Dear $ALL,

Some of you might have missed it, as it wasn't announced on the mailing lists, only on the Wiki, due to massive time constraints/understaffing, but - we did indeed have an X2Go: The Spread 2024 virtual event. Which makes 2024 the first, and probably the only year where we had both an in-person/hybrid "X2Go: The Gathering" and a virtual "X2Go: The Spread" event.

You can read up about what you've missed on <https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/events:x2go-spread-2024>, where you will find links to recordings of each day (save for Thursday - that was a live debugging session, so we didn't bother recording it).

Here's a quick overview of the presentations/discussions:

Monday

• X2Go's State of the Union, Part 2 (Part 1 was presented at X2Go: The Gathering 2024)
• X2Go's Funding Situation, Part 1: Sovereign Tech Fund

Tuesday

• Demo: Portable DHCP proxy with X2Go-TCE-live Netboot (a follow-up to X2Go: The Spread 2023's Thursday presentation)
• Progress Report re: KDrive on arm64
• OSUOSL Behind-The-Scenes Update

Wednesday

• X2Go's Funding Situation, Part 2: orca/Betterplace
• Gitlab Status Report

Thursday

• KDrive debugging

Friday

• Secure Remote Access Even to Old Windows XP Systems - Thanks to X2Go and a Raspberry Pi
• NX-libs update
• “Mr. Eyebot V2.0” - Quick Explanation and Demo

Or, if you want to watch all recordings back to back, head straight over to YouTube, where we have prepared a playlist for you: <https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWDo4PkY3E0My_exV1bT7z5vOA63P5mqN&feature=shared>

If you like what we're doing, now would be a good time to help us out financially.

While we have received some donations to the general X2Go donation pool, which we can reassign as needed, donations towards our event budget have stalled for the last 5 months or so. This budget is used to cover costs for having handouts/posters printed for our booths, as well as travel/accommodation costs for our volunteers.

It would be really cool if you could send some $$$/€€€/£££/¥¥¥ our way, so we can reimburse our volunteers, who have been covering all the costs up-front our of their own pockets.

We can accept donations via PayPal, Credit Card, Direct Debit, giropay/paydirect and wire transfer. Best of all, donations towards X2Go and orca are usually tax deductible for German tax subjects.

Until December 29th, non-recurring donations up to 100 Euro made on any Sunday during December 2024 will be matched by Betterplace with an additional 15%. This offer is only valid until a funding pool of 4 000 Euro is depleted (per Sunday). So the earlier you donate on these Sundays, the higher the chance that your donation will receive the bonus.

As tomorrow is one of those Sundays, we hope you are willing and able to chip in, so we can keep hosting and attending events like these.

To donate towards X2Go's events (posters, handouts, travel, lodging, …), please use one of these links:

• English-language donation form: <https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/131360?wirwunder=235>
• German-language donation form: <https://www.betterplace.org/de/projects/131360?wirwunder=235>

Further donation links (infrastructure, X2Go in general, orca e.V.) can be found right at the very top of the X2Go Wiki: <https://wiki.x2go.org/>

If times are rough for you and you can't afford to donate, don't feel bad! You can also help us by forwarding this announcement to whomever you seem fit - e.g. your local Linux user group, your social media followers, etc.

Another way to help us is to be vocal about what you need X2Go for and how it would hurt you if it would no longer be available - we're trying to apply for public funding, so if you're using X2Go in the public sector (i.e. education, research, health care, energy, industry), please do let us know how X2Go ceasing to exist would affect you.

Kind Regards, Stefan Baur, first chairman of the board, Open Remote Computing Association - orca e.V.