BarCamp Texas - August 26th (Austin)
July 26, 2006
What is BarCampTexas? Well, the organizers of BarCampAustin, BarCampDallas, and BarCampHouston have decided to join forces and create BarCampTexas! The goal is to get over 1000 campers to join together August 26th-28th. BarCampTexas will be held in conjunction with BarCampEarth, Saturday August 26th to Monday 28th.
Where? Austin, Texas (location TBD any minute)
What? Proposed Sessions Include:
- Agile Development experience reports - what has worked in your organization? What hasn’t?
- Scalability. This could be either general routes to engineering for scale, or technology/platform/software stack-specific post mortems (e.g. I know how to do this with LAMP, but I’m curious how RoR would change the picture, or J2EE, or…). What happens when your site’s url is in the screen crawl on CNN Headline news?
- Designing for Mobile/Portable Devices
- Workshop on Audacity
- Deploying a Commercial Web Application/Product: War Stories
- Tips for Building Community & Attracting User Contributions
- Ad Management Tools: Options other than Google?
- Calendaring (Caldev, hcalendar, tool comparisons, Outlook exports)
- Microformats: Commercial Uses
- Server Virtualization: Xen, UML, OpenVZ, VMWare, etc. Tricks, tips, experiences, battle scars, etc.? Hypervisor technology migrating into the common whitebox server space from the mainframe world is (imho) one of the most exciting things to happen in the systems management world in a while. (I don’t have the material/experience to comment much on this one but I’d be fascinated to hear what others have to say.)
- Why XSLT is sweet for Ajax Widgets
- Search Engine Optimization
- Setting Your Mac Up–soup-to-nuts from the basics to Darwin Ports, subversion, and leveraging the unix underneath with the sweet, sweet Aqua goodness.
- Moving your life or business from desktop apps to webapps. Where do you keep your data, and who can you trust? Also, AJAXy web clients vs. “Thick” desktop clients for web based apps/services.
