Forum OpenACS Q&A: Boston area OpenACS users' meeting, Friday March 11 at Sloan

Important If you're planning to attend could you please post your name below or send me email, so we can get an accurate head count.

The goal is to give folks a chance to talk about the projects they're working on, and how they're using the various modules.

As for the coverage, I sent out a bunch of emails and am still collecting responses. Confirmed presenters include:

Dave Bauer -- Dynamic typing, rapid development tools
Tracy Adams -- Coachville
Carl Blesius -- Assessment/Registration
Andrew Grumet -- RSS in OpenACS

If you're going to be in for the meeting and want to present, or see something presented, post here or send me email. Presentations can be about pretty much anything OpenACS-related and shouldn't be much longer than an hour.

The audience will be other OpenACS developers. I'm wondering if we should start the day with introductory session. It boils down to how many newcomes we'd be able to attract on such short notice.

More information to follow as we get closer to Friday.

Where:

MIT Sloan, Building E-52, 6th floor
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142

When:

Friday, March 11, 2005
9:00am - 5pm

<h4>Schedule</h4>
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<th bgcolor="white">9:00-9:30</th>
<td bgcolor="white">Arrival, mingling, food, welcome</td>
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<th bgcolor="white">9:30-10:30</th>
<td bgcolor="white">Dave Bauer: Dynamic Types form and code generation, CR Tcl API if time permits</td>
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<th bgcolor="white">10:30-11:30</th>
<td bgcolor="white">Caroline Meeks: Harvard and .lrnocw</td>
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<th bgcolor="white">11:30-12:30</th>
<td bgcolor="white">Andrew Grumet and Dave Bauer: RSS</td>
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<th bgcolor="white">12:30-1:30</th>
<td bgcolor="white">LUNCH (out)</td>
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<th bgcolor="white">1:30-2:15</th>
<td bgcolor="white">Tracy Adams: Coachville</td>
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<th bgcolor="white">2:15-3:00</th>
<td bgcolor="white">Carl Blesius: Assessment and User Registration Enhancements</td>
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<th bgcolor="white">3:00-3:30</th>
<td bgcolor="white">BREAK</td>
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<th bgcolor="white">3:30-4:15</th>
<td bgcolor="white">Michael Steigman - intranet and LDAP integration</td>
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<th bgcolor="white">4:15-5:00</th>
<td bgcolor="white">Bart Teeuwisse - binaries/rpm</td>
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I will show the new dynamic-types package and the rapid development stuff I built on top of it.

I also would be able to show the work I did with RSS and Search for greenpeace and their cyberactivism toolkit based on Jeff Davis' original work.

Now the task is to fill in the grid. If you'd like to present something, please claim a time and either edit the initial post yourself if you have permission, or post or contact me.

How to build binaries of them. What assumptions have been made in the current set of RPMs. How to setup a yum repository of binaries created from the source RPMs. And have a discussion of areas of improvement. How the community can maintain the set. To name a few topics.

Also, please see this post for more information:

https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=275229

See you tomorrow!