HydraCamp 2010

Learn to use Hydra from the people who created it -- use the Hydra framework to build your own interface for Fedora Repositories and harness the power of Blacklight while you're at it.  Become a part of the community that's putting these technologies to use while empowering users, stakeholders and developers alike.

This week-long training event will focus on team-oriented development.  Together with the creators of Hydra and some of the top Blacklight developers you will have the opportunity to build a Hydra head that is a complete solution for modeling, searching through and managing your unique content.  This is also an opportunity for your development team to spend time together focusing solely on making Hydra and Blacklight work at your institution.

Registration will give you advance access to training materials and screencasts so that you can hit the ground running and make the most of face time with the Hydra committers.  

Those who attend all five days will receive a certificate indicating that they have completed the course. 

All sessions will be held in The Doty Board Room at the beautiful Minneapolis Central Public Library in Downtown Minneapolis.

Hydra: Days 1-3

The first three days of the event will focus on Hydra and will include substantial coverage of collaborative development techniques, learning Ruby on Rails, understanding ActiveFedora, and creating Hydra "heads" based on the Hydrangea demo application.

Blacklight & Solr: Days 4 & 5

The final two days of the event will focus on Blacklight.  People who attend only these two days will learn how to install and customize Blacklight.  For those attending all of HydraCamp, these two days will provide information on customizing the Blacklight-powered Search & Discovery features in your Hydra heads.

Themes

Collaborative Development

Collaborative Development

Emerging Best Practices and Conventions

Distributed Version Control, GitHub

Test-driven development with RSpec and Cucumber

Hydra

Installing and Customizing Hydrangea

ActiveFedora

Using Hydra to Support New Content Types

Indexing & Solrizer

Opinionated Metadata (OM)

Blacklight & Solr

Installing and Understanding Blacklight

Customizing Blacklight

Solr Techniques & Strategies

Ruby 

Learning Ruby on Rails

Best Practices

How to think about developing with Rails

How to talk about Ruby code

Registration

To register, use the ticket order form above.

Those who attend all five days will receive a certificate indicating that you have completed the course. 

We strongly encourage registering for the entire week, as much of the material overlaps and each topic will only be covered in depth once

Hotel

If you need a hotel during HydraCamp, we have arranged for a small room block at the nearby Radisson Plaza Hotel Minneapolis (www.radisson.com/hotels/mpls_dt) from Sunday, October 3 to Friday, October 8, 2010. To make your reservation, call the hotel at 612-339-4900 or 800-333-3333. Mention our group code: HYDRA. 

You may reserve at our group rate a few days before and after these dates if space is available at the time of your booking.

Hosts

This event is being hosted by MediaShelf, a leading provider of Fedora Repository services since 2006

A special dinner on Thursday, October 7th will be sponsored by Stanford University Libraries. 

Minneapolis

For information on Minneapolis, here are a few links:

http://www.minneapolis.org/

http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/visitors/gettingaround.asp

http://www.mspairport.com/GroundTransportation.aspx