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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