SuperMondays: Next Event: GroupCamp

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Alex Kavanagh

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Oct 20, 2009, 4:10:18 AM10/20/09
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Hi Everybody

Just a quick reminder about the next SuperMondays event which is taking place next Monday 26th October.  http://www.supermondays.org

This months event is a GroupCamp which is basically a semi-organised discussion about any topic you want!  Actually, it is a tiny bit more structured than that:

The obligatory blurb:

This month we are opening up the format of SuperMondays for several BarCamp style breakout discussions, which will run simultaneously. The groups will have a leader to get the discussion started and attendees will be free to contribute or move between groups.

The event running order is:

  • 6:00 pm: welcome tea+coffee
  • 6:30pm: Introduction and explanation on how the event will run
  • 6:50pm: break out session 1
  • 7:15pm: Food
  • 7:40pm: break out session 2
  • 8:05pm: break out session 3
  • 8:30pm: PUB!

Are you interested in suggesting, starting or facilitating a discussion? Perhaps there is a topic that you want to discuss or debate? If so, then get started now and suggest a topic on the Google Group (http://groups.google.co.uk/group/super-mondays)

We will use the Google Group to manage the event topics, but you can also suggest topics on the night.The most popular topics, according to a public vote, will be chosen.

The event will kick off at 6:00pm on 26th October at the Beehive Research Facility, Newcastle University. You can find a map to the Beehive here: http://tinyurl.com/czs4dp

The current set of topics that have offered up are as follows (although it really could be about anything):

  • Linux
    • Distro Discussion
    • Encryption
  • Start-ups:
    • How to raise funds?
    • Finding support agencies that are worth engaging with!
  • Cloud:
    • Why isn't everybody using it?
    • Comparison of providers
    • Open cloud standards
    • Privacy
    • Reliable parallelism across servers.
  • Web development topics:
    • planning web projects
    • Javascript development: your favourite tools and why you use them
      • jQuery, Prototype and Dojo. Your favourite firefox plugins. Testing tools. Debugging. Design. Work flow. Semantic mark-up. Accessibility and fall-back with NoScript, Text Readers, Braille, etc. Could tackle one in depth or just discuss experiences and come up with an interesting 'tool list'.
      • GWT as a development platform (with Mike Parker!)
    • "beyond jquery"
      • Other webby ideas: µformats, RDFa, "beyond jquery" for designery-types
    • scaling javascript
    • Extending your webapp(RIA) to the desktop and beyond (mobile/ITV) considerations and best practices
    • Web browser discussion (IE6 ate my homework, Chrome "is cool ...", etc.)
    • What is HTML5
    • CSS3 and Web fonts
    • Using web services/APIs:
      • e.g. Twitter, Google Maps, Wave(?), Facebook, etc.
      • creating an API and opening up a closed product to the outside world, what features we'd expose etc. would probably be interesting.
  • Location based/augmented reality
    • Augmented Reality - eye candy or Innovation? discuss the posibilities.
    • Location based applications - possibilities / monetisation / safety.
    • Combining Augmented Reality applications with location aware services.
  • Server based tech:
    • reverse HTTP/cometd
    • Databases
  • Development (General):
    • Waterfall or Agile ?
    • Functional Programming
    • data viz / visual processing (i.e. facial recognition fun)
    • Developing for Mobile devices.
  • Other:
    • Google Wave Demo (With 2 invites giveaway)
    • Starting/running/being a member of an Open Source project
    • F/OSS (Free and Open Source Software) Licenses. Good, Bad or Indifferent.
      • What does GPL2, GPL3, AGPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, etc. mean? How does it affect your code? What is 'distribution'?
  • Integrated web-presence:
    • Maybe a work group to discuss the cleanest, tightest ways of setting up a coherent, tractable social media front- i.e. tying together a company’s blog, Twitter, Facebook (et al.) profiles with their website in an cross-updating, easy-to-manage way?
      • look at APML, distributed social networks, open ID, FOAF, portability

Obviously, you can add to this as well.  Clearly, not everything will be discussed, we'll jointly pick the leading ones at the start of session and then go for it.

We are really looking forward to this new event format, please get involved!  Because we are doing food, it would be very useful if you could sign up so that we can gauge numbers.

Cheers
Alex.
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Alex Kavanagh
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Work: http://www.tinwood.com
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