Hacker Beach Episode VI

Location

Petite Côte, Sénégal

Idea

Senegal road trip. Start in Dakar and make our way South, staying where we like it. Meet up with hackers on the way.

Prospective Locations

Around M'bour, Senegal. Tons of long stretches of beach. Some small towns, some big towns. Good cell coverage.
Nianing: village south of M'bour, 21km north of Joal Fadioath. Small town, plenty of beach, some restaurants.
Banjul, The Gambia. An island in The Gambia, just south of Senegal. Island has about 40k people

Stops

Île de Gorée (Jan 3 until ?)

This tiny island has a lot of elements from Shela village (Lamu island, Kenya, Hacker Beach Episode 2). It's located just in front of Dakar city, to the East. There's a ferry (going every hour until late night), which will take you to Gorée within 20-30 minutes, for 5200 CFA (less than 2 EUR). The terminal is located next to the train station, and every taxi driver should know it.

Ferry schedule (just show up whenever, they're on African time anyway)

Participants

As an unorganized, informal gathering, there's nothing to register or RSVP for. However, it would be much appreciated if you entered some kind of name (ideally your IRC nick) in the following list, in case you plan to join us. You can also add a timeframe, so we know who to expect when.

bkero (Jan 15)
raucao (Jan 3)
slvrbckt (Jan 3)
fsmanuel (Jan 5)
lio17 (a.k.a. derbumi, Jan 14/15)
you (enter name here plz)

Projects

remoteStorage (JS libs, unhosted web apps)
Kosmos (make IRC/XMPP great again)
Lightning Network (Scalable, instant bitcoin/blockchain transactions)
OpenStreetMap (Contributing OSM data wherever we go)

Travel information

Mobile networks

There are 3 booths at the DSS arrivals hall, which sell SIM cards and data packages: Orange, Tigo, and (plz fill in, I forgot). When we arrived the Orange booth had a crazy queue in front of it, and Tigo was empty, which probably speaks to the value (and that you can get LTE on the former).

You will need to show a passport for registration.

4G/LTE

Orange seems to be the best provider
a SIM card is called 'puce'
you need a package called 'Pass Internet' and have the option to choose between volume and time based plans
They double your first top-up
Orange packages

3G

Tigo sells SIM cards for 1000 CFA (~1.50 EUR) and a 3GB data package for 5000 CFA (~7.60 EUR). Coverage has been OK so far.