2010 Sessions
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Here is a list of 106 sessions proposed as of 2:11 am on 4/15/2010. (Note: The sessions are ordered by proposer's surname.)
| Topic | Proposer |
|---|---|
| Don't be a Douche - Game Mechanics Best Practices for your Web App | Sachin Agarwal |
| Mobile Analytics | Raj Aggarwal |
| Data in Cultural/Learning Accessibility Using Locative Mobile Devices | Claudia Baeza |
| Rapid iPad Development | Mark Bao |
| Additive Manufacturing - Limitations and Future Direction | James Barkley |
| Use of Artificial Intelligence in Network Security | Jonathan Barrett |
| Making Software Usable | J Baumgart |
| User Experience Design from A - Z | Chris Beaman |
| Inside the Cloud at Engineyard | Kevin Bedell |
| CSS Best Practices - Let's Talk Performance, Maintainability, and Progressive Enhancement. | Ruthie Bendor |
| What Will the Future of Internet-Enabled Collaborative Science Be? | Taliesin Beynon |
| Tech Solutions for New Geek Dads | Durjoy Ace Bhattacharjya |
| The Rise of Location-Based Apps | David Bisceglia |
| FoodTech - Bringing Restaurants into the 21st Century. | Josh Bob |
| 9 Hard Social Media Questions and 1 Easy Answer | Zach Braiker |
| A Bargain-Bin MoMA - Content Curation on a Budget | Georgiana Cohen |
| Monetizing Social Media Broadcasts | Jeff Cutler™ |
| Tips on Fun-Enabling | Andrea Davis |
| The FOSS@RIT Campaign Ecosystem | Remy Decausemaker |
| Starting up in a Down Economy | Ray Deck |
| Securing Windows Home PCs | Michael de la Maza |
| How to Drive a Million Users to Your Site for Free | Michael de la Maza |
| Technical Videography | Rolfe Dlugy-Hegwer |
| How is the Culture Changing Society? | Beth Fagan |
| What I want My Computer (or the Internet) to do that It Can't | Michael Feldman |
| How to Spank Google. | Bill Felk |
| Accelerating Startup Results Using Agile Scrum | Joel Foner |
| How to Capture and Produce Amazing Audio for Your Video | Joel Foner |
| Ambient Connectivity | Bob Frankston |
| Turn Your Blog into a Book | Claudia Gere |
| Body Hacking - Diet and Fitness for the Geek Mindset | Lee Goodrich |
| Algorithmic Composition - Composing Code | Robby Grodin |
| Building Social Media Audiences | Michael Grover |
| Power of Minimum Viable Product. | James Hall |
| Taking the Cable Companies to Bitch School. | Tim Halle |
| How to collaborate and not feel like you're losing control. | Philipp Hanes |
| Python, HTML5, Javascript | Mark Hildreth |
| MongoDB as a Persistent Cache | Tracy Hurley |
| The Outernet Guidelines Initiative (OGI) | Critt Jarvis |
| Using Adobe Stratus to Create Distributed RIA | Mo Kakwan |
| IA in Wordpress | Ellen Kanner |
| Friendly Text Formats for Diplomacy | Jeff Kaufman |
| PR is Dead - Why Sales and Social Networking is Killing Traditional PR. | Jonathan Kay |
| Startup Inside Sales for SaaS and Cloud | Patrick Keating |
| Enterprise Uses of Virtual Worlds | Maria Korolov |
| Database Scalability - Is the Relational Database Really Dead? | Amrith Kumar |
| Mobile Apps for Learning Disabled Children | Jp Lafond |
| How Community & Culture (Re)shape Online Platforms | Alex Leavitt |
| Building Alternative Digital Economies with Real-World Impact | John Paul Lewicke |
| Game AI - Beyond Pathfinding | Robert Lockhart |
| If You Like Two Junctions You're Going to Love Three - Fun with Thyristors. | John Luciani |
| Direct Audio Stream Access in Firefox - Read and Write Audio Data in JavaScript. No Plug-ins Required! | Alistair Macdonald |
| Who's the Major? A Discussion on the New Check-in GeoLocation Crazestarted by Foursquare | Joselin Mane |
| Tweetups 101 - How to Leverage Event + Social Media to Plan / Promote Your Brand/Product/Service | Joselin Mane |
