Plone Beethoven Sprint 2025
A strategic Plone sprint on Plone 7
Bonn, May 26th - 30th 2025
/01 What
This Beethoven sprint will focus on features for Plone 7. These include:
Vite Bundler / React Router
Continue the work to integrate Vite as the new bundler for Volto which is already on track already here and will be worked on in another upcoming Sprint hosted in Bucharest. We also Plan to update React Router from version 5 to 7. These efforts are planned to be led by Piero Nicoli and Víctor Fernández de Alba.
Replace Semantic UI components
To reduce bundle size and rely less on external UI libraries, we plan to replace the semantic-ui package with our custom UI components in the plone-components package.
As Volto is build heavily upon Semantic UI components, these efforts require a lot of not particularly complex work that is best done by a large group of people. Therefore a large number of participants will be really helpful and we would encourage as many people as possible, from beginners to long-time Plone developers, to join these efforts. Main responsibility for the project currently lies with David Ichim and Víctor Fernández de Alba.
Separating ClassicUI code from “Backend”
For developers more involved with the backend side of Plone we plan to work on efforts to seperate the "ClassicUI" code from the backend "core", so development on both can happen more independently from each other in the future.
/02 Where
The sprint will be held at the kitconcept GmbH Bonn office, where we will have everything that is needed for a productive and successful sprint. There are up to three rooms, and we will have a fast internet connection. Snacks, drinks, and a (new) coffee machine.
Address:
kitconcept GmbH
Riesstraße 21
53113 Bonn
/03 Who
We expect 20-30 attendees this year, including most of the kitconcept team. This is the list of so far confirmed participants.
- Timo Stollenwerk
- Victor Fernandez de Alba
- Érico Andrei
- Dante Alvarez
- Jonas Piterek
- Rob Gietema
- Fred van Dijk
- David Glick
If you want to participate add your own name to the list here.
If you already confirmed your attendance and don't see your name on the list yet, please be patient. We will update the list soon :)
/04 Schedule
We plan to sprint every day from around 09.00 to roughly 19:00, with a flexible lunch break around 13:00. You can find all the Lunch- and Dinner-Locations down below in the Food-Map.
Monday usually is more of an arrival day for people to get to Bonn and acclimatize themselves. But everyone who is already up for coding can already start sprinting!
All contents of the timetable are subject to change!
Monday, May 26th 2025, Arrival day
09:00 - 09:30 - Arrival, kitconcept office
9:30 - 10:00 - Sprint planning / Stand up
10:00 - 13:00 - Sprint slot 1
13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 - Sprint slot 2
17:00 - 17:30 - Wrap up sprint day 1
17:30 - 19:00 - Sprint slot 3
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
Tuesday, May 27th 2025
09:00 - 09:30 - Arrival, kitconcept office
9:30 - 10:00 - Sprint planning / Stand up
10:00 - 13:00 - Sprint slot 1
13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 - Sprint slot 2
17:00 - 17:30 - Wrap up sprint day 2
17:30 - 19:00 - Sprint slot 3
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
Wednesday, May 28th 2025
09:00 - 09:30 - Arrival, kitconcept office
9:30 - 10:00 - Sprint planning / Stand up
10:00 - 13:00 - Sprint slot 1
13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 - Sprint slot 2
17:00 - 17:30 - Wrap up sprint day 3
17:30 - 19:00 - Sprint slot 3
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
Thursday, May 19th 2025
09:00 - 09:30 - Arrival, kitconcept office
9:30 - 10:00 - Sprint planning / Stand up
10:00 - 13:00 - Sprint slot 1
13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 - Sprint slot 2
17:00 - 17:30 - Wrap up sprint day 4
17:30 - 19:00 - Sprint slot 3
19:30 - Dinner , Order Pizza
Friday, May 30th 2025
09:00 - 09:30 - Arrival, kitconcept office
9:30 - 10:00 - Sprint planning / Stand up
10:00 - 13:00 - Sprint slot 1
13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 - Sprint slot 2
17:00 - 17:30 - Wrap up sprint day 5
17:30 - 19:00 - Sprint slot 3
19:30 - 21:00 - Dinner Black Veg
22:30 - next morning - Beers
/05 More
Find out more about the Beethoven sprint.
Accommodation
There are a few hotels available close to the sprint location and we also have a few rooms with single beds reserved at Hotel Mercedes very close to the office. If you are interested in staying there, please reach out to us and we will let you know whether any of these rooms are still available. Other recommended hotels are:
- InterCity Hotel Bonn next to main station, has double rooms with single beds
MotelOne Hbf next to main station, only double beds
Hotel Mercedes close to the office, has double rooms with single beds
Home & Co Apartments halfway in between office and main station, only double beds
Getting there
The kitconcept office is in walking distance of Bonn central station. To get there, there are several options:
From Frankfurt (FRA) airport: Take the train (IC/ICE) to Bonn Hbf, either directly (IC) or via Bonn/Siegburg (ICE to Bonn/Siegburg, then switch to tram line "66" to Bonn Hbf.
From Cologne (CGN) airport: Take the bus "SB60" to "Bonn Hauptbahnhof" and exit there
From Düsseldorf (DUS) airport: Take the train to Bonn, via Cologne (RB, IC, or ICE).
Bonn Guide and some recommendations
House of History (Haus der Geschichte)
Lunch
We will have a lunch break around 13:00 every day. Like last year we do not have specific places reserved for lunch this year. Instead, the plan is for people to organize themselfes in small groups and get to a place suited for their current degree of hungrieness. Close to the sprint location we have a wide array of restaurants and cafés available. See a list of them compiled underneath:
- Kostbar
- Kichererbse
- Café Orange
- Ginger's
- La Pecora Nera
- Mano's Burger
- La Fermata
- Sefa Beef Döner
- Asia Wok 2
- Caffe Macchiato
- Mandu
- Asia Wok 1
- Tuscolo(PDF)
- Schumanns(PDF)
- 60 Seconds to Napoli(PDF)
/06 Sponsors
The sprint would not be possible without organizations and companies supporting us.
If your company would like to support the Beethoven Sprint, get in touch with us.