Suggestions from the Hydrasphere for Connect 2015 content...

Title	Audience	Format	Suggested by	Presenter	Presenter approached?
					Committee use only
State of the Hydrasphere	All	20 minute plenary	Richard Green	Tom Cramer
Hydra in a Box	All	5 or possibly a 20 addressing other major grants too (Avalon+, HydraDam2?)	Richard Green	Tom Cramer, matienzo, Jon Dunn, Karen Cariani?
Working with Linked Data in Ruby (RDF.rb Workshop)	Developers	Workshop (half day?)	tamsin woo	Gregg Kellogg(?), or tamsin woo
Linked data, URIs, and labels	Developers	Presentation	justin	Trey Pendragon, tamsin woo, or justin
Introducing Hydra-works: PCDM in Hydra	Developers	Presentation	justin	Lynette Rayle
Everthing that's wrong with OM and what I'm doing to fix it. (working title)	Developers	Interpretive Dance	justin	Joe Atzberger
Introduction to Angular 2 (Javascript framework)	Developers	Presentation	justin	Matt Zumwalt or justin
ECMAScript 6 is now: The next version of javascript is here	Developers	Presentation	justin	Matt Zumwalt or justin
Deploying Hydra on Docker	Ops	Presentation	justin	eefahy or cb
Hydra: The bad parts. Taking time to evaluate what should be better. Making a plan to fix it.	Developers	Breakout or workshop?	justin
CurationEngine (or whatever it's called) / Sufia roadmap	All	Breakout or workshop	justin	Jon Stroop (and Michael Joseph Giarlo is happy to collab on this)
Kaltura Video: Stream-lining integration into a Hydra Head.	Developers	Breakout / Lightning Talk	Thomas Scherz	Thomas Scherz
Documenting Sufia for Managers	All	Workshop (half day, and ideally not conflicting with other service manager-oriented sessions!)	Michael Joseph Giarlo	Michael Joseph Giarlo, Mahria Lebow, Steve Van Tuyl
Zotero as a deposit tool	All	Breakout / Lightning Talk	Michael Joseph Giarlo	Michael Joseph Giarlo
Hydra and the PCDM: where are we and what should we do next?	All	Breakout	Michael Joseph Giarlo	?
GeoBlacklight - Discovery of Geospatial Data in a repository	Developers	Workshop / Presentation	Jack Reed	Darren Hardy, Jack Reed, Eliot Jordan
PCDM Modeling for Geospatial Data	All	Breakout	Jack Reed	Eliot Jordan, Darren Hardy, Former user (Deleted)
Managing Geospatial Metadata	All	Workshop (half-day)	Jack Reed	Kim Durante or Eliot Jordan or Darren Hardy
Testing your javascript with Jasmine	Developers	Presentation / lightning talk	justin	cam156
Realtime Edge for a Hydra Back-end	Devs?	?	Email to hydra-connect from Fred Stein
Introduction to Spotlight	All	Breakout	cbeer	cbeer, jkeck
Deep dive into Spotlight	Devs	Breakout / Workshop?	cbeer	cbeer, jkeck
Approaches to indexing content into Solr	Devs	Breakout	cbeer	cbeer, jkeck
Report on Blacklight search index abstraction	Devs	Breakout	cbeer	cbeer, jkeck, barmintor
Indexing Linked Data resources	Devs	Workshop	cbeer
Data modelling based on a standardized domain model	All	20 min presentation	asconrad (Deactivated)	asconrad (Deactivated) or Christian Ertmann-Christiansen
Pair documentation: long-time hydra people pair with newer folks to produce in-line documentation for existing gems. Long-time folks bring experience with code base and newer folks bring perspective on where comments should focus. Doubles as a great mentoring exercise.	Devs	Workshop	Anna Headley
Deploying hydra with Ansible and AWS	Ops	10 min presentation? could also go up or down	Anna Headley	Anna Headley and aliciac
Remote pairing: tools roundup or possible demo; also why this is a thing we should do more	Devs	5-min presentation	Anna Headley
Tour of the Hydra testing stack	Devs (very new)	10 min presentation	Anna Headley
Ruby: Modules, classes, concerns, extending, including, and overriding code from outside gems, especially where the code you want to change lives outside the traditional model / controller rails locations. A few walk throughts of concrete examples.	Devs (new / intermediate)	20 min presentation	Anna Headley
Test optimization: let's make our tests faster	Devs	breakout session	Anna Headley
Hydra 9 / Fedora 4 related. Fedora 4 + Hydra 9: What's it about, what do I get from it? Linked data What does the process of upgrading involve?	Non-technical for managers.	These might be separate, be a workshop, form a strand?	Richard Green
Portland Common Data Model - what is it, why is it useful, should I use it, how would I convert existing objects to it?	Mgrs	10 mins? 20 mins? Breakout?	Richard Green, Tom Cramer	kestlund , Critchlow, Matthew , Andrew Myers
Allies workshop		https://adainitiative.org/what-we-do/workshops-and-training/		Mark Bussey
Metadata Working Group Reports Technical Metadata Baseline Rights Metadata (descriptive) and Access Rights Descriptive Metadata User Survey Results Applied Linked Data Group (I think they are already filling the board with suggestions) Structural Metadata and PCDM?
