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Schedule

Day 1, 26th July

Day 2, 27th July

Proposed Sessions

• P2P2P = Peer to Peer Product Pitch: Campers given 5-10 minutes to demo their product & pitch it to other campers. Campers, can then vote for their favorite & create a development support group around the product. Sort of like a "shadow" support board of directors. Campers can "invest" in their favorite startup. Investments can be anything: money, brainpower, muscles, etc. The most (ala) diggs a pitch receive, gets the limelight. - Nazroll
• The New Renaissance- Malaysia Startup to the world. Panel style. Moderated by Daniel CerVentus. Panelist Suggestion pls
• Freelancing in Malaysia - For Developers. How to charge client, standard rate, contract to protect yourself, ethic - ArzumyMd
• Open Source Creative Software - software like Inkscape, Scribus, Gimp, Blender, FontForge, UFRaw, hugin. Experiences and evangelism. Moderated by AndyFitzsimon, developer for Inkscape and Scribus.
• state of oss in Malaysia and community building - JoeriPoesen
• semi-drupal related: everyone wants to hear how to get started with apache/mysql/drupal performance tuning: easy steps anyone can follow to get the most out of a standard LAMP stack - JoeriPoesen
• a talk about the malaysian drupal community: is there one? is there potenttial to grow it? can we organize some structure to get it going, etc - JoeriPoesen
• alternative webservers (lighty, mongrel, nginx) and how they play together with rails, drupal, project foo - JoeriPoesen
• case studies on how a university/company/government branch implemented foss (webapp, open office, switch to linux desktops, ...) and what the problems, opportunities, reactions etc were - JoeriPoesen
• a talk or round table discussion about scaling, cloud computing(Amazon EC2, Google AppEngine), APIS(OpenSocial, Social Graph) and Data Portability (RSS, OpenId, oAuth, OPML, Microformats, RDF, XMPP, APML) - AriffAzraai
• a talk about usage of web application framework(Rails, Django, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Catalyst). Usage of MVC, KISS, Convention over Configuration, D-R-Y - AriffAzraai
• a round table or panel style discussion on nurturing start-up culture in Malaysia. Apply the recipe of Silicon Valley's success (Google 20% time, focus on innovation, a friendly venture capitalist, Generation-Y) - RoniShahMustapha
• RIA development via Flex + JRoR - CheeSeng
• a talk about the concept of SOA and how ESB is realizing it. Maybe a quick walkthrough on available ESB such as Mule and ServiceMix. - YuenChiLian
• a talk about Content Delivery Network (CDN), such as Akamai, Limelight, etc. - YuenChiLian
• Making your own Joomla-based Website - Nicolas (Joomla-My / Azrul.com will present this topic also at the upcoming Joomla Day Malaysia 2008)
• Lifecasting 101 using justin.tv or ustream.tv, or any other services - Nicolas
• Using XAMPP for beginning Web Developers - Nicolas
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Topics I would like to hear about

• If you have a web2.0 company in Malaysia, do submit your Demo here. - DanielCerventus
• I'd like to hear from anyone if they have any experience and expertise in Free and Open Source .NET infrastructure. e.g DotGNU and Mono. - RoniShahMustapha
• I am keen to know more about managing and marketing to an online/virtual community. stuff like how to use new media to market to users could be cool - stuff like blogs/facebook/2nd life/mobile applications - CherylGoh, Ni

• Design Eye For The Developer Guy - KamalFariz
• Vehicle Mileage Hacks In These Trying Times - KamalFariz
• Fuel-saving techniques or alternative fuels for your car - Nicolas
• Secrets on how to make your own authentic Burger Ramli at home - somehow it's just never as good! - KamalFariz
• Nutritional recipes for geeks and workaholics (not sure if a cooking demonstration can be held. LOL!) - Nicolas
• QiGong for technology workers - Nicolas
• FailCamp - It’ll be a public opportunity for people to talk candidly about their failures, in the name of fun. - KamalFariz (inspired by an upcoming event of the same name organized by Amy Hoy)
• PowerPoint Karaoke - we pick a random set of slides, you present them like you know what you're talking about, everyone rofls - KamalFariz (inspired by a BarCampSeattle session)
• Silk Screening Workshop - BYOT (Bring Your Own T-shirt) - ChingyenThoo
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