On 7/18/2011 4:49 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: > As we've been talking about Cocoon "Do-ocracy" and community > contributions, my mind turns to my past attempts to help develop Cocoon, > and the vast gap that seems to yawn between me and being able to > contribute effectively. While I would love to be able to contribute, > there is quite a stack of technologies that seem to require mastery > first... e.g. Maven, Wicket, Spring...? > > I suspect that much of this would be reduced if I could sit down and be > walked through a process with a knowledgeable person who can tell me > what I do and don't need to learn, and of whom I could ask targeted > questions. > > And that leads me to ask, what are the possibilities of a Cocoon > GetTogether this year? next year? > (The sooner the better, as far as I'm concerned!) > > AFAIK the last GT was in 2005? The hackathon sounded very productive. > > Regards, > Lars >
(Sorry for not replying directly to others' replies, but I don't seem to be receiving them in my inbox (I read them at http://cocoon.markmail.org/search/?q=#query:+page:1+mid:yucxttvietp2ukac+state:results).) Given that there may not be enough people and sponsorship for a Cocoon GT, what about some kind of virtual GT? I.e. a concentrated time of group web presence. We could still have presentations, Q&A, hackathon, maybe using audio channel such as Blink/Mumble/TeamSpeak... For me, the most valuable part would be a tutorial on getting up to speed on Cocoon development... with the minimum grounding in Maven/Wicket/Spring/Java servlet technologies required, and with plenty of opportunity to ask questions. A couple of simple "hello world" tutorials would be worth a lot. Regards, Lars
