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Many presenters giving very short talks. Maybe 10m talk + 5m Q&A and speaker switching - that would fit 6 talks in 90 minutes. Plenary works well so that everyone connects with some shared topics for discussion, shouldn't be too painful for people uninterested in a particular talk because they are short. | |||||||||
Code Reviews |
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Programmers get together to implement the need for a particular portlet and/or uPortal feature. Create content or features to make uP out-of-the-box a more compelling product | |||||||||
Q&A | Ask the experts... | ||||||||
Screencast Recording | Help JA-SIG and uPortal gather better marketing materials! Developers with interesting open source software, compelling usages of the software, head over to a kiosk where someone versed in effective screenshot and screencast capture helps the participant to navigate to their cool software on the web and take some screenshots and screencasts that can then be input to an ever more compelling JA-SIG web presence. | ||||||||
Meeting & Planning | Board, Infrastructure Team, uPortal Steering Committe, uPortal stakeholders | ||||||||
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Clinics | Open sourcing, Portlets, Spring Framework, uPortal | ||||||||
Fall 2008 Unconference Infrastructure and Services Team Meeting | A team meeting to focus in on our current and future efforts. | ||||||||
Post UnConference developers meeting | |||||||||
Doing Do a combination heuristic evaluation/cognitive walkthrough of your application, portlet, etc. to identify usability problems and suggest solutions (with Interaction Designer assistance) | |||||||||
Hallway User Testing | Get feedback on the usability of your portlet, application, etc. by defining quick testing scenarios & testing on other participants (with Interaction Designer assistance) | ||||||||
Learn how to create a UI Design Pattern | Create a UI design pattern relevant to your application to contribute to the Open Source Design Pattern Library (with Interaction Designer assistance) | ||||||||
Bike tour of downtown Madison | This is more of an off hours option, but if you're interested let me know and I'll organize it! ~abloodworth Allison Bloodworth |