SXSW Proposals August 17, 2010 1:29 PM Subscribe
Which MeFites have submitted to speak at SXSW 2011?
After pimping my own panel submission to my friends, family, facebook and twitter I got to thinking about other people I might know (of) who have submitted a proposal. I'd like to know - who are you and what is your proposal? Lemme vote on it!
Matt and Jessamyn's proposals for 2011 look awesome, as usual.
After pimping my own panel submission to my friends, family, facebook and twitter I got to thinking about other people I might know (of) who have submitted a proposal. I'd like to know - who are you and what is your proposal? Lemme vote on it!
Matt and Jessamyn's proposals for 2011 look awesome, as usual.
Matt - that's awesome. I know a lot of folks geeked out over the screenshots you posted of the back end not too long ago and I'm sure this will be equally awesome. And the BBS communities talk looks great as well.
posted by FlamingBore at 1:36 PM on August 17, 2010
posted by FlamingBore at 1:36 PM on August 17, 2010
As someone not familiar with SXSW, is the voting a new thing? And when one votes, what is one voting to happen?
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:39 PM on August 17, 2010
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:39 PM on August 17, 2010
Voting on prospective panels has been going on for the past couple years. Each year they used to solicit ideas then have a small group select final panels, but as the conference has grown, they've had to farm it out to everyone.
Last year during my one time slot that I spoke, there were 13 other panels going on. So I suspect they need the top 200-300 panels and it looks like over 2300 ideas were submitted.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:51 PM on August 17, 2010
Last year during my one time slot that I spoke, there were 13 other panels going on. So I suspect they need the top 200-300 panels and it looks like over 2300 ideas were submitted.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:51 PM on August 17, 2010
ThePinkSuperhero, a voting system for which panels the community would most like to see at SXSW has been in place since 2007. It's called "Panel Picker." Details.
posted by zarq at 1:52 PM on August 17, 2010
posted by zarq at 1:52 PM on August 17, 2010
Thanks!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:55 PM on August 17, 2010
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:55 PM on August 17, 2010
I proposed the panel Social Networks Inside Companies: Brilliant Idea or FAIL? based on my experience over the last 5 years doing this at Disney.
Hopefully this gets a shot inbetween the product pitches and monetization panels that seem to have taken over.
I am also hopeful that Waxpancake's Worst Website Ever II: Too Stupid to Fail makes it onto the schedule.
posted by Argyle at 2:01 PM on August 17, 2010
Hopefully this gets a shot inbetween the product pitches and monetization panels that seem to have taken over.
I am also hopeful that Waxpancake's Worst Website Ever II: Too Stupid to Fail makes it onto the schedule.
posted by Argyle at 2:01 PM on August 17, 2010
Awesome. I'm so glad I asked. I never would have found that one Argyle.
posted by FlamingBore at 2:09 PM on August 17, 2010
posted by FlamingBore at 2:09 PM on August 17, 2010
I've got a panel in: Oauth, OpenID, Facebook Connect: Authentication Design Best Practices. It's very much from a user experience perspective, and I expect to have to update it with about 500 changes in industry practice between now and March.
posted by feckless at 2:23 PM on August 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by feckless at 2:23 PM on August 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
Live bannings = the bread and circus of the 21st century
posted by waraw at 2:42 PM on August 17, 2010
posted by waraw at 2:42 PM on August 17, 2010
I am also hopeful that Waxpancake's Worst Website Ever II: Too Stupid to Fail makes it onto the schedule.
I hope so too and also that is not at the same time as any panel I am on, like it was last year.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 3:18 PM on August 17, 2010
I hope so too and also that is not at the same time as any panel I am on, like it was last year.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 3:18 PM on August 17, 2010
I'll be submitting some stuff for the film festival, if that does anything for you.
posted by drjimmy11 at 5:21 PM on August 17, 2010
posted by drjimmy11 at 5:21 PM on August 17, 2010
Jessamyn's proposal makes me want to give her my dad's email, if he had one, which if he did, would make him ineligible to participate in her project anyway.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:04 PM on August 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:04 PM on August 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
These proposals were submitted by a close friend of mine:
Let's Go Stalking! Fun With SocialCRMs
Tiny Strategies: Social Media in 60 Minutes or Less
Annie is very big on teaching non-profit organizations how to benefit from social media and networking. These sound like great panels for anyone involved in that arena.
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:58 AM on August 18, 2010
Let's Go Stalking! Fun With SocialCRMs
Tiny Strategies: Social Media in 60 Minutes or Less
Annie is very big on teaching non-profit organizations how to benefit from social media and networking. These sound like great panels for anyone involved in that arena.
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:58 AM on August 18, 2010
Ah shit! I thought the deadline for all this was next month. Meerrhhhh.
posted by fake at 6:10 AM on August 18, 2010
posted by fake at 6:10 AM on August 18, 2010
Ooo, fun!
