You wanna lead a session at BarCampRDU? Add it here. We'll need your sessions name, your name, a brief description, and if you're looking for people to co-lead your session or whatever.

Please note: If you're going to be demoing a product, the sessions needs to go to: BarCampRDUProductDemos. The BarCampRDU session format is open discussion, so please understand that your sessions will be conversations as well as presentations.

• Social Networks - FredStutzman. We'll spend a session talking about Social Networking Websites, such as Myspace, Facebook and Linked In. We'll look at them, figure out why people use them, and share ideas about how businesses can leverage social networks.

• Information Archeology - Kevin Webb We can talk about the tools and methods for the regular Joe to do cool stuff with large amounts of data (I'm particularly into old pre-internet stuff that no one's made available yet in digital form but we can talk about any kind of data). Search doesn't just have to be left for Google to take care of and even then there are more ways to slice stuff than just full text queries (mashups and custom visualization). Some tools we can setup and play with include Xapian text search and Postgres/PostGIS for doing geographic queries/analysis. As some quick practicals I can also talk about my work with the All Patents Initiative and the Internet Archive's Open Library Project. Let me know if you're interested in collaborating or bring your favorite dataset. wino kredyt mieszkaniowy sprzedam mieszkanie sprzedam bilet

• Using Modern Web Frameworks for Enterprise Apps - Kevin Webb Ruby on Rails is fun but can it give Jakarta et al a run for their money? Let's look at the issues/alternatives in a few of the new Model-View-Controller frameworks out there (RoR,CakePHP,CodeIgnitor,etc.) and the trade offs for using them to do complicated/large projects. One I'm particularly enamored with (and can demo) is Symfony - a very powerful/flexible PHP based framework with specific thought given to addressing enterprise developer needs (e.g. has a built in Torque-like object persistence layer thanks to Propel). I think it would rock if we had a group of folks doing these kind of apps in different settings/technologies to share war stories and methods. Here's some fun recommended pre-reading: Code Generation vs. Metaprogramming

• Open Source VOIP - Scott Morningstar We will take a stock Linksys WRT54GL and install OpenWRT Linux Firmware and Milkfish Open SER implementation. We will set up an account with Junction Networks for inbound and outbound PSTN calls. I will bring several SIP phones ranging from the budgetone 101 to the Cisco 7970G as well as several 802.11 wireless SIP phones. This is everything you need to replace your land line phone using hardware you probably already have. If people bring routers we can flash them up as we go.

• Atom Publishing Protocol - Joe Gregorio The Atom Publishing Protocol, a product of the IETF, is a new weblog publishing protocol that is implemented in some form or another by Google, Blogger, SixApart, even Microsoft is putting APP support into Word 2007. We can talk about the basic operation, differences between the APP and other publishing protocols, different implementations, non-weblog uses for the APP and even hook up some code to show how easy the APP is to use.

• The Future of Publishing? - Andy Hunt of the Pragmatic Programmers will talk about the Pragmatic Bookshelf, the future of publishing, PDFS & DRM, and that sort of thing. Robbie Allen, O'Reilly author and editor, will talk about Internet Publishing (see the Internet Publishing Manifesto).

• Refactoring Your Wetware - Andy Hunt of the Pragmatic Programmers likes to talk about how your brain works. Pole-bridging, pragmatic learning, the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition, and even a little of Getting Things Done are all fair game.

• Google Web Toolkit
  - Ryan Cox We will walk through construction of a GWT web app in real time; deploy it to a live server; debate the merits of JavaScript as a compilation target; look at one or two alternatives; explore some legal issues; and poke around under the hood.

• Continuous Integration
  - Jared Richardson . Continuous Integration (CI) is a practice that seems to be popping up all over the place. I've worked with CI at startups and large companies as well. Let's talk about why you'd want to use CI, then look at how to set up Cruise Control, a very popular CI package. I'd welcome any collaborators. Bring your questions about how to get things rolling at your day job. :) Let's make this interactive.

• Sex & The Death Of Advertising: Identifying what’s next.

  My name is Martin Smith martinsellingzoe@aol.com and I learned to sell soap for P&G and candy for M&M/Mars. Selling soap was harder by the way. Sex & The Death of Advertising will discuss what we, as marketers, do when tried and true market creating strategies cease to work. What are the implications of the death of the Advertising Industrial Complex? Will new tools such as search engine marketing (SEM) eventually end up in the same tangled mess due to pressure from advertisers fleeing now unsuccessful channels such as TV, Radio and Infomercials? Is there something fundamentally different in new “pull” ad models that will prevent SEM from losing reach like television and print? We will discuss selections from The Attention Economy by Davenport and Beck, Gonzo Marketing by Christopher Locke and All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin. If you have a favorite marketing author or new marketing theory, please bring it to our discussion. Our session’s draft goal will be to brainstorm key elements of our new marketing paradigm and identify what’s next.

