{"id":26128,"date":"2024-10-31T09:40:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T07:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openfest.org\/2024\/?p=26128"},"modified":"2024-10-31T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T13:36:15","slug":"reach-the-location-and-other-useful-openfest-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openfest.org\/2024\/en\/2024\/10\/31\/reach-the-location-and-other-useful-openfest-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"How to reach the event location and other useful OpenFest tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We open this guide on how to survive and have fun at OpenFest with the most important question:<\/p>\n<h3>How to reach the event location \u2013 Sofia Tech Park<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By public transport<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By trolleybus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trolleybus lines 3 and 5 &#8211; get off at stop &#8220;Sofia Tech Park&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trolleybus lines 4 and 11 &#8211; get off at stop &#8220;Ploshtad na aviatsiyata&#8221; (&#8220;Aviation Square&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>By bus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bus lines 1, 3, 5, 6 and 73 &#8211; get off at stop &#8220;Sofia Tech Park&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bus lines 123, 280, 288 and 305 &#8211; get off at stop &#8220;Ploshtad na aviatsiyata&#8221; (&#8220;Aviation Square&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>By car<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sofia Tech Park has a paid multi-level parking lot with a capacity of 500 cars. The parking fee is 1 lev (BGN) per hour (the first 30 minutes are free). There is an option to pay with a bank card too at the parking lot payment machines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location to put into the navigation<\/strong>: &#8220;Sofia Tech Park&#8221; or the address &#8211; bul. \u201cTsarigradsko Shose\u201d 111<\/p>\n<p>The John Atanasoff Forum and Incubator buildings are accessible to people with mobility difficulties. If you need assistance or additional information, contact the volunteers with a Team T-shirt.<\/p>\n<h3>The schedule at a glance<\/h3>\n<p>This year, exhibitions, talks and workshops spread across two buildings- the customary John Atanasoff Forum and The Venue, in the Incubator in walking distance\u00a0 to the Forum. Follow the OpenArt signs to get there.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being in a new building, this year&#8217;s OpenArt program is two days long, with lectures and workshops on free and open art.<\/p>\n<p>The program at the John Atanasoff Forum begins at 10:00 am on Saturday and Sunday and ends at 7:00 pm on Saturday and 6:15 pm on Sunday. Meet 49 speakers and exhibitors, 9 guest speakers from abroad, hear 30 lectures on technology, art, society and participate in 19 hands-on workshops across all the halls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t miss (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openfest.org\/2024\/en\/full-schedule-en\/\">but really the schedule this year is full of heavy hitters<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to make money in Open Source by Monty Widenius on strategies for building open source projects like MySQL, MariaDB and the working business behind them. Watch on Saturday, 12:15 in Hall A.<\/li>\n<li>Scaling to 12k Live streams by Vladimir Vitkov on the huge technical challenge of building a system for real-time video capture and monitoring of the results and reporting process on election day. Check it out on Sunday at 4:15 pm in Hall A.<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Don&#8217;t Be Evil&#8217; and Digital Surveillance by Christina Kubecka, who opens the festival on Saturday at 10:15 in Hall A with a story about Venezuela and digital surveillance by commonly available means.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Lightning talks<\/h3>\n<p>On Saturday and Sunday in Hall B we welcome your short stories about interesting projects you are working on. Sign up on the days of the event at the Reception while slots last.<\/p>\n<h3>After Party<\/h3>\n<p>The party will be at the Underground club Bunker, in the NDK underpass on Sunday at 20:30. And to get through the entrance gates without trouble, you need an OpenFest wristband- obtained from the kind volunteers at reception.<\/p>\n<h3>Lunch<\/h3>\n<p>You can have (sandwiches) at the restaurant in the Incubator-\u00a0 Park side, and (burgers) from the food truck located off the John Atanasoff Forum. Climbar &amp; Dinner (Clymbar) (m. Kuro, 111B Tsarigradsko Shose Blvd, 1784 Sofia) and Tavern Mladost (Mladost 1, Dimitar Mollov Str., 1750 Sofia) are nearby.<\/p>\n<p>You might even find beers.<\/p>\n<p>The break for lunch is between 1:00 and 2:00 PM on both days.<\/p>\n<p>You can also get coffee from the carts outside the lecture halls at the forum. They take cash and cards.<\/p>\n<h3>Even more useful tips<\/h3>\n<p>Questions can be directed to the reception desk at any time, as well as any volunteers you encounter in the halls. You will recognize them by their OpenFest Team t-shirts. They will be in green on Saturday, and wine red on Sunday.<\/p>\n<h3>Kids corner<\/h3>\n<p>For the pleasure of OpenFest visitors, this year there will be a children&#8217;s corner with a craft workshop on both days of the festival, with opening hours from 11:00 to 17:00. Suitable for children from 2-8 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Older children may find the workshops in Hall D on the ground floor of the Forum interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Electronics and programming with Tinozavar on Saturday<\/li>\n<li>RVPC &#8211; Build Your First RISCV Computer and Build Your First Robot on Sunday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We open this guide on how to survive and have fun at OpenFest with the most important question: How to reach the event location \u2013 Sofia Tech Park By public transport By trolleybus Trolleybus lines 3 and 5 &#8211; get off at stop &#8220;Sofia Tech Park&#8221; Trolleybus lines 4 and 11 &#8211; get off at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf6cDg-6Nq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openfest.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openfest.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openfest.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openfest.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openfest.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.openfest.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26174,"href":"https:\/\/www.openfest.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26128\/revisions\/26174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openfest.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openfest.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openfest.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}