Solr will surely get mentioned/used during the meeting, so it might be
worth your time to attend Erik Hatcher's webinar on Thursday, "Rapid
Prototyping Search Applications with Solr":
http://www.lucidimagination.com/solutions/events
should be a great crash course for the unfamiliar. cheers,
rc
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <emor...@nd.edu> wrote:
>> We are now up to sixteen registrants (Woot!)...
>
> Here is our tentative Friday agenda for the "Midwest" Meeting:
>
> * 10 o'clock - Meet & greet
> * 10:30 - Show & Tell / Lighting Talks
> * Noon - Lunch at the Dining Hall
> * 1 o'clock - Tour of campus
> * 2:30 - Code4Lib Challenge
> * 3:30 - Hack Session
> * 6 o'clock - Social Event
>
> But I wanted to especially highlight the Code4Lib Challenge. In one of
> preplanning conference calls a number of months ago, the idea of a
> "challenge" was proposed, and here is what we hope to do:
>
> 1. from the lightning talks, pick one or two really really cool things
> 2. present the selected ideas to library employees
> 3. ask the employees to "challenge" the Meeting attendees
> to solve a particular computing problem
> 4. hope someone from the Meeting picks up the banner and hacks a solution
> 5. present the solution back to employees at a later time
>
> Or something like that. Wish us luck, and we'll let y'all know how it goes.
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
> University of Notre Dame
>
> (574) 631-8604
>
