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NixOS Ocean Sprint 2025

What

A week of intense hacking on Nix near the ocean.

When
16/03/2025 - 21/03/2025 (Sun - Fri)
Where
Villa with FTTH on Lanzarote, Canary Islands.
Who
~30 developers.

πŸ“ Location

Costa Tequise, Lanzarote

The sprint will take place outside under pavilion tents (for sunshine protection) in a villa with a pool.

Withing a 5 minute walk you can reach:

  • one of the best beaches in Lanzarote, where you can swim, jog, snorkel, SUP, surf and windsurf,
  • a local supermarket that is open every day from 8AM to 10PM,
  • a pharmacy and a bakery,
  • 5km long beachside promenade with free outside gyms,
  • a steakhouse, a burger joint and an authentic Spanish tapas tavern,
  • an assortment of other various cafes, pubs and bars, restaurants,Β etc.

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🏘️ Accommodation

Once you are approved participant for the sprint, we'll get everyone to a shared communication room to help organize accomodation.

Note that the accomodation is not covered by the sprint budget.

If you are planning to come with your family and/or stay longer, Nejc Zupan has written a remote worker's guide to Lanzarote.

See Accomodations for a list of suggestions.

🍲 Food

We'll organize catering (breakfast and lunch) during the sprint, which is paid by the sponsors.

There are a ton of options for dinners in nearby restaurants.

πŸ”₯ Registration

Fill out the form to apply.

The deadline is 17th December, you'll be notified if you're part of the sprint a few days later.

🧡 Topics

To be determined once registration closes based on attendees interest.

πŸ›¬ How to get here

The best way to travel is via a plane to Lanzarote airport.

Flights from other Canary Islands (Tenerife/Gran Canaria) are cheap. Flights from Madrid and Barcelona are even cheaper, around 20 EUR.

From the Lanzarote airport you can take a taxi to the venue, they have a flat rate and it should be around 20-25 EUR.

Renting a car is usually quite cheap, around 200-350 eur for the week.

πŸ₯³ Stuff to do on Lanzarote

See Activities for the full list.

πŸ’™ Sponsors

We're looking for sponsors to cover expenses such as venue, catering, T-shirt printing and some of the activities.

Please help us make this a productive event by chipping in, so we can focus on coding instead of grocery shopping and cooking.

Our target budget is 15000 EUR. Reach out to [email protected].

Level Contribution (EUR) Perks
Gold 4000 Company + Large logo on the T-shirt, 2 total reserved seats, shoutout during dinner, SWAG.
Company 1500 Individual + Logo on the T-shirt, company name on name tag + 1 reserved seat.
Individual 500 Logo on the website.

πŸ† Gold

numtide mercury secunet clan.lol

🏒 Company

flox Nixcademy nixos

πŸŽ–οΈ Organizers

  • Domen KoΕΎar, long time contributor to NixOS, organizer of Zidanca Sprint
  • Nejc Zupan, recently converted NixOS evangelist, organizer of Sauna Sprint