DDD Agenda: Feb 7-8 2008

NOTE: this is a work in progress! Please feel free to comment or add your own items to the agenda.

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• Thursday: Contributor Day
• 9am: arrival, coffee, quick social time, etc.
• 9:30: Welcome (Dylan and Alex)
• 9:35-9:45: (Dylan, Alex) Setting the stage
• this years goals
• polish and branding and robustness on new features
• evangelism
• 9:45-10:00 (Alex, Dylan, Bill) Accomplishments of 2007
• 10:00-10:30 Roadmap, Competitive Advantages for 2008 (Alex, Dylan)
• 10:30am: 10 minute sub-project talks (charting, gfx, grid, rpc, etc.) and app/project showcases (SitePen, IBM, etc.)
• 12-1:30: lunch + panel with invited browser vendors: how to better advance browsers for toolkit vendors, etc.
• 1:30-5 Breakout Sessions
• Dojo Marketing (Dylan, Alex)
• Plan, web site, user experience, goals, demos, tutorials, etc.
• Dijit (Bill, Adam, Torrey, Peter) (key design and user experience issues, plan of attack, etc.)
• DocTool and documentation in general (Alex, Neil, Kitt) (how to fix the situation we're in)
• DojoX Grid (Scott, Peter) (priorities, features, plan of attack)
• DojoX AV (Tom, Torrey) (new package for audio/video)
• DojoX GFX, charting (Eugene, Tom) (current and future plans, animation, other charting and visualization, etc.)
• Dojo.data (Dustin, Jared?) (goals, improvements needed, etc.)
• DojoX plan (Alex, Adam, Tom) (packaging, distribution, migration from dojox to dojo/dijit?, web-based build tools, etc.)
• Theming/CSS structure (Torrey, Bill, Peter) (simplification without ruining performance, CSS build tools, DojoX theming, etc.)
• Dojo Foundation (Alex, Dylan) (board structure, fundraising, name change?)
• Server Operations (Dustin)
• Community (Peter) (Better engaging the community, third party plugins, evangelism, etc.)
• Dinner/evening event
• Friday: Community Day
• 9am: arrival
• 9:30: (Dylan, Alex) Welcome, introductions
• 10:00 (Peter) Intro to Dojo community, how to become a contributor
• 10:30: (Peter) Dojo Bootcamp: how to be effective with Dojo
• 10:30 (in parallel): (Neil, Alex) Dojo hackathon (DocTool,documentation, demos, tutorials)
• 12-1: lunch, lightning demos
• 1-2: (Bill, Peter, Adam) Creating Dojo Widgets
• 2-3: (Becky, Simon) Dojo Accessibility
• 3-3:45: (Torrey, Peter) Creating a Dojo theme
• 1-4:45 (in parallel) (Neil, Alex) Dojo hackathon (DocTool, documentation, demos, tutorials)
• 1-4:45: (in parallel) Ask the Experts
• 4:45-5: Wrap-up