Colleagues (apologies for cross posting)
This is a free* two day DevCSI (http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk) hackday
organised in conjunction with the JISC funded Application Profiles
Support Project (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ap/). The event hopes
to bring together software developers, project managers and users
particularly (though not exclusively) in Higher Education who share an
interest in eBooks and particularly the open ePub standard for ebooks.
Developers and users rarely have opportunities to experiment in a
focussed way in hacking systems, experimenting with standards, and
exploring current ways of doing things and how they could be improved.
If this is you, would you like to explore the possibility of doing some
innovative things using the standard or the various open source tools
available? For more information, please visit:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/devcsi/epub_hackdays/index.html
We are also delighted to announce that Kovid Goyal, the principle
creator of Calibre (a very widely used suite of open source software for
the management of ebooks with over 2 million downloads) will be the main
speaker and one of the main facilitators for the event. We also hope to
have Mikhail Gusarov of OpenInkpot, which is a free and open-source
Linux distribution for eBook reading devices, as a speaker and
facilitator. We have left space in the programme for plenty of lightning
talks by other speakers.
Places are limited, so book early, as we anticipate a lot of demand for
this pre Christmas hack event!
Just bring a laptop, an ebook reader (if you have one) and lots of ideas
and enthusiasm! Before the event we want you to discuss ideas, form
teams etc, using the newly created mailing list
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/EPUB-EBOOKS ([log in to unmask]). We
will be posting messages on there in the next few days to start
discussions going.
*Please note this is a payable event for delegates in the commercial sector.
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Mr Mahendra Mahey
Project Manager DevCSI
Research Officer
UKOLN,
University of Bath,
Bath,
BA2 7AY
Tel: ++44 (0) 1225 384594
Fax: ++44 (0) 1225 386256
email: [log in to unmask]
skypeID: mr_mahendra_mahey
Mobile: ++44 (0) 7896300820
http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk
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