This is a unique opportunity to look at what the church is doing with their API. This is a big event, as the entire world is looking at this - I recently read an article by Andy Lester (WWW::Mechanize, The Perl Foundation, etc.) touting what the Church is doing with their new FamilySearch API, so members aren't the only ones looking at this. (unless Andy is a member, which I don't think he is):
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gordon Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:37 AM Subject: 1st Annual FamilySearch Developers Conference March 12, 2008 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just three days left to get the Early-Bird Discount of $20.00. After the 27th this all-day event will be $80.00. Please register by going to: http://FamilyHistoryConferences.byu.edu/familysearch<http://familyhistoryconferences.byu.edu/familysearch> A list follows below of the 20 different presentations with descriptions. This is not an event to miss! --------CLASS SCHEDULE BY TRACK-------- Keynote 8:30 Ransom Love FamilySearch Dir. of Strategic Relations Brave New Platform: Changing the World of Genealogy FamilySearch 10:00 Duane Kuehne API Overview FamilySearch 11:00 Ryan Heaton Family Tree Read FamilySearch 1:30 Ryan Heaton Family Tree Write FamilySearch 2:30 Rob Lyon Family Tree Sync It is one thing to read and write to the Family Tree, but is quite another to keep a local record manager in "sync" with the Family Tree information. This session is a quick overview of flows and ideas to keep a local repository up-to-date with the vast information in Family Tree. FamilySearch 3:30 Rob Lyon Family Tree Combine/Separate The Family Tree is a wonderful step forward in combining genealogy data information into a single database. Many great AI algorithms have been created to combine people from differing sources. However, these algorithms can only take us so far. we need to enlist enthusiasts to look at possible duplicates and combine them when appropriate. This is currently a tedious process, but they are many new possibilities in improvements with the API. FamilySearch 4:30 Tim Crabb, Rober W. Lee Record Search Record Search helps you identify your ancestors by letting you search millions of indexed records and by letting you browse images of records that have not yet been indexed; quickly users can begin to uncover information about their ancestors. Indexed records and images of artifacts aren't exclusive to Record Search's own innovative UI - its client/ server architecture leverages a rich API that provides interfaces to allow other applications to integrate this same functionality to search and retrieve records and image artifacts. This API will be made public shortly so come to learn the details of these APIs and see a demonstration of how they could be leveraged in your applications. 3rdParty 10:00 Renaun Erickson Adobe Flex The asfslib project is a set of classes in ActionScript 3.0 to help developers interact with the FamilySearch API services. This presentation will demonstrate how to use the asfslib in your Flex and AIR projects. As well as techniques to use Flex to create nice looking front ends for display data coming from the FamilySearch API. 3rdParty 11:00 David Pugmire .NET Software "FamilySearch Opens the Door to .NET Developers Worldwide" The way is paved from FamilySearch to the world of .NET. Join David Pugmire of nGenesis for a tour of the .NET API for FamilySearch. In this session you will learn what you can do with FamilySearch using the .NET Framework, and discover everything you need to get started. Demos of the API in both VB and C# languages, as well as multiple platforms such as ASP.NET, Windows, and Mobile clients will be presented. 3rd Party 1:30 John Finlay PHP The PHP-FSAPI Library is an open source library which allows developers to interact with the new FamilySearch APIs using PHP. This presentation will discuss how to use the PHP-FSAPI Library in your own projects and discuss the mapping of the API XML into GEDCOM. This presentation will also show how the PhpGedView project uses this library to integrate with new FamilySearch by allowing users to cross-link their data with the data in FamilySearch. PhpGedView Web Site http://www.phpgedview.net 3rd Party 2:30 Jimmy Zimmerman Ruby Ruby-fs-api is an OpenSource library that makes accessing the FamilySearch API extremely easy. Learn why Ruby is a great choice for accessing the FamilySearch API, and how to get started. Link: http://code.google.com/p/ruby-fs-api/ 3rdParty 3:30 Logan Allred Cocoa Obj.-C Learn how to use the open-source FSKit Cocoa framework to integrate the FamilySearch web service APIs into your Macintosh applications. There will be a brief overview of the architecture and core classes in FSKit, after which you will build a simple application to demonstrate authentication, searching, reading person data, caching, synchronization. 3rdParty 4:30 Boyd Gerber Perl/Python My presentation will include: An introduction to perl and python libraries that makes working with the API easy. Instructions on obtaining code, account, etc. to begin using the library. Live Demo of a perl and python application that uses FamilySearch API. Roadmap & how to get involved. Each section will be for the seperate programming language. Client 10:00 John Finlay GedLync GedLync is a new Java open source project developed by students at Neumont University which will allow users to synchronize a GEDCOM file on their local desktop with data in new FamilySearch. This tool simplifies the way users can upload and synchronize their GEDCOM data with new FamilySearch. http://www.neumont.edu Client 11:00 Gaylon Findlay PAF SDK/ Sync (C++) The basic layout of the PAF 5 database structure will be covered, along with the basics of using the PAF 5 SDK provided by the Church. From this base, we will discuss the recent changes engineered by Incline Software and Ohana Software to allow syncing with the new FamilySearch Family Tree. Client 1:30 Dan Lawyer, Jason Butterfield Rich Flex Client Full-featured and filthy-rich on the FamilySearch API. The FamilySearch Labs team is building a full-featured, rich (in features) web client on top of the FamilySearch API. Come hear tips, tricks, and best practices of integrating Flash apps with the FamilySearch API. An overview of the FamilySearch Family Tree project, its architecture and how it integrates with the FamilySearch API will be presented. Client 2:30 Matt Misbach, Brad Hintze Rapid Ajax Application Platform This lecture will cover a quick overview of the basics of the Bungee Connect platform. A tour of the Bungee Family Search library will be given followed by a demo of a Family Search searching application that was written using the library. Client 3:30 Gordon Clarke Feature Opportunities Gordon will cover the opportunies available in this new arena, including Tree Cleaning, Notifications, Private/Shared/Public Spaces, Collaboration, hosting and linking of Rich Media. Client 4:30 Jimmy Zimmerman Basic Client The basic client is available as a binary or source code. The binary can be used to test all the features of the Family Tree API and provides an ability to check the XML strings before committing the changes. Excellent tool for learning and understanding the API Schema in actual use. -- Jesse Stay The Social Media Guru Partner, Co-founder: SocialOptimize.com Author: O'Reilly's FBML Essentials http://www.amazon.com/FBML-Essentials-Jesse-Stay/dp/0596519184/ Co-Author: I'm on Facebook -- Now What??? http://FacebookAdvice.com Blogger: http://www.jessestay.com http://www.socialoptimize.com/blog Phone: (801) 853-8339
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