Outline timetable

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The timetable below is indicative only and shows how the first versions of Hydra, intended for use by the partners - not for public release - are developing. The public alpha release of Hydrangea, an installable package that bundles the complete Hydra stack together, is intended for demonstration at the OR10 conference in July 2010.

2011

June: OR11 in Austin, Texas (green star)

March: (Tentative) LibDevConX 2 at Stanford (question)

January: (Tentative) Hydrangea Release Candidate (question)

2010

November:

  • Extensive effort to finalise and stabilise detail of Hydra/ngea modelling (in all senses: content types, cModels, Ruby models)
  • Hydra camp and Hydra meeting at Stanford following DLF conference (tick)
  • Hydra/ngea presentation at DLF in Palo Alto (tick)

October: Hydra camp held in Minneapolis by MediaShelf and Stanford (tick)

August: Hydra meeting at Stanford (tick)

July: OR10 conference in Madrid, Spain (tick)

  • Alpha release and demonstration of Hydrangea (Actually, August (wink) )

March 23-25: LibDevConX meeting at Stanford. (tick) First community meeting around Hydra; demonstrations of work so far; start of possible community contributions.

January: work starts to implement AuthN and AuthZ (tick)

2009

Autumn/Fall:

  • Proof-of-concept demonstration site available for search and discovery interface (tick) This is Hull's take on what Hydra might look like for its institutional users; the eventual interface provided 'out-of-the-box' will be configurable in a fairly straightforward fashion.
  • ETD production system goes live at Stanford (tick)
  • Work on SALT (Self-archiving legacy toolkit) Hydra head starts at Stanford (tick)
  • Revised thinking on content models published (tick)
  • FESL released to partners; preliminary testing with Islandora team at UPEI (tick)

May:

  • 18-21 May: OR09 conference: presentations about Hydra; meeting with FESL developers to specify Hydra's needs (tick)
  • public launch of this wiki space including first ideas about content modelling (tick)
  • Blacklight available for testing with Hydra objects in partners (tick)

April:

  • A 'pre-alpha' demonstrator is up and running (tick) which shows proof-of-concept for the proposed Hydra technology stack.

January:

  • Specification of core Hydra client (tick)
  • Set of design mock-up pages complete (tick)

 

2008

September: Formation of Hydra group. (smile)