For more information see our CoActivate page.

The intention is to get some ground broken on some new UI concepts for Plone ahead of the Living Statues Sprint hosted by Four Digits in Arnhem in September.

For further information contact Matt Hamilton or Martin Aspeli

This sprint will focus on tasks for the upcoming 4.1 and 4.2 releases. Potential topics include calendaring, collections UI, commenting, editing UI, and search results enhancements. Suggest your topic on the sprint wiki.

About Cologne

The city of Cologne (the proper German name is "Köln") is, by the number of inhabitants, the fourth biggest city in Germany, with just over one million citizens.

Cologne has a 2,000-year history. Its people are well-known for their hospitality and zest for life. Cologne is the business hub in the west of Germany and the heart of Europe. It has a strong industrial tradition, being to the south-west of the highly industrialized and populated area of the “Ruhrgebiet”. Today it has a strong footing in the tertiary sector, with the media (TV), IT, and design industry being major employers.

Cologne has very good traffic connections via air, by train, or car. It also has an excellent public transport network.

Cologne has a rich cultural life with many museums, several excellent shopping areas, and many places for recreation. People can visit the many well known tourist attractions, especially the Cologne Cathedral (“Dom”). The city also has a very vibrant night life and great locations for social events in the evening. You can also enjoy great food of almost any flavour in about 500 restaurants and bars, including special local food.

Well, of course the most important “food” in Cologne is ”Kölsch”. On the one hand, Kölsch is the name of the local dialect of the German language; on the other hand,  is the name of the typical beer of the Cologne area (or, as many people say: “Kölsch is the only language that you can drink”).

About our Sponsor

GFU Cyrus AG – a competent partner for 30 years

Founded as GFU Cyrus + Rölke mbH already in 1980, GFU is nowadays among the most renowned IT-coaching institutions in Germany. Several thousand IT specialists from all over the Federal Republic of Germany visit seminars at GFU every year. The program includes more than 550 different seminars from areas such as A for Administration through operating systems to Z for ZOPE.

With about 50 lecturers from different fields of IT, GFU has a very big potential of technical competence at its hands. This know-how is what we offer you for working on your projects and for coaching.

Among the clients of GFU banks, insurance companies, trading companies, municipalities and public services can be found.

GFU attributes great importance to the fact that its lecturers constantly gain more experience and knowledge by practical work on different projects. This is the only way we can really guarantee your success in the seminar. Excellent GFU lecturers pass on the neccessary knowledge in a compact form.

The seminars take place in a distinctly nice and personal atmosphere in the rooms of GFU in central Cologne. There is state-of-the-art technology available in the seminar rooms. Each computer at GFU is equipped with an internet connection, WiFi is available for your own laptops. Beamer, flipcharts and printers are self-evident for running the seminars.

For More Information

Contact Eric Steele at EricSteele@psu.edu or visit the sprint wiki.

Image courtesy Wikipedia.

The "Berlinale Sprint" will be a micro Plone sprint running for three days in february. However, most partipants will already arrive early (on friday or thursday) to hang out in Berlin, enjoy the city's attractions and hopefully also get to watch some nice movies at this year's Berlinale.

The sprint will take place in the inofficial "Jarn Berlin Office", located at the junction of Kreuzberg and Neukoelln, i.e. in one of the liveliest and most fun parts of the city. Unfortunately though, as the office is usually inhabited by only three people, it won't take more than 10-12 participants for the sprint. So better be quick to join! ;)

• Release Plone4ArtistsCalendar 1.1
• Finish the technical aspects of recurrence of p4a.ploneevent
• Integrate the recurrence with Dateable so we have views that works with recurrence.
• Merge Plone4ArtistsCalendar + dateable.
• Better iCal integration (get rid of Marshalling)
• Implement a week view like the one at NY Mag (Installable as an alternative view)
• The finishing of the location provider stuff started(?) at the Sorrento-sprint.
• Better event search (from the Weblion usecases)
• Fix usability issues as identified by Weblion team
  

More info

Please see the sprint wiki page to sign up for the sprint and get more info about accommodations and transportation to the sprint location.

Optional training

This sprint will take place during and after two optional training sessions. This is a great opportunity to get up to speed on the latest Plone / Zope 3 technologies and then put your new knowledge to work side-by-side the experts at the sprint.

4/28 - 4/29 : Plone 3 Developer training with Nate Aune

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!

Rocky Burt, a Plone framework team member, expert in Zope 3 technologies and lead author of the Plone4Artists suite of products will be leading this sprint, together with Nate Aune, founder of the Plone4Artists project. Maybe you are wondering - what is a sprint? And what is it like to attend a sprint for the first time?

Sign up now and add your name to the participants list!

Zope 3 Training for Plone Developers (optional)

The sprint will follow an optional two-day training session tailored for Plone developers who want to learn about using Zope 3 in Plone: Zope 3 Training for Plone Developers . Rocky Burt will be the instructor for both days.

While attending the training is not mandatory to participate in the sprint, you will be much better equipped to contribute to the sprint, if you have attended the training. Learn all about using Zope 3 in Plone the first two days, and then apply your new knowledge during the next five days with the instructor available to answer problems when you get stuck!

Sponsors

for more information about how to sponsor the sprint.

Proposed Topics

to comment or suggest other topics for the sprint. You can also find us in the #plone4artists IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

for a detailed list of topics including subtopics and links.

Not just for coders!

You don't have to be a coder in order to contribute/benefit at the sprint. There's also a need for persons to write documentation, make screencasts, test the software and share ideas! You are very welcome to come and learn more about the Plone development process and share your experiences as a user and integrator.

Practical stuff

Location

and sprint will take place in the impressive Christian Science Center campus right in the center of Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. This area of Boston is home to Fenway park (go Redsox!), Newbury Street, Berklee College of Music, Symphony Hall and many other attractions.

Cost

The sprint fee will be to cover the cost of providing breakfast/lunch all days of the sprint. The fee amount is TBD depending on how much sponsorship we're able to get. We expect the fee to be around $100. There is underground parking available for $5/day.

Accommodations

for information on where to stay. There are inexpensive, moderate and more pricey options.

Participants

, so we know how many to expect.

Previous multimedia sprints

See what the Plone multimedia teams have done at past sprints.

• Sorrento Sprint (Mar.-Apr. 2007)
  
• Snow Sprint (Feb. 2007)
• Seattle Sprint (Oct. 2006)
• Big Apple Sprint (July 2006)
• Snow Sprint (Feb. 2006)
  
• Multimedia Sprint (Oct. 2005)