Development Team On-Site Meeting Schedule and Topics

Meeting Time

November 3-7, 2008

Arrival and Departure Schedule

Bill Branan - Arrive late on Nov 2 (Sunday), leave early on Nov 8 (Saturday).
Eddie Shin - Arrives night of Nov 2, leaves afternoon of Nov 7.
Paul Gearon ?

Topics

Process

1. Project Structure, Process and Branching
2. Testing
3. Contributions
4. Community Transparency
5. Developer Wiki and Resources Redesign
6. Outstanding Tracker Item Review (from Oct 28th discussion)

Implementation

1. Replacement for Admin GUI
2. Object Builders
3. Extension of the FC Object Modeling Language (including SDefs and SMechs)
4. RI/Mulgara Plans
5. Future of GSearch
6. Future of XACML
7. Workflow/BPE, Messaging, ESB, Transformations

Innovation Challenges Mid-term Review

1. FedoraShare
2. Akubra
3. NSDL Content Model
4. AtomPub
5. OAI-ORE Integration
6. unAPI
7. Zotero Integration

Architecture

1. Plone 101 (High-priority)
2. REST URIs
3. What would it mean to have a writable dissemination?
4. Discussion of S3/EC2 Fedora investigation
5. Improvements to current SOAP APIs
6. Critical Review of REST API
7. Per-object dissemination discovery (which are available for X object?)
8. CMA Best Practice: Which dissem(s) considered representations of current object?
9. Future of RISearch (outside, inside, query lang support)
10. Discovery of services related to "this" repository
11. Repository as microkernel (core "disseminations" get built upon)
12. Future of the CMA language
13. RELS-INT
14. Akubra Design
15. FedoraShare
16. Familiarization w/NSDL use case
17. DSpace information model
18. DSpace summer of Code (it's fall)
19. ORE Integration
20. Role of CMS
21. CMA Share Repository
22. Muradora Integration (Invite Chi)
23. Cornell Web 2.0 (Invite Dirk Swart)
24. Service Ladder
25. Fedora as a tool for federation and/or clustering of Fedora
26. Fedora in Federation with other repositories

Other Topics

1. Conferences
2. TBD