May 12, 2011 ~ OpenSocial State of the Union 2011
Logistics
Date: May 12, 2011
Time: 1:00pm ~ 5:00pm (sessions) 5-7 reception
Where:
Duboce Triangle Tech Talk,
Google, 345 Spear St. San Francisco, CA
Capacity 120, Use of podium microphone and 2 projection screens; VC capability; presentation projection via DIY control panel at lectern
Signup at Eventbrite:
http://opensocial-sotu-2011.eventbrite.com/
We plan to have a welcome table in the lobby and preprinted badges.
Publicity
LinkedIn Event: http://events.linkedin.com/Opensocial-State-Union-2011/pub/626383 (Paul)
Facebook Event: ??
Need to get Google to notify people about this as part of I/O (Paul)
Agenda: The Big Bullet Points
The State of the Union (slides) |
1:00 ~ 1:30 |
Mark Weitzel, President, OpenSocial Foundation & Jive Software |
Activity Streams ( slides ) |
1:30 ~ 2:00 |
Monica Wilkinson, Socialcast & |
Apps in Mobile ( slides ) |
2:00 ~ 2:30 |
Jason Gary & Andy Smith, IBM |
Embedded Experience (slides, demo: http://sandbox.opensocial2.org:8080/) |
2:30 ~ 3:00 |
Andrew Davis & Ryan Baxter, IBM |
Break |
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Shindig Update(slides) |
3:15 ~ 3:45 |
Paul Lindner, Vice President, Apache Software Foundation, Shindig |
A View from the trenches: Building a business app for multiple OpenSocial platforms |
3:45 ~ 4:15 |
Matt Null, Survey Gizmo |
Advanced Techniques: Save time and effort with OpenSocial Templates |
4:15 ~ 4:45 |
Chris Cole, MySpace |
OpenSocial Goes to Work: Panel Discussion on business apps and marketplaces |
4:45 ~ 5:30 |
Chris Kohlhardt, Gliffy |
Meet the Experts, Happy Hour, Poster Sessions, & Hack-a-thon |
5:30 ~ 7:30 |
Officers, Board Members, and Speakers
Mark Weitzel: President
Jonathan Beri: Jonathan Beri is the Senior Technical Product Manager at Magento. His main responsibility includes the Magento Go Platform (an upcoming OpenSocial container in the eCommerce space.) He is also the Treasurer for the OpenSocial Foundation.
Helen Chen: Secretary @OpenSocial Foundation. And she is a software development manager at Emerging Technologies Group with Cisco Systems, Inc., where she leads OpenSocial enterprise adoption at Cisco Pulse and web application development.
Chris Cole: Board Member -
Chris has been building for the Internet since Mosaic was the best browser and page background colors were considered cutting edge. Currently he works as Principal Architect for the Myspace Developer Platform where he tirelessly fights to reinforce and extend Myspace's embrace of the open web.
Evan Prodromou
Jonathan LeBlanc: Board Member
Jonathan LeBlanc is a principal software engineer / technology evangelist working with the Yahoo! Developer Network and is the author of the upcoming O’Reilly book “Programming Social Applications”.
Specializing in open source initiatives around the implementation of social engagement services, Jonathan works with and promotes emerging technologies to aid in the adoption and utilization of new social development techniques. As a software engineer, Jonathan works extensively with social interaction development on the web, engaging in new methods for targeting the social footprint of users to drive the ideal of an open web.
Jason Roy Gary
Mark Halvorson: Board Member
Mark Halvorson is the Director of Interactive Marketing and OpenSocial Evangelist at Atlassian Software – the makers of JIRA and Confluence. He has a long history working with portals and social enterprise software having worked in various capacities from software developer to technical marketer for Firepond, Plumtree, BEA and Oracle.
Matt Tucker
Paul Lindner
Andrew Davis, IBM
Andrew has worked at IBM for eight years in IBM Collaboration Software on Lotus Notes and Expeditor Teams. He is responsible for bringing the web technologies including OpenSocial to desktop and web apps. He first integrated Gadgets into Lotus Notes in 2008, with like Notes Widgets, LiveText, Catalog and Feeds. General trouble maker in introducing new web technologies at IBM ICS.
Ryan Baxter, IBM
Ryan has worked for IBM for three years. His primary focus during this time has been working on public APIs for Lotus Notes. Recently he has become involved with the OpenSocial foundation, and over the past year has been working on several enhancements to the OpenSocial specification while at the same time providing implementations of these enhancements throughout IBM's products. @ryanjbaxter http://ryanjbaxter.com
TO DO LIST (Volunteers Welcome)
Coordinate poster sessions
Man the welcome table, distribute badges, t-shirts.
Graphics for the event (Matt T. mentioned we might be able to use Jiver for this)
T-Shirts
Speaking sessions to work in:
- Mobile
- OAuth 2.0