Connexion Sprint - February 16-17, 2012

What is a sprint?

A sprint is a period of concentrated group effort to advance the goals of an organization or project. Sprints are most notably tied to open-source software projects. A project might organize its community of programmers to gather in one place and focus their collective efforts on resolving bugs or implementing new features. It’s a hackathon!

A group discussing user interface at the 2011 Connexions Sprint.

What are the goals of the Connexions Sprint?

The Connexions Sprint is in some ways exactly the same as a typical coding sprint, where developers gather together to fix bugs and implement new software features. But this year, the Connexions Sprint is not just for code junkies any more; We will be hosting an authoring sprint, too!

Coding Sprint

The coding sprint will focus on:

• Plone 4 migration
• Bug fixes
• Sword API enhancements

Content Sprint

The content sprint will work to:

• Enchance Collaborative Statistics
• Provide author training
• Explore new authoring clients

So, if you are interested in learning about the inner workings of the Connexions software from the Connexions development team, or you want to meet others interested in creating high quality OER content and learn tips and tricks for content creation from content experts, then you should come to the Conenxions Content Sprint on February 16-17, 2012 the day following the conference.