Save the Date for a Jasig TRUE Unconference!
The Jasig Board of Directors is aware of the challenge of holding our valuable annual unconference during times of reduced travel budgets. Our response is an opportunity to meet and collaborate with relatively little cost to you. Dates: Unconference Sessions, November 7-9th, 2011 and Developer Meetings, November 10-11th, 2011. Place: UMassOnline Offices, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. This campus is approximately one to one and a half hours from Boston's Logan Airport, near Worcester, MA. We will make an attendee list available on the wiki so people can possibly coordinate sharing rental cars. Content: Help us make this the best unconference ever by joining the logistics planning group. If you're interested, contact Patty at [email protected] . Conference fee: FREE. Hotel: We will reserve a block of rooms at the DoubleTree Westborough (6 miles from the meeting) at the special rate of 119.00, including wireless. Please send me an indication of whether you're coming ASAP so I can adjust the block appropriately. Meals: UMassOnline will offer a lunch deal for a reasonable price (5.00 for a bag lunch). Some hotels include breakfast. Since this is a true unconference, you are on your own for meals, but we will make suggestions. Please Note: This is a pay-as-you-go informal unconference, which allows us to eliminate the conference fee entirely. We believe the primary value of this meeting is the opportunity to work together, and we are facilitating that. To Sign Up: Please send your name, email address, institution, a phone number, and what days you'll attend to Patty Gertz at [email protected]. We will soon have an unconference wiki where Patty will post attendee and meeting information. WHAT'S AN UNCONFERENCE? "An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of organizers, in advance." -Wikipedia Jasig has always been about people coming together to share and learn in an open environment, and this is what an "unconference" is all about. This fall event will provide both spontaneous and planned opportunities to collaborate on all Jasig community initiatives as well as initiatives from other community open source projects. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? It's up to you. Ideas people are talking about so far include the following: Lightning Talks - Volunteers talk for up to 8 minutes. Any topic goes. Workshops - Bring your uPortal, portlet, CAS, Bedework, or IdM code or design or requirements and work on them with core developers. Birds of a Feather Sessions - Discuss common interests, issues, problems with colleagues. Strategic Planning - What impact will the merger with Sakai have on Jasig? Where should this new organization be in one year? In three years? Join the conversation. Newbie? Meet the experts and get individualized help. How-to's. How-not-to's. Tips and techniques. The final schedule will be determined in real-time, interactively with the attendees. Questions? Send email to Patty Gertz at [email protected]
_______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
