Jazkarta organizes first ever coding sprint in Boston

There were over 20 participants including 7 remote sprinters. Many thanks to our sponsors for making it possible!

This is the planning area for the Plone4Artists / multimedia sprint in Boston.

In the Press

• Article appeared in InfoWorld as Ready, steady... Sprint! Creating open-source ECM
• Article also appeared in LinuxWorld as Sprinting to create open-source content management
• Esther Schindler's blog posts in CIO magazine about sprinting at the doccomm sprint
  

Post-sprint reports

• Audio
• Video
• Image
  
• Calendar
• Uploading
• Large file (blob)
• Syndication using Vice (outbound RSS/Atom feeds)
  
• Licensing
  
• RESTful web services for Archetypes
• Screencasts
  
• iPlone (iPhone interface for Plone)

Photos

uploaded to Flickr.

Pre-sprint topics

See the ((topics)) page for a list of the proposed topics to work on at the sprint.

Getting started with Plone4Artists

1. Install it with the ((Plone4Artists buildout))
2. Try out the ((Plone4Artists features)) on your local instance or on the plone4artists.com demo site.
3. Review the bugs in the Plone4ArtistsAudio, Plone4ArtistsVideo and Plone4ArtistsCalendar tracker.
4. ((Running P4A Tests)) explains the best way to run tests for p4a with the buildout.

Communication

• p4a-user mailing list
  
• #plone4artists
  
• How to set up a live video stream using Quicktime Broadcaster and Darwin Streaming Server
  

Lightning talks

• ((Lightning talks))
• ((whywhywhy))  post a question or comment on how or why something was done the way it was in Plone4Artists products.  Rocky will do a short talk later this week and try to cover all of the questions and comments.

Practical stuff

• Calendar of events (iCal subscribe)
• Sprint Location: Christian Science Center, 200 Massachusetts Ave. Boston, MA (3rd floor)
  
• Map of area
• Free Wi-Fi spots
• ((BostonAttractions))