[okfn-help] Workshops preceding OKCon

[Daniel Dietrich]

Hi all


On 04.05.2011, at 12:26, Lucy Chambers wrote:

> 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?
> 

Friedrich just made the proposal to have a dev workshop: 28th for OpenSpending and the 29th for CKAN

I like the idea and would love to see this happening! Also I would need a short abstract for the dev workshop for publication asap.

> @ 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)?


Yes that would be great! Please go ahead and submit a short proposal via http://okcon.org/2011/submit/

> 
>> 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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> Lucy Chambers
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> Open Knowledge Foundation
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