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Developer Core Community (CoCo) Meetings

OLAT does not only have a growing user base but more and more Java developers start creating new features or extensions for OLAT. The most active developers are with no doubt our spin-off company Frentix GmbH, our German partner Bildungsportal Sachsen GmbH and since a few months the University of Hamburg. To coordinate all our developments with the main roadmap we organized a first "Core Community" (CoCo) meeting in May 2009 at the University of Zurich. Starting in 2009 we plan to hold these meetings on a yearly basis and hope that the CoCo meetings help to improve both the features available for OLAT as well as its stability. Our aim is to make all OLAT developers around the world collaborate and to consolidate their efforts in one great product. Forking is for losers and not an option :-)

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:

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