| Mathematical Movie Making on the Cheap | Owen Maresh |
| Future Technology Applications for the Healthcare/Wellness Space | Rodrigo Martinez |
| Startup 101 - How to Find the Right Pieces and Make them Fit | David Mata |
| Social Media, Collaboration, and Higher Education | Zach Mcdowell |
| Integrating Communication and Presence/Status on Android | Zigurd Mednieks |
| City as a Platform | Alyssa Meritt |
| Applying 5 Whys | Dan Milstein |
| Hacker Sabbatical - A[ ]way to build it. | Jason Morrison |
| Google's Go Language | Walter Mundt |
| M_sic -- What's Missing is YOU. | Aidan Nulman |
| Art Galleries in your Pocket - Strange and Beautiful Things People Are Making for Mobile Devices | David Nunez |
| Don't be a Yes Man/Woman | Aaron Ohearn |
| Open Source Redistricting | Brian Olson |
| Move Along Now, Nothing to See Here - The Private Discussion Spheres of Wikipedia | Ayelet Oz |
| A Look at YUI Gallery | Ara Pehlivanian |
| Guerrilla Usability Testing Techniques | Christine Perfetti |
| So You've Got a Software Idea. Now What? | Dan Pickett |
| Social Media Trends | Chris Requena |
| Visualizing your Sleep | Daniel Rinehart |
| Real-deal Fundraising - Why, Why Not, and When to Raise Money from Yourself, Incubators,Angels, and VCs. | Roy Rodenstein |
| Security Architect | Brian Roosevelt |
| FreeBSD - The other, other OS A.K.A. FreeBSD and It's Uses at Home and in the Corporate Environment. | Dan Rowe |
| Using Open Government Data to Make Awesome Happen | Laurel Ruma |
| Personal Investing for Hackers | Shimon Rura |
| The Real Time Web | Matthew Rushton |
| LOAD *,8,1 | Tim Cameron Ryan |
| Dynamic Charts and Graphs with XSLT and SVG | Matthew Sachs |
| Open Source Election Software - For Real? | Pito Salas |
| Approaching Venture Capital | Jeff Seibert |
| Custom objects with CSS3 | Boaz Sender |
| Drawing in the Fourier Domain | Blake Setlow |
| Make it easy - 6 Things to Skip When Managing a Distributed Software Team | Andy Singleton |
| Connecting U.S. Communities with African Communities | Peter Smith |
| Health Everyware - Making Mobile Beautiful | Juhan Sonin |
| Mobile App Development on Linux | Sara Streeter |
| Biotech Industry Opportunities | Jingjing Sun |
| What I've Learned in Ten Years of Self-publishing Novels for Geeks. | John Sundman |
| Confessions of a Full-time Freelancer | Michael Susz |
| Unified Field Theory that Fits on a T-shirt | Doug Sweetser |
| Feedback and Future of Alternative/Common Mobile Application Development Frameworks | Jeffrey Tagen |
| Joinery for Fun and Profit | Vaughn Tan |
| LBS in Social Networking | Ryan Teksten |
| What Makes a Web-Based Game Truly Social? | Darren Torpey |
| Hadoop 101 | Aidan Nulman |
| Stego me crazy. | Jeremy Turner |
| Making Your Idea and Company Big Enough for an IPO | Kris Tuttle |
| Android Beyond Mobile Cloud Computing | Somu Vadali |
| Building the Boston Startup Community | Kevin Vogelsang |
| Humans and Regular Expressions Working Together to Tag Data | Drew Volpe |
| How to Find a Co-Founder - FounderMatch | Christine Perfetti |
| Desktop 3D Printing - Show and Tell with the MakerBot CupCake 3D Printer | John Wasser |
| Creative Coding with openFrameworks | Theodore Watson |
| Moving Web Development to the Browser | Matt Wiseley |
| History 2.0 - Remaking the Study and Preservation of History Using Collaborative Web-based Tools | Lee Wright |
| Why Does Nonprofit Technology Suck? | Riche Zamor |
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Six important lessons we can learn from science
I would like to suggest situations where people and companies can work together in historically abstract manners for robust solutions and rapid development.
