BarCamp / CloudCamp Rochester

Spring 2013

Here are some topics people will be presenting:

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  • Chris Horn

    My totally true story of how I fixed the 'merican image internationally and our top social problems at the same time.

  • Daniel McOrmond

    Yeoman, Bower, and Grunt. Plus AngularJS.

  • Grant Cohoe

    Impact of disk alignment on performance in virtualized environments.

  • Chris Moyer

    Working Virtually

  • Nick Quaranto

    RubyMotion

  • Jim Bullock

    Pick One: General Systems for Thinking About Working Together. Lean / Kanban for Development in Progress Three Steps to Startup Engineering Transitions - Reaping the Rewards of Success, More Work. Also a couple lightning talks.

  • David Kavanagh

    Eucalyptus 3.3 - All kinds of new stuff!

  • Travis Whitaker

    Hi-Fi Audio.

  • Jim Keeler

    Taming your Task List

  • Jacob Beard

    Something to do with SCXML/Statecharts and JavaScript.

  • Brian Meehan

    Setting up a free MDM

  • Tyler Kindron

    The most pointless and weirdest animal facts you will ever want to know

  • Andrew Lin

    Games of the World.

  • Lee Drake

    I could present on: Building large ecommerce sites - budgeting, gotchas, etc. Narrowing scope in large entrepreneurial projects

  • Anti Tree

    OSINT and corporate spying Most (if not all) large companies have a dark, hidden department dedicated to corporate spying. They may call it "competitive intelligence" or "business analysis" groups, but the end result is the same. I will break the first rule of corporate spying to shed some light on the grey line that is competitive intelligence and the tactics employed.

  • zach krause

    none this year. I'm just checking things out on the request of Joe Bauser.

  • Tom Kolankiewicz

    I will not be presenting ... but I'm happy to assist with setup, speaker intro, etc.

  • Zachary Potter

    Artificial life or fractals or android programming or something!

  • Peter LoVerso

    Parasitic wasps, and why Cotesia congregata is the coolest species you've never heard of. You guys don't have nearly enough non-computer-science-related topics.

  • Kate Bailey

    Benthic macroinvertebrates and invasive mussels

  • Dennis Wurster

    Just Keep Pedaling: How to live your life as if you were riding a bicycle

  • Brian McDowell

    How you make your own workout equipment...maybe.

  • Adam Cornwell

    Maybe I'll actually put together the thing on the semantic web I was thinking about last time...

  • David DiPaola

    An uncomfortably detailed and somewhat inaccurate introduction to programming software applications in assembler on the Nintendo GameBoy

  • Shawn Biddle

    Diving Into Open Source. An on-hands crash course to how to get started contributing to an open source project

  • Kingdon Barrett

    Protobuf (and goprotobuf) - Do I Really Need Wire Protocols to make complex APIs in Go? (Can't I just use json.Unmarshal?)

  • Wayne Arthurton

    "Your first 24.5 minutes with Dwarf Fortress" Live explained first 24.5 minutes of playing Dwarf Fortress. Questions will be answered during presentation.

  • John Kennedy

    How to *Really* Use the Internet or How the Dream of an Open Interconnected Society have already come true.

  • Scott Lawrence

    Arduino as a personal computer. (Presented in Amiga-vision!)

  • Kevin Kondo

    Start putting your own data to work: home-grown data mining and data visualization (from dashboards to interactive, dynamic reporting).

  • David Gay

    Charsheet -- Generate an RPG-style character sheet based on your GitHub, Ohloh, and/or Coderwall accounts. (https://github.com/FOSSRIT/charsheet)

  • Ross Delinger

    SSH Libraries in Python

  • Ken Mercurio

    Advanced jQuery Mobile

  • JP Bourget

    Security Onion Network Security Monitoring. Can't present before 11am.

  • Anthony Xiques

    First time attendee, probably not presenting

  • Nathan Henderson

    Building HiDPI (Retina) Responsive websites with Sass & Compass

  • Winton DeShong

    The Lifecycle of a Feature -- Continuous Integration with Jenkins.

  • Christopher Duro

    Engineering best practices made practical: how traditional quality techniques and new agile practices are helping reduce error rates

  • Mike Centola

    Guns.

  • Jeremy Heiler

    Taming Amazon SWF: Effectively Consuming a Web API with Clojure

  • Rich Downie

    Browser Automation with Cucumber and Selenium-WebDriver

  • Ralph Bean

    GPG Key-Signing Party!

