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.

The 2018 developers summit took place at Villanova University's Falvey Memorial Library on October 15 and 16, 2018.

Recordings of the presentations from the conference will be posted here as they become available.

Shared Google Docs used for the conference can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/vusummit2018.

The Twitter hashtag for the event was #VuFind18.

 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.

In VuFind 5.0, much of the focus was on improving the back-end, server-side code. This means that the front-end code may be due for some new updates and improvements during the next development cycle. In this talk, Chris looks ahead to some possible goals, benefits and challenges to inspire conversation during roadmapping.

This presentation discusses docValues, Shards/Replicas and deep paging and their implications for a large-scale Solr installation.

The off-line eGranary Digital Library, a project to bring information to areas of the world without Internet connectivity, has utilized VUFind for the last ten years. This talk looks at the project's progress and challenges in updating and expanding its search system.

Lehigh's VuFind installation has required integration with a variety of external systems, and some of this work has led to new features in the core VuFind distribution. In this talk, Michelle will discuss some of the challenges encountered during integration and how they were overcome, as well as looking ahead to other future possibilities for connecting VuFind with third-party systems.