Hello all,
Registration for the Blacklight Summit (Wednesday, November 4th - Friday,
November 6th) hosted by the Princeton University Library is now open on
Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blacklight-summit-fall-2015-tickets-18250511772
We have set up a room block at the Nassau Inn, which is within walking
distance of Aaron Burr Hall, where the summit will take place. The rate for
a double room (2 queen beds) is $140. Including taxes, that is about *$161*
per night. Single occupancy is fine. You can reserve your room either by
calling the Nassau Inn at 800-862-7728 and mention the Booking ID 21001, or
online at the following link:
https://bookings.ihotelier.com/bookings.jsp?groupID=1504349&hotelID=13522
Please note that the room block will be held until* Saturday, October
3rd* (this
Saturday).
Here is a link to a tentative agenda/schedule for the summit:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10f9c8uBUls_WvdZvkB64fegslPVF5A1YvVgZRGC76BE/edit
We are planning on splitting up the time roughly in 2 sections. The first
half (Wednesday and possibly spilling into Thursday AM) will be dedicated
to specific applications powered by Blacklight. Rob Cartolano of Columbia
University will open up the summit with a presentation on the history of
the Blacklight project. The participants with running Blacklight instances
will provide demonstrations of their applications. The rest of this section
will be split up into sessions about customizing/extending Blacklight
applications as well as any moving parts involved getting the applications
into production. *Please suggest specific sessions on the agenda.*
The second half of the summit (Thursday/Friday) will be focused on the
Blacklight gems/plugins and discussing a roadmap for future development. We
will look at any open issues regarding these plugins and see if any
behaviors built into existing Blacklight applications can be shared with
the community (either by bringing them into an existing gem’s codebase or
by building a new gem). We will then dive into building out these new
features.
Looking forward to seeing you at the summit. Please don't hesitate to ask
me any questions you may have.
Best,
Nikitas Tampakis
Ruby on Rails Developer
Princeton University Library
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