Last year we had room for 24 sessions throughout the day. I expect to have more this year but for now let's plan on 24.

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 what they would like to talk about.

Here is an example from last year you can use to create your own:

Sessions with Leaders

Pitching Agile

BenEdwards

Clients are often wary of Agile methods, if for no other reason than we have been telling them for years that they must define every detail up front so we can build it right. Now we want to tell them that iteration and collaboration is the way to go. Why should they listen? Come discuss this topic and tell us how you do it.

Marketing Your Technology Startup

Derrick Shields

Before you can pitch Agile development methods (see above), you've got to have someone to pitch to in the first place! You've put a lot of time and hard work into developing your product, but now you need to put yourself out there. We'll discuss marketing your services if you're a service-oriented group, and marketing your Web Application if your a product-oriented company.

Topics will briefly cover SEO/SEM, Social Networking (online and off), Viral Marketing, and utilizing Local Resources. This will be a very open discussion. If you have successfully launched your own brand in the past, please come and share your stories for those just starting out!

JSAN

Dave Rolsky

JSAN is a project to bring the ideas behind Perl's CPAN to Javascript. JSAN is a code repository and mirroring system, but more importantly, it embodies a philsophy of building small libraries that do one thing well.

Intro to Catalyst

Dave Rolsky

Catalyst is yet another web framework, this time in Perl. Learn a bit about how it works.

Dojo Javascript Toolkit

Chris Barber

The Dojo Toolkit is the standard library Javascript never had. I'll talk about Dojo's package system and some of the more popular packages for doing Ajax and Widgets. Since Dojo is huge, this will be an overview, but if there's interest, I can give a second talk that dives deeper into Dojo.

Add your ideas for what you would like to talk about/present/hear about at this year's event. If you are interested in leading it add your name after the topic, otherwise maybe some will pick up the baton.

Ideas

From 0 to application in 20 minutes (Jesse O'Neill-Oine)

Marketing your Web App (Derrick Shields)

Ajax

Experiences building web "2.0" apps

Ruby on Rails - a basic intro to building a web app

REST Development (J Wynia)

Development with Virtual Machines/VMWare appliances (J Wynia)

Adobe Apollo/Spry/Flex Frameworks (someone should really do this :)

Also see the MinneBarDemos page or go back to MinneBar