Straw Schedule for Hydra Connect 2014

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Straw Schedule for Hydra Connect 2014

Tuesday

  • Hydra ambassadors / helpers roam the halls, ensure that new arrivals, community members get appropriately introduced, welcomed and integrated. 

  • Big Room = HQ, Hacking Quarters. Little Rooms = Workshop Sites 

  • Need a registration desk, where everyone can sign in, get maps, and get name tags. (NAME TAGS ARE ESSENTIAL)

AM
  • 2-4 hour workshops

  • we should try to make all the 2 hour workshops start and stop at consistent times, so people can xfer from one to another

Lunch

organizing committee meet (or in the evening?)

PM

2-4 hour workshops

including Hydra for Managers

we should try to make all the 2 hour workshops start and stop at consistent times, so people can xfer from one to another

 

Wednesday

Hydra ambassadors / helpers roam the halls, ensure that new arrivals, community members get appropriately introduced, welcomed and integrated. 

AM - PLENARY SESSION, BIG ROOM
  • Welcome

  • The State of the HydraSphere

  • The Hydra Way & Meeting Participant Expectations

<coffee break>

  • Everyone introduce themselves, à la Curate Camp? (here, or first thing?)

  • Invited Lightning Talks (emphasis on current heads & issues of great popular interest)

    •  Avalon

    •  HydraDAMS

    •  Sufia

    •  Curate

    •  DUL (?) 

Lunch

<Reorganize the big room for Posters, Demos>

PM - PLENARY SESSION, BIG ROOM
  • Open table format poster & demo session. 

    • Half the participants stand at a station, and present their poster / demo / LT to walkers-by. 

    • Coffee Break

    • The other half  of participants stand at a station, and present their poster / demo / LT to walkers-by. 

 

Thursday

Hydra ambassadors / helpers roam the halls, ensure that new arrivals, community members get appropriately introduced, welcomed and integrated. 

AM - PLENARY, BIG ROOM
  • Hydra Strategic Plan Overview

    • Lightning Talks (10-15 min) & Discussions on Key Points

    • Training

    • Documentation

    • Code sharing technical framework

    • etc. 

  •  Invited Lightning Talks & Discussion on Key Points (emphasis on prospective development of great interest) 

    • Shared IR

    • Spotlight / Exhibits

    • RDF in Hydra

    • Hydra & Fedora 4

Lunch
PM 
  • UNCONFERENCE. Location = Big room + Little Rooms

  • Participants self-assemble into discussion / workgroups for the afternoon.

  • SG members ensure there is some useful track for visiting managers & newbies, so they are not neglected. 

  • 4 PM / end of day: Gather in Plenary for report outs, making evening plans 

 

Friday

Big Room = HQ, Hacking Quarters. Little Rooms = Workshop Sites 

AM
  • Working Groups

Lunch
PM
  • Working Groups

  • 4 PM / end of day: Gather in Plenary for report outs, awards ceremony, making evening plans.