again: Mini-Sprint in Rome

"Ciao" everybody,

time is running away, and still we have no fixed date or final list of 
participants for the little Rome sprint.
It should take place in the week after the Snow Sprint, but the last 
week of February also would be an option...
We are able to invite 3-5 people, paying flight, hotel and some sort of 
small daily benefit (depends from the number of participants ...)
At the moment I hope Simon, Jodok and Sebastian might be able to come - 
who else?
The aim of our project is sketched below (yes it's the mail I sent 
around in November :-), and I'm working on a list of ideas/wishes for 
the Snow Sprint that could be useful for Ticle in general too. But I 
still have to learn more about what is already possible and what is 
planned...
For instance, it could be interesting to have an "ArcheTypes" person 
here: Using XML-Schemas and ArchGenXML to create ArcheTypes to create 
Ticle Content Classes seems to be a rather simple way to reach our 
goals...

So, please let me know as soon as possible who would like to join us 
here and when!

Greetings from the "head of the world" :-)

Bernd

PS: Unfortunately I lost a lot of my data incl. mails through a hard 
disk crash (?) resulting in the necessity to build a new fs on my 
Computer ... So, it's not Alzheimer alone (this time :-) when I forget 
about mails someone may have sent me a few weeks ago ... Sorry!

  > Dear all,
  >
  > you might already know that Jodok is organising a Snow-Sprint in
  > Vorarlberg which hopefully could take place at the end of January. We
  > cancelled the idea to have an official second part of the sprint here
  > in Rome because it would altogether last too long and be to difficult
  > to organise travels from the first place to the second and then back
  > ...
  >
  > But, what would you think about having an additional "little" sprint
  > in Rome though? The aim would be to build a project like we planned 
to
  > do with "ZUCCARO" (http://zuccaro.biblhertz.it:8080/ZUCCARO - still
  > only in German, sorry ...) based on Ticle - which seems to be able to
  > support a lot of our ideas "out of the box". Of course, this
  > "tool-box" would be used for our special purposes at first, but it is
  > intended to be usable for other projects (Online-Databases in the
  > humanities and social or historical sciences with Content Management
  > functions) as well - but I could imagine also the usage of this for
  > very different (commercial?) projects:
  > As far as I understand it, Ticle "out of the box" is a very abstract
  > thing, not intended to serve for the ad-hoc creation of projects like
  > the one it was made for (by Neonex and Simon) in the beginning.
  > Therefore, to have an easy costumizable (via XML Schemas) tool-box
  > based on Ticle that would be "closer" to the needs of any project
  > could serve not only as a showcase, but used widely in (hopefully:
  > very) different other projects, especially in the "non-market" of
  > low-financed research, education and so on, but also in free projects
  > or (not only) small commercial environments.
  > One purpose (of our ZUCCARO - and therefore, of this "Ticle based
  > tool-box" too) is to migrate the HIDA/MIDAS-Databases used by many
  > (about 40-50) foto/picture archives not only in Germany to a free
  > solution: the commercial one just got into the trap of closed source
  > software - the company disappeared, and no-one can say what will
  > happen with all these databases in a few years when the institutions
  > have to switch to the next generation of Windows ... :-)



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