The Plone4Artists / Multimedia sprint took place July 18-22, 2007 in Boston, MA.

There were over 20 participants including 7 remote sprinters. Many thanks to our sponsors for making it possible!

This is the planning area for the Plone4Artists / multimedia sprint in Boston.

In the Press

• Pre-sprint article appeared in InfoWorld: Ready, steady... Sprint! Creating open-source ECM
• That article also appeared in LinuxWorld as Sprinting to create open-source content management
• Post-sprint article appeared in InfoWorld: You're never alone with Plone
  
• Esther Schindler's blog posts in CIO magazine about sprinting at the doccomm sprint
  

Post-sprint reports

• Audio
• Video
• Image
  
• Calendar
• Uploading
• Large file (blob)
• Vice Report - syndication of content via inbound / outbound RSS & Atom feeds
  
• Licensing
  
• RESTful web services for Archetypes
• Screencasts
  
• iPlone (iPhone interface for Plone)

Photos

See all the photos uploaded to Flickr.

Pre-sprint topics

See the topics page for a list of the proposed topics to work on at the sprint.

Getting started with Plone4Artists

1. Install it with the Plone4Artists buildout
2. Try out the Plone4Artists features on your local instance or on the plone4artists.com demo site.
3. Review the bugs in the Plone4ArtistsAudio, Plone4ArtistsVideo and Plone4ArtistsCalendar tracker.
4. Running P4A Tests explains the best way to run tests for p4a with the buildout.

Communication

• p4a-user mailing list
  
• #plone4artists
  
• How to set up a live video stream using Quicktime Broadcaster and Darwin Streaming Server
  

Lightning talks

• Lightning talks - videos coming soon!
  
• whywhywhy   post a question or comment on how or why something was done the way it was in Plone4Artists products.  Rocky will do a short talk later this week and try to cover all of the questions and comments.

Practical stuff

• Calendar of events (iCal subscribe)
• Sprint Location: Christian Science Center, 200 Massachusetts Ave. Boston, MA (3rd floor)
  
• Map of area
• Free Wi-Fi spots
• BostonAttractions