# SaltSprint Halle (Saale, Germany) June 22 - 26 2026 \[crosspost\]
**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/saltsprint-halle-saale-germany-june-22-26-2026-crosspost/76578
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [March 25, 2026, 10:02am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/saltsprint-halle-saale-germany-june-22-26-2026-crosspost/76578 "2026-03-25T10:02:50Z")
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### Author:  [@ctheune](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/ctheune)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2026, 10:02am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/saltsprint-halle-saale-germany-june-22-26-2026-crosspost/76578/1 "2026-03-25T10:02:50Z")
_[So, I didn’t want to cross-post spam, but was asked to post this even here, too as people seem to have missed it in the other category but wanted to see it … so here we go]_
[SaltSprint](https://saltsprint.org) is happening again this year! So grab your project, your ideas, your questions and join in.
A full week of intense Nix hacking, collaboration, and knowledge sharing during [SaltSprint](https://saltsprint.org/) – all skill levels welcome.
**When** : June 22 – 26, 2026 (Monday-Friday)
**Where** : Werkhalle, [SaltLabs](https://saltlabs.de/), Halle (Saale), Germany
**Seats** : space is limited to 30 participants
**Apply by** : May 17, 2026 (registration required; free of charge) [Apply now!](https://saltsprint.org/registration)
We provide a nice working environment, fast internet, as well as breakfast, snacks, and coffee.
Travel, accommodation, and lunch as well as dinner costs are not covered.
See [saltsprint.org](https://saltsprint.org/) for detailed travel tips and accommodation options.
See you in Halle!
> This sprint format is - aside from being fun and productive - intended to show how a sprint can be run quite economically. We’re inviting more sponsors and will increase the range of services (food, social, merchandise) depending on the budget.
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> We’ll provide a budget review here in this thread after the event showing the options and decisions so more people might feel inspired to run an event like this.
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### Author:  [@ctheune](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/ctheune)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2026, 10:15am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/saltsprint-halle-saale-germany-june-22-26-2026-crosspost/76578/2 "2026-03-25T10:15:21Z")
To put some substance into the planning, I’ve already gone through a couple of things that our team wants to work and maybe this inspires others to join with related issues:
1. We’re still doing a lot of heavy lifting with scripted networking and we know the writing is on the wall for it. Nevertheless, when we poked systemd-networkd in the past, we quickly ran into issues that made it a no-go for our use cases mostly around reliable convergent, one-shot configuration and shoehorning in some more or less advanced use cases that didn’t fit the systemd modelling.
2. We know we want to contribute more and yes - sometimes time is a bit on the short side - but we’re also a bit lost around establishing good processes how to take properly keep up with packages and modules we care about on a team level. We’d love to discuss with others how they approach this. Maybe we’re just holding it wrong - or maybe we should put some tooling out there to help with this challenge.
3. We noticed a few incidents in the last years where default password configurations have bitten us. We’d like to investigate whether adding a global config option (`security.noDefaultPasswords`maybe?) could be used to ensure that no default passwords would be enabled implicitly.
4. And a few smaller items, more hands down items that have accumulated:
Feel free to use this thread to start planning your sprint topics, and also join us on **#saltsprint:matrix.org.**
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### Author:  [@ctheune](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/ctheune)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2026, 11:41am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/saltsprint-halle-saale-germany-june-22-26-2026-crosspost/76578/3 "2026-06-26T11:41:59Z")
The SaltSprint (which we might need to call Why-Do-We-Always-Hit-The-Hottest-Week-Sprint next year) is about to wrap up.
For me it’s been a fantastic opportunity to (re-)connect and I enjoyed having everyone around, learning a lot of new stuff and having discussions trying to come up with new ideas.
There’s a pad where I asked everyone to make quick notes about what they worked on:
> **[SaltSprint 2026 - HedgeDoc](https://pad.lassul.us/saltsprint2026)**
As this sprint is not only about producing code, we also want to inspire everyone to run smaller sprints in a more distributed fashion. There will be more reporting done at a later time to help people estimate what the effort (time and money wise).
I hope everyone makes it home safely and would love if my fellow sprinters would summarize their experience hier a bit to also underline the relevance of these smaller events for the community at large.
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### Author:  [@TornaxO7](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/TornaxO7)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2026, 10:41am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/saltsprint-halle-saale-germany-june-22-26-2026-crosspost/76578/4 "2026-06-27T10:41:46Z")
I had a fun time there. Thank you for hosting it .
Working with other (more) experienced nix-tinkerers is really useful when you’re stuck with a problem 