Ever since Jarn — or rather Plone Solutions at the time — declared the 10% Manifesto, setting aside time to work on Plone while not interfering with ongoing projects has been somewhat tricky. Many times 10% time ended up being deferred or piled up over time. Of course, another reason for this was that projects at Jarn are usually a challenging and fun thing to do. So spending time on Plone all by yourself sometimes just didn't seem as appealing as working on things together with your team mates.

Overall following up on the 10% Manifesto didn't quite work as we had hoped for. So we came up with another approach: accumulate time and then once in a while schedule a few days together in order to work on and improve Plone. In other words: sprint! We also decided it would be even more fun to invite people to stop by and join in. That is, have small but proper Plone sprints instead of just internal ones.

And here we go: the first one will be held in the somewhat semi-official new Jarn office in Berlin. Actually it's just a shared office space where everybody happens to work for Jarn most of their time, but that's another story.

The first Jarn 10% Sprint will run February 9th—11th, in Berlin Neukölln. Not quite accidentally it was scheduled in parallel with the Berlinale Film Festival and hence dubbed "Berlin(ale) Sprint". That's also the reason most of the sprinters will arrive a bit earlier...

So if you happen to be in the area, or if you want to follow up this year's UI sprint in Baarn with some actual coding :) — not to mention having cake & coffee on top of Berlin's TV tower, playing games and taking a tour of some of our favourite pubs — let us know and join the fun!

-- Andreas Zeidler, Tom Lazar and Stefan Holek