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BarCampRDU 2009 session ideas

• Is Your Website Accessible? If not, practical slides (John F Croston II)
• Introduction to Serious Gaming and the Immersive Web (Jason Clark)  Sorry, won't be in town that day!!!
• How to Use Drupal without Losing Your Mind 

• Debugging web sites with Safari/WebKit's Web Inspector - Patrick Mueller
• Let's Build a Sinatra App (TJ Stankus)
• Using Chef for Systems Integration
• How should web developers prepare for an HTML 5 future?
• Telepresence - Moebot style ( jc. jones )
• Alternate Languages on the JVM ()
• Bughouse, a 4-person chess variant. (Cristóbal Palmer)
• Free – Profit killer, inevitable, necessary or all of the above? Martin Smith
• IPv6
• Managing the performance of servers in a large network, on the cheap (Jeff Terrell)
• Opinion Session: which languages/technologies will be around in 10 years? (Jeff Terrell)

If you'd like a session on a specific topic then propose it and be prepared to participate. Leave the information listed below (copy and paste at the bottom): 

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   Session participants:

   Need whiteboard?

   Need projector?

   Elevator pitch (optional)

Session topic: What's up with OpenSocial

Session participants: Dave Johnson

Need whiteboard? No

Need projector? Yes

Elevator pitch: quick intro to OpenSocial explaining what it is, how it works and why it matters using these What's up with OpenSocial slides. Then a group discussion.

Session topic: How Smart Startups Win By Being Dumb

Session participants: Nathaniel Talbott

Need whiteboard? No

Need projector? Yes

Elevator pitch: "Why do we need to learn - we already know what customers need!" So begins many a tale of business failure. We'll talk about why you need a culture of scientific experimentation in a startup, how to baseline a business, and how to craft the learning machine that every successful business has at its center.

Session topic: Acting as a Submariner

Session participants: Nathan L. Walls ( http://wallscorp.us/ )

Need whiteboard? No

Need projector? Yes

Elevator pitch: We can be continuously online, and that presents two problems. One, we expect to constantly drink from the fire hose and two, we train others to interrupt us at any moment. I'll talk about why it's a bad scene and a way I'm working at fixing it.

Session topic: Telepresence - Moebot style 

Session participants: James C Jones ( jc jones )

Need whiteboard? No

Need projector? Yes

Elevator pitch (optional)  Basic Telepresence as envisioned with a remote controlled robot.

Session topic: Bughouse

Session participants: Cristóbal Palmer

Need whiteboard? no

Need projector? no

Elevator pitch: If you know how the pieces move in chess, you'll likely enjoy this more social chess variant. Two boards are placed side by side, and you play on a team with the person beside you. When you capture a piece from the oponent on your board, you pass it to your teammate, who can either place the piece or move an existing piece when it is her turn. A few other quick rules add up to make for fun and disorientation of seasoned chess players, leveling the field for the rest of us. Bring a chess board, pieces, and clock if you want us to have more than one game of bughouse going at a time.

Session topic: Rapid Return on Investment

Session participants: John Baker

Need whiteboard? No

Need projector? Yes

Elevator pitch: Introduction to concepts of how a company can apply emerging technologies in innovative ways to solve business problems and realize break even ROI within twelve months.  Examples from real world projects will show companies using technologies like RFID to rapidly introduce disruptive innovation.

Session topic: Static on the Line:  How to Handle Feedback

Session participants: Jason Austin

Need whiteboard? No

Need projector? Yes

Elevator pitch: How you handle feedback can define your company.  Do you embrace it?  Do you squelch it?  I'll take a look at how you can make that feedback work for you and your users, turning that frown...upside down...yeah I said it ;)

Session topic: Secrets of Effective Nomading

Session participants: Matthew Bass

Need whiteboard? No

Need projector? No

Elevator pitch: Secrets of being an effective nomadic programmer. Stuff you may not have thought of before, including how to network and pick up new work while nomading. We'll also discuss equipment.

Session topic: Managing the performance of servers in a large network, on the cheap

Session participants: Jeff Terrell

Need whiteboard? No

Need projector? Yes

Elevator pitch: I'd like to pitch a novel approach to managing the performance of many types of servers (HTTP/SMTP/IMAP/Teleconferencing/etc.) in a large network, cheaply and easily.  I've shown that this approach is technically feasible, and I'm hoping to launch a start-up soon.  I'll be frank: I'm hoping to attract some smart people to join me in my venture. :-)

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