[Zope3-dev] ContentManagement Sprintathon

[Martijn Faassen]

Hi there,

I'd like to let you all know far in advance that Infrae's planning to hold a 
Zope3 'Sprintathon' here in Rotterdam in december.

Where?

  Rotterdam, the Netherlands, at V2 organization, a new-media cultural
  organization. We will have a big room with projector and network connections
  ready for us there.

When?

  December 2-6 (monday-friday). As an extra special feature the 5/6th is 
  'Sinterklaas', a major Dutch cultural event. :)

  See here for more information about the Sint:

    http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=3666C6EA.F46C02D5%40pop.vet.uu.nl
  
What's a Sprintathon?

  Jim's been saying that it would be a good idea to hold a Zope3 'marathon',
  which would be 2 weeks of Zope3 hacking and targetted to a specific topic.
  Other features would be more preparation in advance. Now two weeks is hard
  to spare from people's busy agendas, so after some discussion we developed
  the concept of the 'sprintathon'. A sprintathon is 1 week (5 working days) of
  Zope3 development, with significant preparation in advance. Ideally the
  first sprinathon would have a followup 1-2 months afterwards with another
  sprintathon. Between two sprintathons development would of course 
  continue (we go home with 'assignments' :).

  In general a sprintathon would have less of a tutorial nature than 
  a plain sprint, though of course that shouldn't stop us from learning
  new things.

Content management?

  The focus on the sprint is content management. In the time leading up
  to the sprint the participants will flesh out use cases and the 
  initial design for this on the mailing list and wiki, so that we can
  hit the floor with our feet running at the sprintathon itself.

Who's planning to attend?

  Both Jim Fulton and Steve Alexander are planning to attend. I'm planning
  to attend too, obviously enough. :)

Suggestions are welcome. If you'd like to attend, please drop me an
email at faassen@infrae.com. And I'll get back to you all on the planning.

Regards,

Martijn