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 likely 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:
- Effective small teams - Ben Edwards
- OSS/Open Standards Legislation and Policy in MN -John Nesbitt
- Understanding Open Source licenses - AaronFulkerson - may be combined with the above?
- Monitoring with Nagios - Ethan Galstad
- Flock (better as a demo?)
- Looceifer
- Agile development
- Interaction design
- Microformats - if there is interest in this, I'll get sufficiently educated to lead - AaronFulkerson
- 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 (open source) Blogs, Wikis, CMSes as useful information management tools for SMBs (small and medium businesses) - AaronFulkerson, I think these two (this and the one above) could easily be broken up into two events (OK you're leading this one :)
- 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
- Disintermediation: who loses their job in an interconnected world? - Charles Gimon
See also the MinneBarDemos page.
