The Bertelsmann Foundation and the German Zope User Group (DZUG) organizing a Educational Plone-Sprint from 2003/09/24 until 2003/09/28 in Paderborn.

Live reporting from the Sprint

• we build some teams focussing on different areas

Sprint-Leader

• Jodok Batlogg, solution2u.net gmbh, batlogg@solution2u.net (Alexander Limi could not make it to the Sprint) Sprint-Manager
• Maik Jablonski (mjablonski), University of Bielefeld, maik.jablonski@uni-bielefeld.de (contact for all organizational details regarding the sprint)

Sprint-Location

The sprint will be located in the Heinz-Nixdorf-Forum / Paderborn It's a beautiful museum for the history of computers. Maybe we can make Plone a historical event, too...;)

A hotel for the sprinters near the location will be reserved the next weeks... More infos will follow.

Sprint-Date

The sprint starts on Wednesday, 2003/09/24 and ends on Sunday, 2003/09/28.

Sprint-Topic

Plone is a very good starting point for building educational/elearning applications. We should come together, think about and implement features we are missing in Plone for educational/elearning settings.

General guidelines and recommendations for the project:

• focus on core supporting technology for now, and collect requirements and wishes along the way
• start small, grow steadily, refactor and rearrange
• implement the project as a pluggable Customization-Policy - not a customization or fork of Plone.
• coordinate with the Plone project

Missing features:

• Keyword-Management for Plone (change, delete, merge keywords and update objects) (mjablonski)
• Flexible Metadata-System (needed for LOM, etc.) (mjablonski)
• Usability-Improvements (mjablonski)
• Implementation of IMS-Specifications (like ContentPackage, LOM, Learning Design, LIP, ...) native or plugable (eduzope/jensens)
• Publication listings for research papers, PhD? theses, articles, etc. (like ">CMFBibliography but extending it with features like "DSpace>?)
• Relations Support in Plone -- RDF, Zope Topic Maps Archetypes
• Nate wishlist

Sprint-Participants (max.30) (please add yourself with name, company, email or contact mjablonski)

1. Alexander Limi, Limi Enterprises
2. Maik Jablonski (mjablonski), University of Bielefeld, maik.jablonski@uni-bielefeld.de
3. Jens W. Klein (jensens), jens quadrat and EduZope Initiative jens dot klein at jensquadrat dot de
4. Grégoire Weber (gregweb), incept.ch, gregoire.weber AT switzerland.org
5. Thomas Geiger, EduZope
6. Marcus Schopen, Medienlabor, marcus@medienlabor.de
7. Raphael Ritz, Humboldt-University Berlin, r.ritz@biologie.hu-berlin.de
8. Frank Grellert, LISUM Berlin, grellert@bics.be.schule.de
9. Georg Pleger, EduZope, georg.pleger@opensource.ag
10. Dmitry Makovey, Athabasca University (Canada's Open University) dmitry at athabascau dot ca
11. Jean-Paul Ladage, Zopeworks, The Netherlands, jladage@zopeworks.nl
12. Volker Bachschneider, EKsOL, Germany vbachs@dzug.org
13. Jodok Batlogg, solution2u.net gmbh Austria, contact: batlogg@solution2u.net
14. Uwe ??stermeier, Institut für Wissensmedien Tuebingen, u.oestermeier@iwm-kmrc.de
15. Manfred Knobloch, Institut für Wissensmedien Tuebingen, m.knobloch@iwm-kmrc.de
16. Thomas Reulbach, ZCMS, Straubing, reulbach@zcms.de
17. Christian Theune, gocept gmbh & co. kg Koethen, ct@gocept.com
18. Tonico Strasser, BDF-net tonico at bdf-net dot com
19. Thomas Zeleny, "tomcom GmbH>? - mailto:tz@tomcom.de
20. Simon Pamiés, Bielefeld, bipbap@gmx.de
21. Nate Aune, Learning Lab Denmark nate@lld.dk
22. Marc Zacher, University of Bremen/LIS Bremen, mzacher@informatik.uni-bremen.de
23. Kai Bielenberg, University of Bremen/LIS Bremen, kaib@informatik.uni-bremen.de
24. Bernd Kulawik, Bibliotheca Hertziana / Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rom, kulawik@biblhertz.it
25. Gustavo Navarro, Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales / Red Académica Electrónica de Clacso RAEC gus@clacso.edu.ar
26. Sven Gutmann, Avarto Systems, Sven.Guttmann@Bertelsmann.de
27. Holger von Ameln, Hannover, holger@von.ameln.de
28. Andreas Jung, Haufe Mediengruppe, andreas@andreas-jung.com