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.