Conferences
IDEA Conference - Information: Design, Experience and Access
After a summer spent relaxing and keeping a low profile (as if!), why not plan to re-energize your career with a trip to the IDEA Conference? Scheduled for October 7-8, 2008 in Chicago, designers, media artists and information architects alike are sure to learn new ways to reinvigorate and approach the way complex information is designed.
DrupalCamp Seattle Wrap Up
Wow, what a great 2 days! We had over 80 people show up over 2 days for some great sessions at DrupalCampSeattle.
I think that the highlight, had to be Greg Dunlap's Deploy Module Presentation, again! And of course some great hallway conversation and little show and tells.
A big shout out to all the sponsors, and everyone who pitched in to help.
DrupalCamp Seattle Underway
DrupalCampSeattle2008 started this morning at the Youngstown Arts Center in West Seattle. We have a great crew of folks here, and the sharing and learning is well underway.
I just finished an intro to Drupal talk, it was billed as a "101" but I think that we hit some 102 and 103 level topics (CCK, Views, permissions and taxonomies).
Arthur Foelsche is talking about Media Mover and Rich Media in Drupal to a rapt crowd, while a talk about CCK is going on in the theater.
Conference: Social Networking & Mobile Social Networking
If you can't get enough of social networking -- and clearly we can't -- make sure and pencil in the 4th annual Social Networking Conference taking place July 10-11 in San Francisco. The San Francisco chapter will focus on my favorite topic, enterprise social networking and on mobile social networking. The keynote speaker will be Britt Selvitelle of Twitter, who's talk, cleverly entitled "What's Love Got To Do With It?" will touch on why it's not enough to make passionate users, but also "passionate creators" (a reference to Twitter's wildly popular API, no doubt).
Early Bird Registration for jboye08 Denmark
Early bird registration is going on from now until July 1st for the 4th international jboye08 conference, a meeting of global gurus in Aarhus, Denmark. The conference brings together IT practitioners from all over the world in order to share and learn in an open environment. It is described as intense, with discussions, demos and interaction from the attendees.
Preservation of Web Resources: Making a Start | JISC-PoWR | 27 June
I mentioned my involvement on the legal aspects of this project in an earlier post — the project is having its first event on the 27th of June. For more see below:
The JISC-sponsored Preservation of Web Resources project (JISC-PoWR) will be running its first workshop in London. The aim of the series of workshops is to gain and share feedback from institutional Web, information and records managers about the challenges presented by Web resources.
The first workshop, entitled ‘Preservation of Web Resources: Making a Start’, will be held from 10.30 am - 4pm on Friday 27th June 2008 at Senate House Library, University of London. It is free to attend and open to all members of HE/FE Institutions and those working in the public sector.
Further details are available from the JISC-PoWR blog:
http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/workshops/workshop-1/
The booking deadline is Friday 16th June
Find Us at NetSquared Next Week
Next week, Zoey and I will be at the NetSquared Conference in San Jose, CA and if you're one of the 350 lucky participants attending, we would love to connect with you!
NetSquared is a two-day event of innovators in social benefit initiatives & technology to advance change around the globe.
This is all about how NGOs can use social tools to collaborate, share information and mobilize support using FOSS (like Drupal), blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasting, user-generated content, twitter, and all the other key tools and buzzwords.
Also, take a moment and give our Mashup idea a "star" (vote) and help us support the Network for Good API.
HOW Design : Work Making Creativity
Working in a creative industry, like design, is no guarantee that your work environment is a creative one. Ruts and lulls affect us all and it's often a challenge to take the extra steps necessary to revive our creative juices and reinvigorate our passion for innovation. At this year's HOW Design Conference, Making Creativity Work provided participants with solutions and insights into how companies and individuals can inspire and collaborate to develop exciting products.
10 Web 2.0 Conferences You Dont Want to Miss
It can be a real pain trying to keep up with all the upcoming conferences that happen every year. With web 2.0 being the subject of late, there are a lot of conferences and events designed specifically around it. What follows is a list of some of the top web 2.0 conferences happening this summer. Have a browse and see if anything tickles your fancy. Then think about how you can convince your boss to send you.
HOW Design: Print Designers Learn about the Web
For all the grief that we give those in the print industry, I appreciate it when special efforts are made to spread awareness to help them (and others) to learn new techniques that make their work on the Web more effective. Such efforts are in abundance at the HOW Design Conference.
Common Mistakes Print Designers Make on the Web was not only an advantageous session for print designers who have had the Web thrust upon them, but also helpful for Web designers, who had the opportunity to listen in and see things from a different perspective.
The session, presented by Stephanie Sullivan, founder of the web standards redesign company, W3Conversions, reviewed the top ten mistakes and provided insight about how to remedy these situations.
HOW Design: Designer's Guide to Research
It's often necessary to validate most business decisions, but never has proof been as demanding as it is with design. Design is still construed as a very arbitrary, hippy-dippy discipline and nothing gets the goat of a designer more than having to explain time and again that there are indeed standards for design.
Enter the Designer's Guide to Research, courtesy of the HOW Design Conference presented by power couple, Jenn and Ken Visocky O'Grady, founders of Enspace, a creative think tank that works to enhance collaboration and communication among designers, writers and marketers, alike.
Ballot Stuffer from Redmond Stuffs Another FOSS Conference (Romania)
Microsoft invades another free open source conference (this time in Romania)
Getting Things Done: What the Board Has Been Up To
Since the Board has been elected we’ve been meeting a lot IRL and putting our heads together to figure out the next steps of the Students for Free Culture organization. Here are the links to the minutes from our recent meetings:
We’ll be updating this page on the wiki: Meetings with future links to minutes so keep an eye out there if you’re interested in following SFC’s board meetings in excruciating detail.
But if you’re not interested in digging through the minutes here are a couple of things we’ll be working on over the next couple of months:
Open Nordic Conference June 19-20
Swedes, Norwegians, Danes and Finns, it's time to flex your open source muscle. The Open Nordic Conference is happening in Norway on June 19-20. Brought to you by a formidable team consisting of eZ Systems, ICT Norwary, National Center for Open Source, and ICT Grenland, the Open Nordic will actually be three different, but related conferences running in parallel. They're all related to open source and promoting the use of free software -- something we can definitely vouch for.
Virtualization - What Does the Next Generation Look Like?
Virtualization has been taking the IT field by storm, but where is it headed? The theme of November's 4th International Virtualization Conference and Expo is "The Next Generation of Virtualization". They are welcoming submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases not just on how virtualization maximizes the use of resources and thus saves companies money, but also of how it is altering the way businesses run IT in a fundamental way.
