- Bob Silverberg - Pecha Kucha: this is an interesting session format (not exactly a BOF) where each presenter gets about seven minutes to present with a slideshow of 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds. The presentations can be about anything (but we'd like them to be of interest to the sort of folks who attend cf.Objective()!). It's an interesting and creative format. Read more about What Is Pecha Kucha? and also Bob's original blog post about a Pecha Kucha at cf.Objective() where several people have shown interest in presenting.
- Matt Woodward - Open BlueDragon: this would cover topics such as writing plugins for OpenBD and any other related topics that folks want.
- Jason Dean - Security: last year's security BOF was well-attended so Jason wants to do another one this year.
- Sean Shroeder - Extending Mura: Mura is becoming increasing popular as a rich, powerful CMS these days and whilst he's doing a session on building websites with Mura (on Saturday afternoon), he wants to talk with folks about extending Mura, writing plugins, using frameworks with Mura and so on. I've built a few sites with Mura and leveraged the rich event model as well as incorporating Model-Glue and Fusebox apps so I think this would be a great chance for folks to learn what's possible and share their experiences!
- Wil Genovese - Home Brewed ColdFusion Monitoring: Wil presented this on the CF Meetup back in December (and it was well-received) so this would be a chance for other folks to share their tips, trick and tools and make a nice, rounded educational session about monitoring your servers.
- Peter Bell / Sean Corfield - Being Agile: there is increasing interest in so-called "agile" methodologies within the CF community (although many of the concepts have been around for a long time) and Peter is giving two talks on Thursday about various agile-related techniques so this BOF would allow for more feedback and questions and hearing from others about the pros and cons in their experience. Read the Twelve Principles of Agile Software and the Manifesto for Agile Software Development to get a sense of how "agile" is intended to be different (and better, according to Peter and Sean!).
- Guitar Hero - or perhaps some equally raucous social competition? The leader of such a BOF would be responsible for organizing the gaming equipment but, given the suggestion, we figured it might be fun to turn one of the BOF slots over to something more fun and less technical... thoughts?
cf.Objective() 2010 - BOF suggestions
January 30, 2010 · 2 Comments
We have eight Birds of a Feather slots open at cf.Objective() and we've had six (and a "half") suggestions so far so I want to open it up and get more suggestions and hear which ones you'd like to see.
If you're not familiar with the format, a Birds of a Feather session is intended to be interactive and a chance for like-minded people to discuss particular topics. Each session is lead by a conference attendee and there's often a short, informal presentation at the beginning to frame the discussions and then it opens up for everyone to share ideas and experiences as well as ask questions and learn more about the topic.
So far we've had (in no particular order):
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1 Dan Vega // Jan 30, 2010 at 6:06 PM
2 andy matthews // Jan 30, 2010 at 7:09 PM
Mobile Development (iPhone, Android, WebOS)
SciFi (discuss movies, books, TV shows, etc.)
Photography (suggested by Rob Brooks Billson)
Poetry slam
Open source project discussion. BoF leader would be responsible for selecting 2 or 3 ideas for an open source project. During the discussion, the participants would scope out, and potentially job out, work for this project. Setting timelines, etc. Obviously would require participation post-conference, but it could have a great result.
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