Thanks Ross. On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]>wrote:
> The ApacheCon CFP closes on Aug 3rd. I'd like to float some ideas for > sessions that I would love to see there. I'm not equipped to deliver > sessions on AOO so I'm pitching them here in case someone wants to > submit them. If I am interested then maybe others are too. > > First off, here's some info about the OpenOffice > conference-within-a-conference: > https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_conference_within_a > > The CFP is at http://www.apachecon.eu/cfp/ > > Note that there is travel assistance available to those who would be > otherwise unable to attend. There is no guarantee of getting > assistance as it is evaluated on a needs basis, but if your employer > can't pay for your expenses you might want to consider applying for > TAC, see http://www.apache.org/travel/ > > I've contacted TAC chair and will report back here wrt next steps and procedures for reviewing/awarding TAC support to members of the extended Apache OpenOffice family; i.e. presenters, and participants of our track at ACE. > When I go to conferences I personally prefer sessions that are less > about presentation and more about engaging with one another. So I'd > love to see some sessions aimed at cross-project collaboration. One of > the great things about Apache is the breadth of projects we have here. > Cross-pollination is often valuable. Sessions designed to do this tend > to be small, probably 2-5 people per project. The goal would be to > explore the potential for collaboration between projects. > Unfortunately, as I write we are not sure of how flexible the venue is > in terms of space use (there is a site visit tomorrow) but we might be > able to accomodate some intimate sessions like these. I'm hoping that > we can create some smaller spaces to allow this kind of session to > work. > > What we need is someone to own them. That means touch base with the > projects in question and check someone will be there and then propose > the session in the CFP. That someone will also need coordinate > preparations and chair the sessions on the day. An example session > (which is completely made up as an example I don't know if there is > genuine value in this, but I'd like to explore it...) > > "OpenSocial implementations, such as Apache Shindig, open > opportunities to share mini-applications across various platforms. If > Apache OpenOffice were to embed Shindig services then it could provide > social integration features such as messaging, collaborative research > and expertise discovery. Such social applications could be integrated > with document content and meta-data to provide automated > cross-pollination opportunities (e.g. an activity stream that > indicates Jane is working on a document that has some similar content > to Joe's). Furthermore, by enabling such features using OpenSocial it > becomes possible to extend AOO UI features into other applications > that act as a host, such as dashboards built using Apache Rave or > document management systems. Similar results can be achieved by > adopting the W3C Widget packaging standards as implemented by Apache > Wookie, also used in Rave. > > Great example! I hope someone steps forward with a proposal in this arena. > In this session we'll start with demonstrating the potential of some > of these core technologies. The second half of the session will > explore, in an interactive style, use-cases and opportunities for > collaboration between projects represented by members of the audience. > This session is therefore intended for developers familiar with social > technologies and users who wished their office tools could integrate > better with more recently developerd collaboration tools," > > This would be a session for around 6-15 people. It might well lead to > a subsequent hackathon session in which some proof-of-concepts are > built (as it happens this is exactly what happened at OSCON when we > got an Alfresco guy together with a Rave guy) > > I could imagine there being potential for a number of such sessions > (CMIS, Semantic data and content searching all jump to mind for > example). Pick your favourite topic, touch base with the appropriate > project communities and send in a CFP. Sessions like these take much > less time to prepare than full blown presentation and, personally, I > find them more rewarding. > > I'd also love to see something on the A11Y opportunities with AOO4, > thanks to the IA2 work in Symphony. As I understand it this is a > non-trivial integration effort. This might be a great opportunity to > build some momentum in something that typically attracts only a few > developers. Such a session might spend as much time on *why* this is > important in the general sense since most developers don't understand > it beyond the moral justification of doing the right thing. For > example, how many people here know that "Around 10 per cent of the > world’s population, or 650 million people, live with a disability. > They are the world’s largest minority." - > http://www.un.org/disabilities/convention/facts.shtml) > > It would also be great if someone could look back at the community > history of OOo -> AOO (Juergen a little bird told me you are well > placed for this...) I'm not talking about looking at what went wrong > in late Sun and Oracle days. That's old news, combatative and boring. > I'm interested in hearing (from an old hand) what made OOo a success > in the early days. How it managed to become so popular. I'd then like > to hear what is good about the ASF, does it bring any of the good > times aspects back? Are there good aspects you'd like to bring back? > I'd like to think that such a presentation would have just one slide > covering the "bad stuff" - something that just said "some things > weren't so good - this led to a forking of the community" - AOO is one > of the outcomes from that forking and we're doing great thank you - > partly because the ASF has brought us... > > My last request (for today at least) is for someone to run a session > on setting up a dev environment for AOO. Ideally this will go from a > fresh Windows install in a VM to building AOO in its entirety. > Furthermore it would be best for someone else to record this session > using a screen recorder and later turn it into a online resource. > > I hope others can take the time to post their requests here and just > as importantly, some nice developers submit the sessions for us ;-) > > -- > Ross Gardler (@rgardler) > Programme Leader (Open Development) > OpenDirective http://opendirective.com >
