Barcamp Atlanta 2008 Topics

This is not a schedule or agenda. Simply list the topic you plan on talking about here and add comments to a topic if you feel the need. The agenda will still be filled out once everyone arrives on Friday afternoon.

Free Software, Opensource, and Enterprise Professional Opensource:

Doug Bock

Group discussion on the differences and the who what where why and how to use each, as well as on different monitization strategies companies use in various flavors of opensource from pure altruism, to "lost leader", to consulting, to subscription, to software as a service (SaaS) and beyond. Also a potential tangent on the recently popularized term, open collaboration.

Recent Happenings in Commercial Space Development

Michael Mealling

I'm going to go over recent events in the commercial space industry such as XCOR's XRacer, Bigelow's inflatable habitats, and Masten Space's XA 0.1 flights.

How to Generate Publicity Without Seeming Like (or Actually Being) a Scumbag Spammer

Micah Wedemeyer

I'll talk a little about how to generate good online buzz and publicity for a website/product/whatever. I'll use my experiences on my own website, Obsidian Portal, as a backdrop.

Get the slides from my blog.

Liquid Nitrogen Food

Randall

We'll drop a few foods in -196C liquid nitrogen and have fun eating the results. Crunchy marshmallows - yum! Might make some ice cream or shatter some rubber balls while we're at it.

(ed - I'll be sure to bring the nitrogen ice cream recipe used across Mojave. Rocket companies like nitrogen ice cream!)

(Well, I'd need the ingredients list ahead of time so I can do the shopping. - Randall)

How Merb got to 1.0 (assuming it did) and whether it's time to use it for your projects

Michael Ivey

tentative, I may decide to not talk about Merb again

The Joy of Coova

Charles Shapiro

An overview of the features of coova ( http://coova.org ), which lets you run a hotspot from your router.

How I Built startupgossip.com In A Week

Sanjay Parekh

An overview of Yahoo Pipes and how you can use it to build a site like startupgossip.com in no time flat. Slides available on slideshare.net.

Open Innovation

Tim Olsen

How traditional enterprise R&D divisions are being replaced by Open Innovation and how business models can incorporate it.

Workshop: Competitive Startups In Slow Economic Environment

Konstantyn

Discussion: exchange thoughts, approaches, points of view, market assesments and ideas how to plan and execute strong businesses despite disappointments in common sense. Presentation: repititive framework for idea creation and evaluation, analysis of macroeconomic environment.

How HD Radio Works

Thomas Shanks

Chief Engineer, WREK Atlanta, Georgia Tech Student Radio

- Demo (Requires 1/8" 'headphone' input to speakers)

Clearly the best way to demonstrate what it is.

- Implementation Details

COFDM, Carriers, Frequencies, Etc

- What Else?

Client side encryption using Javascript

Mark Percival

An overview of the in browser client side encryption options out there, including my own AES Javascript library, who uses them, how they use them, and why.

Genetic Algorithms for Javascript

Keith McGreggor

A useful overview of the voodoo behind genetic algorithms, a few examples (including the answer to life, the universe and everything else), and a Javascript library you can use freely to play around with in the comfort of your own browser.

Decentralized Version Control

Sam Schenkman-Moore

Version control is a staple for programers and hackers of all sorts. I'm going to talk about what version control is and how decentralized version control is gaining favor over centralized systems like CVS and Subversion.

VOIP on the iPhone

Colin Ake

A look at different VOIP/SIP solutions for the iPhone, including the iCall beta, Fring, Truphone, and some of the web-based applications. I'll summarize each solution, compare them to each other, complain about some lacking features, and attempt to demo a few things.

Coffeehouse coffee at home, for pennies

Michael Ivey

I'm bringing my coffee setup (because I need it) and will bring lots of extra coffee and filters. I'll show you how you can have coffeehouse quality coffee at home, for a fraction of the cost. Please bring your own mug...it's greener and cheaper, and your coffee won't taste like styrofoam.

Screen Scraping with Ruby

Jeremy Raines

A short intro to screen scraping in Ruby and some of the tools that can make it fairly easy and fun. Slidecast is now up here.

Why Erlang?

Brad Anderson

Programs running N times faster with N cores? Nine 9's of uptime? Plug and play clustering? That's just the out-of-the-box stuff. I'll take an introductory look at this programming language.

slides

RSS Users Anonymous

Will Powell

Moderated by a self-described information addict - how do you consume information using RSS? How long have you been using an RSS reader? Where is the technology going? Do you have any tips/tricks that you use to handle it all?

Interested Artificial Intelligence? Neural Networks? Cognition? Fractals?

Greg Tuve (ionamerica)

Come see an explanation of how neurons cooperate to form memories, and how the resulting fractal grows. Jaw dropping.

Push Protesting - Getting the word out through the programmable web

Tim Farley (http://whatstheharm.net)

When your web site has a message that is in opposition to someone else's, it can be hard to get the word out. You usually don't have the budget to advertise, and your target audience may be predisposed to not visit your site. Or they may not even be aware of the issue you are raising to even ask the right questions. This talk will review techniques that use the programmable web (XML, KML, RSS, geocoding and microformats) to get your message in front of people via third-party websites.

Slides available on slideshare.net via skeptools.com.

Real Jedi mind tricks

Sean Mahoney

The Psychology of Persuasion: A quick look at the levers of influence, how to spot them, use them, and how to protect against falling prey.

iPhone SDK Basics/Intro

Amro Mousa

Just some basics about how to do simple things w/ iPhone SDK:

-Basics (Hello World)

-Displaying an image given a URL (UIImageView)

-Find your external IP address by hitting an existing service (NSURLConnection)

-View transitions (UIViewAnimation)

-Timers

A College Newspaper's Adventures in Social Media

Arcadiy Kantor

A quick run-through of what the Technique, Georgia Tech's student newspaper, has been doing with social media over the past half a year and what our plans are, followed by a discussion of what people want to see from newspapers to make them more useful and relevant in a web-driven society.

A Command Line for Firefox: Hands-on with Ubiquity

Andy Edmonds

Get introduced to Mozilla Labs' Ubiquity project -- a command line for firefox. This experimental project enables the construction of rich command line interfaces either for your website or the entire web. Including a demo of an enterprise feature set for VersionOne's software development application.

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/andyed/bar-camp-ubiquity-presentation-presentation/

Hacking Web Apps for the iPhone

Andy Edmonds

Get a primer on iPhone web application development including dealing with orientation switchs, controlling the zooming canvas, and skinning starting points. Also featuring advanced graphical techniques with hardware accelerated CSS Transforms & the Canvas tag. The presentation is driven by learnings from constructing http://www.iblipper.com

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/andyed/bar-camp-iphone-web-hackery-presentation/

Web Security

Shauvik Roy Choudhary - {my_first_name} at gmail dot com

This talk was aimed at general web users, developers and testers. We looked at top threats and saw some tools to help prevent and detect attacks.

Slides: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?docid=dhk4xhct_123d6p9gzds

Beagle Board

Shauvik Roy Choudhary - {my_first_name} at gmail dot com

This was an intro talk about Beagle Board and things it can do. I got my board for the talk and showed how to boot linux from it.

Slides: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?docid=dhk4xhct_174d3z735gr