It looks like MinneBar will have 15 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. Expect some topics to be introduced and added the day of the even as well as everyone gets a feel for the crowd and wht they wulod like to talk about.
Tentative Session Schedule
Session Topics
Programmer and Designer Roles
Jacob Hookom
How CSS, server-side languages, and semantic markup can help define programmer and designer relationships with agile development
Open Systems Licenses and Legislation
John Nesbitt & AaronFulkerson
A discussion of OSS/Open Standards Legislation and Policy in MN as well as some discussion centering on understanding the variety of available open source licenses
Agile Design
Ben Edwards
The agile method has been proven effective in the world of software development yet the various desgin disciplines (information, interaction, visual, etc.) seem to have fallen behind on this. Discuss how agile themes and methods can be incorporated into the workflows of designers regardless wheter or not they are working with an agile development team.
Real-world Security practices
J Cruit
Topic surrounds security practices.
Microformats
AaronFulkerson
More info at Microformats.org
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Ward Tongen
Search engines are always changing and so should your strategies for keeping up with them. Possible subtopics:
- What techniques are illicit and what are best industry practices?
- What are the search engine spiders up to these days and how does it affect our web servers?
- Have you been banned or penalized by a search engine?
Open Source tools for Businesses
Steve Hanson, Ethan Galstad & AaronFulkerson
Some topics that are sure to come up are using open source tools such as blogs, wikis and other CMS solutions in information management. Additional discussion could be around open source monitoring tools such as Nagios as well as specific soluton for small business and non-profit organizations.
Web 2.0 in the Real World
Jamie Thingelstad
Real world, revenue generating applications to tackle the financial services world online with examples from the new API-based Javascript tools Dow Jones has launched called LiveQuotes and shortly LiveNews.
Disintermediation
Charles Gimon
Disintermediation: who loses their job in an interconnected world?
On being an independent Open Source Software developer
Ethan Galstad.
I'll talk about how I'm able to remain self-employed while developing an Open Source software project (Nagios) that is available free of charge. This is accomplished by using some "non-standard" OSS business models that don't get press attention. I'll talk about how Nagios got started, how the new business model came about, and where the model (and Nagios) is going in the future.
Other potential topics of discussion.
If you want to ensure one of these topics is discussed, add it to the schedule above in one of the OPEN slots and add a description of it too.
- Flock (better as a demo?)
- UI design trends and interests
- Looceifer
- Agile development
- Interaction design
- Web design trends
- AJAX
- "Web 2.0" (App Review?)
- Ruby on Rails vs "the other guys"
- 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.
- Synthetic worlds as media for learning and commerce - walled gardens Second Life and open source Croquet. U of MN is a core ed partner on Croquet project and Mark McCahill is one of the Croquet architects. Tim Bray blogs about Second Life. Maybe the session could be joined by Second Life residents online. Might be better to do demos instead?
See also the MinneBarDemos page.