Repository data visualization (see email 2015-06-04)	Mgrs	Breakout	Michael Friscia	Michael Friscia
Code Retreat: "a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design." (http://coderetreat.org/)	Devs	Workshop: All Day	Jeremy Friesen	Jeremy Friesen
Introduction to Linked Data Platform (LDP)	Devs	10 minutes ?	Hector Correa	I could volunteer or we can try to get Robert Sanderson or awoods
Sipity: A plugin-ready workflow application for building Submission Information Packets and taming your non-repository library workflows	Devs	Presentation 20 minutes	Jeremy Friesen	Jeremy Friesen
Alternate Rails Architectures: A dive through the collaborating objects of Sipity, and why those parts are there	Devs	Breakout	Jeremy Friesen	Jeremy Friesen
Managing Agile Projects: A discussion on the management of agile projects covering priorities, estimation, tools and techniques used in the process, success stories and lessons learned.	Managers	Breakout	Critchlow, Matthew newmanld Karen Cariani	We are envisioning a round table/breakout discussion, and any/all of us are happy to facilitate.
Accepting Application Ownership: Things that we can do to better own our applications (This is a redux and refinement of LDCX lightning talk)	All	Lightning Talk	Jeremy Friesen	Jeremy Friesen
Hydra: Orientation for New Adopters and Partners. How does the community actually work? What are all these gems and heads I hear about? How do I know where to start? How do we contribute back?	Mgrs	Presentation ?	Tom Cramer
Customizing your Blacklight application, best practices	Devs	Breakout/Workshop	Jack Reed	Jessie Keck
Migration for Managers - when is it critical to migrate and upgrade? how much time should be allotted for it? what happens if you are so far behind upgrades that it seems hopeless?	Mgrs	Breakout?	Karen Cariani	?
GeoCoding Tooling	Devs, Mgrs	Breakout	Jack Reed	tamsin woo, sanderson, Eben English, matienzo
Hydra-in-a-Box Technical Architecture	Developers	Breakout (Pre-Con ) – 2 hours? half day?	Tom Cramer	Core gem developers
Hydra-in-a-Box Product Focus Group	Managers	Breakout	Tom Cramer	Hannah FrostAudrey Altman
Hydra-in-a-Box – Report on Landscape Survey of Repository Solutions	Managers	Presentation - 20 min	Tom Cramer	matienzo? Rachel Frick?
Integrating Metadata Enrichment into the Hydra Stack as a Core Component	Developers	Breakout	Tom Cramer	tamsin woo?Mark Breedlove? cb?
Linked Data Fragments: Easing the pain of linked data vocabularies	Developers	5 minute lightning talk	sanderson	1-2 from Applied Linked Data Group ( Samvera Applied Linked Data Interest Group)
Unpacking Service Management: Roles, Responsibilities, Results	All	workshop/presentation	Tony Navarrete	Hannah Frost ? kestlund phswe Carolyn Caizzi
Deploying and managing SolrCloud	Developers	Workshop	cbeer	cbeer, efahy
Extending Sufia Metadata: Adding Darwin Core	Developers	Presentation - 20 min	wgcowan	Jim Halliday
'Contentless' Digital Objects: Using Worthwhile and Spotlight for Bibliographies	Developers	Presentation - 20 min	wgcowan	Randall Floyd
ActiveEncode: A concise ruby API for transcoding services	Developers	Lightening talk	Chris Colvard (Deactivated)	Chris Colvard (Deactivated)
Using Avalon with other Hydra Heads - such as Sufia: Discussing use cases and gemification.	All	Breakout	jrudder	jrudder Michael Joseph Giarlo
Avalon Technical Deep Dive - technical overview, how to customize, developing new features.	Developers	Workshop	jrudder	Michael B. Klein + other Avalon Devs TBD
Hercules vs. the Hydra: How we have and are breaking apart our Curate and Sufia-based application into constituent parts without rewriting the whole thing all at once.	All	Presentation - 40 min or Lightning Talk (or both? gulp)	Jeremy Friesen	Jeremy Friesen
What Solution Bundles can I use now? Feature based overview of existing solution bundles (Avalon, Sufia...are there others?) Maybe we need to define Solution Bundles.	All	Presentation - 40 min	Julie Rudder	Product owners, Project Directors from Solution Bundle apps.
Archives / EAD integration - examples and lessons learned	All	Presentation / panel - 20 min	Michelle DiMeo	Reps from Stanford, Tufts, others?
Oral histories in Hydra - use cases	All	Breakout	Michelle DiMeo	Could be combined with Avalon gemification breakout??
Security, Accessibility (508), and Change Management : what we've learned as managers and developers	All	Presentation / panel - 20 min	newmanld	newmanld Glen Horton Thomas Scherz
MODS XML to Linked Data friendly RDF	All	Breakout	sanderson	sanderson, Eben English + maybe others from Descriptive Metadata subgroup?
Learning to love JavaScript: If you are doing any kind of web, development sooner or later you will be writing JavaScript. Learn the good parts of the language and enjoy working with it.	Developers	Presentation	Hector Correa	Hector Correa

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