MashupCamp3DiscussionIdeas

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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 3. But first, you should familiarize yourself with how things will work at Mashup Camp 3.

Mashup Camp 3 will be conducted Open Space style (more about Open Space and unconferences can be found here). Much the same way Mashup Camps 1 & 2 were 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 other Mashup Camps 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 MashupCamp2Grid for Mashup Camp 2. 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. Speed Geeking is one of the most popular parts of our events.

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!).

Check out our help page for getting started when it comes to logging in and creating or editing pages on this wiki.

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Proposed Topics

• Voice and Rich Media MashUps: Embed voice-enabled features that record messages, enable 3-way conference calls, and broadcast messages (TTS and SMS), etc., connect any two phones - all through the web - within any portal or application. Mashups include Amazon's S3 and StrikeIron's SMS web service. - Proposed by Dharmesh Desai, Solutions Architect, LignUp
• Amazon Web Services Mash-ups: Mashup's using amazon's webservices, EC2 + S3 = ElasticLive - Proposed by Reuven Cohen, Chief Technologist, Enomaly
• API Best Practices: What should an API look like and how should I consume it in my mashup? - Proposed by Dave Nielsen, StrikeIron
• Mashup Tools and Platforms: Which tools and platforms are right for my mashup? - Proposed by Dave Nielsen, StrikeIron
• Microformats as Web Services: Why do we keep creating new XML languages? Could we use microformats as the basis for new web services?
• Dojo Toolkit Introduction: Get to know Dojo.
• ReviewTube: a Video Captioning Mashup: Case study of issues encountered in creating a multiserver YouTube/Rails/Flex mashup adding captioning to YouTube videos: ReviewTube - Proposed by Joe Berkovitz, Chief Architect, Allurent
• Authenication Based APIs: How to build APIs and mashups for sites that require authentication (e.g.: your bank account, MySpace, etc.) - Proposed by Jon Aizen and Eran Shir, Dapper
• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Going beyond the 350 APIs on Programmable Web: What do you do when the site you want to use does not have an API? - Proposed by Jon Aizen and Eran Shir, Dapper
• Mashup Security : What new security concerns do mashups present? Do they present any new risks that we haven't yet considered?
• Getting Started with the Yahoo! Developer Network: First steps with YDN, including messy bits like API keys, the YUI libraries, output formats, and licensing issues. - Proposed by Kent Brewster
• Build a Search Application in Under an Hour : code one of those nifty little inline search boxes, using nothing but JavaScript and open APIs. Web server not required; it's proxy-free, so all you need is your laptop. - Proposed by Kent Brewster
• Distributed Open Taxonomy Service : perhaps similar to above. Will demo an AJAX app and discuss associated XML forms -- proposed by Jon Garfunkel
• MoneyMashing with open money : What happens when you add the power of community currencies into your MashApp? Reputation currencies, Time Banks, mutual-credit and more. - Proposed by Eric Harris-Braun
• Building Your own YouTube-like App : 4-way Mashup - Host and relay videos right from Amazon S3, Queue up your video processing jobs via Amazon SQS, Process (transcode videos, create thumnails) using Amazon EC2, Tag videos (search) and Filter (porn and copyright) content using Amazon Mechanical Turk World-wide workforce. Host the Website on Amazon EC2 and Scale-out! What are the advantages and disadvantages of this approach? - Proposed by Jinesh Varia, Evangelist, Amazon Web Services.
• MobileMash : Using web services with mobile phones - Proposed by KeithErskine, Padpaw
• Publish and Maintain Events using Google Spreadsheets : Mashup of Google Calendar, Google Base and Google Spreadsheets APIs to allow for easy viewing, publication and searching of events. The consistency of the GData family of APIs makes this simple -- presented by Ryan Boyd, Google
• Dynamic geolocation as a service : Preview an ALPHA build of the next version of Loki -- the first location-based browser toolbar -- and learn how to access a user's geolocation with some simple Javascript and use it as context for your mashup. Presentation by Ryan Sarver, Loki
• The Connection Between Desktop and Web : Mashing up client side applications with web applications has yet to be perfected. Come listen to how AIM is bridging the gap and share your thoughts on how the Mashup world can facilitate getting client applications on the web and vice versa.
• FutureBoston Competition Roundtable : An on-going round table to discuss, inspire and brainstorm issues around the FutureBoston@MashupCamp competitions. -- proposed by Noah Raford [1]
• Radical web mapping and web GIS approaches : Going Beyond the Pin Map: hands on discussion with the latest in web GIS and web mapping applications. -- proposed by Mike Flaxman / MIT
• I say Widget, you say Gadget : Wouldn't it be cool if stuff written for other people's frameworks ran on yours as well? Wouldn't it be cool if you didn't have to write the same widget/gadget for multiple platforms? What sorts of standards are needed to help this emerging situational application paradigm prosper and grow? -- Proposed by John Gerken
• Nonprofit Mashups, AngelWish and KarmaGeek.org : Wouldn't it be nice if we could help others by doing what we do best: MashingUp -- Session led by Shimmy Mehta, Angelwish
• SemanticWeb3dot0 : The Semantic Web, "Web 3.0" & TopicMaps -- proposed by Jeff Dwyer