Winter 2007 UnConference Scheduling Grid

UnConferences are only loosely structured, and so we don't mean to schedule out every minute in detail, but we do mean to broadly define what's going on at what time blocks. That is, the contents of the freeform collaboration blocks are freeform, but those freeform blocks are themselves scheduled, and some blocks are more formally scheduled.

How to use these pages

Take a look at these activity ideas, comment, add your own. And if you're thinking you may participate in the Unconference, be sure to sign up on the participants page.

Looking to give a Lightning Talk?

Awesome! Ideally, every participant will be prepared to give a Lightning talk, and while many will fit into the schedule slots designated for these, there will be other unscheduled time where the thing you and others at the event decide to do might very well be to discuss your talk.

Lightning talk topic proposing, encouraging, and requesting is happening at this wiki page. Lightning talks don't necessarily have to come from that prior planning, but it's best if you share your idea and invite feedback before the UnConference.

Having more structure early in the agenda to get things off to a good start, and periodic structure to bring things back together, seems a good idea.

U-Camp - Any ideas on time slot?

The U-Camp needs to be scheduled. From the above listed topics it seems like Wednesday might be open. We should choose a time slot. We are starting to form a planning committee for the U-Camp and choosing topics and discussions. Please join in and help decide what is discussed at this U-Camp and how best to make it helpful to the JA-Sig community.

U-Camp Planning

Day 0 (Sun 11/11: 1PM - 5PM)

Training Session/Sessions? Portlets? uPortal? CAS?

Perhaps also some kind of informal registration - I'm thinking more of a "dump your contact information on this semi-private wiki page" (shared password for people at the event, or create a confluence group for attendees maybe to collect IM, Cell#, Room#, other information to encourage interaction & possibly followup contacts post-event.

Time	Room1 (small)	Room2 (large)	Room3 (small)
5:00PM - 7:00PM		Informal Welcome/Dinner (see Andrew Petro if you want in on plans as the emerge)

Day 1 (Mon 11/12: 9AM - 5PM)

Time	Room A (left)	Room A (right)	Room C, 2nd Floor (12 seats)	Room D, 3rd Floor (20 seats)	Room E, 3rd Floor (? seats)
8:30AM - 9AM			Breakfast
9AM - 9:15AM			Opening remarks, logistics
9:15AM - 9:25AM		Lightning Talk 1
9:30AM - 9:40AM		Lightning Talk 2
9:45AM - 9:55AM		Lightning Talk 3
10AM - 10:10AM		Lightning Talk 4
10:15AM - 10:25AM		Lightning Talk 5
10:30 AM - 10:40AM		Lightning Talk 6
10:45 AM - 12:00PM	Self-organized dynamically allocated discussion, collaboration	Self-organized dynamically allocated discussion, collaboration	Self-organized dynamically allocated discussion, collaboration	Self-organized dynamically allocated discussion, collaboration	Self-organized dynamically allocated discussion, collaboration
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM	UP3 Status/Changes	UP3 Status/Changes
12:00PM - 1:30PM		Lunch
1:30PM - 4:30PM	Self-organized dynamically allocated discussion, collaboration	Self-organized dynamically allocated discussion, collaboration	Self-organized dynamically allocated discussion, collaboration	Self-organized dynamically allocated discussion, collaboration	Self-organized dynamically allocated discussion, collaboration
1:30 PM	IdM	Infrastructure	Portal Adoption	UP3: Tasks, Integration, Status, Discussion	Ask Drew (uPortal Best Practices + Migrations, Import/Export, Ernunnos)
2:30 PM	Groups Configuration, Trouble Shooting, Q&A		UI Design Patterns + Working w/ Developers	UP3: Tasks, Integration, Status, Discussion	Portlet Development (Sharing, Ideas, Support)
3:30 PM	JA-SIG Mission and Strategy		uPortal Dashboard, Portlet Discovery, Navigation	CAS3 Open Discussion Developing, Deploying, Etc.	Web Proxy Portlet (New Open Source Project?)
4:30PM - 4:45PM			Closing remarks
5:00PM			People on their own for dinner

Day 2 (Tue 11/13: 9AM - 5PM)

Time	Room A (60 people)	Room C, 2nd Floor (12 seats)	Room D, 3rd Floor (20 seats)	Room E, 3rd Floor (20 seats)
9:00AM - 9:15AM	Opening remarks, logistics
9:15AM - 9:25AM	Jason Shao talked about integration between LMS and uPortal
9:25AM - 9:35AM	Andrew Petro gave quick summary of steering committee dinner topics; Collier showed myUMBC http://my.umbc.edu/?demo=demo
9:35AM - 9:45AM	Fluid Project overview and status
9:45AM - 9:55AM	Bill Thompson - The Big Rewrite and the Pursuit of Greatness
10 AM - 10:15	Colin Clark - Who contributes to a successful user experience? Planning a software team
10:30AM - 11:30AM	Collier	Open	uPortal for Beginners	Open
11:30AM - 12:30PM	Incubation	Skinning uPortal	uPortal for Beginners	Open
12:30 - 1:30PM	Lunch
1:30PM - 3:00PM	UCamp (talks, workshops, and discussion about user experience) Presentations Colin's Accessibility Presentation Slides
3:00PM - 4:30PM	UCamp (talks, workshops, and discussion about user experience) Collaboration	JMX Monitoring / Dashboard	CAS	Open
4:30PM - 5:30PM	Who Does What? (uPortal, CAS, Conference, etc.)
5:30PM - 6:00PM	After Action Review - dialogue about what worked, didn't, what people got out of the event
Evening	People on their own for dinner/entertainment

JA-SIG Conferences

Winter 2007 UnConference Scheduling Grid

U-Camp - Any ideas on time slot?

U-Camp Planning

Day 0 (Sun 11/11: 1PM - 5PM)

Day 1 (Mon 11/12: 9AM - 5PM)

Day 2 (Tue 11/13: 9AM - 5PM)

Day 3 (Wed 11/14: 9AM - 5PM)

Day 4 (Thu 11/15: 9AM - 5PM)

Day 5 (Fri 11/16: 9AM - 5PM)