Proposed Topics

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IMPORTANT NOTE: Many participants are listing their intended topic of interest on the registration page. But this registration page is not editable. So we really should consolidate the topics from the registration page onto the list below.

1. Introductory Overview of Asterisk - What is it? Why you cant write software without knowing about it? Why was this 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
2. Everything To Do With WORDPRESS - Regarded by some as the ultimate blogging platform, Wordpress is a tremendously empowering tool for non-technical web site owners, as well as more demanding corporate users. This session will exchange tips, insights and methods about this premier open-source content management tool. The skill level of the participants in this session will determine the level of detail and complexity to be exchanged - adaptable from novice to expert. Led by William Stratas of Planetcast.
3. Inelegant SQL for your first year with databases - Sad but true, you needn't master set theory to make ample use of relational databases in your early software years. A thirty minute talk will offer cookbook formulae for getting what you need into and out of a database, without creating a monster you'll hate yourself for later. Proposed by Max Whitney.
4. Cloud Computing Calrissian-Style - While the recent outage of Amazon's S3 service made for great headlines, the truth is the age of reliable, affordable Cloud Computing is here. This session will lay out how you can combine four AWS services (S3, EC2, SQS and SimpleDB) to create your very own mining operation worthy of hiding from the Empire. Proposed by Nathan Freitas of Mux.
5. Google Web Optimizer and Computer Aided Design (or why multivariant testing will change the the way you build and design web applications just like analytics did). By Sahadeva Hammari.
6. Digital Design Clinic - Hey, non-designers: want to learn the basics of image editing? Still not sure what the difference is between raster and vector art? Need to remove the acne from photos of your teens? I'll aim to hold forth on digital imaging basics for beginners, and adjust for the level of the crowd. If at all possible, come to this session with a laptop that's got Photoshop or Adobe Creative Suite installed. Failing that, download GimpShop and take it for a spin. If any designers want to help out, this might be a great chance for PS n00bs to get some quality one-on-one time with experienced photoshoppers. Proposed by jonathanpberger
7. Murat Aktihanoglu -- Second Life+World Of Warcraft+ Facebook+Orkut+Ning+Hi5+Bebo+Real estate+News = A mirror worlds platform: building Unype.com
8. Akosua Albritton -- No session: I want to help someone present. I'm knew to developing.
9. Bob Aman -- Lightweight Web Frameworks
10. Tony Bacigalupo -- Coworking & the evolution of the workplace
11. Andrew Baron -- A day in the life of episodic content creation. From idea to research, to record, to edit, to publish, to distribute and back around again, dosy-doe, and like such as.
12. Allan Benamer -- Socialmarkets: an investing platform for non-profits on Rails, EC2 and RightScale
13. Alex Bisceglie -- LBS, Mapping & DataViz
14. Kyle Bragger -- Rewriting a web app less than a month before launch
15. Asi Burak -- Play the News: the future of online news
16. Mel Chua -- "Do you speak bahasa geek?" OLPC grassroots groups and how to blur tech/nontech participation boundaries
17. Dean Collins -- Basic Asterisk Overview
18. Thomas Crimi -- Functional/Relational Programming
19. Brian Dailey -- Filtering Internet Traffic w/ OpenDNS
20. Justin Day -- Faking Flash Video Streaming or- Horizontally Scalable Storage w/MogileFS -or Cross-language data interchange w/Facebook Thrift -or- Something else???
21. Sanford Dickert -- Building Secondary Networks for fostering NY Entrepreneurship
22. Paul Dix -- Document Databases = Horizontal Scalability?
23. Brian Driscoll -- Intro to the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
24. Christopher Fahey -- UX Design and Agile Development
25. Robert Faludi -- Remote Intimacy
26. Avi Flombaum -- Naked Functionality, Creating Meaningful Applications.
