Talk Proposals
Write up what you’d like to talk about, or vote up things you want to see at BarCamp this year.
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ed-tech companies
Always love to talk to other companies in the education space.
9 votes -
Linux Command Line Talk
Last year I created a talk about the Linux command line for the UIC Linux Users Group. If there is interest, I am willing to give that talk at BARcamp Chicago.
6 votes -
9 votes
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hack*
We (The Nerdery) will talk about projects that we work on outside of business hours that involve some sort of hardware hackery. We will talk about:
- a bathroom that tweets if it available or not
- a giant sized workng NES controller
- 3d printer
- Lego MindstormsWe might talk about arduino as well.
Any other hack/make topics welcome!
9 votes -
JavaScript on the Interwebs
Somebody requested a talk about this last year. If there is interest, I might be able to throw something together at the last minute. This would be an intro level talk as I am definitely not an expert on this.
4 votes -
facebook app development
Since there aren't really any topics yet, I am just going to throw some out there...
4 votes -
Making the jump from enterprise development to the startup scene in Chicago
After attending the Ruby meetup with Lightbank I realized there is quite a bit going on in the startup scene in Chicago. I'd like to hear from a person (or more of course) who has made the jump from enterprise development (read: working for the man) to the startup scene in Chicago.
Things of particular interest would be:
-- Relevant technological skills they developed for the switch
-- Biggest surprises they encountered
-- Something they miss about their "previous life"
-- Anything else they are willing to share.4 votes -
4 votes
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Building an open source radio station
Chicago's own non-commercial radio station, CHIRPradio.org, is run entirely on open source software. Learn about what we're building and how you can get involved with this passionate group of Chicagoans whose mission is to bring under-represented music to a massive, international audience.
2 votes -
Why you should care about quantum computaton
Talk about a brief overview of why you should care about quantum computers. Misconceptions, analysis of the Dwave quantum computer, and a brief overview of a topological quantum computer.
Number of votes will determine number of minutes2 votes -
Django get together
Let's steal a room, hang out and talk about Django. Kinda like a Pycon BoF
4 votes -
1 vote
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Social Network Visualization With Gephi
I will show you how to go from a twitter to a cool visualization simliar to http://gephi.org/features/
1 vote -
Im working on a talk on using scapy for packet
I've been working on a talk regarding scapy for packet crafting. If people are interested I could host a discussion on this topic....
3 votes -
Hack: design a cash-for-causes game/contest that builds social capital for all nonprofits & players.
KarmaKorn is looking for hackers and designers who want to help build a #GoodSpotting game to help take the existing cash-for-causes contest model to the next level.
Contests like Pepsi Refresh and Chase the Good have donated a lot of money to the winning nonprofits, but they suffer from 3 fundamental design flaws:
1) Their system of voting for nonprofits is meaningless. An empty vote does nothing to advance the mission of the cause except for trying to help them win. What a wasted opportunity. Instead, we can have some kind of meaningful action count as a “vote” in the… more
1 vote
