DebConf15/DayTrip/Dilsberg

Dilsberg Castle (Fortress Ruins)

• opening hours: 1000 – 1730
• wheelchair accessibility: no
• baby stroller: there are cobblestones in the castle, some parts of the guided tour are not passable with a stroller (eg winding staircases up to the castle walls or the subterranean passageway in the depths of the well)
• cost: 13€ (adults), 9€ (children 5 to 14 years)

schedule

way there

• 0915 departure 'DJH'
• ~0940 arrival 'pier Heidelberg'
• 1000 departure boat tour (example views: one, two)
• 1125 arrival Neckarsteinach
• 1145 departure 'pier Neckarsteinach'
• ~1215 arrival 'Dilsberg castle'

guided tour

• 1300 1.5h guided tour (2xEnglish/2xGerman)

way back

• 1600 departure 'Dilsberg castle'
• ~1640 arrival 'DJH'

Sign-Up

• infants (up to ~3 years old) sit on the lap of a parent; please add your infant to your own sign-up (eg '<your name> (+ 1 infant [age 2])')
• children (up to 14 years old) need to indicate the age in the 'child (age)' column (eg 'yes (9)')
• older children and adults say 'no' in 'child (age)' column
• If you are an orga team member and want to help take care of bus, put yourself into the RESERVED space and mark yourself as (bus master). Involves checking off people on departure and possibly collecting money.

Bus: Dilsberg 1

Bus: Dilsberg 1
#	guided tour: Group 1 (German)	child (age)
1.	Hannes von Haugwitz (bus master)	no
2.	Judith von Haugwitz (+ 1 infant [15 months])	no
3.	Ralf Treinen	no
4.	Bernhard Link	no
5.	Jana W. janapirat	no
6.	Kristoffer Rose	no
7.	Martin Steigerwald	no
8.	Sven Haardiek	no
9.	Christian T. Steigies	no
10.	Kåre Thor Olsen	no
11.	Felix Zielcke	no
12.	Matthias Klumpp	no
13.	Sven Bartscher	no
14.	David Bremner	no
15.

Bus: Dilsberg 1
#	guided tour: Group 2 (English)	child (age)
1.	Abhishek Bhattacharjee	no
2.	Mohit Bhakkad	no
3.	Ondřej Surý (+ 1 infant [age 0,5])	no
4.	Kateřina Surá (+ 1 infant [age 2,5])	no
5.	Brian Gupta	no
6.	Marie Anne Mastrovito	no
7.	Maya Gupta	yes (12)
8.	Vijay Gupta	yes (10)
9.	Edward Betts	no
10.	Andrew Ayer	no
11.	Luca Filipozzi	no
12.	Aigars Mahinovs	no
13.	-- free seat --
14.	Heena Sirwani	no
15.	Alberto Bertogli	no
16.	Juan Rossi	no
17.	Julia Tappa	no
18.	Margarita Manterola	no
19.	Martín Ferrari	no
20.	Maximiliano Curia	no
21.	Melisa Halsband	no
22.	Sebastián Galletto	no
23.	Leandro Lucarella	no
24.	Paul Liu	no
25.	Catherine Nonet	no
26.	David Prévot	no
27.	Tammy Manning	no
28.	Rémi Vanicat	no
29.	Bdale Garbee	no
30.	Víctor Cuadrado Juan	no
31.	RESERVED (Noah Swartz)	no
32.	Yutaka Niibe	no
33.	Hitoe Niibe	no
34.	Hiroshi Niibe	yes (7)
35.	Ayumi Niibe	yes (5)

THIS BUS IS FULL.

Bus: Dilsberg 2

Bus: Dilsberg 2
#	guided tour: Group 1 (German)	child (age)
16.	Rhonda D'Vine	no
17.
18.	Robert Schüttler	no
19.	J. Fernando Lagrange	no
20.	Hermógenes Oliveira	no
21.	Uli Scholler	no
22.	Gert Wollny	no
23.	Philipp Kaluza (bus master)	no
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27.
28.
29.
30.

Bus: Dilsberg 2
#	guided tour: Group 3 (English)	child (age)
1.	Komal Sukhani	no
2.	Thiago Ribeiro	no
3.	Lucas Kanashiro	no
4.	Graham Inggs	no
5.	Bernelle Verster	no
6.	Olivier Berger	no
7.	Sandeep Sukhani	no
8.	Valessio Brito	no
9.	Andrey Rahmatullin	no
10.
11.	Larissa Reis	no
12.	Brett Johnson	no
13.	Cédric Boutillier	no
14.	Olga Alexandrova	no
15.	Ming-ting Yao Wei	no
16.	Jonathan Bustillos	no
17.	Wouter Verhelst	no
18.	Aron Xu	no
19.	Eugene V. Lyubimkin	no
20.	Monica Righini	no
21.	Francesco Poli	no
22.	Julián Moreno Patiño	no
23.	Alba Crespi	no
24.	Moray Allan	no
25.	Molly de Blanc	no
26.	Valerie Young	no
27.	Asheesh Laroia	no
28.	Chen Baozi	no
29.	YunQiang Su	no
30.	Norvald H. Ryeng	no
31.	Adam Borowski	no
32.	Raphael Geissert	no
33.	Michael Aday	no
34.	Ethan Aday (Michael Aday's child)	10 years
35.	Eder L. Marques	no

Waiting list

You could add yourself to a German group and simply choose not to tag along, but visit the castle yourself. If you want to do this, please move yourself from the waiting list and into the appropriate group.

Alternatively, the DebConf15/DayTrip/Speyer option still has many free seats.

guided tour: German

#	guided tour: English	child (age)
1.	Laszlo Boszormenyi	no
2.
3.
4.
5.	Ming-ting Yao Wei	no
6.	Eugene Zhukov	no
7.	Ritesh Raj Sarraf	no
8.	YABUKI Yukiharu	no
9.	Manoj Srivastava	no
10.	Jimmy Kaplowitz	no
11.	Lynn Christofanelli	no
12.	Harsh Daftary	no
13.	Mohit Kumar	no

Wrap-Up

Things Learned from the Visit of Dislberg Castle

• Save your sourcecode. Make backups. Share your knowledge.
  • Dilsberg Castle was never destroyed in a war. It was left unattended though, and then torn down bit by bit and its pieces used elsewhere (for other buildings). One day people reconsidered (gee, we have this cool castle, what a waste, tourists would love it) and then tried to build it back up. But the original plans were lost, and there were only a few pictures from the outside. Building plans (if they ever existed) were lost in a fire in Heidelberg castle). (What can be seen today is thus a mix of original and (creatively) rebuilt walls.)
• It's cool to think up imaginative solutions. You will live longer while getting things done.
  • The castle cistern had to be doubled in depth because there wasn't enough capacity. Unfortunately working at the bottom wasn't especially healthy (no air, no good, you die), so they dug a parallel passageway through the mountain for oxygen and created a clever setup including a lit fire and a large frame with damp cloth to make sure the fresh air came down the well, passed by the workers and then exited out the air duct.
• Change is possible: People can change and free themselves at the same time.
  • Two villages were relocated to form what is now the Dilsberg village. To make people cooperate and move their entire village, they were relieved from serfdom when they moved to Dilsberg.
• Sometimes changing your entire system takes a bit of getting used to and can bring on some hard times.
  • There was no fresh water for the first 500 years except for rain water (no well, oh well).
• Debian developers are real people.
  • They can even look like tourists. ;-)

DebConf by boat

Waiting for castle bootup

Looking right

Looking left

Tourists

More tourists

Castle

City

Some more days to go...