Proposed Sessions

Attendees will vote on sessions in the AM, sessions with the most votes will be held later in the evening when SXSW folks can join in.

• On Twitter - Engineers Alex Payne and Blaine Cook discuss where the popular microblogging/status/messaging service is at, where it's going, and whatever you'd like to get out of it. The discussion can be as developer- or user-focused as the crowd would like it to be :) (Session requested by whurley)
• Managing your Community - DawnFoster would love to lead a discussion about best practices (what works, what doesn't, etc.) I don't like to talk at people, so this will be some kind of interactive round table discussion for community peeps.
• Communication in International Projects - Kevin Ready would be happy to discuss how communication on international technical teams can become a roadblock to project success, and what managers can do to get things back on track (or keep them on track from the beginning).
• An API Design Postmortem - Ben Vinegar would be willing to share some lessons learned in designing/developing the FreshBooks API; mistakes, successes, woulda-coulda-shouldas, and so on
• Simple Semantics for Mashups Cyc is an AI project that's been going on in Austin for 20 years. Some of the results of that project have been released as free software, others under a research license, and now, some are being made available as web services. This session will cover what's available, and how to access Cyc semantics with REST to use in your mash-ups. Michael Witbrock (VP for Research at Cycorp) will present.