XMPP Summit - 2018-01-29

should I be added to the list? I never had access to this wiki

alameyo: I could add you if you like.

Assuming you mean to the list of summit participants :)

yes

Paweł Ścibiorski

1 - 5 feb

I seem to have lost my abilities to add users, but I've added you to the summit participant list.

ok thanks

Guus, ok thank you. I will send it as soon as I can today. I apologise if it is too late, sorry.

I'm trying to remember what route we took from Cisco to the hotel last year

we took the train from Diegem, to... Brussel-Schuman?

we didn't have any stopovers, iirc

ah, yes. There's a direct train between the two

Guus: yes, that would work.

The alternative is via either Centraal or Noord. You want to avoid the latter :)

Also: good busy!

I *think* I've always gone via Centraal.

the direct line seems to run once an hour

How did that payment system work again? I seem to recall that there were some kind of tickets that allowed you free travel within Brussels for a day. Did that include that train?

There were multi-hop things for the metro and the tram, I don't believe they covered trains.

ah, maybe those where the ones that I vaguely recall. Thanks

I think that the Jump day passes cover NMBS travel within the Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest.

http://www.stib-mivb.be/article.html?l=en&_guid=d0707200-2683-3410-479e-b21a51d668f0

But you'll need to buy a MOBIB card for that.

You might need such a card anyway these days.

I haven't got a day pass for years, I think,I've just bought the 10-jump cards when I arrive.

is changing lines like new journey or i.e. once you enter metro, you can change lines as you wish within single journey?

I believe you can switch, but I only do this once a year, so my memory may be off.

Ah, Diegem is *just* outside of the Capital Region. Of course it is.

The Summit is going to be busy! Several people are listing a +1

I'm counting 29 now

(one of which is a 'maybe on the last day only')

Nice

Zash, you're not joining us at the Summit after all? (I noticed your name was removed from the wiki page)?

For those that want to attend the Summit, and have not yet send me their email address: _please do so now_. It's needed to generate a wifi code, as well as building access.

Guus: Sadly no.

ah, to bad.

intosi, thank you for the link. I'm checking that.

Does someone come from the airport? BRU

I've never been there so any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

I'm trying to find out how to get from the airport to the hotel and such, how mobility works there...

When I arrived to Copenhagen, the difference was a blast for me

Compared to what I was used

The times I went I usually got myself to the bus terminal and went from there

Zash, thanks, is it near the airport?

It's basically one of the exits

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/15242087

I suppose there's the train as well, but I don't remember if I ever figured out how to buy a ticket for that

Zash, oh cool! Thank you very much. Did you buy any of these tickets listed here? http://www.stib-mivb.be/article.html?l=en&_guid=d0707200-2683-3410-479e-b21a51d668f0 Or if you were able to buy them right there at the airport.

Soul: the airport and the cisco offices are pretty close-by. A taxi (or Uber, don't know if Brussels has those?) is probably cheap enough

If I ask too much just say it haha

as for going back/forth between Cisco and the Hotel, you should look at trains from Diegem to Brussels-Schuman

I've always wondered if it's possible to just take a walk from the airport to cisco diegem

being so close, but that highway between is pretty big

Zash, I don't know, but I think it's crossing a highway, which might require a significant detour.

Google maps suggests 5km / 55 minutes walking.

SouL: IIRC, it's roughly up to get to the bus terminal and down to get to the train station.

Huge maze of an airport tho

Thank you guys! So I guess on Wednesday I should go from the airport to Brussels-Schuman and for what I see, the hotel is just close to that, walking straight

I really love the big light rail train up to Diegem; I'm looking forward to taking that again.

> Or if you were able to buy them right there at the airport. SouL: Yes there's a ticket machine.

SouL: I bought one of those "JUMP 24h, 48h, 72h + BUS Airport" in the past.

SouL: There's cheaper tickets for travelling all of Brussels *except* the airport area. IIRC you don't get those at the airport automat.

E.g. the 24h ticket at the airport is 7.50, the regular Brussels-only one is 4.50 EUR.

Oh: > To purchase this ticket, you need to be in possession of a personal MOBIB or MOBIB Basic. This cards cost 5 EUR [...]. Sigh, I think this was different last year. They sold cheaper tickets if you had that card, but I payed 7.50/day without a card.

I think 7.50 was about what I paid at Brussels Central last year for a 24 hour ticket; I can't remember if you could use that one to get back to the airport though, I don't think you could.

But you could get that at the station too, not just at the airport.

The airport is a distinctly different zone from the rest of Brussels public transportation zone

"If you wish to buy a personal MOBIB card, you will need your electronic identity card (eID) and €5. If you don’t have an eID or if you would like a more recent picture than the one on your eID, please bring an identity picture."

Last year I took a train to Brussels, got off early (at the airport), and actually had to pay _extra_ (for travelling less distance)

so to buy this card I have to bring my picture lol

?

alameyo: don't bring yourself, bring a picture!

if only people would invent like mobile devices that can be used to record a static image of someones face...

but, I'm off for today. good night!

sure, but it explicitly states "bring an identity picture"

I'll probably fail to get a ticket and just spend my days at the airport.

yep, better I'll take a tent or smth in case of stucking at the airport

alameyo: please prepare yourself! https://g.co/kgs/kM5BwW

good movie :D

> MOBIB is a plastic chip-card which has to be validated at metro stations or on buses/trams by holding it against the white circle on the red machines; JUMP is a paper/card ticket that has to be stamped in orange machines https://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g188644-s303/Brussels:Belgium:Public.Transportation.html

This sounds like I need *no* plastic card for JUMP tickets, no? That's how I remembered things to work.

oh I figured out that there is version "basic" of this plastic card which doesn't require picture