{"id":32,"date":"2015-07-08T20:27:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T20:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eprints.org\/eprints.org.2015\/?p=32"},"modified":"2016-03-08T19:33:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T19:33:52","slug":"adams-or2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uk.eprints-hosting.org\/uk\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/adams-or2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam&#8217;s OR2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Adam&#8217;s\u00a0OR2015<\/h1>\n<p>OR2015 was great. \u00a0I think I enjoyed myself more than I have at any other Open Repositories. \u00a0I was involved in a number of things that kept me really busy throughout the conference:<\/p>\n<h2>Developer Track<\/h2>\n<p>The conference committee had decided that a full developers track would replace the Developer Challenge of previous years, with paper presentation sessions in the main conference. \u00a0The amazing and well-organised\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/seesmith\">Claire Knowles<\/a>\u00a0co-chaired the track with me, and we sent out our call with an emphasis on practical demonstrations and informal presentations.<\/p>\n<p>We filled two sessions with submissions, and we enjoyed a broad set of technology and process demonstrations. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/hardyoyo\">Hardy Pottinger<\/a>\u00a0gets a special mention for really entering into the spirit of things; live source management, compilation and yo-yo demonstrations while dealing\u00a0with \u00a0the inevitable hiccoughs with his live demonstration of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conftool.com\/or2015\/index.php\/Pottinger-Vagrant-DSpace_Live_Demo-82.pdf?page=downloadPaper&amp;filename=Pottinger-Vagrant-DSpace_Live_Demo-82.pdf&amp;form_id=82\">DSpace development within Vagrant<\/a>\u00a0with aplomb.<\/p>\n<h2>Ideas Challenge<\/h2>\n<p>As the Developer Challenge had been replaced by the Developer Track, but that left a Developer Challenge size hole in the conference, which Claire and I thought was important to fill. \u00a0The Developer Challenge has, to my mind, been one of the crown jewels of Open Repositories. \u00a0It was where repository developers would form small teams and build prototypes of new features. \u00a0It\u2019s provided a huge number of benefits to the community, among them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A forum to talk about the current on-the-ground state and future of repository software<\/li>\n<li>A networking opportunity for developers<\/li>\n<li>A list of good ideas that might influence repository platform development<\/li>\n<li>An event at which developers are the stars<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, as part of the Developer Track, we designed the Ideas Challenge, which involved producing a 4-slide powerpoint presentation outlining a piece of development that\u00a0<strong><em>could<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0be done. \u00a0A scoring system was designed to encourage working with new people and the participation of non-developers. \u00a0We ended up with 9 entries, and some very interesting ideas. \u00a0Full blogpost at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.or2015.net\/2015\/06\/17\/ideas-challenge-winners\/\">http:\/\/www.or2015.net\/2015\/06\/17\/ideas-challenge-winners\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Documents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamfield.net\/wp\/2015\/06\/or2015-in-broad-strokes\/or2015-ideas-challenge-score-sheet\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-346\">OR2015 Ideas Challenge Score Sheet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamfield.net\/wp\/2015\/06\/or2015-in-broad-strokes\/or2015challenge\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-347\">OR2015 Ideas Challenge Introduction Slides<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Vendors Table<\/h2>\n<p>EPrints Services had contributed as a supported of OR2015, which entitled use to a vendors table. \u00a0This worked really well as a walk-up point for EPrints, and Will and I staffed the desk during breaks. \u00a0A number of our customers and users made a point of seeking us our for a chat, and it was nice to connect with new and old faces. \u00a0We had some postcards highlighting some of our services, which are downloadable below.<\/p>\n<p>Documents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamfield.net\/wp\/2015\/06\/or2015-in-broad-strokes\/postcard_front_1dpublicationsr\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-349\">Postcard Publications<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamfield.net\/wp\/2015\/06\/or2015-in-broad-strokes\/postcard_front_2cedshare\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-350\">Postcard OER<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamfield.net\/wp\/2015\/06\/or2015-in-broad-strokes\/postcard_front_3cresearchr\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-351\">Postcard Research Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamfield.net\/wp\/2015\/06\/or2015-in-broad-strokes\/postcard_back1ccaps\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-348\">Postcard Back<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>EPrints Interest Group<\/h2>\n<p>Discussions with various community members that had begun at the EPrint Services Vendor Table continued through the EPrints Interest Group sessions. \u00a0In my \u201cState of the Union\u201d presentation, we talked about the future of the software and the community. \u00a0I showed off the community work I had been doing over the past six months, including the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.eprints.org\/w\/Category:Training_Video\">training videos<\/a>. \u00a0I then asked the room what they wanted to see, and the most interesting idea that was raised was the possibility of a community steering group for EPrints.<\/p>\n<p>I have, since returning to EPrints Services, been trying to find ways to promote better documentation. \u00a0My Community Development presentation was a report on work Tomasz Neugebaur and I had been doing over the past few months. \u00a0I helped Tomasz build a bazaar package by providing advice and debugging support, and he created a bazaar package with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.eprints.org\/w\/ETD-MS_Export\">good documentation<\/a>. \u00a0My presentation encouraged a fairly wide-ranging discussion of documentation, and Meg Eastwood from NAU volunteered to come up with some recommendation on how the wiki could be improved.<\/p>\n<p>Documents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamfield.net\/wp\/2015\/06\/or2015-in-broad-strokes\/state_of_union\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-352\">State of the Union<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamfield.net\/wp\/2015\/06\/or2015-in-broad-strokes\/community-development\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-344\">Community Development<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam&#8217;s\u00a0OR2015 OR2015 was great. \u00a0I think I enjoyed myself more than I have at any other Open Repositories. \u00a0I was involved in a number of things that kept me really busy throughout the conference: Developer Track The conference committee had decided that a full developers track would replace the Developer Challenge of previous years, with paper presentation sessions in the main conference. \u00a0The amazing and well-organised\u00a0Claire Knowles\u00a0co-chaired the track with me, and we sent out our call with an emphasis on practical demonstrations and informal presentations. We filled two sessions with submissions, and we enjoyed a broad set of technology and process demonstrations. \u00a0Hardy Pottinger\u00a0gets<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/uk.eprints-hosting.org\/uk\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/adams-or2015\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-jb4","4":"post-32","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uk.eprints-hosting.org\/uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uk.eprints-hosting.org\/uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uk.eprints-hosting.org\/uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uk.eprints-hosting.org\/uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uk.eprints-hosting.org\/uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uk.eprints-hosting.org\/uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/uk.eprints-hosting.org\/uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uk.eprints-hosting.org\/uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uk.eprints-hosting.org\/uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uk.eprints-hosting.org\/uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}