The third Ignite Boston will be next week – Thursday, May 29, from 6 to 10pm at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. There is no cover charge or any sort of fee. The event is free as in ‘Free Beer’. In fact, Microsoft is sponsoring the night and there will be a free beer for those of you who check in when you get there.
RSVP If you plan to attend, email IgniteBoston at oreilly dot com for the chance to win $300 worth of O’Reilly books of your choosing. You must be present to win. There will likely be other items like tee-shirts and other promo items for those who alert us ahead that they plan to attend.
From 6-6:45 pm, mingle and talk tech with your fellow FOOs, alpha geeks, and techies from the greater Boston area. After the mingling and social stuff, we’ll have a couple of special keynotes by Jonathan Zdziarski and John Viega to kick off our Ignite talks. Then, onto the lightening talks.
In addition to the two keynotes, here are the talks we have on tap for the evening. They are in no particular order yet.
Firstname | Lastname | Talk | Url |
Fish | Fishman | Stage Magic in virtual worlds | http://www.fishthemagish.net |
Paul | Oka | Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope (WWT) | http://www.worldwidetelescope.org |
Mackenzie | Cowell | DIY-biology | http://diybio.org |
Juhan | Sonin | Interface Design Tenets for Beautiful Design | |
Benjamin Mako | Hill | Voting Machinery for the Masses | http://selectricity.org |
Polychronis | Ypodimatopoulos | Friend discovery and file sharing in downtown Boston | http://cerebro.mit.edu |
Shava | Nerad | Machinimeconomics | http://oddfellowstudios.com |
Clark | Freifeld | HealthMap: Automated disease outbreak monitoring | http://healthmap.org |
Joe | Cascio | Distributed Twitter | http://peeps.3greeneggs.com/joecblog/?p=6 |
Jeff | Whatcott | The Open Source Marketing Checklist | |
Jesse | Vincent | Web 2.0 is Sharecropping | |
Brian | Balfour | Digital Goods, The Future of Online Communities | |
Alexander | Wissner-Gross | The environmental footprint of a website | http://www.co2stats.com |
Patrick | Haney | Kickballin’ & Parallaxin’ | http://patrickhaney.com/presents/parallaxin |
Colin | Britton | Free (as in beer) pictures, videos, stories | http://www.freefoto.com |
Andrei | Kersha | Telepresence robots on a budget Ð practical guide to building ones that do not suck |
We hope to see you at Tommy Doyles next Thursday evening.