=== BarCampNYC Presentations

HelpfulSuggestionsForPresenters

Everyone must present or help with another presentation. If you want to do the latter, take a look at the list below and email someone whose presentation topic looks interesting to you. 

Here are a few of the proposed sessions so far (please add yours!): 

* Sean Johnson: How To Burn Your Tech Business To The Ground
* Nick Gray: LowCostOutsourcing
* Mark Hurst: [Bit literacy http://www.goodexperience.com/blog/archives/000344.php]
* Ian Van Ness: Online Maps - API's, XML-RPC, mashups and all sorts of fun
* Matt Pelletier: Ruby on Rails - Lean, mean web dev for client work and startups (or a number of other related topics)
* Ryan Green: OurMedia.org, and maybe a Mologogo installation
* David Heller: beyond technology - about, for, with - users & business - bringing design into the mix.
* Bert Stillwater: Crazy Thai hookers and a little row boat - My Favorite Spring Break Adventure 2005
* David Czarnecki: Software Internationalization primer, blojsom (Overview and/or Developing)
* Otis Gospodnetić: Simpy (if winging it is okay)
* Gil Hildebrand: 10 Second Ajax with Prototype and JSON (http://barcamp.org/?10SecondAjax)
* (maybe, depending on interest/demand) Melanie Swan: Introduction to the Future talk (Kurzweil, singularity, semiconductor roadmap, etc.) and/or stock trading workshop
* Matt Joyce: Kerberos Authentication in Hybrid Environments
* Seth Fitzsimmons: Java 5 Annotation use with Struts and Lucene (depending on interest)
* Andrew Baron: The Future of Videoblogging
* Eric Skiff: Promoting your project with MySpace, the pros, cons, and ethics of bulk-friending, and scripting the web with WWW::Mechanize. 
* Alex Jacobson: Distributed Identity -- Stop building sites that require passwords OR Cheap Infinite Scale -- Outsource TCP/HTTP (by popular demand)
* David Parmet: Social media, blogging, building connections - kind of still forming in my head but along those lines...ALSO ... using the Indeed API to integrate job search tools into your web site or application
* Peter Nofelt: Javascript timer to benchmark code. Manages information about recursion level, # of hits to segment of code, min time, max time and average time. Also will use the presentation as a forum for discussing future changes or feature requests.
* Malcolm Pollack: XMPP- Prospective Search using XMPP to deliver results
* Gus Spathis- Structured Blogging
* Joshua Newman: Film 2.0 - A rundown of what's happening (and what's likely to happen next) at the intersection of the tech and movie worlds.
* Usman Chaudhary: Wordpress 2.0 - an introduction of its new features
* Wendy Seltzer: Build your DVR to beat the [broadcast flag http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/] (MythTV)
* Neil J. Squillante: Email 2.0: Serial Storytelling (Sunday Morning)
* Scott Kidder: Using WordPress as a content management system for your non-blog website?
* Morgan Friedman - Outsource Your Life - OR - How to turn yourself into Big Brother - OR - How Not To Be An AFC
* [John Resig http://ejohn.org/] - Subverting Social Networks, [Introducing jQuery http://jquery.com/], [Announcing FeedPile http://feedpile.com/], [ideaShrub Demo http://ideashrub.com/]
* Joe Loong: [Blogging and Nonbloggers http://www.joelogon.com/blog/2006/01/why-am-i-going-to-barcamp-nyc.html#nontech] -- a conversation on engaging novices, plus a drone-level look at corporate blogging

* Scott Trudeau: If you need help, I haven't prep'd my presentation yet, so let me know ...
* Kelly Lupo: I'd like to volunteer as a helper if possible... (K.lupo (at) glitchnyc (dot) com), research monkey, button pusher, cleanup, etc.
* Satadru Pramanik: Also a "Helper Volunteer" drop me a line if I can do anything... (satadru at gee mail)
* Jordan Sissel: Willing to volunteer to help with any presentation. Let me know what you need (jls at freebsd dot org)
** Simple application services with python, xmlrpc, and ajax/jason. (if there's interest)
* Stella Frank: Another helper wannabe - find me at stella.frank at geemail
* Finn Smith: I have a few ideas, anyone have a preference?
** Ferret: Lucene on Ruby
** mod_fastcgi vs. mod_fcgid vs. mod_perl: Movable Type as a long running process
** screen on unix: meta terminals tips and tricks
** Xbox Media Center: building a media center with everyone's favorite ubiquitous, low-cost PC that's disguised as a game console [Looks cool -Nick]
** clearly I'll be kind of winging whatever presentation I end up giving
* NaveenSelvadurai: no solid ideas just yet; would be willing to help with another
* Schematic peeps Yvette Pasqua, Geoff Stearns, Nicolas Cianca, and Anders Ramsay: Debunking Flash Myths
* Paul Dix (firstname (@) pauldix.net): Willing to help with any presentation or willing to meet up at the event tomorrow to put something together to present on Sunday! Some ideas:
** Basic RoR stuff
** Some of the basics with scriptaculous
** Comparisons of different javascript frameworks
* Durjoy (Ace) Bhattacharjya: happy to help with any presentation; Branding for Geeks from an Agency Guy (Secrets from the Underworld)
* GregoryHeller: DrupalGuild and Open Business Models of CivicActions