Sprint Coordinators

• Joel Burton: Plone trainer, consultant, and Plone Foundation Board member.
• Jon Stahl: Plone consultant, Plone Foundation Board Member, and organizer of the 2006 Seattle Conference

Goals

The goal of this sprint is to learn about developing things in Plone, and to learn about how to sprint successfully.

We'll take a straightforward task--we're leaning toward "How to add dynamic visual effects and better UI ("KSS") to PloneHelpCenter" as our topic. This will help make the documentation faster, prettier, and more easily navigated. We'll teach you KSS (a great skill for site builders and developers, and one that doesn't require any JavaScript experience!). We'll teach you how to work in teams ("pair programming"). We'll teach you how to check in your changes to the "collective". And we'll teach you how to have fun while helping out our project with a critical task!

Audience

• Graphic designers and other people who can help us design the UI
• People who are interested in giving back but don't know where to start
• People who don't know how to use any kind of version control products to "check code in"
• People who want to learn about KSS and interface design
• People who know HTML and CSS but do not neccessarily know Python or Plone-specific technologies
• Everyone else that wants to help out, including experied Plone developers who want to help "mentor" new developers
  

Draft Agenda

Saturday, from 9:00am to 5:00pm

• intros/icebreaker: 30 minutes 9:30-10:00
• talk about how sprints work: 10 minutes
• how pair programming works: 10 minutes 10:20
• bootstrapping: 30 minutes - 10:50
• subversion - jon to intro.
• plone.org user ID + collective privs
• introduce key task: KSSify PHC: 15 minutes - 11:25
• crash course in KSS: 60 minutes 11:30-12:30
• Lunch 12:30-1:30
• Activity: brainstorming ideas
• Small group idea generation: 45 minutes 2:15
• Present ideas back: 30 minutes 2:45
• Voting for enthusiasm: 15 minutes 3:00
• Coding 3-4:30ish
• Report out: 4:30-5:00

Sunday, from 9:00am to 5:00pm

• Coding
• Report out
  

­What Do You Want?

We're trying to build this to be fun and helpful. Feedback on what you want to learn/practice/do is great. Please tell us your ((BeginnerSprintGoals)).

Interested? Tell Us!

If you'd like to come, or think you might come, tell us, please! It's good for us to know in advance a rough idea about what kind of people might show up. Don't worry--you're not commiting absolutely to anything.

• Your Name, your email address, a little bit about you, and how likely it is you'll come
• Matt Fisher, matt at mattfisherstudio dot com. General all-around n00b, though I've been futzing with Plone for about 4 years. I can't make the conference at all, but I want to try to come down to DC just for this sprint.
  
• Joel Burton, joel at joelburton dot com. I'm an experienced developer on Plone. I'll definitely be there
• Jon Stahl, jon at onenw dot org. I'm an experienced builder of Plone sites. I'll definitely be there
  
• Kelly Craig, kcraig at ucar dot edu. I'm in between experienced and new, I love participating in new things. I'll be there in and out from the PFG sprint.
• Manabu Terada terada at cmscom dot jp I am experienced Plone developer. I have a few experiecne in Plone 3. But I am not fluent in English. I will be there.
  
• Naotaka Hotta, hotta at cmscom dot jp. I am beginner Plone developer. I will be fly from Tokyo to DC. I am 99.99% confident to be there.
• Max Jakob, max.jakob at ifi dot lmu dot de. I've got a little experience in Plone development. I will fly from Munich (Germany) to DC. I am 99.99% confident to be there.
• Rik Belew, rik at cogsci dot ucsd dot edu. an academic computer scientist, digging into zope/plone. KSS-ifying plone help sounds like a great target to me. i can only be there saturday.
• Harito Reisman, harito at haritomedia dot com. Experienced designer, print and web, recently mostly designing themes for Plone that get integrated by developers. Would love to be able to integrate myself. I can only be there on Saturday.
• Scott Greiff, scott at greiff dot org. Experienced web developer on the Microsoft tech side of the industry, but total newbie when it comes to deep customization of Zope / Plone. I'm looking to pick up more experience working with Plone and getting familiar with, and more active in Plone Sprints. I'll be at the conference and at both days of the Sprint. I'm fluent in Japanese if that helps with the team at all.
  
• Patrick Waldo, patrick dot waldo at gmail dot com, I'm a python programmer, but I am new to using Plone. I hope to use the conference and the sprint to kick start my understanding and ability to create a nifty plone site.
• Jason R. Coombs, jaraco at jaraco dot com, I'm a long time Python programmer and interested in the core libraries emerging from Zope/Plone. I'm interested in investigating the possibility of leveraging ctypes to simplify unified installation and/or minimizing compiler dependencies. I'll be there both days.
• Sid Koul, skoul at newenglandwild dot org. I've developed a Plone 2 theme and a number of Plone 2 content types using Archetypes. I'm interested in learning about sprinting and KSS. I can only be there Saturday.
  
• David Simmer, david at simmerdesigns dot com. In my first seven months with Plone I've built three Plone 3 themes from the ground up, assisted in migrating a few Plone 2 products, and developed a new product involving Archetypes, custom content types and dependencies. I'd like to learn more about magic KSS and deepen my understanding of Plone architecture. I can be there for at least the first part of Saturday.
  
• Jeff Kunce, jjkunce at gmail. Long time python programmer. Lots of Plone 2.x archetypes development. Starting to learn Zope3. Haven't done any community work since late '90s python stuff. Ready to jump into sprinting and see what I can contribute (and learn!)