This applies for companies working together--openly, as well.
- Tags: Business Strategies
- Proposed by: Raymond Crandall;
- Proposed Presenter: Raymond Crandall
Feedback requested: I will be presenting slides for those who require shiny things, should you allow me to contribute :). Would anyone like to join me in this? I am okay with different opinions being presented at the same time.
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Multimedia composition on the mobile phone (iPhone) and iPad
- Tags: Multimedia, Mobile phones, iPhone, iPad
- Proposed by: Nat Bala
- Presenters: Nat Bala
Feedback requested: If you have particular questions or topic that you intend to ask at the session, feel free to send them ahead of time. The focus is on the capabilities and constraints for designing such an app for iPhone and the changes that are necessary for the same on the iPad.
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SEOiSS: Search Engine Optimization is Simple, Stupid!
A guide for the really simple stuff that causes a page to show up on the first page of search results, rather than the 51st. Plain-English explanations, backed by credible sources & stats. This session is meant for startup founders, marketers expanding their online marketing expertise, developers doing the same, and site owners that want to talk to their web guy / gal intelligently about SEO.
- Tags: SEO, web development, marketing
- Proposed by: Jay Neely
- Presenters: Jay Neely
Feedback requested: Any startups / sites want to get some free SEO suggestions and be case studies?
- I would love to get SEO feedback & be a case study. My site is wetmachine.com; my first name is John, my email is my first name at my website. I'm planning/hoping to give a barcamp talk (see below) on self-publishing geekoid novels. If you would like to use my site as a case study, please contact me, and then, if you think appropriate, delete this wiki entry. OR, leave my comment up as an incentive for others to do likewise.
- I'd love it as well to get SEO feedback. My site is newdigitalcafe.com it's Wordpress, custom template, using the All-in-One SEO pack for Wordpress. My email is randygiusto@newdigitalcafe.com and you can delete this entry or leave it up for others to do likewise, too!
You Should Lisp Because Lisp Rocks
Lisp has gained a rather nasty reputation amongst its non-fans for being bizarre to read, and too old to be able to do what they need. This reputation is not deserved because Lisp can do anything that Ruby can do, and in fewer lines of code (Unless you golf Ruby then it might be shorter). I hope to, in this presentation, change your mind about Lisp, and perhaps send you out into the world with the knowledge to know how to continue learning, and how to use it in the real-world.
- Tags: programming, tutorial
- Proposed by: Brian Bommarito;
- Proposed Presenter: Brian Bommarito
Self-publishing geekoid novels
Over the last ten years I've written and published 3 geekoid novels (Acts of the Apostles, Cheap Complex Devices, and The Pains). They're available for free under Creative Commons & have been downloaded 20k times. And I've sold nearly 7k copies of the printed books. I would like to share some lessons learned -- what has worked, and what hasn't, and what I can't tell either way -- in writing and marketing fiction aimed primarily at geeks.
- Tags: self publishing, fiction, science fiction, geek, marketing, writing
- Proposed by: John Sundman;
- Proposed Presenter: John Sundman
Feedback requested: Is there interest in this? Anyone interested in co-presenting?
- I'm all over this. Self-publishing how-tos, pitfalls = rock on. -Juhan
- This sounds awesome. Definitely interested in attending. -JayNeely
Behold ... My Linux Desktop
Show off how you've config'd your *nix desktop. Maybe you've got it tuned for raw speed, eye-candy, productivity, whatever ... maybe you want a trophy to show the ladies.
- Tags: linux, desktop
- Proposed by: figital
- Presenters: You !
A Unified Standard Model Theory on a t-shirt
The "And God said... [the Maxwell equations] and there was light" t-shirt gets an upgrade. This time the other three forces of nature get included. I will show for a technical, but not professional physics group how to derive all of these from scratch, but you can look at the math ahead of time in a mathematica notebook (http://bit.ly/GEMnb). The core novel idea: there may be only one way to add events in spacetime so we all grow older, but there are multiple rules for multiplying. Nature apparently keeps multiple books open at once. A few shirts will be available for $10, also at http://bit.ly/GEMtshirt.
