[okfn-help] Workshops preceding OKCon

Wed May 4 11:26:18 BST 2011

Hi Seb,
Hope you had a nice holiday!

> > Who would be the best person to lead the workshop?
>
> It depends on who the audience is.  CKAN users or developers?
>
> For the latter, anyone in the dev team who felt like it would be good.
>  I *might* be able to do a session, though it depends on the day(s);
> I'm not available at the end of the preceding week, or the weekend.

Ok, if this is going to mirror the WDMMG workshop, then I presume the
focus will be developers for the pre-OKCon one, but as you point out
below, there is definitely scope for a users one as well.

> > What topics should be covered at the workshop?
>
> For developers: writing extensions, using the API, introduction to the
> architecture... or perhaps just a sprint, pairing up with core devs,
> to get volunteers up to speed?
> For users: user's intro to the API, using groups and tags effectively,
> introduction to linked data...

Ok, so maybe it makes sense to do both? I will see whether anyone from
the Dev list would be interested in running the pre-conference dev one
and then we could organise a user's one at the conference - I think
users would be more likely to attend that way?

> > Preferred date?
>
> It would be hard for me to make anything shortly before the conference.
>
> Will there be an opportunity during the conference, or afterwards?

@ Daniel - would there be a room for this (for the time-being the user
focused workshop) at the conference (there may also be the need for
another room if we decide to do the dev-one at the conference as well,
but I will wait to hear back from the dev-list first)?

> If it's developer focussed, perhaps a dev sprint is best.
>
> > How should we publicise it? (It will need to be sorted fairly soon so
> > people can make travel arrangements)
>
> Via personal networks; make calls to people with lots of twitter juice
> and ask them to tweet it; get scraperwiki to blog about it; etc

Perfect - we'll get on this as soon as we have sorted it.

> > Really looking forward to hearing from you - I am around all day on
> > Skype if you would like to get hold of me quickly!
>
> The challenge is getting something sensible together quickly enough to
> publicise it, as you say!
>
> First thing is to establish the audience.  If it's developers, then
> open this question up to the dev team and see what they think.

Will do that now - will keep you posted in a bit!

Lucy

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