Plone Beethoven Sprint 2026

/01 What

This Beethoven sprint will focus on features for Plone 7 and Plone 6.2.

Seven: The successor to Volto

Seven is the community project that aims to modernize Volto's architecture replacing key features with current, well-supported alternatives:

• Switching to Vite as the new bundler

• Updating to React 19, embracing its new data-fetching paradigm

• Adopting @plone/components, built on top of react-aria-components

• Using @plone/client for data fetching, combined with React Router 7 as a framework of choice

• Updating the libraries used for state management, internationalization, and other core architecture layers

/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, including most of the kitconcept team.

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!

/05 Things to do

Eventhough Bonn is not the biggest city in Germany it still offers plenty of activities that might convinve you to come a few days earlier or stay for a bit longer.

FedCon 34 🖖

The weekend after the sprint, starting on Friday, May 22nd, the FedCon convention is happening in Bonn. FedCon is a nerd haven focussing mostly on Star Trek but also other SciFi franchises such as Stargate or the Orville.

So staying in Bonn even longer after the sprint is a great idea!

Arithmeum

The Arithmeum is a museum very close to the kitconcept office, presenting the history of mechanical calculating machines, as well as the computing of today. Many demonstration models invite the visitor to discover the historical milestones of mechanical calculating, and at interactive multimedia stations the visitor can develop small microprocessors in a playful way. Early highlights in the development of computers are also exhibited. The exhibition includes works of geometric constructivist art, design objects and chairs, and regular concerts, the so-called concerti discreti, take place there.

Poppelsdorf Palace and the Botanical Garden of the University of Bonn

The former summer residence of Elector Clemens August is situated at the end of Poppelsdorfer Allee and has housed the University of Bonn´s natural science collection since 1818. It ist home to the Museum with an impressive collection of precious stones and meteorites.

The Botanical Gardens at the palace are among the oldest in Germany and have one of the most extensive collections of plant species in Germany, with a stock of 11,000 different species in eleven greenhouses. The highlights include the largest water lilies in the world, the leaves of which can bear a weight of 80 kg and the titan arum, the world´s largest flowering plant.

Rheinaue Leisure Park

Since its creation for the National Horticultural Show in 1979, the Recreation and Leisure Park has become a landmark of the city and a very popular space. With its surface of 160 hectares it nearly measures up to the size of downtown Bonn. Footpaths with a total length of 45 kilometres sprawl across the area.

Minster Basilica with cloister

Bonn´s nine-hundred-years-old minstre was built on a Roman burial ground. The basilica´s 12th-century Romanesque cloister and its powerful, yet slender-looking, 92 meters high spire make it well worth a visit.

/06 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

Bonn tourist information

House of History (Haus der Geschichte)

Beethoven Haus

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)

/07 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.