Sg2009wc:Proposed Topics

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Tech sessions:

• Building a simple WordPress template. - Liz
• Show us your dev env. (I'd like a round table of people talking about their working set up for development/coding) - Liz Henry
• Debugging in Drupal. - Liz
• Debugging code
• Product Management in Agile env: discussion + 'war stories' from the audience - Cindy
• Drupal, WordPress, php, Python, Linux, issue/bug trackers
• Open-source hardware: BugLabs, OpenMoko, Gumstix, TechShop, Make - Alison, possible presentation/demo
• Possibly Rails Intro or workshop - (Desi would be up for helping/conducting this session/workshop)
• Walk through a Drupal install. - Liz
• Talk I'd like to give: "What to do when you don't know what to do" for tech problems (expanding on lightning talk from last year) - Liz
• user-centric digital identity - OpenID, InfoCards, Claims based Identity - Kaliya Hamlin, Identity Woman
• Hardware Debugging: You have hardware, now what!?! (Debugging Hardware and Software using variety of techniques) -Icis
• quantum computation
• Writing software for stuff WE'RE interested in -- Rachel Holmen
• Mozilla QA topics
• Physical Computing...Ie. sensors, rfid, machine vision, and other new methods of interaction. (I'm very interested. - Alison)
• Palm, Mac, PC, web programming
• Java, J2ME, mobile technology (Very interested here, too - Alison)
• Rspec for Rails - Desi
• Architecting products for privacy, security - mary hodder
• Cloud Computing - what you doing, done, planning to do? - Sarah Baker

Business sessions:

• Greening your business, why do it? how to do it? Case studies from Silicon Valley. Saturday morning only. Talk and discussion with Alison van Diggelen, journalist and host of FreshDialogues http://www.freshdialogues.com
• Entrepreneurship, fundraising
• Free & Fee - Building a winning formula of free and for fee tools and services in a community site. What and why will women pay for online services? How important is the site's integrated social responsibility? - Lydia Sugarman, Caduces.Mobi
• niche marketing, ethics, writing, blogging, doing business
• X Steps to creating a Strategy for Dominating Search Engine Results - Laura Lippay
• Ecopreneurship - Gratitude Gourmet http://www.gratitudegourmet.com and GreenStar Solution http://www.greenstarsolution.com - Mary Vincent (Sat. only)
• Entrepreneurship, How do techies find their business savvy partner? (Meetup to find new partners) - Icis
• nuts & bolts of starting a company, escaping wage slavery
• Facing failure and moving through it--failure always happens, what then?--Susan M
• Women CTOs share their stories--Phyllis Reuther, Amy Bower, others FRIDAY
• VCs and entrepreneurship--stories from the trenches--Eve Phillips, Christine Herron, others--FRIDAY
• Legal 101 - company type, stock allocation, stock options, the nitty gritty - Joyce K

Career sessions:

• Hiring software engineers
• Job opportunities for geeky women
• Letting Go/Saying No
• Leaving big companies and going to start-ups - Alison: curiosity, not presentation!
• Networking opportunities
• Ongoing education: how do I know which new skills I need?
• Owning your expertise
• Recruiting developers for start-up
• Team building
• Why am I not yet a manager?
• want to make connections/learn about what others are doing
• How to get back into tech and earn more $
• Role Models, Leadership, Mentorship - why do we need it, and who can help? SATURDAY - Mary Hodder

Community sessions:

• Best ways to support and help technical women
• Building on-line community for geekGirls - Lynn
• Developing events and learning opportunities to engage and interest middle and high-school aged girls in career in technology - Lynn
• Hearing stories + experiences and being a part of a great community of women geeks
• Hiring software engineers* How we stop 'women lists' and get on the mixed lists - or whether that is important
• More visible role models in the community -- encouraging more girls + women to embrace their inner geek - Desi adding to this ways in which DevChix is trying to address this as well and where we need help.
• Who's done it: mapping out the terrain of women in tech businesses (and other businesses) who can encourage more tech adoption for girls, and those who can help existing women in tech - Rachel M. Murray
• Community building topics
• Coworking
• Giving back--how can we organize to use our skills to help local communities and causes--Susan

Women-specific topics:

• Now that there's a field called Marketing To Women (M2W) can we start talking about Designing for Women (D4W)? - Estee & Jessica
• Experiences of other women and their secrets to success in a man's world
• WomenBuild SeriousPlay with Legos - a new kind of Women's networking event - Lynn
• Gender, sociobiology and reductionism: what are the facts and how do we interpret them? (Roundtable discussion, Saturday) -- Melissa Lewis

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To sort:

• Email Marketing on Steroids - Get back to the job of building your business and regain your sanity by integrating your Website, Web tracking, CRM, Lead Scoring, Email Marketing, Sales Forecasting! - Lydia Sugarman
• How will/can our first modern techie president improve/alter the tech landscape?
• Video production, Oral history of women in technology, Software/hardware for Audio/Video production...
• Women and social capital
• technical communication, blogging, videoblogging, web 2.0, mobile connectivity
• future of social computing
• How to decide which blogs to follow, mailing lists to read, meet-ups to attend: sorting through the cacophony
• Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding - Desi adding note didn't suggest the topic though: recently built application that uses this and don't mind speaking about it.
• Technical volunteering which actually makes a difference in developing countries - Lynn
• How can we get more women promoted to technical leads instead of being shunted into project administration?-- Melanie
• copyright, creative commons, orphaned works - judielaine
• techno-hippies? take on state of computing from the trenches? future tech/singularity?
• planning on presenting, you mean? None
• Presenting? probably none
• Entrepreneurship, Lifecasting
• Translating Tech terms into layman's terms (ie, Biz Analyst)
• copyright & orphaned works legislation.
• journalism, media, community
• health care/ health self-education
• design, sustainability, project management, working while parenting
• search, ontologies, seo, raising money, finding tech talent
• video blogging
• Fundraising on the web
• Teambuilding (recruiting developers)
• Effective methods to gain credibility and find peers - Blog, Twitteres
• Employment, Education, Types of careers
• Office cultures, how to choose technology (to learn, to use on a team)
• software dev; i'm hiring; social networking as sidewalks
• Hiring, ideas for startups
• Rules of Engagement for Social Media Communications Strategy
• making participation in content easier for people
• technology, social media, journalism, news business
• career advancement, mentoring, managing staff
• Geekness for the Non-geek world
• New and upcoming technologies, Web 2.0, social media, Ruby and Flex applications, Jabber technologies
• how to fundraise...and more about internet use
• To be more geeky!
• Effective methods to gain credibility and find peers - Blog, Twittere?
• How to network, how to learn more technologies
• learn what other women are doing and thinking about wrt to career/tech
• software development; social networking
• Technical information
• Social Media Policy
• anyone doing art projects?
• Geekness for the Non-geek world
• Facebook
• Creating effective passwords - Rachel Holmen
• Fun stuff with a Palm PDA - you can geek without programming (can somebody talk about cell phones?) - Rachel Holmen
• Story Carding/project planning from Dev point of view
• Pleo Meet Up - bring yours and let's share programming hints - Sarah Baker
• Communicating across genders