night train ticket and we plan on doing an unconference on the train for different hackers(paces) to meet up, get to know each other and learn what they do.
More information, discussion and (non-affiliated) booking link:
I realise Den Haag is a bit close to Brussels to make this offer very enticing, but I wanted to reach out to every hackerspace I can find along the route.
I apologise that it took several month, but life (and work) happens and it was never a good time.
In order to avoid the “perfect” being the “enemy of done” trap, I am sending this now and I hope you understand that as a grassroots movement/project, there are many things missing and we will learn together as we go along.
our https://codeberg.org/HackerTrain/ – this is where we will organise our tasks regarding the website; common infrastructure and knowledge; and, of course, individual HackerTrain trips to events.
IRC chat: ircs://irc.libera.chat/#hackertrain
Matrix chat: #hackertrain:kompot.si
(most people who provided a non-email contact, provided their Matrix handle, we will bridge it with IRC and may be other IM later on, if there is interest)
So, please join us and let us make HackerTrains part of our collective future!
There’s a few people from Slovenia going by train to WHY and at least one person from Gremany.
Nothing is planned yet, and won’t have the time to go, but there is a ticket open, because some early interest was shown.
IMHO, WHY would be a great β run to test out how to coordinate people flocking in using different routes and organise some get-togethers on the trains. Without “HackerTrain org” dealing with any booking or reservation planning.
Please speak up there, if there is even a spark of interest. My feeling is that there may be just enough kindle in place if someone brings the spark
I can tell you that chartering something to go from a border to Noord-Holland with ~150 people is going to be in the mid three zeroes. Would be at least 10k when you want to go (deeper) into DE
That’s not that bad. I know that charter from Ljubljana to Brussels and back is about 100 K €, because they need to set up a custom route and all.
But the train waits in Brussels, so a long-term dream might be if we can get the sleeper and have it stop at Bruxelles Midi and use it for lodging while staying at FOSDEM.
ChuChu! 
