How to turn a conference trip into a cool weekend?

    April 8 in Yekaterinburg will host a conference of developers DUMP . We already wrote on Habré about the program of this year, and here is a short video about how DUMP passed last time.

    We all know how to choose conferences on interesting topics and the incendiary level of speakers, but the trip may not end with the latest report. This post is about making conference participation a fun weekend in the city we love.

    We will not write about the delights of the program and speakers, but we will talk about the Yeltsin Center, a monument to the keyboard and constructivism. We hope the post will be useful for those who are still considering whether to go to DUMP.

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    DUMP is a great reason to visit Yekaterinburg and look at the capital of the Urals almost without interruption from work. Imagine that you arrive on Thursday evening (and you can work even half Thursday), you are at the conference all Friday, at the after-party in the evening, you can walk and watch the city on Saturday and half Sunday, and go home on Sunday evening. On Monday, full of impressions, you begin to implement new ideas at work.

    Now point by point.

    What's in the DUMP program this year?


    Here is the program for this year. 55 reports in the sections FrontTalks, Serverside, Mobile, Web-design, DevOps, Testing, Management. It seems to us to be interesting and useful. What do you think?

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    What to see in Yekaterinburg?


    1. Yeltsin Center

    The main cultural and social event of 2015 in Yekaterinburg is the opening of the Yeltsin Center. Now this is a must-see place for all visitors. And the center is not so much about Boris Nikolaevich, but about time, about the nineties: here are the wrappers of the first imported sweets, and Dendy, and the poster of the movie "Intergirl" and even a nuclear briefcase. In addition to the main museum, there is a gallery in the center, an excellent Piotrovsky bookstore, and a 1991 cafe, and if you are lucky you can even attend one of the lectures (you can follow the schedule here ).

    But one museum is enough for a couple of hours: interactive, modern, coolly invented and implemented. There is definitely no second such place in Russia now.

    The museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 21:00. Ticket price - 200 rubles.

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    Freedom Hall at the Yeltsin Center

    2. Keyboard Monument

    The most IT attraction of the city. The monument itself is a copy of a concrete keyboard on a 30: 1 scale. Consists of 104 keys. The monument is included in the Yekaterinburg Red Line route , which runs through the 30 main cultural sites in the city center. A must visit for all IT people :)

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    Tour for speakers and participants of the PyCon Russia 2015 conference

    3. The observation deck in the "Vysotsky"

    To see the whole city from above is part of the program of any exemplary tourist. In Yekaterinburg, this can be done from the 52nd floor of the Vysotsky business center. And, by the way, Vysotsky is the tallest building not only in Yekaterinburg, but throughout Russia outside of Moscow.

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    Beautiful views of Yekaterinburg are not visible, but Benjamin Peterson and Gael Voroko are visible - speakers of PyConRu-2015

    4. Europe-Asia

    Yekaterinburg has a unique opportunity to visit two parts of the world at the same time: with one foot in Europe and the other in Asia. Near the city there is a symbolic border with a pedestal where you can go. There are many versions where this true border separates Europe and Asia, but we know which answer is right :)

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    5. Constructivism is our everything

    Yekaterinburg has about 140 constructivist buildings, sometimes occupying entire neighborhoods. Perhaps you will not see such a concentration of monuments of Soviet constructivism anywhere: the Gorodok Chekists complex, the First House of the City Council, the Main Post Office, the Uralsnabtorg house on Lenin Avenue, the Dynamo sports complex. We even have a tractor house and a sickle house (they can be clearly seen from the observation deck).

    Take a walk along the main street - Lenin Avenue - and you will see for yourself.

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    6. And also

    The Beatles only monument in Russia, the Temple on Blood (in its place in 1918 the last Russian emperor Nicholas II and his family were shot), a monument to Vladimir Vysotsky, a monument to radio inventor Alexander Popov, a monument to Michael Jackson, and this is far from all.

    How much is it?


    Let’s estimate how much it will take for the trip.

    1) To come to Yekaterinburg, in fact, is not as expensive as it might seem. For example, from Moscow to Yekaterinburg and vice versa, you can fly for 5400 rubles (here on April 7, back on April 10).

    Chelyabinsk, Perm, Ufa, Kurgan - it’s more convenient for you by train or car (by the way, we can get you and fellow countrymen to cooperate, all of a sudden, someone has free places in the car).

    2) Housing: from 400 rubles to ... per day.

    If you're a budget option, here , here , and here's the good hostels.

    On the conference website are listed partner hotelsif during the reservation you say the code word "dump2016", then for you the price will be much lower than on the site. Each of the hotels has its own buns. In Ramada, for example, the price includes access to the pool, sauna and Turkish bath at Ramada Royal SPA, and it’s convenient to live in Angelo if you arrive late because it is connected by a corridor to the airport and you won’t have to go anywhere else.

    To the Expo (conference venue) we organize a free transfer from the center in the morning and back in the evening.

    3) The cost of the conference ticket is 5000 rubles. If the company pays for your participation in the conference, then expenses are significantly reduced.

    And for students there is a special price - 2500 rubles. To get a discount, send a student scan to om@it-people.ru, in response we will send a code for registration.

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    How to make the most of the conference?


    Take the time to study the program: identify the reports that are interesting to you, study the speakers (you may find them interesting not with this topic, but with some other one), see the reports in the "not your" sections. And there will be many options to talk with the speaker and any interesting person: in the block of questions and answers, at breaks, at afterparties.

    We know that programmers are system guys, and they always take a responsible approach to attending conferences and choosing reports, so we suggest you take part in creating a schedule so that you don’t break between reports.

    In the conferra app , mark the reports you are interested in, we will see where more participants want to go, much less, and depending on this we will make the most convenient schedule.

    To summarize


    It seems to us that a trip to DUMP can be an excellent project “how interesting and useful to spend a weekend”: a conference, afterparty, the best Russian museum about the nineties, a monument to the keyboard and other interesting places in Yekaterinburg.

    By the way, reports are far from all that will be at the conference. It so happened that sponsors at DUMP always present themselves interestingly and vividly. We’ll open some secrets of this year: there will be a photo zone with crutches and bicycles from SKB Kontur , an online quest from the IT Center , slot machines from Naumen and ... cats are coming back! Register and come to Yekaterinburg. We are good.

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