Dates & Location
This year's VIVO Implementation Fest will be held at the Wolf Law Building on the University of Colorado Boulder campus on Thursday and Friday, April 25 and 26, 2013. The VIVO team in the Faculty Affairs office at CU-Boulder are generously hosting the event again and coordinating local arrangements, and we will once again have access to the Colorado Law facilities that worked very well in 2012.
An optional day of coding on VIVO or other technical work and related documentation is scheduled for Saturday, April 27th. If you think you might be interested, please make travel plans accordingly. The focus will likely be on internationalization of the VIVO interface to provide support for multiple languages based on a user's language settings in their browser, and we have use cases involving Spanish, Dutch, and Mandarin Chinese.
Follow this event in real time on Twitter at #VIVOifest13 and @VIVOcollab.
Please contact Alex Viggio at alex.viggio@colorado.edu or Kristi Holmes at kristi@vivoweb.org with any questions you may have.
Logistics
Registration
- Please visit http://goo.gl/3gsz2 to register.
- There will be no cost to register or attend, however attendees are responsible for their own lodging, transportation, and meals.
Hotel
- A special rate of $84 per night has been arranged at the Best Western Plus Hotel within easy walking distance from the Wolf Law Building.
Transportation
- Make your plans to fly into Denver International Airport, about one hour south east of Boulder.
- Boulder Super Shuttle is available as well as a very reasonable and reliable Regional Transport District (RTD) public bus direct from Denver International Airport to Boulder.
- Other options including rental cars and public bus service. Please allow yourself 60 minutes drive time from DIA to Boulder. You can find parking and driving directions for the Wolf Law Building on the CU Boulder campus where the workshop is being held on this page. If you do opt for a rental car, please be aware that the the Northwest Parkway toll road, from DIA to the Boulder area, only offers a non-stop payment system. There are toll booths, so to avoid any penalty charges, please make appropriate arrangements with your rental car company as described here and here.
Parking permits are required for parking near the Law School and will be distributed to visitors onsite at the registration table at the Law School.
Schedule
For an overview and official details about this event, please visit the event blog page and the online schedule. This wiki page has been repurposed for more informal information sharing, e.g. to coordinate offsite discussions, breakfast/lunch/dinner meet ups, hikes or other activities.
Anyone can edit this wiki page by creating a DuraSpace ID here: https://jira.duraspace.org/secure/Signup!default.jspa
Dining
Near Boulder Inn & Wolf Law
- Moe's Original BBQ - southern style BBQ
- Cafe Mexicali - Mexican genre good
- Carelli's of Boulder - Italian fine dining
- Beau Jo's Pizza - mountain style pizza
- The Taj - Indian lunch buffet
- Whole Foods Market - deli and salad bar
- May Wah - Thai, Chinese and Vietnamese
- Noodles & Company
- Starbucks, McDonalds, Wendy's, Taco Bell
Downtown Boulder
- The Mediterranean Restaurant - tapas and Mediterranean fare
- Brasserie Ten Ten - French inspired bistro
- Rio Grande - Mexican with rooftop patio dining
- The Bitter Bar, Centro Latin Kitchen, The Kitchen, Salt, OAK at Fourteenth
Other
- brewpubs and tap rooms?
Things to do
- http://www.colorado.edu/about/visit
- http://www.bouldercoloradousa.com/things-to-do/
- http://www.bouldercoloradousa.com/visitor/maps/ Boulder Area Maps!
- Live music at the Outlook next door to the Boulder Inn
- http://www.boulderdowntown.com/events - Events in Downtown Boulder, April 25 to May 8
- http://www.localtabletours.com - Boulder dining and cocktail tours, April 25 to 27
- The VIVO Implementation Fest will be held in at the University of Colorado Boulder on Thursday and Friday, April 25-26th. A DRAFT of the schedule can be viewed at http://goo.gl/XnkRj.
- An optional day of coding on VIVO or other technical work is scheduled for Saturday, April 27. If you think you might be interested, please make travel plans accordingly. The focus will likely be on internationalization.
Additional information
- For more general information about VIVO I-Fests, visit the 2012 VIVO Implementation Fest page on this wiki or the 2012 schedule.
- If you have suggestions for topics, but can't attend the Implementation Fest, please do consider developing a workshop for the VIVO annual conference in August! See the Call for Workshops for more information.
- Visit our photos on Facebook and watch videos (Introduction and overview, Non-technical intro to the Semantic Web) to take a look at last year's event!
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