- Tags: physics, gravity, theory
- Proposed by: TheStandUpPhysicist
- Presenters: TheStandUpPhysicist
Feedback requested: Always willing to reply to a technical question off-line: sweetser@alum.mit.edu
Moving web development to the browser
There are a number of compelling tools and technologies that allow web applications to be written and customized from the browser. I'll look at a number of platforms and loosely related technologies of interest in this space, including my product, EditMe.
- Tags: programming, web
- Proposed by: Matt Wiseley
- Proposed Presenter: Matt Wiseley; others encouraged - ping me @MattWiseley or leave comments below.
Feedback requested: Is there interest in this? Anyone interested in co-presenting?
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Health Everyware: Making Mobile Beautiful
The HIMSS Celltop Design Workgroup is crafting a common sense set of mobile design best practices, specifically tailored for the health market. These exemplars of effective mobile design will serve as an open source blueprint that arms engineers, visionaries and designers around the world to craft highly usable and desirable health applications for the various, evolving mobile platforms.
- Tags: health, interface design, software design, mobile, celltop
- Proposed by: Juhan Sonin, juhan@mit.edu
- Presenters: Juhan Sonin
Feedback requested: Rank your interest from 1-10 stars (where 1 = watching a worm farm to 10 = nirvana.)
Finding a Co-Founder for Your Startup
FounderMatch is for individuals interested in finding co-founders for their start-up. There will be multiple sessions at or in conjunction with BarCampBoston5 relating to FounderMatch.
There will be a FounderMatch event at or near the Stata Center (still working on the venue options)and will be MCed by Mark Soper (of RallyPlan) and Kabir Hemrajani (of RiotVine). The event will be between 7pm and 10pm and will not include food but may include some beer if we are able to secure an appropriate Non MIT venue. This will be a new and improved version of the CoFounder event that was held at MicroSoft NERD back in Dec. 2009.
This event will be open to all interested parties. We will have at least one session during Sat. afternoon at BarCampBoston to discuss some of the proposed mechanics of the evening mtge. We will also be proposing additional sessions to discuss issues related to the startup ecosystem in the greater Boston area.
If you are actively looking for a co-founder and are interested in attending any of the sessions, please register at http://FounderMatchBCB5.eventbrite.com
Your name and email will be held in strict confidence.
- Tags: FounderMatch, Startups
- Proposed by: Mike Walsh, themikewalsh@gmail.com
- Presenters: Mark Soper, Kabir Hemrajani, Mike Walsh
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Fundraising Debugged: When, Why & Who To Raise (and Not Raise) Money From
There are a lot of ways to keep your startup running when you need funding:
- Bootstrapping
- Friends & Family
- Angels: both individuals and angel groups
- Incubators/seed funds
- VC
I want to make this a practical talk on my experiences fundraising with a number of these sources for Going. There are a lot of pros and cons to each, and implications for later in your startup's life as well as exit. I'm also thinking of doing a comparative chart for angel/VC/etc. showing what % ownership you're giving up, board seats, typical amount raised, typical exit needed etc.
- Tags: fundraising, angels, VCs, bootstrapping
- Proposed by: Roy Rodenstein, royrod@gmail.com
- Presenters: Roy Rodenstein
Feedback requested: Any specific topics or questions welcome!
Creative Coding with openFrameworks
An overview and introduction to the openFrameworks programming environment. Given by Theodore Watson co-founder of openFrameworks. The session will begin with an overview of the project, some of the amazing work being made with OF and an introduction to getting started with creative coding in OF. Interested participants should visit http://openframeworks.cc/setup and http://openframeworks.cc/download before the talk so that they have a working OF install to play with during the open hacking sessions following the introduction.
- Tags: code, interactive, opensource, c++, creative coding
- Proposed by: Theodore Watson;
- Proposed Presenter: Theodore Watson;
Feedback requested: Is there interest in this?
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Algorithmic Composition: Composing with Code
One of the best examples of the intersection of music composition and computer science, algorithmic composition allows computer programmers to guide the computer in the iterative creation process of music. The session will consist of a short background of the practice of algorithmic composition, followed by a case study of a work in progress.
- Tags: Music, Java, Arts
- Proposed by: Robby Grodin;
- Proposed Presenter: Robby Grodin;
Feedback requested: Is there interest in this? Anyone interested in co-presenting?
