On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Santiago Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > El vie, 28-03-2008 a las 18:46 -0700, Dan Peterson escribió: > > Hey Shindig folks, > > > > ApacheCon EU is a few weeks away, and, as discussed before on the list, > > we're going to have a Shindig birds of a feather session. > > > > I've flipped the confirmed bit to "yes," and selected the time of > Wednesday, > > April 9, 20:30 - 21:30, in Matterhorn 3 (as per > > http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/BirdsOfaFeatherEu08 ) > > > > I know Cassie Doll, John "Fargo" Hjelmstad, Chris Chabot and I are > planning > > to be there. > > > > Is anyone else coming from shindig-dev? It would be great to meet in > person. > > > > Not me. I still *might* go to Amsterdam for the Apachecon-us-2008 > planning meeting Saturday after ApacheCON, but it looks very unlikely as > of now. > > > In terms of an abstract for > http://www.eu.apachecon.com/eu2008/about/BOFs, I > > am proposing we list: > > > > Shindig is a new project in the Apache incubator that is becoming the > > reference implementation for OpenSocial and gadgets infrastructure. This > > project aims to make it easy for a new social website to become a > > "container" for OpenSocial applications, and is making rapid progress. > Come > > learn about the project's infrastructure, see a demo, and find out how > to > > get involved. Q&A welcome. > > > > I'd like to send in an abstract to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on > Monday > > or Tuesday, so there is a week's notice. > > > > I'm imagining the flow would go as follows: > > > > Dan Peterson > > -- Intro to OpenSocial/gadgets/Shindig > > -- Brief project history > > > > John "Fargo" Hjelmstad > > -- Walk through the Java Gadget Server rendering process > > > > Cassie Doll > > -- Walk through the JavaScript sample container > > -- Describe how to connect backends to the OpenSocial API > > -- Demo > > > > Chris Chabot > > -- Walk through the PHP server design > > > > Q&A > > > > Any suggestions or improvements? > > > > Typically BOFs are very dynamic, a short introduction and let people > unknown to the -dev list "delurk" themselves and talk about what they > are doing and what they are interested into/ willing to help. > > Your plan is all right provided that the introductions are really short, > in the 5 minutes or so. Technical stuff has never really fitted into any > BOF I've been into, unless it is about discussing design decisions, etc. Thanks for the suggestions. Sounds like the description above is fine. I'll mail the planners tomorrow. -Dan
