Lightning talks in EuRuKo 2009 will be moderated by the Lightning Talks Master, which will be near the stage with this gong:

Once you've got your laptop connected or whatever and you're ready the LTM beats the gong and you have exactly 5 (five) minutes. No mercy! Squeeze your slides!!!! Run!!!!

LTM has a stopwatch. A gong beat will warn/terrify you at minute 4, and at minute 5 the gong with will signal the end. Next speaker is ready. redo.

Citilab

As you already know the venue for EuRuKo 2009 is Citilab, a center for promoting new technologies located in a wonderful building.

Citilab will provide EuRuKo 2009 with a modern room for 250 people:

Their own staff will also take care of all technical details, projector, sound, wifi, recording, live streaming. We'll have about 60 sockets. They've hosted a lot of important events, like Mozilla Camp Europe 2008 or the FIRST Lego League. It's going to be a superb venue.

How to Get There

Address

Citilab is located in Cornellà de Llobregat, a city very close to Barcelona. The address of the venue is:

Pl. Can Suris, s/n
08940 Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona)
Phone: 93 551 06 60

A taxi from the center of Barcelona may cost around 25/30 euros.

Going by Metro

It is very easy to get to Citilab from Barcelona by metro. Barcelona has several lines, their code include a number and a color:

You have to somehow get the blue line (Line 5, L5) heading towards "Cornellà":

Destination is the last station, which is actually called "Cornellà Centre". That's the leftmost one in this picture:

If you need an estimation, each station takes about 1.5 minutes.

Once you arrive to the destination:

follow the sign that reads "Sortida":

Catalonia has two official languages: Spanish and Catalan. Both of them have strong usage but you'll normally find only Catalan in signs. "Sortida" is Catalan for "Exit".

Go upstairs here:

and at the top take this passage slightly to your right:

Going straight ahead you'll identify this place:

That's a tunnel for a tram, but it goes out in just a few meters. Cross the street to get to the opposite sidewalk, and turn to the left, in the same sidewalk and direction of the person in the picture above. You'll see this:

Now you have two options: Wait for a tram, or have a 8 minutes walk. We'll explain going by foot in this section, and taking the tram in the next section.

Getting to the venue by foot at this point is very easy.

First follow the sidewalk until you get out:

Then just follow the rails of the tram, they'll guide you to the door of the venue. The tram basically goes down a bit:

then performs a right angle towards the right surrounding this mall:

and then goes on in a straight line:

In a moment you'll see the venue to your left:

Going by Tram

In this side of Barcelona, the left side, there are three tram lines, T1, T2, and T3.

Their end in Barcelona city is located at Plaça Francesc Macià. Both lines T1 and T2 have a station exactly in front of Citilab, which is called "Fontsanta I Fatjó". Do NOT take line T3.

If you went by metro following the instructions above, when you cross the rails of the tram in the tunnel and start walking towards the left, there's a tram station right there:

During weekends there's a tram each 10 minutes more or less. You can take the first one because that station belongs only to lines T1 and T2:

The ticket of the metro allows you to take the tram at no additional cost (as long as you take it in the following hour after you left the metro or some rule like that). You need to pass the ticket of the metro to validate it. The second station is "Fontsanta I Fatjó", the one of the venue, you'll recognize the building clearly to your left:

To go back you can take a tram in the opposite direction and then the metro. The same process backwards. But in that case the ticket of the tram does not allow you to take the metro for free.

A T-10 ticket for metro gives you 10 tickets that allow free changes metro -> tram, tram -> metro. You can purchase a T-10 at any metro station, with money or credit card. (Careful, the T-10 sold in tram stations is a different T-10.)