JISC Developer Happiness Days Programme

This is a provisional programme and there's much more to come so check back here for the latest additions.

All the sessions will take place around the Bloomsbury Colleges University of London campus in central London. Click here for a map.

It's a packed programme but throughout the four days we'll be gathering your news, ideas, blog feeds, pictures and Tweets on the dev8D blog and Netvibes Universe to keep everyone up to date with what's going on.

• Monday 9 February
• Tuesday 10 February: Developer Decathlon Day 1
• Wednesday 11 February: Developer Decathlon Day 2
• Thursday 12 February: Community gatherings
• Friday 13 February: Roll your own event

Monday 9 February

A day of pre-event coding labs and workshops for everyone who wants to get up to speed on coding basics in Ruby, Python and Perl.

In the evening, we move to the University of London stage and bar for the opening ceremony with drinks, introductory talks and, most importantly, details of the Developer Decathlon rules and prizes.

9.00-10.00:	Registration and breakfast
10.00-13.00:	Code Labs I
13.00-14.00:	Lunch
14.00-17.00:	Code Labs II
From 18.00:	Welcome drinks and appetisers
18.30-19.00:	Opening address and housekeeping (including location maps and wifi passwords)
19.00-19.30:	Developer Decathlon rules and prizes
19.30-20.00:	Keynote speech
20.00-22.00:	Evening entertainment

 

Tuesday 10 February: Developer Decathlon Day 1

The premier event kicks off with Talkshop Day – an opportunity for developers to get to know each another, get talking, pitch ideas and decide on which to pursue into Decathlon Day 2. Expect whiteboards, flipcharts, lots of caffeine and for the ideas to flow thick and fast. A peer voting system will run throughout the day for all the paper prototypes produced in the talkshops.

The event blog has more details of the competitions and prizes at dev8D

9.00-10.00:	Registration and breakfast
10.00-13.00:	Talkshops
13.00-14.00:	Lunch
14.00-17.00:	Refinement of ideas leading to the publication of the best ideas and formation of teams

 

Wednesday 11 February: Developer Decathlon Day 2

Let the coding begin! The teams formed from the Talkshop process will begin a rapid prototyping process, bringing together wireframes, interfaces, systems, code and anything else they fancy to demonstrate the purpose of their application.

The final prototype to be submitted to the competition does not have to be "working code" (though bonus points if it is), rather the essence of the application created should reflect how well the team works as a whole to bring together the various components to produce their killer application. Submission of entries must be as a screencast with working interfaces even if the code isn't functional. No bullet points please!

Deadline for final submission is midnight GMT Thursday February the 19th.

9.00-10.00:	Breakfast
10.00-19.00:	Team coding plus lectures and workshops
19.00-23.00:	Bowlcamp! Evening entertainment at King Pin Bowling Lounge

 

Thursday 12 February: Community gatherings

A day of community activities based around specific software types, bringing everyone back into the systems they work with on a day-to-day basis. Pitch ideas to your fellow community members and take the opportunity to drop in on a different community session as well.

9.00-12.00:	Session I: VLE and OPAC community meetings
10.00-15.00:	Dragon's Den for Developer Decathlon participants
12.00-13.00:	Lunch
13.00-16.00:	Session II: CollabCom and Repository community meetings
All day:	Cloud Computing Workshop

Finale event including awards the Court Restaurant at the British Museum

 

Friday 13 February: Roll your own event

If you are interested in putting on your own community-specific event or workshop, here's your opportunity. Let us know and we'll provide a free venue in Bloomsbury for your session (you'll need to cover your own food and drink).  On average, rooms will hold up to 25 people, though larger rooms can be provided on a first come first serve basis.