BarCampNYC2 Proposed Sessions

1. Hacking the Longtail - How to build up the fat end to improve your recommendation engine. - JasonColeman
2. Social Geography is Goin' Bananas! - GPS data, mobile phones, social networking, IM presence, and the future of privacy in America (!) - JoePierce
3. How the Meme Spreads - how do (usually young) hackers get started nowadays and how can we encourage more to start? (first timer, would love help) - MelChua
4. XHTML Wireframes in practice - how to take an agile approach to ideating, producing, reviewing, testing, and sharing user interface prototypes and documentation -Anders
5. Halfbakeddotcom (idea credit: venture blog via Nick Gray) - AmitGupta
6. Functional and generative programming in PHP - JohnJosephBachir
7. Lyceum (blogging services software - multiblog WordPress) - JohnJosephBachir
8. Net Neutrality - the history of the 'Basic Telecommunications' Vs. 'Information and Enhanced Services' distinction in US law and industry - JohnJosephBachir
9. OpenID and Identity 2.0 - Building the first few blocks of a new Identity infrastructure. A review of the state of affairs, a discussion of a server and client we built with VeriSign, and what the future holds (we think). MattPelletier
10. Asterisk - What is it? Why you cant write software without knowing about it? Why was this just voted the 2nd most important open source technology of 2006? Why have IBM had Digium on their top 10 companies to watch for the last 3 years - Dean Collins
11. Microsoft AJAX Framework - Freshly re-named from codename "Atlas", this free Javascript library & framework will help developers build richer web experiences. It's cross-browser compatible, and even works well with PHP & Cold Fusion! - Peter Laudati
12. .NET 3.0 Workflow (one or two 30 min slots) - Intro, Where you could use it, Hosting in Console,Win, Web Apps; Introduction to Sequential/StateMachine workflows, Passing params in and out; (Ravi Okade)
13. Crowdsourcing via AWS - Mechanical Turk Ideas for use and progress towards a Ruby Library (Pauli)
14. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) - Limited Beta - Initial Experience using it. (Pauli)
15. Delaborate - a mobile product concept for helping people lead happier lives - VictorLombardi
16. Fighting HTML fires with Fiddler and Web Development Helper : These two tools have saved me hours of torture with complex HTML (read: table inside table ..); hope it will be of use to you too! (Ravi Okade)
17. Agile for Everyone - Let's talk about some generic agile principals and tools (user stories, iterations, burndown) that can help any size team gel (in any line of work!) - DavidLaribee
18. MVC Frameworks - The what, why, and how of Model-View-Controller Frameworks and their application in the AJAX world (possible merger / superset of the MS AJAX Fraemwork above) - Aditya Chadha
19. Starting up - So, you have a great idea - what comes next? A bunch of ideas to help people stick it to the man and start out on their own... - Aditya Chadha
20. Manifold Spice: Toward A Unified Theory of Boundaries - Heath Row
21. Promote yourself effectively with the 15SecondPitch.com - Laura Allen
22. Public Wireless Networks (parks and SuperNodes), or How the hell does NYCwireless get all those great hotspots set up? - Dana Spiegel and Rob Kelley (NYCwireless)
23. CCK and Views - Drupal's Content Construction Kit and Views lets you build, and manage almost any type of content online, easily. Whatever you need, blogs, book reviews, images, etc, you can just add fields to create it, then use Views to theme its display to the world. - Sam Tresler
24. How do we build usable rich interfaces? - Complex displays, invisible changes, and common mistakes. - Antonella Pavese
25. The BootStrappers Guide to the Galaxy; tips and tricks for getting ahead and staying ahead without nasty venture capitalists eating your hat!
26. Fun with SQL Triggers (if there is some interest i.e., if > 0 people show up :) .. Row/Statement triggers, Before/After/Instead of triggers, Nested,Recursive triggers, Transactions in triggers (Ravi Okade)
27. Using JSON and dynamic script tags as cross-site friendly AJAX. - Justin Day

iIdeas

1. The PAN - Not sure what I'll talk about really. I could explain video encoding for the web and other technical aspects of video blogging, but I doubt that would be very interesting. Maybe I could talk about best practices of working with video collaboratively online? Or how we hacked our Wordpress to function as a video publisher? Anybody want to chime in? I know lotsa stuff about online video and video blogs, just not sure what y'all care to hear about. - Adam Quirk

• ADAM - This is an excellent set of ideas - The Wordpress hack I want to hear about! - William Stratas
  • Ok, thanks. I'll try to cover several bases, and I'll explain the WP stuff in more detail. This all looks really cool. Can't wait.