Re: Lenya Meeting 2011 (D-FR) (was Re: Mobile CMS)

On 9/29/2011 5:45 PM, Thorsten Scherler wrote:
>
> On Sep 29, 2011 6:39 PM, "florent andré" 
> <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > Did we finally get something at the end of the hack day ?
>
> no, in terms of a first working prototype of lenya mobile, we left a 
> bit after you.
>
> I prepared a small summary of the meeting. Well a bit of me coming to 
> the whole event but since I meet quite familiar people I reckon to 
> share with the whole community and tell you how it is being part of 
> such a great community.
>
> - first day: I left home around 15:00 on saturday in Sevilla. I drove 
> to Malaga to take the flight to Basel and I got picked up around 22:30 
> from Rudolf. Big thanks here on all your hospitality during the whole 
> 4 days and I am really grateful! Especially organising now 4 lenya 
> community events perfectly, you proven to be a big cornerstone for 
> this project.
> . seond day: I spend a very nice day with rudolf and his wife (very 
> nice person as well!) . We had lunch in an exclusive german restaurant 
> and being a german living in spain I really enjoyed the food a lot. We 
> had a quite beer since we needed to get up at 5:30 (!!!) in the morning.
> -third day: well me getting up at 5:30 I am not the same person. After 
> a hard day (like said not the same person) of doing a consulting job 
> for the Uniklinikum Freiburg we picked up Florent (the frensh guy ;) ) 
> from the train station. Had a nice dinner and a couple of beers. jeje 
> and Jägermeister ;) The moon is a source of energy for me.
> -fourth day: Well me and the frensh guy arrived a bit late, but 
> meeting started at 10:00. There had been in total 9 people attending 
> and we started the day about discussing the future of lenya. To 
> mention the attends backgrounds coming from one company, there have 
> been beCompany (Andrea and Sibylle), EPO(Ben,Gerd und Hans), 
> Uniklinikum Freiburg (Martin and Rudolf) and Uni Zurich. We agreed 
> there that we are currently best of with sticking with current 2 and 
> not trying a rewrite to use e.g. c3. We had lunch and then we started 
> the work with some presentation about latest works wwith lenya/cocoon. 
> I started to show the WURFL module which can be found in the 
> lenya-extras module (actually nearly all modules presented that day 
> can now be found there). Actually we need a separte mail to introduce 
> the lenya-extra repo if nobody beats me to it I will wrap up something 
> the next days. After that me an Vik showed a multiplatform mobile app 
> which uses c3 (cocoon 3) as middle tier to connect to a ejb data 
> layer. Then Rudolf introduced us to the power of publication 
> templating, he runs around 200-300 pubs on a single lenya instance, 
> and a couple of nice modules which inject widget like functionality to 
> the page. After that the "EPO guys" Hans and Gerd presented some new 
> tiny 3 integrations as editors allowing as in firedos multiple 
> editorable forms in one view, Follwed by a gallery integration via 
> flicker. ...in the end we ended up having a nice dinner and I ended up 
> with the english and the french guy sitting and talking. There the 
> frensh guy and me dreamed  about to make lenya mobile and due to my 
> recent mobile work I saw a simple approach. Due to a missing internet 
> connection and the fact it was quite late we did not started the work 
> but went to bed.
> -fith day: well andy, florent, vik and me arrived not at 10:00 but 
> shortly after. We organised groups for the hackathon we had that day 
> and started the work of a new templating pub and a first step on lenya 
> mobile. Since we had all the resources there we have been committed a 
> lot of code to the extras rep and both developments are still in 
> progress and need review and proper introduction.
>
> so to come back to the initial question of the french guy we still 
> need to fix the generator call (create a generator that generates a 
> SAX stream from String - see c3 for that . or rethink the approach to 
> use the same api firedoc does).
>
> salu2
>

Thanks very much for the summary.

Thanks to whoever started moving the modules into lenya-extras. That's a 
great place for modules to be gathered that either won't be adopted by 
the central community, or have incompatible licenses.