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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)

General Track

• 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 - DiteshGathani
• The OpenMalaysiaBlog Story: Our the fight for open standards, the legitimization of ODF and the two year standards war surrounding OpenXML. - YongYoonKit from OpenMalaysiaBlog
• RIA development via Flex and JRuby on Rails: A tutorial showing you how to quickly build a Rich Internet Application (RIA) using Adobe Flex and Ruby on Rails - CheeSeng
• Content Delivery Networks (CDN): What are CDNs, why they matter to your web company, a sampling of the available ones in the market, and what is Aflexi. - YuenChiLian
• Freelancing in Malaysia - For Developers: How to charge client, standard rate, contract to protect yourself, ethics - ArzumyMd
• Open Source Graphic Design: An overview of open source software like Inkscape, Scribus, Gimp, Blender, FontForge, UFRaw, hugin for creative work. Experiences and evangelism. Moderated by AndyFitzsimon from RedHat, developer for Inkscape and Scribus.
• This is BarCamp (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 DanielCerVentus.
• Monkeying around with Yahoo! Search: An introduction to Yahoo! SearchMonkey, Yahoo! Search's new open platform - SauSheong from Yahoo!

 

• Recruitment & Social Networking: Using the web for finding, matching and managing talent - DanielYst
• Tax Filing Optimization: Tips and secrets to, uh, optimize your tax filing (everything legal, I promise!) - DamienLoo
• PowerPoint Karaoke: We pick a random set of slides, you present them like you know what you're talking about, everyone rofls - KamalFariz
• Music 2.0: Community Building & Survival Guide: I will be sharing insights & methods into building a online & offline community for the artist, be it a musician, tv actress, film actor. I will also be sharing my experiences working with local artists like V.E, Ning Baizura, One Buck Short and how i help strategize their community. More importantly, I will be showing you how to make money within your own fanbase, using free & almost free tools which you might not have heard off. - Nazroll
• Hidden Impact of Higher Mathematics on the World Wide Web: - TalatFakhri
• Interesting Web 2.0/Mobile services in China, Japan, India, Kenya and Korea - A look at what local ideas these entrepreneurs are exploiting and how they are monetizing their services. Preetam

Drupal Track

• Getting started with Drupal: an introduction to the Drupal CMS: how to get it, install it and start using it. Joeri Poesen
• Building data-driven applications with Drupal using CCK and Views: Drupal is a modular system with thousands of contributed modules. We'll see how the Content Construction Kit (CCK) and the Views module transform Drupal into a framework for building data-driven web applications with minimal effort.
• Building multilingual websites with Drupal: an introduction to Internationalisation (i18n) and Localisation (L10N) and how to build multilingual websites with Drupal 5.x and 6.x. - Joeri Poesen
• CMS Showdown: a guided discussion on the strengths, weaknesses, similarities and differences of Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress and DotNetNuke - Joeri Poesen and Salocin.TEN
• An introduction to Drupal module development: an introduction to the core concepts behind Drupal modules. We'll discuss hooks, permissions, various API's and the internal caching mechanism. We'll start with and empty file and finish with a working module at the end of the session. - Joeri Poesen

Proposed Sessions

• What criteria do you what to look for when you join start-up? - Daniel CerVentus
• What yMalaysia needs to move forward :Panelist Suggestion pls: NicolasYip
• 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
• Lifecasting 101 using justin.tv or ustream.tv, or any other services via Linux(?) - Saclocin.TEN
• Using XAMPP for beginning Web Developers - Saclocin.TEN
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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, Saclocin.TEN
• Design Eye For The Developer Guy - KamalFariz, Saclocin.TEN
• Vehicle Mileage Hacks In These Trying Times - KamalFariz
• Fuel-saving techniques or alternative fuels for your car - Saclocin.TEN
• 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
• 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)
• state of oss in Malaysia and community building - JoeriPoesen, NicolasYip may assist as discussion panelist The Malaysian Free Software Movement session addresses this
• 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
• Developing Apps on Google App Engine - SweeMeng
• Developing Next Gen Mobile Apps with the Android SDK
• How to bootstrap a company by offloading operational stuff to free tools on the web like Google Apps (Groupware email, calendaring) and open source tools like Asterisk (PBX), SugarCRM (CRM) and Compiere (ERP)
• Continuous Integration in a Web Development Environment - SooyoungPark
• Guerilla Marketing 101 - Nazroll, WheeLove, DanielCerVentus
• How to organize your own BarCamp
• Online trading, financial instruments - DanielYst, DamienLoo

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