Sessions are the main events at BarCamp. They offer a chance to get a group of people together for an in-depth talk or discussion. Sessions will be scheduled live during BarCamp by writing your name and topic on the event grid. But you can use this page to test the waters for a topic, lure people to your session, or ask for a session on something you want to learn about.
Offer a Session Topic
If you want to give a session, put your name and session topic here.
- Marketing & Business Models - RayDeck
- Coworking - GregorRothfuss
- Groups and gatherings for the Boston geek community - ShimonRura
- Podcasting and guerrilla marketing - tips to promote your show that don't cost an arm, leg, and iPod - ChristopherPenn - 2 PM in the Sudbury Room - Take Elevator to 6S
- How to Podcast - Podcasting 101 - ChristopherPenn - 2:30 PM in the Sudbury Room - Take Elevator to 6S
- Microformats and Syndication Beyond RSS - Ian Muir
- Intro To Gentoo Linux - RajivManglani
- Give Effective Presentations -- How to wow the crowds, sell your idea, and avoid becoming Powerpoint's bitch. -- RodBegbie
- Creating Content Networks- Chris Brogan - Aggregating Blogs, Podcasts, and More for a Business. Thanks to everyone who came. It was great! Come to Grasshopper Factory in a few days for audio podcasting that a gang of us did at the show.
- Building and managing distributed software teams Andy Singleton (I'm very interested -- ShimonRura)
- Mashup tutorial - many ways to do client side and server side mashups. - MargaretOlson
- Machine learning / supervised learning techniques -- Adam Smith
- Run a Linux development web server on your Windows desktop - David Kelleher
- Building scalable infrastructures for web applications on open source software - Adam Fletcher
- Everything Is Miscellaneous - I'm finishing a rough draft of a book about how the new principles of organization made possible by the digitizing of information are transforming the authority and role of knowledge. Or something like that. I'll run it by you? DavidWeinberger
- XMPP/Jabber - Why decentralized instant messaging is good for you and how to get started with it - StevePomeroy
- Put Amazon.com's API to work client-side, with XSLT & JSON (or how to build a proxy-less storefront in just a few K of javascript) -- AlanTaylor
- How technology is changing the music industry (optionally titled "Building a better MySpace"), discussion/demos of tools for podcasting, streaming radio, artist portfolios, aggregated event calendars. hopefully the guys from tourb.us, audiobeta and macjams will join this session. - NateAune
- Earning a living without having a job; how to make money building, buying and selling websites (any interest in this?) -- Peter Davis
Intellectual property basics for software startups: what every entrepreneur should be thinking about to maximize their success -- Miguel Danielson Sorry guys! I have a scheduling conflict.- Building a Web2.0 site for the masses: packaging Web services, RSS, Google Maps, and user generated content for the average Joe -- Geoff Menegay and Rebecca Xiong, HeyLetsGo.com
- Commercializing technology from the beginning - Sudha Jamthe
Potential Panel Topics
- The Future of the Evil Empire - A panel about Microsoft's place in the future of technology. As a proponent of Microsoft technology and web developer, I'd be interested to get together with developers from othe languages and have a panel about Microsofts role and the effects of open source on propreitary software. I think this could be very interesting. Ian Muir
- Understanding Taxonomy - A panel on tagging, folksonomy, taxonomy. This could be a good way for several presenters to each present a micro-session on a topic related to taxonomy and then have a discussion about the pros and cons of each. Ian Muir Orginally Inspired by David Weinberger on the mailing list
- Your Second Life - No, not the game. Talk about the things you're doing in your off-work time (or on work, but not for your company) that you're hoping to grow into a new career. Discuss ways to grow these ideas into money-makers. Talk about networking with other attendees to really give the projects momentum. -- suggested by Chris Brogan...
Request a Session Topic
If you want to see a session, list its topic here along with your name. If you're interested in something you see here, add your name!
- Videoblogging
- How about a session on cool ideas for web apps that we just don't have time to do - maybe someone *has* the time? (idea stolen from BarCampOttawa)
- Maybe we could take is a step further. Rather than having a session, we could incorporate this with the contest. Create a period for people to take 5 minutes each to share their project around 4:00pm on the 3rd and use it as a catalyst for the coding competition.Ian Muir
- Since Amit & Resig have signed up, I'd like to see their award winning "Hacking Myspace" presentation
- Using SketchUp, emphasis on writing scripts for SketchUp (would also be an intro to Ruby)
