CONNECT Code-A-Thon at UC Berkeley

The CONNECT Project is traveling to the West Coast for the next Code-A-Thon! UC Berkeley’s School of Information has graciously offered to host the community for a Code-A-Thon on December 15-16, 2011.

In addition to holding technical/coding sessions, this CONNECT Code-A-Thon will include a couple of new items:

• A business track for people new to CONNECT that need to learn more about what the open source software project is and how it can benefit them
• Working with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, the CONNECT team will construct innovation challenges for the event, providing attendees with the opportunity to address and tackle issues directly relevant to nationwide health IT interoperability

Agenda

Proposed Technical Track

• Writing CONNECT adapters
• Improve Scalability and Performance
• Platform Neutrality
• Create install wizard for CONNECT
• Plug-Fest Testing Sessions
• CONNECT Roadmap
• Large In-Band File Transfers · CONNECT 101

Business/Education Track

• Building a Business Case for CONNECT
• CONNECT Tutorial
• CONNECT Installation Session and Q&A

Participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the CONNECT project through bug fixes, code contributions, improved documentation, and by contributing other innovations. We will be listing topics on the forums and we encourage discussions prior to the Code-A-Thon so we can get straight to the business of development during the event.

Hotel Shattuck (Mention you are with the
CONNECT Code-A-Thon to get the best rate)
Hotel Durant
Claremont Resort

Regards,
The CONNECT Team