From 10/01/2007 to 10/05/2007 in Cologne (Germany)
Where:
GfU? Cyrus AG in Cologne-Deutz, 10 minutes away from the Cologne main railway station. google-map (http://www.gfu.net)
Who should participate:
Grok developers or Python programmers with programming experience enough to contribute to Grok.
Theme:
Grok as a Learning Approach into Zope3, Work on Documentation, Tutorial and Example Applications, Setup a new Grok Website
Participants:
- Martijn Faassen
- Luciano Ramalho
- Guido Wesdorp
- Jasper Op de Coul
- Lennart Regebro
- Jan-Wijbrand Kolman
- Godefroid Chapelle
- Uli Fouquet
- Aroldo Souza-Leite
- Jan Ulrich Hasecke
- Thomas Richter
- Armin Stroß-Radschinski
- Joachim Schmitz
- Timo Stollenwerk
- Ahmet Toker
Contact:
Aroldo Souza-Leite <asouzaleite at gmx.de> Philip Clooth <pclooth at gfu.net>
Working, eating and sleeping at Neanderthal:
The sprinters will be treated as GfU? regular seminar participants. A regular a regular seminar room and all other facilities of the seminar centre can be used by the sprinters. The Neanderthal sprinters, like the participants of other GfU? seminars, have lunch in the GfU? buffet canteen for free.
Cologne is a trade fair city, so that hotels are in general expensive and reservations difficult to manage. The GfU? has a long experience with hotel reservations for seminar participants. For sprinters that reserve their rooms in a GfU? contract hotel early enough, the GfU? is willing to subsidise the sprinter's stay so that it will not cost him more than 40 Euros a night. In the alternative case, if the sprinter prefers to rent a room in another hotel and pay the full price, the GfU? will provide organisational help to find one.
The sprint organisers will take care of the trasport from the city centre to the sprint venue.
Cultural events:
On Wednesday (October 3rd) we are working only half day and going to Neanderthal in the early afternoon.
Apart from the most original Caveman in person, there is a lot more to see in the Rheinland area.
About the sprint organisers:
The DZUG Rheinland (also rzug) is a regional group of members and supporters of DZUG e.V. (http://www.dzug.org), the German Speaking Zope User Group. The Rheinland is the area around the middle part of the Rhine, where Bonn, Cologne, Du"sseldorf and Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) are the main cities.
About the sprint host:
The GfU? Cyrus AG is a traditional corporate IT training and consulting company. It organises learning groups from insurance companies, banks and state agencies. The GfU? sends lecturers to other cities to give the groups inhouse courses or brings the groups to Cologne to reside for 3 to 5 days in the GfU? contract hotels and attend courses at the GfU? seminar centre in Deutz.
The GfU? spectrum includes all possible programming languages and branches of free and proprietary information technology. However, the company directors have been showing a special interest in technologies involving OpenSource? software. They are planning to expand their Python marketing considerably.
There is no "to-do" list from the GfU? for the Neanderthal sprint. The sprint aims should be discussed in this mailinglist and should fit the general Grok roadmap in the first place. The GfU? only hopes that Grok leads seamlessly to Zope proper it its technical and didactic aspect. A welcome by-product of the Grok development would be good documentation, tutorials and structured sets of examples like Philipp von Weitershausen's worldcookery. This would help in case the GfU? decides to use Grok as an introductory learning tool in seminars of Zope Component Architecture for Python programmers.
Topics, groups and some organizational hints:
At the sprint there will be two rooms available for working. It was decided, that the whole group of sprinters should be devided into two groups:
The Core-Development Group:
This group consists of people already familiar with Grok internals and tries to improve certain aspects of the Grok 'core engine'. Most members of this group have already chosen a topic to work on during the sprint.
The Web-Development Group:
This group consists of people familiar with web development in general and Zope/Plone-based solutions. Overall goal of the web-development group will be, to setup the new Grok website. If you want to contribute to this group, please read the special WebDevelopmentGroup announcement.