JISC Developer Happiness Days: good for developers, good for education

Inspired by the fun, creative barcamp culture, JISC's Developer Happiness Days is taking the barcamp concept a step further. It is a completely new kind of event for the educational community, specifically designed to benefit not just developers but to have a positive impact on the wider higher education world.

Good for developers…

Developer Happiness Days has been planned and built by a core group within the educational developer community, with funding from JISC, as an opportunity for developers to:

• Network with colleagues from different research areas and different countries
• Meet and work with developers from outside the education sector
• Learn new languages and techniques
• Develop existing skills
• Find out about community-specific projects
• Share knowledge through a variety of innovative, interactive events

Good for education…

Developer Happiness Days will produce tangible benefits for the education community. The value of bringing together an international, cross-sectoral group of top educational software developers to collaborate over four days to develop tools that will be useful to higher education is immeasurable.

In addition, the event will produce:

• High quality documented software
• Dissemination of the outcomes through web 2.0 channels and an official report
• A wider pool of potential developers for JISC projects
• Collaboration across sectors and countries