News

All recordings of the meeting have now been posted on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEQHbPfpVqU6esVrgqjfYybY394XD2qf2

The meeting is now only a few more weeks away. All attendees and speakers have been confirmed. The list of contributed talks is close to final, and promises an interesting meeting with a broad range of topics. If you are attending and haven’t yet made your travel and accommodation arrangements, we advise to do so as soon as possible, since Düsseldorf is a popular destination for events and tourists and can fill up well in advance....

After careful consideration, we have decided to move the meeting earlier by two weeks. The new meeting dates are Apr 4-6 2024. This move was necessary due to a large trade fair in Düsseldorf on the original dates. Hotel and apartment availability is already extremely limited, and for many prohibitively expensive. We gauged the community’s feeling before making this decision, and the majority of speakers and attendees responded favorably to the move, although we do recognize the challenges that this causes for some....

We have sent out notifications by email to all who submitted conference and hackathon submissions. However, if you missed the registration deadline, don’t worry! It is now possible to submit a late registration and add yourself to the hackathon waiting list. We plan to accept conference registrations until we reach the venue capacity. We will assess late registrations at an interval of ~ 2 weeks and will send out notification emails....

Thanks for everyone’s registrations and contribution submissions! It looks like the first distribits meeting is going to be what we hoped for: An inspiring event for technology enthusiasts with many backgrounds. We received registrations from Europe, North America, and Asia, from people working on research data curation, climate science, imaging, archeology, data portals, archiving solutions, small and scale large. We will now work on finalizing the schedule, and send out emails to everyone by November 1st....

If you haven’t yet, register for the event and hackathon via out online submission/registration system and tell your friends about it. We look forward to meeting you!