http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/ 2009-11-02T06:26:59-08:00 http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/ http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-10-26T00:13:01-08:00 Amy Farrell http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/vz4?rev=1256541181&do=diff Facilitated by Justin Miller, Code Sorcery Workshop, LLC, @incanus77 ---------- * SXSW panel that inspired this session * Also see the sketch notes ---------- Notes from @lawduck: Topics - Getting Started and then methodologies/logistics. Getting Started/Getting Out: text/html 2009-10-26T00:12:36-08:00 Amy Farrell http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/ww2?rev=1256541156&do=diff RDF - WTF? Notes by Justin Miller -- sorry for typos/omissions ---------- RDF is machine-readable information about information triples: subject-predicate-object anything in a relational DB can be represented in triples have a username: “joesmith is a user of X” SPARQL: query language across resources predicates themselves can, as human knowledge, be described in RDF as well alternatives to using XML for RDF (which turned out to be verbose and bad) text/html 2009-10-26T00:12:17-08:00 Amy Farrell http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/mvy?rev=1256541137&do=diff Learn Sign Language in 1 hour! “Where Are Your Keys?” evan_gardner@yahoo.com text/html 2009-10-26T00:11:59-08:00 Amy Farrell http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/ghv?rev=1256541119&do=diff @msamye + @stephelhajj (notes by @bryanstearns) (Here are a bunch of notes I took; some should be links, some are just suggestions. Feel free to correct them, add actual links, or add more!) * use #pdxfun as hashtag * upcoming.yahoo.com, but not everything's there * #pdxpipeline (has facebook group, lists events / ticket giveaways on thursdays) * <http://ourpdx.net/> * <http://community.portlandneighborhood.com> / @thebuzzbybrian * pdxculture list * portland.brightneighbor.com … text/html 2009-10-26T00:11:42-08:00 Amy Farrell http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/wq4?rev=1256541102&do=diff Wagn - <http://wagn.org/> @JohnAbbe (presenter) does design/testing/etc., coding and many other tasks by Ethan McCutchen @apegrits and Lewis Hoffman @leword Maintain the wiki spirit while adding structure. Everything is built out of cards. Editing card name updates links across whole site. (even configuration, eg, site CSS can be edited in *css card, sidebar in *sidebar card) text/html 2009-10-26T00:11:25-08:00 Amy Farrell http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/wx2?rev=1256541085&do=diff Rat Salad and Other Lessons from Food Safety (notes from the session are downpage) (AKA lessons in Quality Assurance from the food industry) Discussion Coordinated By: Peter Eschright (@pgesch or www.eschright.com) I will share some anecdotes and the truth about how safety happens, and explain briefly the standard safety program used in the food production industry and open discussion on how software can benefit from the model it teaches. Below are some notes on HACCP the scientific system u… text/html 2009-10-26T00:11:04-08:00 Amy Farrell http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/w65?rev=1256541064&do=diff The big VC cities: * San Francisco/Silicon Valley * Boston * Denver The problems in Portland: * Not many success stories * Few VC-funded businesses, few VCs * Culture of free * Side businesses What we need is $250k in funding, not $2-5 million. text/html 2009-10-26T00:10:47-08:00 Amy Farrell http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/wmk?rev=1256541047&do=diff --- Virtualization (@cfisk & @ramareth) --- Co-led by @cfisk (who's working with KVM on Ubuntu 9.04 wants to know more) and @ramereth (OSU Open Source Labs, who knows more and wants to understand the questions). Basic questions: - What are the options? - What should I do? text/html 2009-10-26T00:10:29-08:00 Amy Farrell http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/mqd?rev=1256541029&do=diff Writing group at Cubespace. Come to a sample session. Group is based on writing down the bones. Words, topics or sayings are written on small pieces of paper and placed in a pile in the middle of the table. One piece of paper is drawn out of the pile. Write for ten minutes on the topic. Do not put down your pen. After ten minutes is over, we stop writing. We take turns reading what we have written. You don't have to read your writing. No critiques. The other members of the group say back what t… text/html 2009-10-26T00:10:12-08:00 Amy Farrell http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/nzz?rev=1256541012&do=diff A discussion on the feedback loops between psychological repression or internalized fascism and social conditions and control structures. Delved into the work of Wilhelm Reich and the Brazilian Somatherapy Group and the difficulties of restructuring organizations as diverse as corporations and social movements, an example of which being Hacking Business Models. text/html 2009-10-26T00:09:54-08:00 Amy Farrell http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/oqe?rev=1256540994&do=diff Facilitators: Aaron Hockley - @ahockley - <http://www.aaronhockley.com> Rick Turoczy - @turoczy - <http://www.siliconflorist.com> etherpad for multiple edits on this session —> <http://etherpad.com/5z9A1QEXOB> Aaron & Rick (& betsy of @ourpdx) - how to get bloggers to do better practices to have trust, integrity & accreditation as journalist, and how to get old media to enter into fray w/ bloggers to engage reader feedback on-line. text/html 2009-10-26T00:09:14-08:00 Amy Farrell http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/ifj?rev=1256540954&do=diff * Do regular user testing * “mom test” your project - put it in front of a non-computer literate person to see if it is intuitive. * Prioritize your features - develop just one or two features at a time, but polish them for your user by the end of your iteration. * consider a user research phase. Go out and figure out what your target audience needs. Learn what your users will want before you decide on the features of your system. * From a UX perspective, the users goals should not… text/html 2009-10-26T00:08:53-08:00 Amy Farrell http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/12l?rev=1256540933&do=diff Paste the etherpad link and the notes from the session below: <http://etherpad.com/EsGhpkTTER> Notes from etherpad: Dailies: Avoiding the carnage. Aaron W: If the Times stopped printing and bought everyone of their readers a kindle, they'd be flat. text/html 2009-10-26T00:08:09-08:00 Amy Farrell http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/1gj?rev=1256540889&do=diff @soycamo (Cameron) facilitating Cameron's Gramma is proud of her. The Gramma checklist: * graduated high school * graduated college * brave enough to move to new town * got into tech * didn't get pregnant. :-) Session prompted by incident at Rails Conference where porn was used in a technical presentation. text/html 2009-10-25T02:27:52-08:00 http://2009.barcampportland.com/notes/eft?rev=1256462872&do=diff LEAD: Eva - Cube Space Owner, and Policy Wonk Extraordinaire Twitter: @evacatherder Blog: <http://catherder.wordpress.com> Advisory to City Council's Portland Development Commission PDC is City economic development arm. Loans, grants. Up until recently purely a real estate redevelopment entity. 50% Done with Economic Recovery Plan in conjunction with Greenlight Greater Portland