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? - MelChua, BenHayden, BeckyScholl
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: Entrepreneurial Improv Theater -- teams of 5 compete to come up with the best business plan (product, logo, marketing plan, revenue model, tagline) using a randomly chosen company name. Each team has 15 minutes, a panel of celebrity judges provides feedback, and the winners walk away with free Spire bags! -- This will be a ton of fun. (Noon, Saturday) - (Confirmed Judges: Thatcher Bell of Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham, Nick Denton of Gawker Media, Dennis Crowley of Dodgeball/Google) - 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. Promote yourself effectively with the 15SecondPitch.com - Laura Allen
21. 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)
22. 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
23. How do we build usable rich interfaces? - Complex displays, invisible changes, and common mistakes. - Antonella Pavese
24. The BootStrappers Guide to the Galaxy; tips and tricks for getting ahead and staying ahead without nasty venture capitalists eating your hat!
25. 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)
26. Using JSON and dynamic script tags as cross-site friendly AJAX. - Justin Day
27. Effective citizen/taxpayer connection to government: How can elected representatives best step to the plate and meet the challenge? (William Stratas)
28. Searching O'Reilly's Library. How to use XQuery to unlock structured content -- plus, an O'Reilly demo. (Chris Welch)
29. N Cool Things you can do with Linguistics and Text Processing: what can you do, what works, what doesn't. Examples from intelligence gathering to bioinformatics, details to be discussed. Breck Baldwin -- [http://www.alias-i.com/lingpipe]
30. Training: when you need to learn, how do you want to control what you get? (see http://barcamp.org/DITA%20Learning%20Content%20SC ) (Bruce Esrig)
31. Integrating Local Search/Social Search to Promote Non-profits & Political Action (Ralph Warren)
32. WikiWeb as TagSpace: levers, opportunities, obstacles - BillSeitz
33. Educator Seeks Social Software to Please: FERPA, Copyright, and collisions, oh my! What does an educator look for in social software, and what must they have to meet federal, state, and institutional regulations? WilDoane
34. RDF modeling and query processing, Semantic Web Application Development (Marco Neumann)

Ideas

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
• I second that - was thinking about doing the same thing recently! --Ben
  • 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.
• If you could add a bit on licensing (particularly CC licensing) to your talk, that would be awesome - AbhayKumar

1. Getting your ideas into the marketplace. Doing what you want. Finding others to do what you dont like to do, dont have to do, dont have time to do or dont want to do. www.siliconalley.com I have helped ideas morph into companies. Ive helped people morph into more fufilling careers. I have a phone book, Ive helped sell a software company to Adobe, have had several other companies sold. I like building the human process capital of growing a business and obtaining success. My phone book of both people and resources create milestone accomplishment both personally and bank account wise. BTW we are also doing a 10th year, can you believe it, SiliconAlley reunion party, registration is free at www.siliconalley.com
2. I can give a talk about Time Management for Technical People. I recently published the O'Reilly book on Time Management. (The talk won't be a sales-pitch, I promise!). Depending on how long the time slot is, I can do 5-10 minutes of prepared slides and the fill it with Q and A. TomLimoncelli
3. I'm thinking about a talk on neurohacking but this is definitely a 30min topic. Anyone interested? - AbhayKumar
4. Another talk idea that I have is on XSS exploits and attacks but I'd have to actually put it together sometime Saturday in order to pull it off on Sunday - AbhayKumar