We’re really excited to announce that the second-ever global Fixfest will occur in Berlin on 20-22 September.
Pre-registration and more details to come soon from our hosts, Runder Tisch Reparatur.
As Restart, we are planning on providing travel subsidies for a number of community members. We’ve yet to nail down the criteria for selection, but participation online and off, as well as contribution of data to the Fixometer will probably be a part of them
Fantastic news! Our staff in Hong Kong would absolutely love to join this year’s Fixfest to support Restart and the Right to Repair
We’ll stay tuned for updates, but please do let us know if we can help you out in anything, or whether you need something from us directly or from the University of Science and Technology itself. Of course, a little help in fundraising the trip would be greatly appreciated, but we’d rather wait until you have finished the selection criteria before asking for anything!
Hi Janet. I’d love to come. As it happens I’m planning a trip to Berlin soon-ish to do some work with TU on design of products for repairability and upgrade. So this might be a way of doing both in one trip. I’m happy to take photos as at Manchester, CC licence etc. Cheers Mark
This place offers dormitory rooms at reasonable prices not too far away from TUB https://www.smart-stay.de/en
It works out at ~€22,46 per person per night for a dormitory of 6 people.
BTW there is a youth hostel not far away but the reviews are variable to say the least.
Of course, it would be nicer to stay with people: do we have any contacts with spare floor space?
The Restart team will be mostly travelling by train. That would be really helpful, it’s the next thing on our Fixfest logistics list. DB has a customer service number in the UK, and I know they have group discounts for trips originating in Germany.
… thinking about it, I might make a week or 2 of it & stay a week in Berlin and/or stay over in Köln… I’ll be running short of Echte Kölnwasser by then :
Once you’ve done that, we’ll get in touch about travel - we have limited funding to bring participants from outside the UK and outside Europe. Those who have already been in touch (on this thread and elsewhere) will get priority.
It’s worth noting that the main eligibility criterion for travel subsidies is having all your Fixometer data up to date .
In terms of running your own session, the programme has been largely finalised but there’s a significant portion set aside for ‘unconference’ style sessions:
An important part of Fixfest will be the unconference sessions we will hold during the whole of Saturday and on Sunday morning. Here you can spontaneously discuss topics, present your projects and discuss issues that had to be cut short in other formats.
Just sharing that registration is filling up — at ~120 participants from 14 countries and five continents. We are now booking travel for our registered delegates, this needs to be complete on Monday/Tuesday so we can block-book accommodation. If we’ve emailed you about travel — i.e. a free trip to Berlin — please respond ASAP.
Just to say that all our travel has been arranged — if you asked for support for travel and have not received travel confirmation, please get in touch ASAP. (@Dave we’ve been in touch separately about your train journey.)
We’ve made a group reservation for everyone in our supported delegation here Hotel Kudamm (precise location ). We will be in touch closer to the date about room allocations.
We’ll share more on public transport in Berlin and transfers from the airport for those who are flying, but please feel free to start exploring this on your own. We’ve found in past that Berlin is an extremely traveller-friendly city.
Please be patient with us, as we are a very small team doing our best to sort out trains, flights, hotels and visas for the group.
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Registration for Fixfest is now open!
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Just sharing that registration is filling up — at ~120 participants from 14 countries and five continents. We are now booking travel for our registered delegates, this needs to be complete on Monday/Tuesday so we can block-book accommodation. If we’ve emailed you about travel — i.e. a free trip to Berlin — please respond ASAP.
pre-Fixfest meetup
). We will be in touch closer to the date about room allocations.