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.