February 2nd, 2010 Meeting
The February 2010 meeting will be our first Lightning Talk night. The evening will be a handful of appetizer-sized Ignite 5m:00s talks (20 slides x 15 seconds each) on a variety of interesting open source topics.
If you are interested in giving one of these type of talks on this special-format evening, please email feedback@denveropensource.org and the DOSUG board will help you secure your slot in the evening's lineup.
Topics:
Mike Prasad - Performance Tuning
Tom Flaherty - Principles of Programming Languages - Past Present & Future
Tom Marrs - Landing Your Next Tech Job in 2010
Tim Berglund - Then Our Houses Build Us (Form and Content in Software Development)
Matthew McCullough - Information Alchemy through Better Presentations
Gabe Hamilton - What's new in Dojo 1.4
Garrett Foster - eCommerce Thrills and Spills!
Paul Rayner - Still No Silver Bullet? Thoughts on Design, Complexity and the Architect
Joe McTee - Agile Estimation: The story has a point, but the point is unitless.
Demian Neidetcher - Interviewing Skills
Andy Ennamorato - Complex Event Processing: Queries on Speed
Mark Maslyn - Text Mining Using JBoss Rules
Joe Shirey - The Softer Side of the Architect
Melinda Hood - The Art of Stress Reduction
Mike Brevoort - SOLR
..and more...
Examples:
http://www.youtube.com/user/iGNiTe
http://ignite.oreilly.com/
References:
http://ignite.oreilly.com/faq/how-to.html (info and templates)
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/
January 2010 Break
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
DOSUG will take a meeting break for the January 5th, 2010 date and resume in February, 2010.