E-mail Invite Draft
- RailsBridge
- Dive into Hydra
- Hydra for Managers
- Open Track Planning
We welcome suggestions for other sessions, and volunteers lead to them.
Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd January will be a mix of plenary sessions, open forums and working groups.
Wednesday will start with "Welcome & What's the Big Deal?" - a fairly brief summation of Hydra's core purpose, the state of the Hydrasphere today, and an indication of the exciting developments already taking place or planned over the coming months.
Common to both days, we plan plenary sessions briefly demonstrating some of the established production Hydra heads, to show the range of Hydra's capabilities, and some of the new heads still in development addressing further community needs. Some of these new, cutting-edge heads are intended to become "solution packs". There will be extended open sessions for participants to meet and talk with managers and developers from many of the Hydra Partners to follow up on the demonstrations, see further Hydra heads in a less formal setting, ask questions, plan possible collaborations, network and generally to get involved! In addition there will be working groups addressing a range of community and software issues (some likely formed following discussions in the plenary sessions).
All Hydra Partners will be asked to prepare a poster, live demo or "lightning talk" that highlights the features, functions and uses of their Hydra-based solutions. This will provide all attendees with a first-of-its-kind global view of all Hydra development.
On the Wednesday evening we plan a social event.
Friday 24th January will be a chance for focussed workgroups to come together, for instance to plan future developments. Workgroups have already been proposed to discuss:
- Hydra and Fedora 4
- Hydra and RDF
- A "sharable IR" solution pack
- Media solutions: Avalon, Hydra DAMs, and more
Please note, to help cover the costs of running the event, we will be requesting $40 per attendee.
Stay tuned for more details and of course - as is the Hydra Way – please make detailed suggestions……the agenda is what the community makes it!
- RailsBridge
- Dive into Hydra
- Hydra for Managers
- Open Track planning
- Do you also want to have a short general intro for new comers so everyone has the same starting point before diving into demos? Something to give the demos structure, like why is this cutting edge? If you jump into cutting edge, some people won't understand that the mundane necessities have already been resolved. It will seem redundant to contributors who have been part of the community for some time, but if part of the goal of the meeting is bring everyone up to speed and encourage new adopters, it would be good to spend 30 mins laying down the basics. And perhaps that's what the workshops on Tues are supposed to do - then we need to make that clear, and even so, a quick review at the beginning wouldn't hurt. I believe this is also a good idea and would suggest something short like - Welcome & What's the Big Deal? (then discuss our core purpose, where we are today and where we are headed as a teaser for the rest of the week)
- Plenary demonstrations of some of the major, new Hydra heads: a chance to see some of the cutting edge development going on with Hydra
- Open session: this is planned to be a major component of the meeting where you can discuss Hydra implementations with the folks who built and use them. Ask all the questions you wouldn’t have wanted to ask on a mailing list! We’re asking everyone to have a quick 7 slide presentation answering the big “why?” and “how?” questions to facilitate these discussions and to make it easy to repeat them time and again as new people roll up. Hopefully folks will be happy to demonstrate their Hydra heads too.
- Evening event (are we committing to dinner yet?) - I think it is a nice way for people to interact informally, meet each other and know that everyone (or most everyone) will be in the same place. Maybe it doesn't have to be a sit down dinner, but a reception with enough food to keep folks there. I agree and the idea of a venue such as the aquarium has been floated by Declan.
I thought Thursday was going to be a number of small interest groups? Do we need examples of what they might be? How many are we now shooting for? 3? 4? (Plus any very small ones that can be accommodated in a small corner?) I think we should seed this list. Does Mark’s “similar to Tuesday” imply some sort of plenary in the morning?
How are we going to describe the workgroups and make it different from Thursday (pm?) (or is it?) Will two days of workgroup type things sound attractive? Maybe we nee dot describe what we mean by a work group in a bit more detail.