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.