BarCampAustin III will be held March 7th and 8th in Austin, Texas..Y'all

Proposed Sessions (30 minutes to 1 hour)

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, Blaine Cook and designer Ben Fullerton 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.
• Widgets and the Future of the Social Web - Justin Thorp of Clearspring Technologies would be interested in leading a discussion on the role of widgets (or modularizing your Web content) in the future of the social Web.

Demo Sessions (10 to 20 minute product/technology/tricks demos)

• Photonic - Mac OS X Leopard Flickr browser, searcher, and uploader. Jeremy Derr from Austin-based Mac developer Barton Springs Software will be on-hand to demo their new application, which allows you to view your Flickr streams, sets, groups, and contacts in a slick Leopard application with Core Animation.