# IETF (EU meeting) hackathon

**When:** Saturday and Sunday before the IETF meeting starts.

**Where:** it varies, see https://www.ietf.org/meeting/upcoming/ for a work in progress overview of the upcoming meeting dates and locations.

**Relevance**: standard spec development and open-source prototyping of attestation-related technologies. The IETF [RATS working group](https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/rats/about/) is where (most of) the magic happens.

**Notes**: On Sunday the event closes in the early afternoon, which makes it possible to catch a late afternoon/night flight.

## Costs breakdown

| Category | $ | notes |
| -- | -- | -- |
| Registration | 0 | - |
| Eating and drinking | 0 | food and drinks are provided by the hackathon sponsor |
| Sleeping | 2x200 | two nights, in the conference hotel |
| Transportation | 200 | guesstimate for an EU participant, including low-fare flight and metro/bus to the hotel |

Total: 600$

# FOSDEM

**When**: Typically on the first weekend of February (next one is [1-2 February, 2025](https://fosdem.org/2025/))

**Where**: Brussels, Belgium

**Relevance**:
- Confidential Computing devroom is the most relevant devroom. (see schedule of last year [here](https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/confidential-computing/))
- This year, we propose a new devroom on attestation to have focused discussions around attestation. Notification is on 21st October.

**Plan**:
- Friday afternoon: [Attestation workshop](https://github.com/muhammad-usama-sardar/attestation-workshop-fosdem25). Possible formats:
- Tutorial on attested TLS with open discussion on issues such as freshness
- Lightening talks
- Round table discussion on 1-2 topics of broad interest
- IETF-style Hackathon (probably won't work with broad audience)
- Saturday: First half for [CC devroom](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/confidential/)
- Sunday: First half for [attestation devroom](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/attestation/)

## Costs breakdown

Assuming: On Sunday, it may be possible to catch night flight.

| Category | $ | notes |
| -- | -- | -- |
| Registration | 0 | Free of cost |
| Eating and drinking | 0 | Even if not provided, food and drinks can be managed by the participants |
| Sleeping | 2x110 | two nights in a non-luxury hotel |
| Transportation | 250 | Estimate for an EU participant, including low-fare flight and metro/bus to the hotel |
| Rent room for SIG meetup | Hopefully 0 | Under discussion with ULB to provide a room |

Total: 470$