ContributorCampXIV

Contributor Camp XIV Planning

Where and When

November 11-217 2025 at the Technical University of Munich

The fourteenth SasView Contributor Camp (formerly known as code camp) will be held in Garching, Germany, starting Nov 10 on the Technical University of Munich (TUM) campus and is sponsored by the Julich Center for Neutron Sciences (JCNS). The full camp runs from the morning of Tuesday Nov 11 through Monday afternoon Nov 17.

Overview

The camp is in the planning stages so there are few details fleshed out below. Thing will be added as they are firmed up. However, the aim is for the camp to have a serious emphasis on improving support for magnetic SANS along with the usual topics of addressing issues, training new contributors and holding discussion round tables. The emphasis however is not meant to be exclusionary: As always, folks with other interests to contribute are always welcome!

Registration

Coming soon.

Travel and Accommodations

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

Accommodations

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Dorint Business Hotel one train stop away from venue.

It turns out this is a busy time in Munich and the hotels are filling up fast, hence we recommend booking early though, as long as there is space available in the block that should be guaranteed till a month before the camp.

Meals

The hotel rooms reserved in the block include a complementary breakfast. There is a restaurant on the ground floor of the ISA building and several restaurants nearby the venue for lunch though not open on the weekend in most cases. There are a variety of restaurants around the hotel area for dinner.

Getting to the hotel

From the Munich airport

Arriving by train

Getting to and from the Venue

The venue is one stop north of the hotel on the xxx train. The station is one block xxx

Venue

On the top floor of the ISA building on the campus of Technical University Munich (TUM) in Garching Germany just north of Munich proper and next to the FRM2 research center. This is an great space well suited for our type of event

WiFi

Details to come but eduroam access is expected among other things.

Participants (current list)

Participant	Affiliation	Arrival	Departure	Hotel	Notes
Paul Butler	NIST	2025-11-09	2025-11-18	Dorint (expected)	expected - no travel arrangements made yet

Project board

• will be posted as the time approaches

Agenda

will be posted closer to the date but is planned to involve some contributor training sessions and breakout discussion sessions besides working directly on the SasView assets (code, documentation, tutorials, websites, etc). There is also expected to be a big push in improving the support for hard condensed matter SAS analysis, particularly magnetic SANS.