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Presentation Ideas and Activities

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What

Trouble getting an idea of what your session's about? No problem! Talk about whatever fires you up - whatever you'd like to see happen - what big questions do you want answers to - what do you want to find out from your peers?

 

Check out Scott Berkun's How to run a great unconference session.

 

Ideas for Topics

  • What's the significance of "local" when we all work online?
  • Innovation, Invention, Entrepreneurship
  • Designer/Developer speed-"dating"? :) (not necessarily to matchup on a project (though this may, well and good, be some folks' aim), but just to get a feel for the skills different folks bring to the table in the area.)
  • New interfaces
    • FTIR
    • Multitouch gesture recognition and interface design
    • Wiimote interface hacking
  • OpenID
  • Rochester startups/startups in general
  • Blogging
  • Illegal File Sharing, Tor, Onion Routing
  • JavaScript Libraries
  • Network Neutrality
  • Atom, RSS, Semantic Web, REST
  • Language Geekery, Tools, and Web Frameworks
    • Ruby, Rails, Camping
    • Python, its multitude of web frameworks
    • Smalltalk, Seaside
    • Type Inference, IDEs (Software Development Tools seminar course in RIT CS)
    • Apollo, Slingshot, Silverlight: the convergence of web and desktop apps
    • Erlang, basics to web/db
  • Social Networks
    • Generally (MySpace, Facebook)
    • Mining data (there is a research project for rumor tracking on social networks in the RIT Math department, will be present)
  • Usability Testing
    • Eye Tracking
  • VOIP
  • War Driving
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
  • Wikis
  • Any projects that people are working on...

 

Activities

  • Get a semi-organized game of Half Baked going? : )
  • Organize a logic puzzle challenge of some sort. If you're interested in helping contact (mdumont at csh dot rit dot edu).
  • Maybe during dinner, have old-skool video games on the projectors, or something?
  • We're thinking of having an open hangout room do people have any feelings about this?

 

Suggestions

Post any suggestions you have for us here and we'll keep them all in mind. If you can post contact info with each suggestion that would be good too.

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