# \[ANN\] Radiant CMS Sprint weekend

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-radiant-cms-sprint-weekend/147143>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [August 28, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-radiant-cms-sprint-weekend/147143 "2008-08-28T19:30:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-radiant-cms-sprint-weekend/147143/1 "2008-08-28T19:30:01Z")

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I’m excited to announce the Radiant CMS Sprint Weekend.

What:  
A day to weekend-long hackfest to help finish some features for the  
0.7 release of Radiant CMS. The official goals are – refactoring the  
admin controllers toward REST, implementing a new UI, adding blogging  
features, improving the extension registry, and writing more  
documentation.

When:  
Saturday, October 25, 2008, 8:00AM-6:00PM (official hours at the  
venue – unofficially all weekend)

Where:  
Carrboro Creative Co-working  
205 Lloyd St, Suite 101  
Carrboro, NC 27510 USA  
map: [http://rubyurl.com/imUx](http://rubyurl.com/imUx)  
url: [http://carrborocoworking.com](http://carrborocoworking.com)

Who:  
Members of the Radiant dev team and community - hopefully you!

THIS IS NOT A CONFERENCE! The focus is on hacking out a lot of  
code/design/documentation in a short amount of time. We encourage  
anyone who can contribute their code, web design, or writing skills to  
attend. If you’ll be coding, we expect a workable knowledge of Rails,  
RSpec, and Git – bonus points if you’ve worked on Radiant before, built  
extensions, or have experience with RESTful controller design and  
web-services. If you’ll be doing design, we expect a workable knowledge  
of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and image manipulation – bonus points if you  
know Haml, Sass, Prototype, Scriptaculous, and LowPro. If you want to  
do documentation, we expect you to be able to write clearly and use the  
Radiant wiki – bonus points if you write clean HTML.

All work and no play makes a dull Rubyist, so rest assured that we’ll  
have some free-time to relax, see the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill sights,  
eat, drink, and be merry.

If you plan to attend, please fill out this form so we know you’re  
coming: [http://rubyurl.com/tAl2](http://rubyurl.com/tAl2)

If you will be traveling to North Carolina from out-of-state or need  
assistance making travel plans, please feel free to contact me  
privately.

On behalf of John L. and the rest of the dev team, I sincerely hope  
you can make it!

Cheers,

Sean C.  
Lead Developer, Radiant CMS

P.S. If you are a business or individual interested in sponsoring some  
food, drink or swag for the attendees, please contact me privately.

P.P.S. My apologies to those who expressed interest in attending in the  
Northeast USA and those from outside the USA - since the scope of this  
weekend is small, it was easiest to host it close to home. Watch the  
mailing lists for information about a more formal conference-like  
gathering soon.

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**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-radiant-cms-sprint-weekend/147143/2 "2008-08-28T20:06:24Z")

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On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 13:29 -0400, Sean C. wrote:

> I’m excited to announce the Radiant CMS Sprint Weekend.

I cannot wait to see the fruits of your labor, especially the blogging  
additions and the new UI. Good luck with it.

~Nate

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**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-radiant-cms-sprint-weekend/147143/3 "2008-08-28T20:18:42Z")

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I wish flying to the states from the Netherlands was like taking a bus  
😃  
Then I would be there al right…  
Good luck guys… great initiative.

Peter.

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:58 PM, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote:

> Radiant mailing list  
> Post: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
> Search: [http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/](http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/)  
> Site: [http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant](http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant)

–  
met vriendelijke groet,

Peter B.

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**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-radiant-cms-sprint-weekend/147143/4 "2008-08-28T21:24:25Z")

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I’m not planning to travel there but I’d like to work on some design  
elements. Let me know what you have on your list as far as designing  
and marking up goes.

Steven

> **[STEVEN SOUTHARD |Email Developer](https://www.stevensouthard.com/)**
>
> Steven Southard | Email Developer
