2010 Schedule

Sessions will be placed in session slots by their presenters at the event, starting Saturday morning. This page will be updated live.

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BarCamp Boston 5 Schedule
Saturday, April 17th.
Time	Room 32-123 Capacity: 318	Room 32-124 Capacity: 60	Room 32-141 Capacity: 90	Room 32-144 Capacity: 60	Room 32-155 Capacity: 90	Halls & Side Rooms
9:00 AM	Doors open for registration and schmoozing. Grab some breakfast! Today's events made possible in large part by our platinum sponsors Akamai and Endeca. Get your BarCamp Boston 5 shirts thanks to platinum sponsor HubSpot Internet Marketing, and stickers thanks to StickerGiant custom stickers.
10:00 AM	Plenary Session - Rules of BarCamp; 5 Second Intros and Session Announcements/Promotions.
11:00 AM Session 1	How to present at BarCamp	Fundraising Debugged: When, Why & Who to Raise (and not raise) Money From		Hacking the Brain		Halls & Side Room Stuff
11:30 AM Session 2	Building Bostons Startup Community	Open Source Elections	Open Source Redistricting	Cooking for Geeks	User Experience Design for Developers	Halls & Side Room Stuff
12:00 PM Session 3	History 2.0	openFrameworks: C++ for artists & designers	Chaos in Motion	Font Wars	Getting more Startups happening in boston	Halls & Side Room Stuff
12:30 PM Session 4	FOSS @ RIT	Self-publishing Geek Novels	3D Printing & MakerBot/RepRap Demo	Tweetup 101: Leverage Social Media	SaaS Pricing: Make the cheap bastards pay!	Halls & Side Room Stuff
01:00 PM	Lunch. Pizza. The Programming Contest gets started! Thanks to our gold sponsor Microsoft NERD.
Time	Room 32-123 Capacity: 318	Room 32-124 Capacity: 60	Room 32-141 Capacity: 90	Room 32-144 Capacity: 60	Room 32-155 Capacity: 90	Halls & Side Rooms
02:00 PM Session 5	YUI Gallery	How to be smarter	Hadoop 101	Quick & Dirty Usability Testing	Internet as Infrastructure	Halls & Side Room Stuff
02:30 PM Session 6		HTML5 vs Flash/Flex	Innovative Infographics with SVG	Mobile Apps & Analytics		Halls & Side Room Stuff
03:00 PM Session 7	Telling Your Tale: Creating a Killer Pitch	Connecting US Communities with African Communities	Connecting the world of cooking with Plummelo.com	Custom Cloud Deployment with Ruby/Chef	The Next Big Issues in Social Media	Halls & Side Room Stuff
03:30 PM Session 8	Game Programming in Ruby	Indistinguishable from Magic: Location-finding without GPS	Social Media for Biz Q&A + Beginner Strategy	Scraping and Analyzing the Olympics Demo (Olympics data)	So you've got a software idea? Now What?	Halls & Side Room Stuff
04:00 PM Session 9	VC: How to structure your financing	FreeBSD: The other other OS	Unified Field Theory on 1 T-Shirt	Automating scientific reasoning (etherpad)	Open Street Map	Halls & Side Room Stuff
04:30 PM Session 10	The future of Wolfram Alpha by Stephen Wolfram (= Awesome with a capital A)	Code Secrets: Anonymous sharing of secrets (hilarious)		Intro to Windows phone 7	How to choose an open source CMS. A discussion of Plone, Drupal, Joomla! & Wordpress	Halls & Side Room Stuff Shared Making - discussion of founding a shared making facility in Cambridge
05:00 PM Session 11		(Microsoft ∩ Free) != the empty set	Six Lessons in Science, Game theory and perfectionism (you apply your decision making process)	Why I love my N900 (and you probably wouldn't)		Halls & Side Room Stuff
05:30 PM Session 12		Founder Match				Halls & Side Room Stuff
06:00 PM	End of the day at MIT! Head over to one of the after-parties! If you enjoyed the first day, thank our gold sponsor Cisco for helping make it possible!
Sunday, April 18th.
Time	Room 32-123 Capacity: 318	Room 32-124 Capacity: 60	Room 32-141 Capacity: 90	Room 32-144 Capacity: 60	Room 32-155 Capacity: 90	Halls & Side Rooms
10:00 AM	Doors open for registration and schmoozing. + Breakfast! Gold sponsor Yahoo! Developers Network and silver sponsors VC Ready Law and CSN Stores helped us keep you caffeinated.
11:00 AM Session 1		Future of Web Frameworks: a brainstorm	How to run Action-Oriented Communities		Your website sucks! But it can be saved.	Halls & Side Room Stuff
11:30 AM Session 2		Building Digital Alternative Economies	Agile Programming Methods	Turn your blog into a book.	Scvngr - building mobile scavenger hunts the quick and easy way	Halls & Side Room Stuff
12:00 PM Session 3	YUI3 Most Advanced JS Library in the world		Job Match for people hiring and those looking for a job	When will the 3D Web Arrive?		Halls & Side Room Stuff
12:30 PM Session 4		Puzzle Hunts 101: Solving techniques, metapuzzles and more	Experiences with key-value stores: NoSQL	Rule based programming	[Design Guidelines for non-Designers]	Halls & Side Room Stuff
1:00 PM	Lunch. Pizza. Contributions by bronze sponsors Assembla, LocaModa, and Danielson Legal made this possible.
02:00 PM Session 5	Don't be a douche-bag: best practices for game mechanics in your web app	VC Pitch Prep w/ ScoopCart Pitching Spark Capital (live?)	Beginner's jQuery: A BRIEF Intro	Improv Games: or not being shy in front of people	Why I like my Nexus One Android phone more than my iPhone	Halls & Side Room Stuff
02:30 PM Session 6		How the Internet is reacting to a Giant Volcano	Django on Google App Engine	Restaurant Technology: How to improve it: Lets discuss!		Halls & Side Room Stuff
03:00 PM Session 7	Drop Your Pants: Share half-baked ideas and get early feedback	Lessons Learned: Hacking your life habits with code, introspection, and the community	Version Control Systems: A Discussion	Telling Your Tale: Creating a Killer Pitch	Multimedia Compositor for iPhone & iPad	Halls & Side Room Stuff
03:30 PM Session 8		Tracking and Visualizing your sleep with Zeo	Website Theming: Apply any website design to any website with point-n-click UI	Multiplayer Game Timer - A distributed microcontroller gadget.		Halls & Side Room Stuff
04:00 PM	Programming Contest results & event wrap-up. Media partner O'Reilly has provided books as wrap-up prizes, and bronze sponsors Element55, Acquia, BetterLesson, and VentureFizz all contributed to this event. Major thanks to them and *you* for your support!
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