GUADEC is not only about the technical talks and hacking, it is also an opportunity for our community to gather together in other activities.
Welcome and pre-registration party
Date: July 5th, 21:00
Place: Civitas residence's patio
Outdoors welcome to Almería dinning party to meet again with friends and newcomers.
(Picture source: Akademy 2017).
Newcomers lunch
For the first lunch at Core Days in July 6th we'll meet all the newcomers in a reserved place at the campus cafeteria. Enjoy your first GNOME lunch with a relaxing cup of gazpacho.
Women's Dinner
The eighth annual women's dinner will take place at GUADEC 2018 on Sunday, July 8th. Women (cis and trans) and genderqueer people are invited to attend if interested. Having a women's event provides an additional opportunity for women in the community to meet each other, and establish a connection and a comfortable environment for discussing common issues. Please RSVP for the Women's Dinner by adding your name to the wiki page.
(GNOME Karate Girl by pookstar.)
Beach party
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When: July 6th, 20:00
Place: Terraza del mar and surroundings
The place is about 35 minutes walking from Civitas and it's a beautiful restaurant at the beach. Around the place we'll do several activities.
Newcomers games
For GNOME is important the feeling of community. So we are planning a set of activities and games for increase the sense of membership of our people with special focus on the new ones: strengthening the links with their mates and sharing experience from our best old-farts. More details soon.
Football game
The traditional football game that happens in every edition of GUADEC is schedule for July 6th (Friday) at the Beach party. If you are interested in attending, please signup in our wiki page so we can plan the activities according to the expected number of attendees.
Paella dinner
A great starting day requires a great dinner for our guests. Paella comes to help.
The dinner will be an spectacle by itself: a big paella will be cooked in front of us by rice specialized cookers. Well have free drinks and lot of time to hangout at the beach, make sand castles and take a dip.
The paella will be served with an special sangría made for us. You'll enjoy it, we bet.
Picture source: Charles Haynes.
All in Terraza del mar, a beautiful chiringuito on the shores of the Mediterranean.
GUADEC Ice Cream Death Match competition
Because some customs should never be lost in GUADEC 2018 will recover yet'ol thrilling competition for the ones with the more cold heart and hot stomach. Do you dare?
(Picture Copyright penguincakes, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Swimsuit
Bring swimsuit. Sure you'll want it.
Remark
As we are sure we'll enjoy a nice weather we need to remark Almería is a windy city. From time to time we have some warm wind days not optimal for the beach experience. The good thing is the wind almost disapear at evening so we'll probably enjoy nice weather.
Culture show and picnic
When: Sat 7th
How to overcome the beach party? Well: history and flamenco to the rescue.
After the AGM we leave the campus to Civitas, to drop bags and change clothes, take again the bus and will stop in front of the port of Almería to walk to the castle over the hill.
Guided visit to the Alcazaba castle
The city of Almería born around it's alcazaba (from the Arabic word al-qasbah), when the Caliph of Cordoba, Abd ar-Rahman III, founded the caliphate naval base. The alcazaba is still the biggest muslim castle in Europe.
GUADEC 2018 offers you an special visit guided by ancient inhabitants of the castle (some of then 1000 years old!) through the three castle enclosures, from the Gates of Justice to the Christian modern castle.
The visit will start at 19:30 from the meeting point at the foot of the hill and duration last 2:15 h. The sun and heat will be softer but maybe you'll want to bring some water. If you have really very clear skin consider some protection.
Have in mind this visit ut is not very accessible: it's a castle over a hill!
Picnic and Flamenco show
After the alcazaba visit we'll walk to the Barracks of the Mercy, a XVIII century building and local headquarters of the military. Again we'll walk through the old downtown of Almería, most from the XVI century after a set of earthquakes destroyed the old Muslim city, to the picnic place, the Patio of the orange trees. There we'll enjoy dinner with a nice view of the Alcazaba under night lighting.
But this is not all. For the conference big party we'll offer you a flamenco concert with Spanish guitar, singer, percussionist and a flamenco dancer. La Chinelita is these days another emergent artist from the traditional Almería's flamenco tradition. La Chinelita's combo will steal your heart with the rapt passion of the dance at the compass of guitar and the deep lament, the «quejío», singing, threaded with the universal soul emotions.
The party starts at 22:00 at the Patio de los Naranjos and is expected to finish about 01:00.
The availability of the Patio of the orange trees is thanks to the Ministry of Defense of Spain. The only condition is to behave under the basic norms of coexistence and civics. As we know this is obvious we just should remark it.
Warning: due to the characteristics of the ground the patio's floor is uneven. Watch your step.