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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
- 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)
- http://asterisk-java.org example working make the phone ring show this api in action (David Parry)
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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. :-)
Session topic: Opinion Session: which languages/technologies will be around in 10 years (and which ones won't)?
Session participants: Jeff Terrell
Need whiteboard? Yes
Need projector? No
Elevator pitch: I'd like to hear opinions on which languages and technologies are going to be around a while, and which ones aren't. Is Perl finished? Is Ruby and/or Rails merely a fad? Will Java go the way of Cobol? What about relational databases? Outrageous opinions are welcome!
Session topic: Recommender Systems - Lessons learned from GitHub's recent contest
Session participants: Ryan Cox
Need whiteboard? No
Need projector? Yes
Elevator pitch: Today software is recommending music, movies, books, vacation spots and friends. We will look at lessons learned from competing in GitHub's recent contest to create a recommender system. We will talk about prize based innovation and dig into some code; walking through the algorithm for a simple top-n recommender. Have you implemented a recommender? Come and share your insights.
Session topic: Alternate Languages for the JVM
Session participants: Frank Wierzbicki
Need whiteboard? No
Need projector? No
Elevator pitch: The choice of programming language on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) have greatly increased in the last few years. I am the lead of theses languages (Jython). Here are a few examples: JRuby, Closure, Scala, Groovy. Come and discuss your favorite!
Session topic: http://asterisk-java.org in Action
Session participant: David Parry
Need whiteboaed? No
Need projector? Yes
Need Internet connection that allows me to have vpn connection: Yes
Elevator pitch: http://asterisk-java.org is nice to read about but unless you have a asterisk server running and installed you really can't see this api in action. So I wish when i started i had this. So i have it so can go over example and make peoples phone ring and see the code in action.
Session participant: Martin Smith
Need whiteboaed? No
Need projector? No
Need Internet connection that allows me to have vpn connection: No
Elevator pitch: Wired Editor Chris Anderson shook web marketing with his book The Long Tail where he suggested the concept of Infinite Inventory. As transitor power increase as costs decline AND storage and bandwidth pricing collapses marginal costs approach zero and digital inventory is infinite (or may as well be). Free, Anderson's follow up, goes Long Tail one better suggesting the best way to capture market share in a Google-enabled world is with some version of FREE. Is Free a profit killer, the only marketing bullet left, inevitable or all of the above? Can a Free model be successfully applied to any business?
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