Wikimedia Hackathon 2017/Venue and Vienna

Venue
The venue and accommodation are both at the same site: JUFA Wien City. One main hall, two conference rooms and several small workshop rooms are available to us, plus a nice yard. Accommodation will be on the upper floors and in an adjacent building.

Hackathon rooms
More information to come.

Booking


Accommodation will be booked as part of the registration and invoiced by Wikimedia Österreich. The accommodation prices are total, from May 19th to 21st, and also include the catering (i.e. all the meals, breakfast, lunch, supper, snacks, and drinks) and attendance of the evening program. For the duration of the Hackathon the venue will be exclusively used by us.


 * Single room: 250 EUR
 * Double room: 160 EUR per person
 * Triple room: 160 EUR per person
 * Quadruple room (160 EUR per person)
 * Quintuple room (160 EUR per person)

Please name your preferred roommates in the registration form.

Families: In the registration form there are options for several types of rooms depending on the number of people, age of children etc.

Before and after the event there will be other guests in the hotel too but we could also reserve some rooms for Thursday, May 18 and Sunday, May 21. The rooms will be charged additionally and need to be paid directly at JUFA Wien City.


 * Single rooms: 79 EUR per person (including breakfast)
 * Double rooms: 50 EUR per person (including breakfast)

Travel with families
Families are welcome at the Wikimedia Hackathon in Vienna! We encourage you to travel with your children and are doing our best to make the event as family friendly as possible: We’ll provide free daycare for children age 1 and older by professional caregivers in a designated children’s playroom at the hackathon venue. (Please select options accordingly in the section “Families” in the application form.)

If you wish to have daycare for children younger than 1 year of age, or for children with special needs on your own expense, please indicate it in the form or drop us an email (hackathon@wikimedia.at) and we’ll try to arrange a suitable service.

Other hotels and hostels
There are some other hotels and hostels close to JUFA Wien City if anyone wants to arrive earlier or leave later and the rooms at JUFA Wien City might be limited for an extended stay. These places are all less than 2km from the venue:


 * Simm’s Hotel
 * Hotel Hahn
 * Hotel König
 * Austria Trend Hotel Doppio

If you want to continue your trip in Austria, don’t hesitate to ask us for advice. We'll be glad to help you discover the hidden secrets of this beautiful little country we call home. ;-)

Shopping



 * Cash machine Gnome-globe.svg on OpenStreetMap
 * The nearest 24 hrs cash machine is located at the post office at Exenbergerweg 4/2.


 * Merkur supermarket Gnome-globe.svg on OpenStreetMap
 * Huge supermarket of the Austrian Merkur Wikidata-logo.svg chain. Opening hours: M-F 7.40 am-8 pm, Sa 7.40 am-6 pm, closed Su.


 * Simmeringer Hauptstraße shopping street Gnome-globe.svg on OpenStreetMap
 * Simmeringer Hauptstraße Wikidata-logo.svg is the main street of Simmering, the 11th district of Vienna. You find mainly all kinds of cheap shops there, less fancy than in the city centre.


 * Zentrum Simmering mall Gnome-globe.svg on OpenStreetMap
 * Zentrum Simmering Wikidata-logo.svg is a modern mall with more than 55 shops and restaurants, including international chains and local shopkeepers. Opening hours: M-W F 9.00-19.00, Th 9.00-20.00, Sa 9.00-18.00; closed Su.

Local sights

 * Neusimmering Church Gnome-globe.svg on OpenStreetMap
 * Neusimmering Church Wikidata-logo.svg is a landmark of Vienna’s 11th district. Completed in 1910, the Romanesque-revival church was one of the city’s first reinforced concrete buildings. The romantic painter Leopold Kupelwieser Wikidata-logo.svg created its altarpiece.


 * Sefrit cross Gnome-globe.svg on OpenStreetMap
 * The Sefrit cross is a wayside shrine erected in 1632. It is named after its donor Georg Sefrit.


 * John of Nepomuk statue Gnome-globe.svg on OpenStreetMap
 * John of Nepomuk Wikidata-logo.svg is one of the most depicted Christian saints in Eastern Austria. You can spot this late 18th-century statue in a niche from the street next to our venue.


 * Plastikenzaun Gnome-globe.svg on OpenStreetMap
 * This eccentric piece of public art is a long metal fence incorporating modern sculptures made of dolostone. It is a work by the Austrian sculptor Kurt Goebel Wikidata-logo.svg of 1967.


 * Anton-Schrammel-Hof Gnome-globe.svg on OpenStreetMap
 * Anton-Schrammel-Hof Wikidata-logo.svg is a fine example of Vienna’s renowned public housing program of the 1920s and 1930s. Back then, more than 60,000 apartments were built by the left-wing administration all across the city. Their often fortress-like architecture reflects the social conflicts in the decades after the collapse of the Austrian empire.

Vienna
Situated in the heart of Europe, Vienna has become a hub for Central Europe‘s lively and dynamic IT community. According to a survey by Mercer, Vienna has been the leading city concerning quality of living for several years in a row. One important aspect of this survey was Vienna‘s status as one of the safest metropolitan areas worldwide. Vienna is also LGTB friendly and proud of it. Public transport in Vienna as well the hackathon venue stand out due to high accessibility standards.

Major sights and how to get there
Historic Centre of Vienna

Quoting from the document which the made the Historic Centre of Vienna a UNESCO World Heritage Site: “The urban and architectural qualities ... bear outstanding witness to a continuing interchange of values throughout the second millennium. Three key periods of European cultural and political development – the Middle Ages, the Baroque period, and the Gründerzeit – are exceptionally well illustrated.” In other words: Vienna’s city centre is a lively mixture of the best.

The quickest way from our venue to the city centre:
 * Take the U3 underground line (direction Ottakring) from Enkplatz underground station Wikidata-logo.svg - and depart at Stephansplatz underground station Wikidata-logo.svg. It takes you 11 mins.

Zentralfriedhof

You will never get closer to Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, the Strauss family and other personalities from Vienna’s past. The Zentralfriedhof with its impressive Jugendstil cemetery church is one of Europe’s largest graveyards and linked to the city’s sometimes morbid side, as the wicked saying goes: “In Vienna, you have to die first before they celebrate your life”.

From our venue it’s only a 10 mins tram ride to Zentralfriedhof:
 * Take the 6 tram line (direction Zentralfriedhof 2. Tor) or the 71 tram line (direction Zentralfriedhof 3. Tor) - both depart at Enkplatz underground station Wikidata-logo.svg - and get off at Zentralfriedhof 2. Tor at the cemetery’s main entrance.

General tourist information
Do you want to explore Vienna on your own?


 * The English Wikivoyage entry on Vienna goes very much into detail about the city.
 * The Vienna Tourist Board offers information in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Russian, Polish, Romanian, Czech, Japanese, Arabian and Chinese.
 * Vienna Würstelstand has information about Vienna’s top sights as well as lots of insiders' tips.
 * Events in Vienna can be found here and here.

Contact: hackathon@undefinedwikimedia.at This e-mail address can be used for all inquiries or questions regarding the event.