Join Us for the First
CONNECT Code-A-Thon!

Work on contributing to the CONNECT solution and progressing the health IT agenda while gazing over the Washington Monument! Come work side-by-side with the CONNECT development team, federal partners and other contributors to the CONNECT Open Source Project.

Date:
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Note: This event has passed.

Location:
Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, SW, Suite 800,
Washington, D.C. 20201
Metro Stop Federal Center SW

Attire:
The attire for this event is casual.

Lodging:
Click here for hotel information.

Prepare to roll up your sleeves and work with us to improve the CONNECT solution and make it even more valuable for production environments. Come and work with us on:

1. Bug fixes
   - No error reported when connection manager cannot find endpoint URL
   - Handle mapping issues in Audit messages
2. Adapters
   - Use Mirth as an HIEM adapter
3. Universal Client Apps
   - Create subscription management client
   - Create an audit log viewer
4. Infrastructure
   - Automate installation and setup
   - Ability to link log messages together across components
5. Message Processing
   - Demonstrate mechanism to perform XML validation on inbound messages
6. Master Patient Index (MPI)
   - Create component to load patients into MPI
   - Integrate MirthMatch as an MPI component
7. Performance and Capacity Planning
8. Security (Secure Coding Practices)
   - Discussion of Ideals nad Principles
   - Overview of current approach
   - What remains / what more can be done?
9. Testing
   - Using SoapUI to create messages
   - How to write tests
   - Gaps in coverage
10. Development Tools
11. Best practices
    - Creating a patch
    - Open discussion and development of best practices (e.g. commit messages, etc.)
    - Reducing Participant Barriers (e.g. building the software, running baseline test, etc)
12. ...Or please feel free to recommend other topics in the forum!

In addition to development activities, the Code-A-Thon will provide a forum for discussion related to critical topics, including:

• Adaptor creation
• Ways to use the development tools more effectively
• Issues users are encountering and discussion of potential fixes
• The status of security technical controls (a CONNECT certification and verification expert will be present)

The Code-A-Thon will also host a discussion of new tools available through the CONNECT Community Portal, including source code control, bug and story tracking, and forums.

Please register to let us know you will be attending and provide any additional topics you would like to cover. We want to make sure we have enough working space and food!

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