[Xerte] Re: Xerte Develper Nonference: Suggested Dates

[Pat Lockley]

I'd respond, but I have literally no idea what I'll be up to, where
I'll be in september (so not sure when I can definitely say I could
come).

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> I guess it depends on whether we want to do some formal training, or whether
> it’s a looser opportunity to meet with others and talk stuff over. In the
> case of templates, the problem isn’t so much ‘how do I build a template’,
> it’s actually ‘what sort of template do I want to build’ and ‘is it
> feasible’.
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> If you’ve a sample template to have a go at, then the basics of making a
> template, making code dynamic and creating the wizard form are not hard to
> do really. Most templates have less than 100 lines of code in them.
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Davidson, Andrew
> Sent: 28 June 2011 13:55
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> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte Develper Nonference: Suggested Dates
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> I’d certainly be interested in this – work permitting. I had ignored it
> since I knew it would be over my head.
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> I am still at the templates stage with no individualisation yet attempted
> and so to access some form of a workshop to level up my skills would be very
> welcome – I guess it all depends on what the baseline skill level is for
> such an event – i.e. what would be the minimum experience with/usage of
> Xerte you would require for a workshop to work?
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> If a baseline level is needed, the perhaps some pre-conference prep could be
> organised which would bring attendees up to the level required for the event
> in sept.
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> If it doesn’t happen for the event in sept then maybe another event
> focussing on content authors and exploring the potential of XOT would be
> most welcome.
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> andy
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: 28 June 2011 13:15
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte Develper Nonference: Suggested Dates
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>> Would you want to use part of this event to encourage and facilitate
>> aspiring content authors to become some of the developers of tomorrow?
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> Yes, very much so.
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
> Sent: 28 June 2011 12:54
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte Develper Nonference: Suggested Dates
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> "learn and share ideas..." "but not necessarily limited to developers as all
> input is valuable"
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> I am quoting this from the Doodle: Xerte Developer's Nonference page as it
> may be that content authors who would like to learn how to develop pages may
> feel that this Nonference is not appropriate for them.
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> Would you want to use part of this event to encourage and facilitate
> aspiring content authors to become some of the developers of tomorrow?
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> If you feel this would be an appropriate use of the time then I would be
> willing, to provide some input on using Page Wizards to "build your
> developer muscles". I have posted something to this effect on the Doodle
> link page, but it occurred to me that content authors might not read the
> Doodle page if they had already decided the event was perhaps going to be
> 'over their heads'.
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> I am not sure how many Xerte developers there are out there at present, but
> a few more wouldn't hurt. :-)
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> I appreciate that you may feel that this idea may be inappropriate for the
> event, or alternatively premature until issues of modularisation are
> resolved.
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> Kind regards
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> Johnathan
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> On 27 June 2011 09:49, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
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> For those of you that missed this on Friday…
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: 24 June 2011 09:13
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] ANN: Xerte Develper Nonference: Suggested Dates
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> We are looking to host a two or three day even in September for developers
> to come together and work on some Xerte stuff, learn and share ideas. There
> is some current community based work afoot to address internationalisation,
> and those developers were looking to meet up to move some ideas forward.
> There are some other ideas that could really do with prototyping, and would
> benefit from some group discussion: mobile delivery, for example, and
> Alistair has some accessibility areas he’d like to improve. Everyone always
> has loads of ideas for new templates as well, it would be good to share some
> knowledge about Xerte 3.0, and I’d welcome anything – anything at all – that
> others would like to put on the agenda
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> The event would be free, and fairly DIY. I’m happy to suggest Nottingham as
> a venue, but also open to ideas for other venues that might be nice.
> Attendees would pay travel and expenses, although there may be some booty
> for people willing to take on certain developments. It’s all quite
> embryonic, but first off I need to get some idea of number of people who’d
> like to get together, and dates that are suitable in the middle two weeks of
> September: register your interest here:
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> http://doodle.com/e9s9raax55ndsxga
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