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

Room Layout

1st Floor

Bonnie Hunter - (50 seats)

Gwyn David - (20 seats)

Focus Group - (15 seats)

Fish Tank - (12 seats)

2nd Floor

Alpha Lab (75 seats in rows)

Screening Room - (40 seats)

Omega Lab - (12 seats)

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.
• Practical Semantic Markup ChristopherStJohn You know how to make your pages look pretty to people, learn how cool technologies from the folks who brought you HTML let you make your pages pretty to machines, too. See how RDFa (and microformats), GRDDL and SPARQL can work together to make your data come alive as well as just look good. This session is guaranteed not to use the words "Semantic Web", "RDF" or "Ontology", not even once. The focus is on stuff you can use, right away. In addition to the presentation in the evening (assuming it gets the votes), I'd like to do a workshop with people who will be at BarCamp during the day.
• The Connnected living room Ben Cote will talk about the connected living room and the future of content delivery on the open platform DivX Connected experience. Will also walk through the just-released-in-time-for-Barcamp SDK upon which developers can customize the experience and write custom plug-ins to extend the platform that much further.

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.