I've been on a couple of panels in years past, and this year I submitted my first solo session: Architecture is Dead: Growing Crowdsourced Software. It's about the challenges inherent in managing and guiding large ecosystem-style software projects like Drupal, Joomla!, Linux, etc.
It is dangerously nerdy.
posted by verb at 8:22 AM on August 18, 2010
I've been on a couple of panels in years past, and this year I submitted my first solo session: Architecture is Dead: Growing Crowdsourced Software. It's about the challenges inherent in managing and guiding large ecosystem-style software projects like Drupal, Joomla!, Linux, etc.
It is dangerously nerdy.
posted by verb at 8:22 AM on August 18, 2010
As someone not familiar with SXSW, is the voting a new thing? And when one votes, what is one voting to happen?Voting for a session is basically a way of saying, "I think this should be part of SXSW." Votes and discussion in the session comments account for about 1/2 or 1/3 of the "score" that SXSW's organizers use to decide what gets on the schedule.
posted by verb at 8:28 AM on August 18, 2010
My panel (How to Influence an Online Revolution) is up for voting.
We're talking about audience engagement and how to build a community around a network.
posted by Derek at 8:33 AM on August 18, 2010
We're talking about audience engagement and how to build a community around a network.
posted by Derek at 8:33 AM on August 18, 2010
Votes and discussion in the session comments account for about 1/2 or 1/3 of the "score" that SXSW's organizers use to decide what gets on the schedule.
Agreed. If you like a panel and think its a good SXSW fit, it's helpful if you vote and/or leave a comment about what you like and why. I've been cruising through trying to leave some useful comments as well as votes.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:37 AM on August 18, 2010
Agreed. If you like a panel and think its a good SXSW fit, it's helpful if you vote and/or leave a comment about what you like and why. I've been cruising through trying to leave some useful comments as well as votes.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:37 AM on August 18, 2010
y'all are impressive. Hope you all get to present.
Now that I'm sure I'm not the only one besides Matt and Jessamyn I guess it'd be ok to pimp myself here too, s'ok?
All the Good Domains Are Taken, Now What?
posted by FlamingBore at 1:05 PM on August 18, 2010
Now that I'm sure I'm not the only one besides Matt and Jessamyn I guess it'd be ok to pimp myself here too, s'ok?
All the Good Domains Are Taken, Now What?
posted by FlamingBore at 1:05 PM on August 18, 2010
Ooh! Ooh! I've got one: The Life of the Startup Parent .
The general idea: You're starting a startup, running a web business, or are otherwise engaged in geeky business / businessy geek stuff — a professional life that would happily consumer 25 hours of each and every day. Simultaneously, you've got a child (or more) at home — a family life that would happily consume even more than 25 hours of each day. So ... how do you reconcile the two? What choices do you make? How do you rely on your partners (in both business and life)? How do you make it all work out?
mathowie has graciously agreed to be on the panel, as has Julie Hamwood (self-employed consultant to Fortune 500 companies and Jeff Veen's partner), and there are a few other webgeek parents I'm hoping we can get on board. It's hopefully going to run as a series of rotating five-minute one-on-one conversations, where Panelist 1 will interview Panelist 2, 2 interviews 3, and so on (order picked out in advance, so interviewers can get intelligent questions together beforehand). I think it'll be a lot of fun.
I'd love to have you come to the session, and I'd love to have your vote. Thanks!
posted by Alt F4 at 3:41 AM on August 19, 2010
The general idea: You're starting a startup, running a web business, or are otherwise engaged in geeky business / businessy geek stuff — a professional life that would happily consumer 25 hours of each and every day. Simultaneously, you've got a child (or more) at home — a family life that would happily consume even more than 25 hours of each day. So ... how do you reconcile the two? What choices do you make? How do you rely on your partners (in both business and life)? How do you make it all work out?
mathowie has graciously agreed to be on the panel, as has Julie Hamwood (self-employed consultant to Fortune 500 companies and Jeff Veen's partner), and there are a few other webgeek parents I'm hoping we can get on board. It's hopefully going to run as a series of rotating five-minute one-on-one conversations, where Panelist 1 will interview Panelist 2, 2 interviews 3, and so on (order picked out in advance, so interviewers can get intelligent questions together beforehand). I think it'll be a lot of fun.
I'd love to have you come to the session, and I'd love to have your vote. Thanks!
posted by Alt F4 at 3:41 AM on August 19, 2010
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For my proposed talk, I was going to walk everyone through the backend admin area we've built and explain how we use tools to moderate and manage the community and hopefully give people ideas on how they could do the same thing with their own group site.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:32 PM on August 17, 2010 [1 favorite]