Presentations @WhereCamp XMas Campfire Edition

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Are you a loyal WhereCamper with a long commute?

At WhereCamp, we love all things related to location, which is why we’re curious to see where Xmas Campfire attendees call home.  Are you coming from a different city, different country, or even a different continent?   Tell us how far you’re traveling and you can win a present from our friends in a galaxy far, far away ;)

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WhereCamp mobile guide

We are getting ready for the XMas Campfire edition and that’s why we are helping you for this too! We would like to thank Akaparis for offering us their support with this useful app.

The WhereCamp-Guide will help you to be forearmed for the new experience. It comes with: useful information about the event itself, navigation instructions for the venue, the agenda, the contact details of the organizers.
During the WhereCamp the agenda will be updated for including topics of all Barcamp Sessions. 


If you have an Android Smartphone you can download the Event App from the store. The App provides cool features such as directly saving agenda entries into the personal calendar, calling people out of the App whenever you run into problems or navigate to the event’s building and much more. 
Have a try on it and scan the following QR-Code!

If you have iPhone, Blackberry or Windows Phone you may scan the QR Code below. You may also just click on it!

 

Registration is Closed!

We are pleased to announce that Xmas Campfire Edition is now sold out.

Thank you to those who have registered to join us!

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For those still wishing to come, please send us an e-mail and ask to be put on the waiting list.

If you are unable to attend at this edition, let us know and we really hope to see you at the next one.

We have great people attending and we know we will have a great sharing experience!

If you want to stay up to date with what happens at the event check the website and our profiles:

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How to get to WhereCamp Berlin?

We want to create a great atmosphere at the next edition of WhereCamp Berlin so it’s important for us to make you get rid of the main concerns: accommodation and transport.

We will start with the basic information about the venue location:

Beuth University is situated almost 3 km from the main railway station in Berlin (Hauptbahnhof - Berlin) and approximately 8 km from Berlin Tegel  Airport.

The building stands on a nice area which is full of students.

What transportation are available?

By public transport

·         Metro Station Amrumer road (line 9): 

·         S-Bahnhof West Port 
with 10 minutes walk to the Beuth University

·         Bus (lines 142 , 221) Luxemburger Straße stop

·         Tram (lines M13 , 50) stop Seestraße / Amrumer road: with about 10 minutes walk to the Beuth University

By train

·         From Berlin Hauptbahnhof:

-With the S75 (direction Spandau) to the Zoo - then take the U9 (Osloer Straße) to Amrumer road (about 20 minutes)

-By bus 142 (direction U Leopoldplatz) to station U Amrumer Str or directly in front of the cafeteria to the station Luxemburger Str (Mon-Sat every 20 min, journey time approx 11 min)

·         From Zoologischer Garten: 
The U9 (direction Oslo Road) to Amrumer road (about 8 minutes)

By car

Located across from the Beuth University, directly on the Luxembourg road, is the Beuth own parking garage. Access is via the Triftstraße (about Luxemburgerstraße and Tegeler road to reach).

Nearby you can find many parking spots also. You can check the map to find which one will fit best.

By air

·         From Tegel Airport: 

-With the bus X9 to Zoologischer Garten and then with the U9 (direction Oslo Road) to Amrumer road

-By bus TXL (Alexanderplatz) to underground station Turmstrasse, and then take the U9 (direction Oslo Road) to Amrumer road (approximately 30 minutes)

-By taxi (20 minutes)

·         From Schönefeld Airport: 

-The S45 to station federal court - then take the U9 (Osloer Straße) to Amrumer road

-With the S42 (circle line) and get off at West Harbour - then take the U9 (Osloer Straße) to Amrumer road (about 1 hour 15 minutes)

-By taxi (45 minutes)

What accommodation are available?

JGH Berlin - They have single rooms, double rooms, three- and four-bedrooms as well as business rooms. The prices vary according to what kind of room you choose, they start at 25 € (for 1 person/night).

Smarthostel - It’s a hotel for single and double rooms and it’s a hostel for four-/six-bedrooms. The prices vary according to what kind of room you choose, the most expensive one is around 55 € per night.

Steps-hotel – The rooms are not too fancy but rather practically equipped. Prices vary from 49 € (single room) to 77 € (double room).

Pension Regine Braun- If you don’t find any free rooms in the other places, you can check also this one. Prices vary from 25 € (single room) to 75 € (Quadruple Room).

Tryp Hotel – A more stylish recommendation. It’s at 4 stations and 5 minutes walk from Beuth University.

Hope to find the best solution to enjoy your stay in Berlin!

Waiting to see you there!

Keep spreading the word!

Check out our poster, share it and let us know what you think.

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Thank you all for helping us to make this great event!

Introducing HERE

Nokia is coming to the event with a new product: HERE.

HERE is the brand of Nokia’s new location cloud that delivers the world’s best maps and location experiences across more screens and operating systems.  Built by Nokia, HERE will inspire a new generation of location services and devices that make the mobile experience more personally significant for people everywhere.  Learn more at www.here.net.

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WhereCampers about us…

For us it was a great experience to be part of the geo-community. Some of you have also shared their thoughts with us. We are interested to see more impressions from the event.

Send us an e-mail on berlin@wherecamp.de with your experience from WhereCamp Summer edition and we will include it in the post update.

The WhereCamp unconference is one of the best conferences I have been too. I enjoyed it very much, it is always full of interesting talks, creative presentations and friendly people. It’s great having this kind of conference for free! Looking forward to seeing you in December.

Wilken Holle, CEO of out there! communication

Once again, thanks for the cool event, we really enjoyed it!

Christoph Bünte, SOZIALHELDEN

Thanks again for organizing great event for all geo-lovers! I am happy I could be a part of it!

Adam Mencwal, CEO of ARnav

Amazing time spent at WhereCamp Berlin, awesome speeches, cool projects. A lot of Geo-enthusiasm, made me interested much more into geographical things. Good work guys, keep it up.

Horatiu Dumbrean, Specification Engineer at Skobbler

Registrations are open!

image  We want you to get more involved into community, sharing knowledge & working together, so we invite you to register for free  at the next edition of WhereCamp.

We know that many of you have already updates or maybe are involved in some new geo-projects.  Let’s share the news at XMas Campfire Edition.

WhereCamp is coming back to Berlin

Right before the end of the year, we want to create the perfect combination between scenery and location nerds. Before entering into the Christmas fever take a day on 7th of December and join one of the biggest mapping community – WhereCamp.  Be aware of the latest innovations and discussions in the cartography area which will be presented at Beuth University in Berlin.

 As a usual BarCamp, the registration is open to everybody that wants to discuss about maps on mobile devices, 3D maps or just to make an update about community maps.  This camp is especially suitable for progressive players. Presentations on innovative approaches, projects or products are explicitly requested.

The registrations are already open so please consider that the number of participants is limited. The official language of the event remains English.

We hope you enjoy the good news and you will join us.

Watch the space or follow us on Twitter for updates. We are coming back with surprises!