Dear all
As you might know from our previous Save-the-Date Mail and the
invitation at the EDDI Conference in December 2022 we plan to revive the
DDI Developers Group which has been dormant since 2014 by organizing a
DDI Developers Hackathon at the facilities of the Swedish National Data
Service in Gothenburg (Medicinaregatan 18A) from Friday 24th of March
until Saturday 25th of March, 2023. In the meantime we finalized the
agenda (included with this mail as a PDF) and can finally open the
registration and submission of challenges for this event. This event is
directly following the Research Data Alliance (RDA) plenary in the same
week. Therefore we believe some participants could already be at the
location saving travel costs.
If you are a developer, software engineer or programmer using or
implementing tools around the DDI suite of metadata standards this event
might be the chance to exchange ideas with similar people plus during
the two days we would like to create some prototypical software
implementations of current pain points or needed features for DDI tools.
If you are engaged in DDI related work (e.g. in working groups or
any of the boards) you are welcome to submit challenges (i.e.
implementation ideas) for the participating hackers, even if you do not
participate in person.
The event is sponsored by the DDI Alliance, the Swedish National
Data Service (SND) and the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons
(FHGR) which will provide catering and the location for the whole
event. For a limited number of people also sponsorships for travel costs
can be provided if the member organizations cannot sponsor it.
During the event there will be a Hackathon Bar which provides snacks and
drinks for the participating hackers at all times. Additionally there
will be lunch and dinner served at fitting times during the
implementation phases so hackers can fully concentrate on their tasks.
The event will also start with a welcome dinner on Thursday evening and
end with a thank you dinner on Saturday evening. As special as all three
organizers are craft brewers we will also provide two craft beers
especially brewed for this event. All catering will be free of cost.
The results from the Hackathon will be available as Open Source software
under a license (e.g. MIT, LGPL) which will allow the use in other Open
Source projects as well as commercial products.
We hope to re-create some lasting interest for more IT-related topics
within the DDI community. Therefore we are happy for every developer,
software engineer, programmer or DevOps person who can make it to
Gothenburg.
Best Regards
The DDI Developers Hackathon Organizing Team
Ingo Barkow
Johan Fihn Marberg
Olof Olsson