Propose a Session Idea Below

• Mobile Web Panel - iPhoneDevCampRDU, blackberry, Palm, Helio, Windows Mobile
• Project Mgmt merged with other disciplines (Six Sigma)
• Enhancing Sketchup using Ruby and / or C++, including unit tests
• Distributed source code management (beyond version control)
• Geeks doing Good : How to use your Tech Foo to change the world 4 the better.
• Discuss doing a Create a Startup weekend. More info here and here. One of these events happened July 6-8 in Boulder, CO. Here is what participant Alex King had to say.
• Developing with Facebook Platform
• The lack of Tech/Gadget/Web 2.0/Design/Network/ news in the Triangle, creating our own Social Media Outlet
• Full text searching with SOLR
• Building self-sustaining web products with Ruby on Rails
• Top 5 hacks for Mac OS X
• Automating your home with X10 and Ruby
• Build your own PVR
• Urban Computing (and applications in the triangle)
• Hacking PyPy
• Fun with Clusters: cool things folks are doing with clusters and build stories
• Game Development and Organization of Future Game Jams
• Django in the Triangle
• Online Video: Joost, Miro, the new TV, video tools for any website
• OpenMoko
• Why did Magnetic Poetry Kit Tip? Last CampRDU I discussed Sex and the Death of Advertising with a great group of barcampers. This CampRDU, I would like to share my experience with a product called Magnetic Poetry Kit (MPK), words on magnets most people put on their fridge or locker for ad hoc poetry. Magnetic Poetry Kit "tipped" a la Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point" in the 1990's and became a huge seller. A company I co-founded helped create that tipping point, but it was unplanned and really LUCKY. Now that I am responsible for making new ideas and products tip, I thought it would be helpful to review what happened then and identify every piece of Gladwell's Tipping Point formula as it applied to the MPK experience. Taking apart the past might just help us understand how to tip the next thing. Like last time, I hope this session is interactive with lots of questions and ideas. Together, maybe we figure out how to sell our ideas and products in a marketing world changing almost too fast to keep up. I can be reached at martinsellingzoe@aol.com. See you at camp - Martin.