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Personal schedule for Silona Bonewald

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8:30am Monday, 07/20/2009

The Open, Social Web Workshop

Emerging Topics, Web Applications
Location: Meeting Room J3

Chris Messina (Google), David Recordon (Facebook), Joseph Smarr (Google)

Average rating:

(3.83, 12 ratings)

As evidenced by Barack Obama’s successful presidential campaign, we have clearly entered the age of the social web. This developer-oriented workshop will emphasize the use and application of free, open building blocks for enabling social networking features on your site or service, and provide illuminating insights from some of the key figures creating these technologies. Read more.

1:30pm Monday, 07/20/2009

Request Tracker Boot Camp

Administration, Business
Location: Ballroom A7

Jesse Vincent (Best Practical)

Average rating:

(3.80, 10 ratings)

Request Tracker (RT) is an enterprise-grade ticketing system. It's designed to help your organization track what needs to get done and what still needs doing. From basic customer service to advanced back-office workflows, RT is flexible enough to keep your processes smooth and effective. This tutorial will cover deployment and day to day use of RT as well as basic customization. Read more.

8:30am Tuesday, 07/21/2009

7 Principles of Better API Design

Perl, Programming
Location: Ballroom A3/A6

Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)

Average rating:

(4.34, 32 ratings)

This course presents a minimalist approach to interface design known as "S.A.T." Developed by Damian Conway over the past decade, this design philosophy can produce smaller, better focused, more usable module APIs. Read more.

1:30pm Tuesday, 07/21/2009

Learn to use Semantic Technologies using Open Source Tools

Databases, Emerging Topics, Programming, Web Applications
Location: Meeting Room J2

Jamie Taylor (Metaweb), Toby Segaran (Google), Colin Evans (Metaweb)

Average rating:

(3.88, 8 ratings)

Semantic Technologies provide a simple, standardized methodology for representing, combing and sharing data and serve as the foundation for creating communities of open data. These technologies are both easy to learn and easy to use. This tutorial will introduce you to semantic programming using a variety of open source tools and programming techniques that you can use on your projects today. Read more.

2:35pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Open Source / Open Government

Business, Emerging Topics, Government, People
Location: Exhibit Hall 3

Danese Cooper (Wikimedia Foundation and Open Source Initiative), Greg Elin (Sunlight Foundation), Brian Behlendorf ((self-employed)), Silona Bonewald (SLC), Michael Tiemann (Open Source Initiative)

Average rating:

(2.50, 2 ratings)

Panel of movers and shakers in the movement to open government using the principals of Open Source. Read more.

5:20pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Hacking the Open Government

Emerging Topics, Government
Location: Ballroom A1

Adina Levin (Socialtext), Debra Bowen (State of California), Silona Bonewald (SLC), Ilan Rabinovitch (Ooyala), Kevin Marks (TummelVision.tv)

Average rating:

(4.50, 2 ratings)

This panel will discuss accessing open government initiatives and creating new services around existing government data on the internet. The idea is to get a point of view from each step of the process for open government initiatives, from producer and publisher, to standards advocate, to consumer and user, and to elected representative. Read more.

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