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Messaging and Process for Startup Inside Sales
An overview and introduction to developing messaging and a process for quickly reaching prospects and securing meetings. It doesn't matter that you and your offering may be unknown. This session will help entrepreneurs the message and process to quickly obtain new customers and the metrics to track continuous improvement.
- Tags: Sales, Entrepreneurship, Management, Business Development
- Proposed by: Patrick Keating
- Proposed Presenter: Patrick Keating, www.linkedin/in/patkeating
Feedback requested: Is there interest in this?
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Innovative Infographics with XSLT and SVG
Need to go beyond the bar graph? Have a lot of information that needs to be communicated in the clearest way possible? Want to unleash your inner Edward Tufte? In this session, we'll be discussing how to use XSLT and SVG to create rich, dynamic graphs custom-tailored to your needs. No prior knowledge of XSLT or SVG required.
- Tags: programming, graphics
- Proposed by: Matthew Sachs;
- Proposed Presenter: Matthew Sachs
Feedback requested: Is there interest in this?
- Definitely interested. Infographics are some of the best content on the web today, and I'd love to have a better idea of how create good-looking, custom graphs. --JayNeely
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"Inside the Cloud at Engineyard"
An 'under the hood' look at Engineyard's cloud infrastructure from a user with no affiliation with the company. A 'hands-on coding' presentation with no powerpoint and lots of 'how to do it'.
See how EY's cloud works, how to configure it, how to customize the gem environment and deploy process, how to troubleshoot problems, and how to customize your environment using Chef.
This session is designed for individuals with no experience with Engineyard or Cloud Deployment in general up to those with extnsive experience with competing infrastructures who are interested in the details of how Engineyard is different.
No powerpoint will be presented. This is a hands-on session with a view 'under the hood' of deploying and customizing applications on the Engineyard Cloud platform.
Presented will be content on:
- Creating instances and applications,
- Implementing access control
- Customizing the gem and os environments
- Adding multiple applications per server
- Configuring Nginx and Passenger environments
- Installing 'delayed_job' for background processing
- Customizing your installation using Chef
- Debugging deployment issues
- Tags: Cloud, Deployment, Chef, Ruby
- Proposed by: Kevin Bedell; Akshay Shah
- Proposed Presenter: Kevin Bedell; Akshay Shah
FreeBSD : The other, other OS!
Everyone knows the Window and Mac OSes, and most of the people headed to BarCampBoston know Linux. The goal of this talk is to bring FreeBSD up as an option, not necessarily the "one to rule them all", but as a possible platform for your next solution.
At CSN Stores, FreeBSD is the OS of choice for anything non-windows and like the title says there is a port (FreeBSD software package) for that.
We use it for everything from Database server, to mail gateways, to multi-purpose utility machines.
Come join in a discussion of not how this great OS can replace all others, but how it works well with others and might be a great fit for your next project.
- Tags: FreeBSD, Linux, Enterprise OSes
- Proposed by: Dan Rowe, drowe@csnstores.com
- Presenters: Dan Rowe
Feedback requested: Any specific topics or questions welcome!
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"History 2.0 - Remaking the Study and Preservation of History Using Collaborative Web-based Tools"
Information on local history is stored in the attics and basements of old houses and in boxes in the archives of small historical societies, libraries, and town offices, but with little money and a small and declining core of volunteers, much of it will turn to dust over the coming decades unless something is done.
Web-based tools offer the best chance we have to save local history. These same tools, which are widely-used many other places, have been slow to be adopted by smaller institutions. And even in larger institutions, the traditional curatorial model dominates the way in which information on historical artifacts is presented.
We will discuss . . .
- The democratization of the study of history.
- Public and private examples of what's possible.
- The role of the web in decoupling preservation, interpretation, and presentation. (Also discussed here (link).)
- The behind-the-scenes battle for control of historical artifacts.
- Local initiatives that give you the opportunity to make a difference in your town--and in our country.
- Tags: history, genealogy, web 2.0, wikis, blogs, augmented reality, Wikipedia, Smithsonian Commons, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Massachusetts Historical Commission
- Proposed by: Lee Wright
- Proposed Presenter: Lee Wright
Feedback requested: Specific areas of interest and your stories and experiences.
