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Developer Core Community (CoCo) Meetings

The OLAT CoCo (the OLAT Core Community) was founded in 2009 as a platform for the growing amount of OLAT "power users" and developers throughout Switzerland, Germany and Austria. The CoCo meets once a year at the University of Zurich to discuss strategic questions and to exchange information and knowledge in workshops. Current CoCo-Members are frentix GmbH, Bildungsportal Sachsen, University of Hamburg, Univeristy of Innsbruck, ZHAW and others. The CoCo meetings are open to all OLAT power users and developers. The meetings are usually held in German.

The third Core Community Meeting 2011

The third OLAT CoCo meeting took place at the 9th and 10th of June 2011 at the University of Zurich. For more information, participants, program etc. check the OLAT Community Server (you can create a free account of your own).

Here you can directly access the streaming video of the opening session!

Opening Session
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OLAT CoCo 2011 Introduction

Joël Fisler (UZH)

Keynote Customer view

Hans-Jörg Zuberbühler (UZH)

Keynote Developer view

Alan Moran (UZH)

The second Core Community Meeting 2010

From wednesday 2010-04-28 to friday 2010-04-30 the CoreCommunity met in Zurich. The topics, sessions plan, the attendees list etc. can be accessed via the Wiki: OLAT CoCo2010 Space.







The first Core Community Meeting 2009

The first Core Community meeting took place from May 6th to 8th at the University of Zurich. The developer core community UZH, Frentix, BPS, University of Hamburg) met to participate in a lively exchange of experiences and knowledge.

The meeting was held in German, you can download the full program here. Some impressions from our sessions can be taken from the pictures below:

Patrick Brunner (UZH, standing) talking about clustering and scalabilityPatrick Brunner (UZH, standing) talking about clustering and scalability
Employees of UZH, Frentix, BPS and University of Hamburg discussing the marketing of OLAT Employees of UZH, Frentix, BPS and University of Hamburg discussing the marketing of OLAT
Creative chaos at the first core community meeting in ZurichCreative chaos at the first core community meeting in Zurich
Joël Fisler (UZH, standing) presenting results about the use of OLAT worldwideJoël Fisler (UZH, standing) presenting results about the use of OLAT worldwide
Christian Guretzki (UZH, standing) describes how to use the EventBusChristian Guretzki (UZH, standing) describes how to use the EventBus
Joël Fisler (UZH, standing) and Patrick Brunner (UZH, sitting) arguingJoël Fisler (UZH, standing) and Patrick Brunner (UZH, sitting) arguing

Results of the first CoCo meeting (slides below)

  1. Elaborating a joint roadmap
  2. Discussing and defining a collective incubation process
  3. Exchanging knowhow about tools for OLAT setup, maintenance, log file analysis etc.
  4. Knowledge transfer about clustering, scalability and selenium testing
  5. Hackathon and incubation code review prototype
  6. Common strategy about OLAT marketing and community work
  7. Creation of a "marketing group" and an internal OLAT marketing blog
  8. Creation of a new OLAT operations blog (OLAT Betriebs Blog, German) and developer Wiki (English, soon available)

Presentations of the CoCo participants

Please note that the meeting was held in German so the slides available for download are also mostly in German. Some of the slides might be hard to understand for developers that have not attended the meeting. Nevertheless, we decided to communicate very openly about our meeting and publish all the available slides. Feel free to contact Patrick Brunner (head of development team at UZH) if you have further questions concerning one of the presentations. The slides are ordered according to the meeting schedule: