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| Postponing this in favor of a number of smaller community-building events leading up to it (including some with potential partners)... and until the weather gets better! |
Overview
| Date | 2009 |
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| Location | Somewhere on UM Engineering campus |
| Who | A2 tech community, including UM students |
| Contact | conference (at) a2geeks.org - e-mail  Dug Song if you'd like to help |
The 1st annual a2geeks conference will bring together geeks from academia, industry, and the local community for a day of technical talks and knowledge sharing to support the Ann Arbor tech community.
Meeting Minutes
Conference planning meeting, 11-12-08
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Conference planning meeting minutes, 10-23-08
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Supporting Organizations
- HKN
- M-Powered
- College of Engineering
- SPARK
Speakers
Need to determine what kind of topics we're looking for, tailored to the interests of the local community. What do people want to hear about? Leave a comment at the bottom of the page...
We also don't strictly need speakers for every topic - some topics we can propose or leave as open space / BoF sessions.
Confirmed
Potential
 | I've removed any non-local speakers given our focus on the local tech community - with the exception of Brad Feld, who could discuss what they're doing in Boulder to foster the startup/tech community there |
| Name | Organization | Topics | Location | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson | Foundry Group , TechStars |
VC, startups | Boulder | Dug Song |
| Matt Toschlog |
Reactor Zero |
game industry |
local |
Dug Song |
| Jose Nazario | Arbor Networks |
malware, geopolitical internet security | local | Dug Song |
| CmdrTaco | Slashdot | geek culture | local | Dug Song |
| Scott Collins | Slashdot | Mozilla, Qt, software craftsmanship | local | Dug Song |
| Jonathan Cohen | NVIDIA | graphics, GPUs, parallel computing, Spiderman 3 | local | Dug Song |
| Trond Myklebust | CITI |
Linux kernel, distributed filesystems | local | Dug Song |
| Jon Oberheide | UM | hacking, lockpicking | local | Dug Song |
| Jason Pellerin |
Leapfrog |
TDD in Python / Erlang |
local | Dug Song |
| BMG, Erika Sherman | Ectomorph | electronic music, Detroit | local | Dug Song |
| Davy Rothbart | Found Magazine |
independent publishing | local | Dug Song |
| Jim Rees | CITI |
adventure travel, CERN/LHC infrastructure | local | Dug Song |
| Mark Maynard | UM Tech Transfer | Ypsilanti, Shadow Art Fair, zines, blogging | local | Dug Song |
| Jonathan Duty |
Zattoo |
ActiveMQ, Messaging for all languages |
local |
Jonathan Duty |
| Jonathan Duty |
Zattoo |
Online Advertising using Doubleclick's DART DFP. Its not just for banner ads anymore. |
local | Jonathan Duty |
| Tyler Erickson | Michigan Tech Research Institute |
open source geospatial technologies | local | Tyler Erickson |
| Mark Newman |
UM SI |
ubiquitous computing |
local |
Dug Song |
maybe former Zattoo Tech Talks speakers, or monkey.org folks, etc.
Sponsors
What sponsorship opportunities can we provide? Signage, collateral, shirts, after-hours events?
Confirmed
Potential
Charter sponsors (usual suspects):
- Yahoo! (do a Hack Day?)
- Microsoft
- Amazon
Comments (4)
Oct 21, 2008
Anonymous says:
will this be a free conference?will this be a free conference?
Oct 21, 2008
Anonymous says:
broke student says: yes please, make it free! or at least "sliding sca...broke student says: yes please, make it free! or at least "sliding scale!"
Oct 21, 2008
Dug Song says:
i'm pretty confident that we'll be able to make this completely free.i'm pretty confident that we'll be able to make this completely free.
Oct 21, 2008
Anonymous says:
broke student says: you are a good geek.broke student says: you are a good geek.