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Building on the work that was done at the very first calendaring sprint, and recent work done at the Naples and Sorrento sprints, we're pleased to invite you to participate in this sprint to improve the calendaring features and documentation of Plone.

Maybe you are wondering - what is a sprint? And what is it like to attend a sprint for the first time?

Sprint goals

• Recurring Events (Lennart Regebro)
  
• iCal / CalDAV integration
• Better calendar views (week, month, day)
• Location provider support
• Better event search (from the Weblion usecases)
• Fix Usability issues
• Documentation of calendaring features (JoAnna Springsteen)

See the sprint notes from the last Calendaring sprint and ideas that were proposed prior to the sprint.

See also task planning to look at who can do each task.

Practical info

When: April 28 - May 4, 2008

Where: Boston, MA

Transportation

Boston / Cambridge is served by Boston Logan airport (BOS) and Providence, RI (PVD) and Manchester, NH (MHT) are also nearby airports.

Boston is also a short train ride (3.5 hr) or bus ride (4.5) from New York City, if that is a more convenient city for you to fly into.

Accommodations

There are many types of accomodations available in the Boston metro area: hotels, B&Bs, hostels and private apartment rentals.

Participants

Please add your name to the participants page if you would like to attend. Also, please sign up for the Plone4Artists mailing list so that you will be notified on details about the sprint. You can also find us in the #plone4artists IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

Limited travel scholarships available: We are seeking funding (see sponsors section below) to cover the travel costs for some key developers who have expert knowledge of Plone calendaring.

IRC (Internet relay chat) for the sprint

#plone4artists on irc.freenode.net

• <http://weblion.psu.edu/chatlogs/%23plone4artists/2008/04/>
• logs commenced at 17:15 Boston time (20:15 UK time) on Tuesday 29th April.
  

Plone4Artists users (Google Group)

<http://groups.google.com/group/p4a-user>

• general mailing list for discussion related to using the Plone4Artists products
• products include Plone4ArtistsCalendar

p4acal.buildout

<http://www.plone4artists.org/svn/projects/p4acal.buildout/trunk/>

Video stream

<http://www.ustream.tv/channel/plone-calendaring-sprint-in-boston>

Sponsors

If you would like to sponsor the sprint, please contact Nate Aune (sprint <at> jazkarta <dot> com). We need funding in order to cover the food costs and to bring key developers to the sprint.

Please see the sponsor page for more information about how to sponsor the sprint.

Silver - $1000

($1500 contribution)

Bronze - $500

Optional training

This sprint will take place during and after two optional training sessions:

4/28 - 4/29 : Plone 3 Developer Training with Nate Aune