ContributorCampXV - SasView/sasview GitHub Wiki

Contributor Camp XV Planning

Where and When

November 3-9 2026 at Charles University in Prague

The fifteenth SasView Contributor Camp (formerly known as code camp) will be held in Prague, Czechia (The Czech Republic ), starting Nov 3 at Albertov campus of the Faculty of Science, Charles University and sponsored by the ILL and Dominika Zakutna's group. The full camp runs from the morning of Tuesday Nov 3 through Monday afternoon Nov 9.

Overview

As usual, the camp will include the customary topics of addressing issues, training new contributors, adding new features, editing/adding documentation and tutorial, updating website and/or other services, and holding discussion round tables around GUI or code designs or more generally.

Anybody with interests in improving SasView, from whatever science areas they wish to contribute to, are always welcome!

Registration

TBA

Travel, Accommodations and Local Information

Currency Exchange

Please feel free to explore following list - Places are verified by the Honest Guide

Approximative currency change rates (as of March 2026): 1 EUR ≈ 25 CZK and 1 USD ≈ 22 CZK

Public Transport

Public transport tickets can be obtained either in a physical form or purchased via app called 'PID Litacka'

Validity Period Regular Ticket Ticket in the App Funicular
30 minutes 39 CZK / 1.56 EUR / 1.77 USD 36 CZK / 1.44 EUR / 1.63 USD Not valid on the Funicular
90 minutes 50 CZK / 2.00 EUR / 2.27 USD 46 CZK / 1.84 EUR / 2.09 USD Not valid on the Funicular
24 hours 150 CZK / 6.00 EUR / 6.82 USD 140 CZK / 5.60 EUR / 6.36 USD It is valid on the Funicular
72 hours 350 CZK / 14.00 EUR / 15.91 USD 340 CZK / 13.60 EUR / 15.45 USD It is valid on the Funicular

Physical tickets

More information available here Note that you only need to validate your ticket once - after that, you can freely transfer between bus, tram, and metro until your ticket expires

E-tickets

Payment is available via Apple Pay or Google Wallet. The ‘PID Litacka’ app features a route planner that automatically suggests the appropriate fare. After purchase, you may choose automatic validation at the selected time or validate your ticket manually. Please note that e-tickets become valid after a 1-minute countdown.

Attendees are responsible for their own travel, accommodation and subsistence.

Getting to and from the hotel/Venue

Arriving by plane (Commuting to/from Vaclav Havel Airport)

TBA

Arriving by train

TBA

Arriving by car

Driving is not recommended. In particular, parking may be a problem. If necessary you can use google maps to plan your trip.

Accommodations

TBA

Meals

Breakfasts are available in the hotel as well as local cafes. For lunch there are many options near the venue. for Monday, November 9, a Pizza lunch will be provided on site during the final sprint. For dinner,, there are many restaurants in the area. Normally attendees join together and pick a restaurant, but depending on the group size, booking ahead is probably advised.

Suggestions and links to local eateries will be added soon

Note that all meals except the Pizza lunch will be the responsibility of the attendees.

Venue

Location

All camp activities will take place in the Charles University - Faculty of Science, Albertov campus, Chemistry building at Hlavova 2030/8. Besides the general spaces, four rooms have been reserved for the camp, including 2 breakout/discussion rooms.

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WiFi

  • Eduroam is available throughout the venue and will be the main wifi access point
  • For those who do not have an eduroam account, alternative wifi access will be provided however it would be very helpful to know ahead of time if you will need such access.

Organizing

Contact Information:

Dominika Zakutna
phone: xxxx
email: [email protected]
Charles Uni
Ovocný trh 560/5
Prague 1
116 36 Czech Republic

Organizing Committee:

  • Dominika Zakutna - ILL and Charles University
  • Stefan Hricov - Charles University
  • Cristian Pilloni - Charles University
  • Romain Conan - Charles University
  • Paul Butler - NIST, UTK and UD

Participants (current list)

TBA

Project board

  • will be posted as the time approaches

Tentative Agenda

A tentative outline is posted below. The detailed agenda will be fleshed out over the course of the next few months. The expectation is that besides working on specific tasks (code, documentation, tutorials, websites, etc), there will be a roadmap discussion, some tutorials and breakout discussions/design planning. There is also expected to be a big push in improving the support for hard condensed matter SAS analysis, particularly magnetic SANS, and possibly also improving bioSAS support.

Room TBA - Working groups Room TBA - training/tutorials/discussion groups

Monday November 2nd

  • 16:00 Informal gathering at Bar for those arriving early

Tuesday November 3th

  • 09:00 Start with orientation and general organizational stuff
  • 09:30 Set up and start work
  • 11:45 Group Photo
  • 12:00 Lunch break
  • 13:00 Work
  • 18:30 Dinner
  • 20:00 Social at the hotel bar/lounge
  • 09:30 Introduction to using github and slack with SasView (repos, branches, issues, discussions, pull requests, wikis, etc) - TBA
  • 13:00 Introduction to model and documentation writing (SasView editors, rst and latex) - TBA
  • Posters all day
  • Breakout Group Discussions as needed

Wednesday November 4th

  • 09:00 Start work
  • 12:30 Lunch break
  • 13:30 Work
  • 18:30 Dinner
  • 20:00 Social at the hotel bar/lounge
  • 09:00 Pull Request reviews: functionality and code reviews - TBA
  • 13:30 Introduction to basic SasView code structure - TBA
  • Posters all day
  • Breakout Group Discussions as needed
    • TBA
    • TBA

Thursday November 5th

  • 09:00 Regular work
  • 12:30 Lunch break
  • 13:30 Work
  • 18:30 Dinner
  • 20:00 Social at the hotel bar/lounge
  • Posters all day
  • Breakout Group Discussions as needed
    • TBA
    • TBA

Friday Friday November 6th

  • 09:00 Functionality and code review of pull requests from previous days
  • 11:00 Regular work
  • 12:30 Lunch break
  • 13:30 Work
  • 18:30 Steak night
  • 20:30 Social at the hotel bar/lounge
  • Posters all day
  • Breakout Group Discussions as needed
    • TBA
    • TBA

Saturday November 7th

  • 9:00 Start Work
  • 12:30 Lunch break
  • 13:30 Work
  • 18:30 Dinner
  • 20:30 Social at the hotel bar/lounge
  • Posters all day
  • Breakout Group Discussions as needed
    • TBA
    • TBA

Sunday November 8th

  • 09:00 Functionality and code review of pull requests from previous days
  • 11:00 Regular work
  • 12:45 Lunch break
  • 14:00 Activity (TBA)
  • 20:00 Dinner
  • Posters all day
  • Breakout Group Discussions as needed
    • TBA
    • TBA

Monday November 9th

  • 09:00 Pull Request reviews/discussions
  • 11:30 FINAL SPRINT
  • 12:15 Pizza Lunch (catered)
  • 13:00 FINAL SPRINT
  • 18:30 Dinner
  • 19:00
  • Posters all day
  • Breakout Group Discussions as needed
    • TBA
    • TBA
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