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Blacklight Summit 2022

Agenda and notes

You can view the agenda below and also at the following link. Community notes will be available in this document.

The summit will run from 1 PM to 5 PM ET/10 AM to 2 PM PT each day from October 3rd through October 5th.  A tentative agenda is included below.  Individual sessions and times may change and updates will be included in the linked document and below.

This year, in addition to sessions focused on specific Blacklight topics, lightning talks and an “Ask anything session”, we are reserving part of the last day, October 5th, for a working group session and any other breakout group discussions participants may wish to utilize.

Thursday, September 29th

Customizing Blacklight Workshop                        1:00 – 5:00 PM ET/ 10 AM – 2 PM PT

Monday, October 3rd

1 – 5 PM ET/ 10 – 2 PM PT

SessionTime
Intro, land acknowledgment, introduce planning committee (Link)

Presenters: Phil Robinson, Planning Committee

1:00 – 1:10 PM
Welcome and plan for summit, introductions on slack (Link)

Presenter: Huda Khan

1:10 – 1:30 PM
About the Blacklight community (Link)

Presenter: Nikitas Tampakis

1:30 – 1:45 PM
Break1:45 – 2:00 PM
Institutional demos 

(Recorded unless otherwise specified by participant)

Facilitator: David Kinzer

2:00 – 3:30 PM

(tentative)

Break3:30 – 4:00 PM
Blacklight customization and sustainability: Lessons learned & open questions

  • Customizing Blacklight workshop (10 minutes)
    • 5 minute recap
    • 5 minutes for follow ups from community/questions
  • Interface customizations
  • Sustainability

Facilitator(s): Chris Beer, Benjamin Armintor, Cory Lown

Slack monitor(s): Huda Khan

4:00 – 4:50 PM
Wrap up day 1, info for day 2

  • Community volunteers for facilitating sessions

Facilitator: Huda Khan

4:50 – 5:00 PM

Tuesday, October 4th

1 – 5 PM ET/ 10 – 2 PM PT

SessionTime
Welcome and plan for the day

Facilitator: Huda Khan

1:00 – 1:05 PM
Lightning Talks  (Link)

Facilitator: Steven Ng

Time keeper: Huda Khan

1:05 – 1:45 PM

(tentative)

Break1:45 – 2:00 PM
Blacklight and Solr 

  • How these pieces fit together architecturally (brief)
  • Search relevance configuration
  • Performance
  • Lessons learned from upgrading Solr in Blacklight environments

Facilitator: TBD

2:00 – 2:30 PM
Blacklight and Rails

  • How these pieces fit together (very brief)
  • Assets (JavaScript, CSS)
  • Lessons learned from upgrading rails

Facilitator: TBD

2:30 – 3:00 PM
Break3:00 – 3:10 PM
Blacklight Roadmap

  • Overall high level directions
  • How do we make a roadmap?
  • Changes on the horizon: Blacklight 8
  • Community feedback and questions

Facilitator: TBD

3:10 – 3:40 PM
Break

Introduce the next session

3:40 – 4:00 PM
Ask Anything  (Link)

Facilitator: Cory Lown

4:00 – 4:30 PM
Wrap up and planning

  • Explain working group time
  • Ask if anyone wants to do separate breakout groups
  • Plus/delta document

Facilitator: Huda Khan

4:30 – 5:00 PM

Wednesday, October 5th

1 -5 PM ET/ 10 – 2 PM PT

SessionTime
Welcome and plan for the day

Facilitator: Huda Khan

1:00 – 1:05 PM
State of Project Blacklight plugins/adjacent communities

Facilitator: TBD

1:05 – 1:30 PM
Blacklight in the larger ecosystem

  • Other APIs
  • Components of discovery systems

Facilitator:TBD

1:30 – 2:00 PM
Wrap up and plus/delta (Link)

Facilitator: Huda Khan

2:00 – 2:30 PM
Working group time (Link)

Reserved for Blacklight Committers & friends

Setup, pick start time

2:30 – 4:30 PM
Breakout groups (Link)

  • Groups designate facilitator and note-taker
2:30 – 4:30 PM