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Agenda

NOTE : All times are estimated, all subject to change. Feel free to edit this agenda as needed and that includes adding your talk in any open slot.

Add your name to the schedule!

  • Be sure to log in with your Github account in order to edit this page.
  • Replace the placeholder content (e.g. "5in5 Talk #1) with your name and talk title.
  • Don't worry too much about the order within a time block, we can work that out live.
  • If you want to add a Discussion, talk to Shelby/Mike/Benjamin and we'll slot you in
  • We'll add the Feature talks to the sked late on the Thursday. If you don't see your name, see Shelby/Mike/Benjamin and we'll fix it.

Saturday, TalkDay (5in5 & Feature Talks)

Today is when Everyone Talks and Everyone Listens. All attendees have the oppty to share their thoughts and ideas in an open, supportive and positive environment of collaboration.

We wrap up this year's RESTFest with our "RESTFest After Party" (details to come).

Past Days

Wednesday Pre-Fest Workshop

The Pre-Fest Workshop is a full-day hands-on event where attendees can learn the details of building both back-end and front-end solutions for the Web. This year, the workshop is led by RESTFest alumni, Shelby-Switzer and Mike-Amundsen.

  • 8:30 - 9:00 : Welcome, Breakfast
  • 9:00 - 9:45 : What is REST?
  • 9:45 - 10:30 : Designing a REST API
  • 10:30 - 11:00 : Break
  • 11:00 - 11:45 : Implementing a REST Server
  • 11:45 - 12:30 : Validating your REST Server
  • 12:30 - 1:30 : Lunch
  • 1:30 - 2:15 : The Basics of a REST Client
  • 2:15 - 3:00 : Designing a REST Client
  • 3:00 - 3:30 : Break
  • 3:30 - 4:15 : Implementing a REST Client
  • 4:15 - 5:00 : Validating your REST Client

Thursday HackDay

HackDay is a chance for all RESTFest participants to join together an collaborate on one or more projects. This year's HackDay theme is Open Data and will be led by Shelby-Switzer. Whether your a developer, designer, deployment maven, documentation wizard, or just plain ready to help, we need all types this year to help build out real open data sites and projects. We also start some of the Featured-Talk and Five-in-Five talks Friday afternoon.

  • 8:30 - 9:00 : Welcome, Breakfast
  • 9:00 - 9:30 : The Challenges of Open Data APIs: Introduction to Open Data APIs and specific projects for the hack day that will help the Open Data ecosystem
  • 9:30 - 10:00 : Form Teams
  • 10:00 - 12:30 : Hack Session
  • 12:30 - 1:30 : Lunch
  • 1:30 - 4:00 : Hack Session
  • 4:00 - 5:00 : Stand-Ups, Demos
  • 5:00 - 10:00 : GET /Greenville Crawl

Friday, StackDay & Keynote

StackDay is a chance for all of us to show off cool tools and libraries we use when working on the Web. If you'be built some tools, show them off! If you really enjoy working with some platform, libraries, or other tools we'd love to learn more about them and how you use them.

Friday night is also when we host the Keynote. This year's talk is "Time to Redecentralise the Web" by Irina Bolychevsky.

Finally, Friday night is GameNight. Bring your family-friendly board games and card games for a night of fun.

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