Agenda:

• Welcome, Introductions (Alex Russell, Dylan Schiemann, Peter Higgins)

  A short introduction to the Event, thoughts on the state of Dojo, Ajax, and the Web (and beyond).

• Tutorial - Progressive Dojo (Peter Higgins)
  Upgrading your existing pages with unobtrusive Dojo - understanding event details, manipulating the Dom, and making CSS work for you.
• Presentation - DojoX GFX and FX (Matthew Russell)
• Presentation - Secrets of DojoX (Tom Trenka)
  Run through a lot of the great tools available in DojoX
• Tutorial - Getting going ... Zend + Dojo (Matthew O'Phinney)
• Tutorial - Dijit Layouts In and Out (Nikolai Onken)
• Tutorial - Reusable code, Widgeting (Peter Higgins)
• Community - Getting Involved (Peter Higgins, Nikolai Onken)
• Lightning Demos - What do you have? Show us.

Speakers:

Alex Russell

Alex Russell is co-creator of the Dojo Toolkit and Director of R&D at SitePen, a consultancy focused on the development of web applications, exceptional user experience, and pushing the limits of the web. Currently, he serves as President of the Dojo Foundation, an organization that supports development of several high-quality open source projects, distributing them under liberal terms.

Dylan Schiemann

Dylan[io] is the CEO of SitePen, Inc., long-time Dojo Committer, Cometd Committer, and all around father figure of Dojo. He co-founded the Dojo Foundation and the Dojo Toolkit, and is directly involved in near every aspect of the Toolkit's success.

Peter Higgins

Peter serves as the Dojo Project Lead, co-editor of DojoCampus, is a long time Dojo Contributor, and the Lead of SitePen, Inc. Support Services. He spends his time engulfed in Dojo, and currently resides in Greeneville, Tennessee.

Nikolai Onken

Nikolai is the creator and maintainer of DojoCampus, the community operated DojoDocumentation Project, member of uxebu, and an active Dojo Committer responsible for two great theme contributions as well as endless work on Dijit layout components.

Tom Trenka

Former project lead of DojoX, Tom Trenka is a Senior Software Engineer with SitePen, Inc. where he focuses on pushing the boundaries of technologies for the Open Web. Tom has been responsible for such things as bringing full-featured charting, geography integration, cryptography and more to the Dojo Toolkit--and continues to bring cutting-edge features to the Dojo Toolkit. Tom currently resides in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, where he earned his Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory. In his spare time, he works with the local music scene, does a lot of home improvement and is studying the Japanese language.

Matthew A. Russell

Matthew is the Director of Research Solutions for Digital Reasoning Systems, a company specializing in unstructured text mining, CTO of buzzwuz, a seed stage startup, the author of Dojo: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly, June 2008), and valued Dojo contributor.

Matthew O'Phinney

Matthew is a PHP developer and IT specialist, currently working for Zend's online operations team where he architects their corporate CMS and web services. Additionally, he is a Core Contributor to the Zend Framework, and spearheading the Dojo + Zend Framework integration. He contributes to a number of PHP projects, blogs on PHP-related topics, and present talks and tutorials related to PHP development and the projects to which he contributes.