The Davis/Sacramento Area Plone Users Group is sponsoring a sprint February 2-5, 2008.

There are currently two planned focus areas:

   1. Improving Plone for use in scientific environments, with a focus on:

       1a. Tools for handling bibliographic data (CMFbibliographyAT, et. al.)
       1b. Tools for supporting sophisticated Taxonomy / Ontology (PloneOntology)

   2. Developing Plone API Quick Reference card

Raphael Ritz, author or CMFbibliographyAT and contributor to PloneOntology, will be joining us to coordinate improvements to these tools.  Specific topic we've identified so far are improving support for EndNote and BibTeX import/export and creating parsers for metadata services such as Web of Science, PubMed, etc.

Kamal Gill will be leading a group to create printable "cheat sheet" reference cards for key parts of the Plone API.

The sprint will be held at the newly completed UC Davis Genome Center and possibly other satellite locations as well.  Maps and directions will be provided prior to the event.

Davis, California is a thriving university town, located about an hour from San Francisco.  It offers lots of great local cafes, restaurants, pubs, parks, and open spaces.  Accommodations are relatively inexpensive, and it is well-served by public transit options.  There are direct trains to the San Francisco bay area throughout the day.

for more information, and please add your name to this wiki if you are interested in joining us.

We're also seeking sponsors to help defray travel expenses for participants, as well as cover food and infrastructure costs.  Thanks to the sponsors who have already signed on including UC Davis, International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF), and The Nature Conservancy's Central Valley Project.

Contact us at science-sprint@oceanicsky.com if your organization would like to co-sponsor this event.

We hope to see you in Davis this February!