Second Arches Developer Meeting Agenda

[dwut...@fargeo.com]

Hello All,

Please join us on December 4th for our second Arches Developer meeting.  We'll meet from 8:30AM to 10:30AM (San Francisco Time) to hear how Arches is being used to manage information by heritage organizations and IT companies.

We'll hear about 3 Arches projects:

Warden: A new home for the Ancient Monument Index for England

Take brief tour around Historic England's Warden system, recently deployed Arches system to replace the Ancient Monument Index for England. We will show how the system was developed, how it was extended to meet our requirements and how we integrated it into other services and workflows.

 

Presenter: Andrew Jones, Developer Team Leader, Historic England

 

First Steps of Arches on Kubernetes

A progress report on using an infrastructure-as-code approach to deploying Arches, why that might be useful for reproducibility and scalability, and what we have learned about the road ahead. This will show a work-in-progress demo of Irish sites on Arches 5.1 running on Google Kubernetes Engine.

Presenters: Sarah Byrne, Product Manager, Flax&Teal and Phil Weir, Director, Flax&Teal

Sarah Byrne is the product manager for Flax & Teal with a background in medieval history research, as well as experience in education and a varied business portfolio. She has designed and coordinated web product work in a range of areas, from journalism to civil engineering and water testing.

Phil Weir is a web developer and mathematician, with expertise in a range of open technologies. He has worked in academia and industry, solving challenges in data and engineering for both public and private sector. He founded Flax & Teal in 2013 to work with innovative new products and services, centered on open source.

Heritage Monitoring: Florida Public Archaeology Network

  An overview of the Heritage Monitoring Scouts deployment of Arches for the Florida Public Archaeology Network (https://hms.fpan.us).  This presentation will include background on the project, describe the current architecture of the system (and how it has changed), and finish by outlining some of the upgrades that are coming in the near future.

 Presenter: Adam Cox, Owner, Legion GIS LLC

Each of the presentations will be 30 minutes long with (time permitting) a chance to ask questions.

I will provide details on how to log on to a Zoom call for this meeting soon.

Cheers,

Dennis

[dwut...@fargeo.com]

Hello Arches Devs

Here is the log in info for our meeting on Friday December 4.  Because we'll have a full set of speakers lined up to share their work with Arches, the format will be more like a webinar (at least initially).

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Topic: Arches Developer Meeting

Time: Dec 4, 2020 08:30 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Cheers,

Dennis

[mr.ad...@gmail.com]

Suggestions for future topics/meetings taken from the Zoom chat, here for posterity:

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MA: I think a bit of guidance on (replicating/getting started with) some of the features developed by the community would be amazing.

CS: I agree with the recording of technical webinars, I think they would be useful

MS: Some ideas: using Arches public APU endpoints to build a custom site; Arches workflow - implementation and basics; Arches and Docker; arches imports CSV and JSON

KB: Very useful and would like to attend more of these meetings. Would be nice to see the "getting started" kind of info mentioned above by MA and hearing more on import/export would be nice too.

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My own suggestion, perhaps we could set a theme for the next meeting, and have a couple of people present on that theme, shorter presentations and more time for technical questions after each one. I think, based on my own experience and on the comments above, a theme of "legacy data import" or "data import/export" would be a really good topic. Or "getting started" with a few subjects like using git and virtualenv with arches.

Adam