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.
- The Pros and Cons of Micro Capital: Should You Take $6,000 from Paul Graham. Panel discussion ( some details )- MikeWalsh
- Dept of Redundancy Department: How to Avoid Service Failures in Web Startups - JeffPotter
- I'll lead a session on OpenID, the wickedawesome decentralized authentication system that You Should Use Now! - RodBegbie
- Mobile Social Networking Roundtable: What have we learned, and what's in the future - KeithErskine
- Ruby on Rails: what's all the hype about? - RajivManglani
- Intro to Gentoo Linux - RajivManglani
- Keeping community momentum past BarCamp2 - YairMarcow
- A session for Python programmers -- Let's get together and discuss/recommend tools, libraries, frameworks, etc. - RodBegbie
- Inventing the un-unconference: What's next? - Jack Hodgson
- Secure web applications: why so rare? Coding practices to look out for - Andrew Shearer
- ConnexTo: The Mobile Code Scanning solution and its cool applications - Amir Rozenberg
- Podcasting (and social media, if somone wants to jumo in) -- Who? What? How? and Why? -- Adam Weiss
- The Basics Of Startup Marketing: Now that you have something built, how do you find users? - Dharmesh Shah
- Asterisk and VoIP Discussion, as requested by RodBegbie. Go over the features and implementation of Asterisk VoIP and how it compares to other commercial VoIP offerings.
- Beyond RoboCal, Ted Gilchrist: Towards a Poor Man's Blackberry. (calendar, RSS aggregator, email on vanilla phone) Discussion spurred by smoke and mirrors alpha demo. Followup question: Is this stuff still interesting, even if you have a Blackberry and are already forking over the dough for the data plan?
- What Sucks (or does not suck) about BarCamp? - This will be a roving survey... hopefully video taped - MikeWalsh
- Using AxKit + xHTML and XSLT to create simple, easy-to-maintain, standards-compliant websites. - StevePomeroy
- If anyone is interested in applying all this stuff to the classroom, I could see participating in or even moderating a group discussion of Educational Technology. I put together a starter list of possible topics here at EdTech. Michael Feldman
- MH - The true UNIX mail system. -- Jerrad
- State of Online Music - Freeform discussion of developments in online music. How are you finding new music? Interesting new sites? Death of DRM? -- Mike Champion
- Session for Rails hackers - What are people building? Tips, tricks, pains? What would you want in Rails 2.0? Interest in JRuby? -- Mike Champion
Request a Session
If there's something you're interested in hearing about, request a session and see if anyone wants to lead it
- Anyone hacking on Asterisk or other VOIP stuff? I'd love to hear what's going on in that field. - RodBegbie
- I have done a bit with SIP recently and could give a short presentation on the subject. I haven't used Asterisk, but I have used openser and a bunch of other open source SIP-related projects. - StevePomeroy
- i maintain asterisk on gentoo linux, and have a couple of sites running asterisk. i'll be at barcamp on sunday and could do a quick talk. - RajivManglani
- If anyone working on the OLPC project is around, I think a technical presentation & demo would be of interest to lots of folks.
- ChrisBall: I should be able to attend/give a demo.
- Several Berkman Center folks would be interested in not just an overview of Ruby but some nittygritty too. Is that part of the planned Ruby session or would that be an extra session? - Erica George
- AbhayKumar: What kind of nittygritty are you looking for, Erica? There are so many places where we can go with this. So far it looks like there will be a Rails talk.
- Anyone involved in open source Machine (Language) Translation projects? I'm interested in the topic of Language Translation and any projects working on the problem. Ed M
- How to improve the navigability/usability of our Boston, Cambridge public libraries' buildings/collections... -- dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu
