Hi all guys and sorry for have overlooked that discussion. A GT is what I really wish see realized :) I spoke also with Francesco via chat and we both agreed/wish on give new energy to C3 promoting a GT.
I tried to go to Vienna last year to meet Reinhard and Steven, but unfortunately didn't have enough budget to go (here in Italy salaries are not at EU level - unless you are a Politician :P) :( I would like - just my wish - to propose the University of L'Aquila (Italy) as next Cocoon3 GT for 2 main reason (3, since it is the city when I was born :P ): * on April 6, 2009, it was partially destroyed by a earthquake[1] and it's still in terrible conditions - so organizing a so great event would hopefully attract the interest * because of it, the University lost a lot of students, we could maybe help them attracting guys It is just a prototypal idea, I should speak with people I'm still in touch there before doing a real proposal... anyway, how does it sound? TIA, all the best!!! Simo [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_L'Aquila_earthquake http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://www.99soft.org/ On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Lars Huttar <lars_hut...@sil.org> wrote: > 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 > > > >
