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Details of the OpenROAD Sprint 28th-29th September, and the OpenROAD User Group Meeting on Monday 28th September

Contents 1 Contacts: 2 Getting there: 2.1 Address 2.2 From Slough Rail/Bus Station 2.3 By Car 3 User Group Meeting: 3.1 Attendees: 3.2 Agenda: 4 Sprint: 4.1 Attendees: 4.2 Agenda: 4.3 Monday: 4.4 Tuesday: 5 Topics: 6 Day 1: 7 Day 2:

Contacts:

Joe Kronk (joseph.kronk@ingres.com)
Sean Thrower (sean.thrower@ingres.com)

Getting there:

Address

Ingres Europe Limited
215 Bath Road
Slough
Berkshire
SL1 4AA

From Slough Rail/Bus Station

Leave the station exiting onto Brunel Way. Turn left onto William St and go right at the roundabout onto Wellington St. This leads onto the Bath Road. At the major traffic lights at the junction with the A355 (signposted to M4) continue straight on for approximately half a mile. 215 Bath Road is on the left hand side of the road near the junction with Twinches Lane. Slough Bus Station is located opposite the rail station. Buses 75 and 76 run from here down the Bath Road. Alight at ‘Slough Trading Estate, Twinches Lane North’, and then walk slightly down the road against the direction of traffic. The office is a few metres down on the same side of the road, just before Twinches Lane.

By Car

Exit M4 Junction 6 for Slough Central. Go straight on at first roundabout. Keep in left hand lane in preparation to filter left before the A4 Bath Road. At main A4 traffic lights turn left into the Bath Road. Stay in left hand lane and approximately half a mile down the Bath Road turn left at Twinches Lane, then immediately right at Bath Road. The visitors’ car park is located at the front of the building and is accessed from the side road section of the Bath Road.

User Group Meeting:

This will start at 6pm Monday at the Ingres Slough office, and will take place in the Training Room there.

Attendees:

• Oliver Oyston
• Andreas Giessel
• Paul White
• Rich Smith
• Kim Ginnerup
• Brigitte Duplenne
• Sean Thrower
• Roy Deal Simon
• Bodo Bergmann
• Joe Kronk
• Paul Andrews
• Matt Rendell
• Dave Coote
• Palle Lund
• Roy Hann
• Paul Andrews

Agenda:

	6.00pm            Welcome
	6.05pm            Paul White
	6.30pm            Roy Deal Simon
	7.00pm            Rich Smith
	7.30pm            Joe Kronk
	8.00pm            Transport to Dinner at Malik’s Restaurant in Cookham
	8.30pm            Dinner. Transport back provided.

Presentations

Topic: OpenROAD status and plans
Speaker: Joe Kronk - Director, Engineering Ingres Corporation
Joe will give an update on the current status and plans for OpenROAD. This will be a short presentation that gives an update on the OpenROAD team's activity from a support and development prospective. After a short update on the state of OpenROAD 2006, well talk about plans for OpenROAD 5.2, 6.0 and 7.0 outlining the features that are planned. There will be some time for some Q & A after the presentation.

Topic: Ingres Alchemy
Speaker: Rich Smith - Luminary Solutions
Rich has a an exciting announcement about a new contribution to the Open Source community. He also covers some great OpenROAD development / integration tools such as Thug and ProxyGen.

Topic: Mobile Application Architecture for the Cloud
Speaker: Paul White - Shift Seven Solutions
Like websites in the 90s, Mobile Apps are becoming a must have for a mobile workforce. Paul White demonstrates the methodology and mobile architectures Peerless Foods has developed to make mobile apps faster, cheaper and easier to use.

Topic: Deployment on Steroids with LoadnRun
Speaker: Roy Deal Simon - Bording Data
What if eClients were as convenient and secure to deploy as Silverlight applications? Roy Simon will give a sneak-peek at the next generation of the eClient installer which targets locked-down PCs and features side-by-side installations, auto-deployment, auto-updating, cross-platform setups, and much more.

Sprint:

This will start at 9am Monday at the Ingres Slough office, and will take place in the Windor Conference Room there. Please make sure you bring laptops. There will be a couple of lifeboat laptops, for emergency only!

Attendees:

• Oliver Oyston
• Andreas Giessel
• Paul White
• Rich Smith
• Kim Ginnerup
• Brigitte Duplenne
• Sean Thrower
• Roy Deal Simon
• Bodo Bergmann
• Joe Kronk
• Matt Rendell
• Dave Coote
• Palle Lund

Agenda:

Monday:

	9.00am            Welcome 

	9.15am            Training session:  How Workbench 4GL works – things you must know!

	9.45am            Finalization of topics and groups

	10.00am          Development activity begins

	1.00pm            Buffet lunch

	5.00pm            Break for the day

Opportunity for attendees to go back to your hotel, freshen up etc before the User Group meeting at 6pm.

Tuesday:

	9.00am            Training session:  How OpenROAD 3GL works – things you must know!

	9.30am            Development activity begins

	1.00pm            Buffet lunch

	6.00pm            Break for the day

Opportunity for attendees to go back to your hotel, freshen up etc before the meal.

	7.00pm            Transport to Dinner at The Crown, Bray.

Transport provided.

	7.30pm            Dinner

Transport back provided.

Topics:

• Trace Window:Optional Timestamp in Trace window(all messages in the trace window should have a timestamp if a environment variable is set to do so)
• Workbench: select more than one item in the user class editor attributes or methods list for copy, cut & paste
• Workbench: store information on DB connection created by a user in the Query tab, so the next time the Workbench is opened he can reconnect there
• Workbench: when refreshing the application list or component list the DBCache should be refreshed too, Otherwise you don’t see changes made by other processes (e.g. a PropertyChanger run), if you had the application/component already fetched.

Day 1:

Oliver, Palle, Joe, Bodo, Andreas

Joe, Bodo, Andreas, Dave, Roy, Kim

Dave, Roy, Kim, Brigitte

Sean, Roy, Kim

Kim, Oliver, Paul

Day 2:

Andreas, Oliver, Bodo, Sean, Kim, Rich, Dave, Palle Paul, Joe, Roy