Wikimedia Hackathon 2018/Venue and Barcelona

Be patient, will update it in some days

Venue
The event will take place at the Engineering Faculty of the Autonomous University of Barcelona also known as UAB. Amical Wikimedia organises this event in a Faculty and not in Barcelona city center as part of an ongoing partnership with this University, which happens to celebrate its 50th anniversary during 2018. The UAB has 88 bachelor's degrees, 133 official master's. It's a community based on 26k undergraduates, 3k master's students, 5k PhdDstudents. Here you can have a general scope on the University. Though still a little under 50 years old, the UAB has already consolidated itself amongst the 200 best universities in the world within the main university rankings and is located within the top 10 new universities with greatest international projection and prestige. Since 2011, the UAB has been partnering in #eduwiki projects with Amical Wikimedia. You need to know that the campus is out of the city, so we will have calm to focus on our hacking.

Hackathon rooms
Map with hackathon spaces is yet to be done, but here you have some pics of the classrooms and interior spaces of the buildings

Accomodation
As the event takes place in a University Campus, accomodation will take place in two near hotels. A shuttle bus service will be available among venues and hotel.

Booking
If you are applying to a scholarship, please fill the Scholarship form, which includes travel help and accommodation so you do NOT need to fill the Hotel form.

If either you or your organization is paying your way and you want us to book a hotel room in one of our pre-booked hotels but you are NOT getting an scholarship, please fill the Hotel form.

In case of problems with the registration form, please contact us via hackathon@wikimedia.cat.

Food and drinks at the venue
This is an educational area, so by law high alcoholics drinks are forbidden. Softdrinks like wine and beer are allowed. Smoking is forbidden inside the buildings and eating areas.

Parking
Free Parking available just in front of the main building. Private parking also inside the building.

Within a 500 metres radius
We are in a campus, no shops or facilities in near radius. Make sure you bring your plugs, tobbaco, or other facilities with you.

General tourist information
Barcelona has a population of nearly two million people. It has a wide variety of attractions that bring in tourists from across the globe. The many faces of Barcelona include the medieval Old Town, and the unique street grid resulting from 19th-century urban planning. The city has long sandy beaches and green parks on the hills, pretty much side-by-side. It is also famous for a number of prominent buildings, of which the most-known are by the architect Antoni Gaudí, including his Sagrada Família, which became Barcelona's symbol to many.

Founded more than 2,000 years ago as the ancient Roman town Barcino, Barcelona is thus as historic as it is modern, with a constant flow of projects changing the face of the city and long-standing penchant for design and innovation. Thanks to the wealth of attractions, a very well-developed accommodation base, a lively nightlife and a robust transportation system, Barcelona has become one of Europe's, and pretty much the world's, most popular tourist destinations.

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