27. Nathan Freitas -- VideoComputingClouds / RollYourOwnYouTube / AnyoneCanBeRadiohead
28. Stephen Galluccio -- Ooyala HD Video, Google/Geo-Maps or Domain Names and DNS
29. Michael Galpert -- Social Software
30. Christopher Garrett -- Why does it take 15 emails to go out for lunch?
31. Kate Hartman -- Remote Intimacy
32. Rich Hauck -- Migrating from AS2 to AS3 in Flash
33. Charles Hope -- A lightweight method of mocking webservices for Java TDD.
34. Tara Hunt -- Happiness as Your Business Plan
35. Aleks Jakulin -- web voice
36. Corey Johnson -- Jabber + Erlang + Ruby = Awesome
37. Matt Kangas -- Server-side webapp programming in Erlang; maybe a prototype of http://www.p16blog.com/p16/2008/01/madcap-idea-2-r.html
38. Joshua Keay -- "Plus, we sell t-shirts!" (Everything you wanted to know about designing, marketing and indeed, profiting from selling shirts online)
39. Rohit Khare -- Ranking and Filtering News, Gossip, and Photos in Social Networks
40. Josh Knowles -- The City is Art: Introducing the MobGraffiti platform.
41. matt knox -- running SQL off the rails: rails and thrudb
42. Tyler Larson -- Making sites that use the Flash player without messing with SEO, W3C standards, history buttons, or any of the other bad flash issues by using HTML and CSS to create flash content.
43. Christopher Laux -- Developing search engines with open source components: example twitter search engine at terraminds.com
44. Don Levan -- Psychology of Design: Understanding the Best Practices of Interface and Interaction Design
45. Mark Llobrera -- RubyAMF + AS3
46. Adriana Lukas -- A call to geeks: building VRM NEA (Nobody owns it, Everyone can use it, Anyone can improve it). Demand supplying itself via user data autonomy.
47. Dan Lurie -- Harnessing the Power of the City: Make the Most of NYC's
48. Hilary Mason -- Analytics for virtual worlds and/or conquering the universe with metadata
49. Patrick May -- Offense and Defense: How platform choice expresses organizational personality
50. John McGrath -- Wordie: Like Flickr, but without the photos
51. dwight merriman -- platform computing
52. Eric Nehrlich -- Finding the Passion
53. Jeffrey Neu -- Internet and Contract Law for Developers and Owners
54. bre pettis -- Yarr, it will be good.
55. Adam Quirk -- How to Shoot and Edit Video for the Web
56. Miles Rose -- idea to process to business. team building. What do you win, when you win?
57. Tracy Sheridan -- A call to geeks: building VRM NEA (Nobody owns it, Everyone can use it, Anyone can improve it). Demand supplying itself via user data autonomy.
58. Eric Skiff -- Your .com is dead. What you need to know about platforms, widgets and API's and why web startups are forever changed. (Facebook platform, Opensocial, GoogleIG, Netvibes, and the desktop)
59. William Sobel -- Networking with media & entertainment people or something similar
60. Jon Stanley -- Building community around FLOSS projects - specifically a Fedora case study and advocacy forum.
61. Michael Stearne -- Memcache Implmentation For Website Scaling
62. Benjamin Stein -- How mobile technology is changing politics and governance in 2008
63. Nichelle Stephens -- Keeping Nickels: Bookkeeping Basics for Start-ups
64. allen stern -- How to reach out to bloggers and the media effectively.
65. William Stratas -- Everything To Do With WORDPRESS
66. Sewell Tang -- Web2.0 + Finance
67. Carl Tashian -- How to make a deal
68. Michael Tiffany -- Ethnography, social network mapping, and the Hacker Sex Chart
69. Dann Toliver -- Real-world rapid web application development
70. Oscar Trelles -- RIA development in the Advertising industry
71. Scott Trudeau -- Probably something javascript-y
72. Giuseppe Turitto -- How to survive the ups and downs of the economy
73. Vishy Venugopalan -- Mashups in the Enterprise: Separating Hype from Reality
74. addie wagenknecht -- introduction to openframeworks
75. Rose White -- sociological perspectives on our geek/hacker culture
76. Erik Wright -- More SaaS, less fuss: Why identity management and federation needs to be part of your on-demand software strategy.
77. Sam Huleatt -- Hopefully team with Vishy surrounding something Enterprise 2.0/social project management/work culture related

Sessions

Note that start/end/lunch/tea break times really haven't been settled yet.