Schedule

September 15-19, 2014

Day 1

9:00 Introductions and logistics

9:45 Opening talks (coffee break around 10:30)

• Karen: general intro to OpenTree project, web services, resources, terminology
• Luke: Arbor
• Arlin: HIP and Phylotastic

11:00 Questions and discussion, prior to making pitches

• moderator: intro and instructions (scope, pitches, projects, teams, bootcamps)
• Discussion. Use this time to ask questions about what resources are available, what can be done with them, how important are various use-cases, and so on.

12:00-1:30 lunch

1:30 Pitches and team formation

• moderator: brief instructions throughout
• Pitches and feedback. Anyone may make a "pitch" for a team project. We'll ask questions, offer comments, evaluate pros and cons together.
• Team-formatiom. You will take part in a kind of OpenSpace process. We’ll all be together in one room. We’ll post pitches on the walls, and we’ll wander around evaluating and critiquing pitches, and trying to decide where to best apply our talents and interests. Some champions will abandon their pitches for a better opportunity. Some pitches will get fused. Most pitches will get revised. Eventually we will coalesce into a set of 5 to 7 teams with clearly defined goals that can be completed in a week.

4:00 Reports and planning

• teams report project goals, respond to questions
• moderator assesses interest in bootcamps

Day 2

9:00 Intro and scheduling

• Webex link
  • meeting number 737 074 831, password treeforall
  • not keeping this going all day, only for one hour in morning for group session
• subgroups should put links to documentation and code on the google doc

10:30 OpenTree taxonomy bootcamp (optional)

12:00 - 1:30 lunch

1:45 Standups - brief reports from the groups. Here is a webex link; meeting number 731 890 685

Tuesday evening: Bill's beer garden (dinner at food sources nearby)

Day 3

Is it Wednesday already? No group meeting in the morning - everyone should arrive at 9 and start working in their groups. We will do standups after lunch at 1:30. Here is a webex link - meeting number 731 368 597, password treeforall.

Day 4

Working. All day. Webex link for standups at 1:30 - meeting number 739 733 678, password treeforall

Day 5

1:30 pm: Wrap up and final reports from groups. Webex link. Meeting number 733 487 556, password treeforall

3:15 pm: First shuttle leaves from Blake Transit center for DTW

4:45 pm: Second shuttle leaves from Blake Transit center for DTW