Hack Days
Monday, May 9th and Tuesday May 10th
Stembolt is opening up the conference centre to all conference attendees Monday, May 9 and Tuesday, May 10 for informal, optional hack days. We'll start working on Solidus at 10am both days, take a break for everyone to grab their lunch around noon, and wrap up around 5pm. Show up with your laptop whenever you want for fun, coding, and to improve the Solidus platform!
Wednesday, May 11th
| Registration | 9:00 - 9:45 | |
| MC Notes | Gregor MacDougall | 9:50 - 10:00 |
| Solidus: We’re Getting Better | Clarke Brunsdon | 10:05 - 10:50 |
| Your Ecommerce Conversion Rate Sucks... Now What!? | Manuel Vidaurre and Edwin Cruz | 10:55 - 11:40 |
| Lunch | 11:40 - 1:00 | |
| Customizing Solidus at the Model and Controller Levels | Jordan Brough | 1:00 - 1:45 |
| Replacing Wombat with Micro-Services and RabbitMQ | JP Silvashy | 1:50 - 2:35 |
| Coffee Break | 2:35 - 3:00 | |
| Machine Learning and Ecommerce | David Jones | 3:00 - 3:45 |
| Solidus Admin | John Hawthorn | 3:50 - 4:35 |
| Pub Night at the Duke of York Hotel | Conf badge required for admittance | 6 until the beer runs out |
Thursday, May 12th
| A Retrospective on Relaunching Glossier on Solidus with an API-First Approach | Bryan Mahoney | 9:00 - 9:45 |
| Solidus’s API for the Uninitiated | Braden Douglass | 9:50 - 10:35 |
| Coffee Break | 10:35 - 11:00 | |
| Automating the Impossible - DevOps in a Modern Digital Agency | Daniel Honig and David Beale | 11:00 - 11:45 |
| Lunch | 11:45 - 1:00 | |
| How to do UX When You’re Not a UX Person | Amanda Healey | 1:00 - 1:45 |
| Taxing Taxes: Internationalizing Solidus’ Tax System | Martin Meyerhoff | 1:50 - 2:35 |
| Coffee Break | 2:35 - 3:00 | |
| Workshop - Configuring Taxes in Solidus | Martin Meyerhoff | 3:00 - 3:45 |
| Birds of a Feather | 3 rooms - see each room door for a list of topics and hosts | 3:00 - 4:30 |
| Break | 4:30 - 4:40 | |
| Closing | Clarke Brunsdon | 4:40 - 5:00 |
A Birds of a Feather (BoF) session is an informal, ad-hoc discussion group. We’ll be splitting the main conference room and setting time aside for BoF groups to get together to discuss a shared interest. If you’re interested in leading a session, please sign up on the main conference board in the lobby by 2:45pm Thursday.