MashupCamp2DiscussionIdeas

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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 2. But first, you should familiarize yourself with how things will work at Mashup Camp 2.

Mashup Camp 2 will be conducted Open Space style (more about Open Space and unconferences can be found here). Much the same way Mashup Camp 1 was run, at the beginning of each day, there will be a general assembly where attendees can propose the discussion 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 Mashup Camp 1 where the details about the proposed discussion 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 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 turned out to be one of the most popular parts of Mashup Camp 1.

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 durring 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. At the end of each description is 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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