Part of the cost of this year's conference was funded through a generous donation from Agilent Technologies, Inc., a global company focused in the life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets.

Registration costs are $60 per person. Registration covers both days of the conference and will include light breakfast and lunch. Speakers accepted into the final schedule do not have to pay and are not required to register (apart from the submission of their talk proposal).

Registration is open now through September 30, 2018: REGISTER HERE.

The 2018 developers summit will take place at Villanova University on October 15 and 16, 2018.

Some lodging options can be found here; see the Villanova site for transportation suggestions.

We are currently accepting proposals for 20-minute talks (and we would be willing to accommodate longer talks if the subject matter justified them). Subjects could include new features (existing or proposed), implementation details (architecture or key technologies), inspiration (user feedback, design patterns, best practices), interesting VuFind instances (special projects, etc.) or anything else touching on VuFind or related projects. Please submit proposals to Demian Katz (demian DOT katz AT villanova DOT edu).

Proposals must be submitted by Friday, September 14, 2018.

As with past events, we plan to record and live-stream the structured portion of the event. More details will be forthcoming as the schedule is finalized.

This is a preliminary schedule and is subject to change.

 9:00 -  9:30 Registration, light refreshments
 9:30 - 10:30 Demian Katz - State of the Project, Q&A
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:15 Chris Hallberg - The Front-ier: The Distant Future of the Front-End
11:15 - 12:00 Cliff Missen - The eGranary Digital Library: Progress and Challenges
12:00 -  1:00 LUNCH (provided)
 1:00 -  2:15 VuFind Roadmapping Session
 2:15 -  2:30 Break
 2:30 -  3:00 Michelle Suranofsky - Integrating VuFind with External APIs: Lessons Learned
 3:00 -  4:30 HackFest / Break-out Sessions

         5:00 Dinner at Gullifty's (on your own)

More details on the dinner venue may be found here.

 9:00 -  9:30 Registration, light refreshments
 9:30 -  9:45 Morning Planning
 9:45 - 10:15 Lightning Talks
10:15 - 12:15 HackFest / Break-out Sessions
12:15 -  1:15 LUNCH (provided)
 1:15 -  4:30 HackFest / Break-out Sessions (continued)

In this talk, Demian will review what is new and what has changed since the last Summit as well as discuss some areas of future work that may help inform discussion during the afternoon's roadmapping session, where decisions will be made about the direction of the next major release. Time will be included for Q&A.

Additional talk descriptions coming soon….