• Creating mobile web applications with Ruby on Rails

  One of the challenges with creating web-based applications for mobile devices is the tremendous client diversity. Mobile clients vary greatly in screen size, available bandwidth, and browser capabilities. Some devices support traditional HTML, some WML only, some XHTML, and some JavaScript. It would be an engineering nightmare to try to code a separate view for each type of potential client. Recently I have been building a site that handles this problem gracefully using the Rails framework. I will walk through the architecture, source code, and unit testing techniques. And, of course I will leave time for discussion. -- Chris Garrett

• Mobile Community (Rick Cecil) - We'll discuss how the mobile Web--and, more importantly, how constant access to the Web and communications--is increasing the power of community, yet there are few companies and people taking advantage of this new paradigm in community. We'll also explore: Is there a way to monetize things like Flashmobs? How do online and off-line community concepts translate to the mobile web?

• Experience design for programmers Emotional Design: Designing for Play
  (Rick Cecil) - Seems like there are more programmers than UX folk, so thought I would change my topic. In this presentation, I'll discuss some basics of experience design for people interested in experience design but who are not experience design professionals; topics I will cover: UI design best practices; how to understand your users, creating workflows that make sense, and ad hoc user testing.

• Geek Powers for Good and Open-Source Hardware (Chuck Messer) The application of open source software ethics to hardware has created a quickly growing, passionate community of energetic and incredibly creative makers (see their work at instructables.com). What could happen if this community were energized to work on the many challenging and interesting problems available to serve the public good? How can the quickly maturing rapid manufacturing industry help to enable the movement? I would like to discuss how we can foster this convergence of technologies, altruism and human energy to solve pressing problems that aren't being addressed by conventional commercial models. I'll present the efforts of openprosthetics.org and Engineering World Health. Bring your examples of open challenges and contributions to discuss.

• Learn to Juggle - (Tanner Lovelace) Take a break from the tech heavy sessions and learn the basics of three ball juggling. I'll try to bring extra balls and bean bags with me, but if you have juggling balls bring them with you. Extra props are welcome too.

• Open-Source Hacking - (Brenton Leanhardt). I'm bringing my hacky-sac if anyone's interested. If not, I'll probably just learn to juggle.

• RNA - (Seairth Jacobs) Almost three years ago, I put together an xml-based specification that had the goal of replacing e-mail as we know it. I called it RNA, or "RESTful Notification Architecture". Well, I put it on my site and went on to other things... until now. And here is where barcamp comes into the picture. I think I have something that has enormous possibilities, but won't really know until I get critical feedback. So, if you see the possibilities I do (this can do so much more than replace e-mail), I will use this session to go into greater detail of how RNA works, what I have in mind for the future of the specification (yes, it's a work in progress), and to get answers to questions like:
  • is this doable?
  • how can it be improved?
  • what would be the best approach to implement it?
  • who would use it?
  • would anyone like to help?

• Linux Package Management with Conary (Tim Gerla) There has been little real innovation in Linux package management for a while now. Conary is a next-generation system that brings together SCM and distributed development concepts into the system package management and provisioning space. Conary can make packaging software quite painless, and can help you manage customizations to open-source software in a reasonable way. Come see how.

• Journalisming (Kirk Ross) The first newspaper I worked for used molten lead. The last one sent me off to find a digital grail. It was enough to make me quit my job and sit around at home recording MP3s of legislative debates. Looking for a conversation about how citizens can be better journalists and how journalists can be better citizens.

• The Business of Open Source (Tarus Balog) In May of 2002 I was given the opportunity to become the maintainer of OpenNMS. It was exciting and scary at the same time, since the only way to really do justice to the project was to work on it full time, and how to make money on open source software was, and still is, not very well understood. Now, four years later, the OpenNMS Group is profitable, has half a dozen employees, a real office, and customers in over 10 countries. We're having our second developer's conference the week after BarCamp and in the last couple of months the project has been in the top 100 most active projects on Sourceforge. At BarCampRDU I'd be more than willing to lead a discussion on the business of open source from the perspective of someone who has done it.

• Fighting Botnet Spam During the SMTP Session (Steven Champeon) For the past three years, I've been developing the Enemies List, a data set of known reverse DNS naming conventions for nearly 11K domains, mostly generic/dynamic consumer-grade Internet connections - the botnet garden. I'll talk about how you can block most of your inbound spam without the overhead of SpamAssassin or the risk of backscatter, and show you how you can stop wasting cycles on email's weaknesses and start enjoying a spam-free inbox. Focusing primarily on sendmail, the discussions may also cover our ongoing efforts to provide more robust support for exim and postfix.

• I want to teach my wife to use version control and I need help! - (Brenton Leanhardt) She doesn't even know how to use vi! How is she ever suppose to compile her LaTex? While we do so many things right in software engineering, we struggle to share our tools with the rest of the world. My question is: Should we even try? If so, how? I really want to try but I know I might just go about it the wrong way and tell her to RTFM. Let's talk about how to teach something to non-techies. Personally I would like to start with Version Control, but I'm open to anything.