...
This is the place to propose and discuss ideas for presentations, BOFs, panels, tutorials, or any other venue that we can make happen for the 2008 Spring Conference.
Spring 2008 Topic Suggestions.
Have an idea for an interesting presentation suggestion? Want some inspiration on what you could give a talk about? Check out the topic suggestions page.
Ideas from the Fluid Folks
...
The UCamp sessions held at Sakai conferences and the Rutgers Unconference have been very well received. A UCamp session is planned for the Wednesday afternoon BarCamp period. This is partly in response to interest expressed by the Kuali Student folks, but we expect it to attract interest from the other projects as well.
Session Leader: Barbara Glover and members of Fluid UX community
(Anyone in the community at large: if you're interested in lending a
hand with this seminar, please let me know! – Barbara Glover)
Help Us Plan the UCamp
Minnesota April 2008 UCamp Planning Page
Title: UCamp: Exploring UX issues and techniques for open source communities
...
In general UCamps offer information about what is User Centered Design (UCD) and how it can be applied to improve the user experience of learning management systems and other higher educational software. We will have topics on basic UCD and possibly other more advanced topics. All topics will be presented in a workshop like format to encourage collaborative learning and discussion amongst UCamp participants.
Technical Seminar on JavaScript and DHTML for Portal and Portlet Developers
| Anchor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Writing client-side code for "Rich Internet Applications" is not for the faint of heart, especially within a portlet container. The objective is to describe techniques for ensuring that your code is safe and sane, as well as being effective and meeting accessibility requirements. A half-day seminar is planned for Sunday afternoon. Here is a pre-publication draft of the seminar description:
...
- Unique features of the JavaScript programming language
- How to use the jQuery toolkit and the Fluid plugins
- Techniques for avoiding collisions with other JavaScript code
running in the portal - How to make your DHTML code more accessible
Background Material: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Javascript+Best+Practices
Introduction to User-Centred Design
...
- DHTML accessibility techniques
- portal-friendly DHTML
- advice on client/server architecture
- components if useful
- file-picker
- file upload
- sortable tabs
- reorderer
Venue Ideas for Any Project
Working Sessions
While it is uncommon for conferences to schedule sessions that result in a technical work-product, a very successful outcome of a session at the Rutgers Unconference was the design of a feedback portlet, which has now been implemented by Jen Bourey. If this inspires you to think of other work that could be accomplished if you could just get the right people in the same room for an hour, then propose a working session, or come prepared to rally folks around your idea for the Wednesday afternoon BarCamp.