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Schedule

Day 1, 26th July

Day 2, 27th July

Capacity Legend:

• Lecture Room - 48 pax
• Study Room - 40 pax
• Theater - 21 pax

Confirmed Sessions (it's up to you to confirm a session! if you propose a talk, book a slot in the timetable above and move your proposal to this confirmed list)

• Introducing Aggressive Web Development: One of the worlds foremost pioneers in web development shares the revolutionary ways of creating Killer Web Apps and changing the world - MikkoK from GettingPersonal
• Werewolf (Beginners & Experienced Players): Fun group strategy game where the best liar wins - KamalFariz from ZoeCity
• Monetizing YouTube and other on-line videos?: Sharing UrekaLabs solution for a new real-time video advertising medium - RoniShahMustapha from UrekaLabs
• The Malaysian Free Software Movement: The Way Forward What we have done in the past, where we are now, how we need to move forward and the challenges which lie ahead
• The OpenMalaysiaBlog Story Our the fight for open standards, the legitimization of ODF and the two year standards war surrounding OpenXML.

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: NicolasYip
• 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, NicolasYip may assist as discussion panelist
• 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, NicolasYip may assist as discussion panelist
• 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 Content Delivery Network (CDN), what are the available ones in the market and what is Aflexi. - YuenChiLian
• Lifecasting 101 using justin.tv or ustream.tv, or any other services via Linux(?) - Nicolas
• Using XAMPP for beginning Web Developers - Nicolas
• Tax Filing "Optimization" - DamienLoo
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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, NicolasYip

• Design Eye For The Developer Guy - KamalFariz, NicolasYip
• 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), NicolasYip
• PowerPoint Karaoke - we pick a random set of slides, you present them like you know what you're talking about, everyone rofls - KamalFariz seconded by WilfredTee (inspired by a BarCampSeattle session), thirded by NicolasYip (come on, let's get this confirmed shall we?), fourthed by AlexLee (blood rush!)
• Silk Screening Workshop - BYOT (Bring Your Own T-shirt) - ChingyenThoo, seconded by NicolasYip (put it up to confirmed. I shall bring 2 or 3 of my blank T-shirts)
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