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Revision as of 06:26, June 20, 2012
Overview
What's the Plan? Get together to make some simple Discovery clients! All are welcome, no previous experience or coding skills necessary!
Non-Coders
Geoportal
We will have a Geoportal from our testbed up and running. You can add servers into its configuration, take it out for a spin!
Mentor: Christine White
Command line (wget, curl)
Yes, you can interact with an OpenSearch server or a Data Cast using basic command-line URL getters, like wget (available for all platforms) and curl.
Mentors: ... and Chris Lynnes
Browsers and News Readers
It's even possible to interact with both Data "casts" and OpenSearch servers using a simple browser. Also, News Readers, especially useful for Data casts!
Mentors: Ruth Duerr and ...
Perl Monks
Learn how to hack a quick client together. Particularly useful for doing scripted search/acquire for datasets following your own, possibly idiosyncratic needs.
Mentors: Chris Lynnes and ...
Python Scripters
<Insert blurb here>
Mentors: Nga Chung and ...
