Location: MIT, room E51-372. It's the same building as the regular meetups, but not the same room. Third floor, room 372. Parking is available on Hayward Street. Thanks to Ed Carlevale for allowing us to use this room.
Some of us are planning to meet this Saturday 25th to work on some of the Drupal 7 semantic web modules such as RDF Extensions, SPARQL and WebID. Anyone can participate, no formal knowledge of RDF is required and other skills like coding, frontend/UX, testing, documentation, etc are very much appreciated.
If you are interested in joining us in Cambridge, MA this Saturday, please click the Sign up button for this event. I will broadcast more information about the venue to those who sign up. You can alternatively join us virtually via IRC in the #drupal-rdf channel.
See:
* all issues for the sprint
* novice issues for the sprint
And the related issue queues in general:
* http://drupal.org/project/issues/rdfx
* http://drupal.org/project/issues/sparql
* recommended to have installed: http://drupal.org/project/restws
* Drupal Core Open RDF 7.x issues
Comments
Have you found a place yet to
Have you found a place yet to host it?
Yes, it'll be in Central
Yes, it'll be in Central Square.
Where in Central Sq.; And when?
Can you be more specific about the location?
What's the address in Central Sq.?
Can you provide a URL on http://maps.google.com?
What time do you plan to start?
What time do you plan to end?
Is there free parking anywhere nearby?
Location: 65 Landsdowne
Location: 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA
Map: http://g.co/maps/va5tj
Time: 9am to 6pm
Parking: http://g.co/maps/7epwb
Standard Cambridge parking rules apply to the area. Best bet is to take the T to Central and a enjoy a nice walk, with the option to stop at an excellent bakery on the way.
Venue change
Thanks to Ed Carlevale, I've arranged a larger venue that can fit all of us. The sprint will take place at MIT, room E51-372. It's the same building as the regular meetups, but not the same room. Third floor, room 372. Parking is available on Hayward Street. I've updated the OP with this new info.
(sorry Jesse, I hope you can still get your bakery fix in the morning!)
Overview of meeting
For those of us "suffering" through Mardi Gras here in New Orleans, would you please send us some notes on your meeting? As a non-techie trying to set up my Drupal 7 site that will handle RDF & schema.org I need all the help I can get.
I've started my Drupal journey by trying to (@ the suggestion I got here) host my site on hostgator.com. After several problems I have one of me colleagues trying to work out the bugs. I keep believing that Drupal and the semantic web will open its arms to guys like me. So please, as I tell my entrepreneurship students, use the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) for the slow learners like us!
Thanks, Ron
Hi Ron, I'll send a summary
Hi Ron,
I'll send a summary of what we achieve after the sprint. As for your question, feel free ask for support or file any bug you encounter to the relevant module issue queue. If you are not sure, file it under RDF Extensions and we'll route it to the appropriate project.
Hopefully I'll be able to
Hopefully I'll be able to make it to IRC.
Which specific issues do you plan to focus efforts on?
I have posted the issue Deprecate and remove Vocabulary Management (Evoc). We've been talking about this for nearly a year, so I think it will be good to get it finalized.
Over the new few days I'll
Over the new few days I'll tag a set of issues for us to work on during the sprint. I will post the link closer to the event.
Thanks
Thanks, I really appreciate it. I follow the comments, but in many instances they are "way above" my cull point! I am a professor at University of Louisiana Lafayette and teach Entrepreneurship & eBusiness. I am moving both of these courses towards social media. The Entrepreneurial course for the Fall '12 semester will be "Strategic Social Media Plan for SMEs."
My plan is to develop a Drupal 7 site that can be used as a beginning template for any small business. However, it must be "dummyed down" so the non-technical person can use it. So if I can figure out how to use it then they should be able to use it :-).
Please pardon my rambling, but I really excited and glad to be part of the discussion.
Ron
Drupal 7 semantic web activity at Drupalcon?
Are any of you planning to attend Drupalcon? Would there be any interest in some form of get together in Denver that week, from a drink up to a Birds of a Feather to a code sprint?
We'll most likely have a last
We'll most likely have a last minute gathering yes. It'll be announced here. stay tuned!
Summary
I realize I never wrote the summary of the code sprint. so here it is...
Thanks to all our participants who made it to MIT for the sprint: Benjamin Melançon, Stefan Freudenberg, Jesse Beach, Kelly Lucas, Mark Rosenthal, and John Bottoms. Lin Clark also joined us remotely. Due to a stomach bug or some kind of flu virus which, I decide to stay at home. Luckily Benjamin kindly agreed to be the on site co-leader, and I was able to join the sprint remotely for most of the day. IRC and Google hang out worked out quite well for all of us.
After a quick demo to get people up to speed on how to setup their localhost, we all started to tackle the RDF sprint issue queue. While we were not able to look at all the 17 issues, we made progress on 9 of them, mostly from the RDF Extensions project, the main RDF project in contrib. The focus wasn't really on writing new features, but on fixing bugs and improving the general workflow for using RDF in Drupal. A major decision was taken to deprecate the old vocabulary management module (evoc) until a better solution is found (see notice). Lin spent most of the day preparing the code removal. This in itself will close quite a few tickets from the issue queue.
While the MIT crew was out for lunch, Lin and I got to catch up on the directions of the RDFx module and in particular about what should or should not be in a given serialization. Sometimes having a real conversation can help clarify things which are otherwise harder to explain in issue queues. In the afternoon, Jesse worked on a hairy entity API challenge in the Wrong url for taxonomy terms in rdf issue. In the meantime Stefan and Ben focused on improving the ARC2 library installation in RDFx and the namespace and mapping management in core. We even fixed a follow up issue for downloading ARC2 with drush thanks to John. Kelly took his RDF mapping UI management patch home as he wasn't happy enough with it at the end of the day.
Here is the state of the issues at the end of the sprint. Not much code review happened during the sprint, we mostly wrote code!
Thanks again to all for a fun sprint!
Sounds good. I'd be happy to
Sounds good. I'd be happy to host a get together at the University of Colorado Boulder, but I'm guessing a conference or downtown Denver location is the only realistic option given all of the great stuff that's happening that week around the conf. That said if anyone wants to visit CU or Boulder before/during/after the conf (e.g. weekends or evenings), let me know. If there are any Drupal folks in Denver doing Semantic Web work, I'd love to meet them.