[Dspace-general] Developer happiness days sponsored by JISC

[Michele Kimpton]

DSpace developers, (sorry for cross post)

Come play in the sandbox with your fellow open source developers Feb  
9-13 2009 at developer happiness days in London.  We hope to see as  
many developers there and plan on having special workshops on building  
web services for DSpace 2.0, and building common plugins and tools for  
DSpace and Fedora platforms.  See details below.

best, Michele
Executive Director DSpace Foundation

What is "developerHappinessDays" (tag: "dev8D"):

Developer Happiness Days(http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfccf5n6_134hjmgk6ht 
) is JISC's way of saying "thank you" to developers for all the hard  
work they do.  Of course the question is: how do you show your  
gratitude to a developer who spends all their free time on a  
computer?  Well other than beer, bowling and video games (which dev8D  
will have plenty of) we provide them with the gift of more development  
skills!  It's pretty simple: a.) give them the opportunity to show off  
the work they do to someone who can appreciate it (other developers),  
b.) provide them with the opportunity to learn new frameworks,  
languages and techniques; and c.) throw in the ultimate VIP rock-n- 
roll developer barcamp... RESULT: happy developers building  
applications faster than ever!  Developers work better when happy and  
when the cost is zero to attend there really is no reason why you  
shouldn't be sending your entire team to JISC's "Developer Happiness  
Days"!  Space is limited so book now!

Summary of planned events (see below for details):

     * Pre Event Workshops - Newbies Pre-Event Code Labs: Ruby,  
Python, Perl (need you know more?)
     * Main Event - The Developer Decathlon: "Show us the future"  
contest, w/ $15k worth of prizes up for grabs
     * Community Project Meetings: VLE, Repository, OPAC, ePortfolios,  
CMS, CollaborationTools
     * Roll-your-own event: Please email event organisers to request  
meeting space for your own meeting

Brochure: http://is.gd/3PXS
Event Blog: http://dev8d.jiscinvolve.org/
RSVP form: http://tinyurl.com/5gdt6e
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