It looks like MinneBar will have 12 sessions throughout the day (3 concurrent sessions in 5 time slots). Many will already have topics but we will leave room for signing up for topics during the event.
What do you want to talk about? Suggest session ideas below. Sessions will be discussions of 40 minutes in length and can cover just about any topic you can dream up.
Please suggest more topic ideas and please put your name after a topic that you are interested in guiding/helping to guide. (partners and teams are welcome). Note that those sessions listed in bold have someone willing to guide the discussion and so are likley really going to occur.
Don't be afraid to tack your name as guide on to someone else's suggestion and/or to edit the suggestion itself for clarity and focus.
Proposed:
- Building projects with small teams - Ben Edwards
- OSS/Open Standards Legislation and Policy in MN -John Nesbitt
- Open Source licenses - AaronFulkerson (Ethan and I have given a talk on this in past)
- Monitoring with Nagios - Ethan Galstad
- Flock (better as a demo?)
- Looceifer
- Agile development
- Interaction design
- Microformats
- Web design trends
- AJAX
- "Web 2.0" (App Review?)
- Ruby on Rails vs "the other guys"
- Open Source web tools for nonprofits and small business - Steve Hanson
- Effective Intranet Portals - Using Blogs, Wikis, CMS as usefull information management tools for SMBs (small and medium businesses) - AaronFulkerson
- Living in the Cloud - storing your life on the Internet (S3, del.icio.us, gmail)
- RSS-OPML
- VoIP
- Information Architecture
- Citizens Journalism esp. blogs
- Sharing, The Commons, DRM, copyright issues
- Google: Why We Trust Them. Why We Don't.
- Virtual worlds like Second Life and Croquet. U of MN is a core ed partner on Croquet project. Tim Bray blogs about Second Life. Maybe the session could be joined by Second Life residents online.
- Web 2.0 in the Real World - Dow Jones has launched API-based Javascript tools called LiveQuotes and shortly LiveNews. Real world, revenue generating applications to tackle the financial services world online - Jamie Thingelstad
- Security practices in the real world - J Cruit
See also the MinneBarDemos page.