  • Mike Canzoneri

    What happens to your website the night it goes on SharkTank

  • Benjamin Summerton

    Talking to Arduino with C/C++ programs.

  • Andrew Lin

    Abstract-Strategy Games of the World.

  • Timothy Duffy

    Creating API's of public data

  • Caroline Lichtenberger

    Papilio: An Open Source FPGA platform

  • Steven Pickett

    probably not presenting, maybe something about sharp objects

  • Luke Burgess

    I will not be presenting

  • Joshua Russo

    Maintaining a user group

  • John Meichle

    TBD, cloud computing

  • John Karahalis

    Geek Show & Tell. Bring your own gadgets / projects!

  • Tony Karakashian

    Don't have one.

  • Douglas Krofcheck

    Information about the Advanced Tile Gaming System I'm developing for an independent study. The basic idea is to enable people to play a board game, such as Risk, against computer players and other humans on a physical board.

  • David Brenner

    Getting Started With FPGAs

  • ian sutton

    high energy physics

  • Chris Olin

    MOOC: Massive(ly) Open Online Course

  • Ben Centra

    Getting Started With The Kinect SDK

  • Kevan MacGee

    Using Ubuntu as your operating system instead of Windows or OSX.

  • Skip Meetze

    3D Printing comes home.

  • Chip Moore

    Cloud Computing for Graphic Arts

  • Geordie Klueber

    Proctological Extrication: choosing a topic for BarCamp

  • Jim O'Neil

    Make $1000 this weekend in the Windows Store - will talk about a casual HTML5/JavaScript game development environment that people can leverage to create multiple apps for the Windows Store in conjunction with a promotion that will earn them $100 for each app (up to 10) by the end of June.

  • Kevin Johnson

    Education Evolved: Our Education System's Lack of Adaptation to Technology and its Effects on the Education Narrative.

  • Craig Cantello

    Copper in the Electrical Age

  • Todd Bernhard

    App Store Success: Creating and Marketing Mobile Apps

  • Kenneth Hall

    I'll just be visiting.

  • Matthew Veety

    Plan 9 from Bell Labs

  • Andrew Potter

    Super fast, super efficient WiFi - Ratified 802.11ac " Future WiFi 8902.11ac enhancements, 802.11ad, Whitespace WiFi "Super WiFi"

  • Mikey McOrmond

    Workflow Principles and Kick-Ass Shortcuts. (AKA: How to crush your enemies with improved APM.)

  • Thomas Styles

    Trends in the Software Industry.

  • Kevin Purdy

    (Tentative) (Lightning Talk) One Week Without Email, Not Vacation: Nobody Died, Everybody Learned.

  • Ben Sheron

    Backup Power: Big and small solutions for keeping the lights on

  • William Dignazio

    Jolt Language

  • David Leeds

    Fundamentals of Turbocharged Engines

  • Deborah Mourey

    Viral video - the Jenna Marbles way

  • Andy Willoughby

    The mathematics of music harmony ,,,,,,,, my Invention called the CHORDTEACHER ,,,,,,,,,,,, and my discoveries known as Willoughby's dream and Willoughby's harmonic clock

  • Matthew Rea

    Not sure yet, my first time there.

  • Timothy Heard

    Covert Channels on the Android Operating System

  • Corbin Irvin

    Perhaps phase angle control or audio systems

  • Richard Nalezynski

    App Development Concepts

  • David Frier

    Encryption and Key Management for Cloud Installations

  • Gregory Evevsky

    How to change the meta-game

  • Dan Fuhry

    Nothing planned yet... maybe something sysadmin related.

  • Ryan King-Shepard

    There are no such thing as superheroes

  • Connor Kelly

    Basic puppet and cookie cutter servers

  • Evan George

    Not sure... Might present with Will and Brian McDowell. It's my first time.

  • Peter Traeg

    Possibly something related to PhoneGap

  • Richard Harrison

    Money, Fun, & the Economy.

  • Ryan Bell

    I won't be presenting as I can only drop in for a small part of the event, but I'm happy to help out as needed.

  • John Lam

    Maybe: Cyclists may have noticed Google Maps bicycle directions/routes seem more suited for car (with the no expressway option). Better choices are not chosen, a result of Google Mapmakers permitting edit not truly suited for cycling. We can fix this.

  • Mark Zinzow

    Just want to drop by and check it out for my first time.

…and these people have registered without a presentation topic:

212 people have registered for the Spring 2013 BarCamp Rochester

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Saturday, April 20th

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