Camp4DiscussionIdeas

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This page is where you should give people an idea of the session(s) that you may end up proposing at Mashup Camp Europe. But first, you should familiarize yourself with how things will work at Mashup Camp Europe.

Mashup Camp Europe will be conducted Open Space style (more about Open Space and unconferences can be found here). Much the same way prior Camps were run, at the beginning of each day, there will be a general assembly where attendees can propose the discussions that they're interested in leading. Attendees will line up for their turn at the microphone, propose a discussion and, on a whiteboard that lists all of the available rooms and timeslots in grid fashion, slot their proposed discussion into one of the available room/times. We'll follow the same protocol as in prior Camps where the details about the proposed discussions are written in magic marker on a piece of paper and then taped into an available slot (this way, they're easily moved). To get an idea of what this looks like, check out the images on the CampAgenda for Mashup Camp 1. There are about 10 different rooms and 5 different time slots per day which means there's opportunity for a lot of different sessions. On the second day of the event, one or more blocks of time will be reserved for Speed Geeking. Speed geeking is like speed dating. Developers and others with a technology to demo will set up stations and attendees will spend five minutes at each station before moving to the next one at the sound of a buzzer. This is one of the most popular parts of Mashup Camp.

There are several principles of Open Space:

• Whoever comes are the right people.
• Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
• Whenever it starts is the right time.
• When it is over, it is over.
• Document your session on the wiki.

There is also the Law of Two Feet: If during the course of the gathering, any person finds themselves in a situation where they are neither learning nor contributing, the must use their two feet and go to some more productive place.

And Be Prepared to Be Surprised.

Below is a list of probable/proposed discussions (if none appear yet, feel free to start the list). At the end of each description could be a link to a detail level page where you can get more information, indicate your interest in attending the discussion, and flesh out the topic in more detail with other attendees. However, in some cases, the proposed discussion is neither listed yet or the detail level pages are not setup yet. So, feel free to add to this wiki. If you click on a link for which a page hasn't been created, it will take you to a page that you can start to edit (if you are one of the people who proposed a topic, feel free to start the detail level page associated with that topic and get the conversation going!).

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Proposed Discussions:

• KarmaGeek - Karmageek.org was conceptualized at MashupCamp3 when a group of developers felt that they could put their developer skills (mashup and basic IT) to use for nonprofits, garnering good karma along the way. I'd like to discuss further how we can get our community to help those in need. Karmageek.org. Shimmy Mehta

• Server Side Mashups - There's a lot of activity on the client side for mashing up in the client, but there seems to be great potential for server side mashups as well. I'd like to discuss the issues relating to server side mashups and how they could potentially address some scalability, security, performance and manageability issues of mashups. SnapLogic. Sooyoung Park

• Mobile UI development and iPhone optimizations" - I've been doing mobile development on and off since the days of WML/HDML and the Up Browser (before they were acquired by Openwave) and have learned a lot of lessons in designin for mobile devices. With the new breed of Windows Mobile devices and the ever popular iPhone, this is going to be more and more important. Myk OLeary (session agenda to follow shortly)

• Mashup Adoption Issues Across the Enterprise - The problem most enterprises face is how to let customers, partners, vendors, and everyone else with interest in a company use the company’s data and services within their own enterprise applications. A sweet spot is a reliable way for the information to be used inside and outside of the enterprise easily (mashup data both on a local network (like MS SQL/MySQL/Oracle databases and files), and on-demand RSS feeds, Web Services, APIs and applications in “the cloud). I would like to discuss the future of mashups in the enterprise, typical challenges for adoption, and brainstorm ideas to solve them.

• ApatarForge.Org, Renat Khasanshyn of Apatar Enterprise Data Mashups.

• Telephony Presence APIs - What types, security, metadata do developers want?