List of Proposed Meetings and Talks

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Topics for Marketing

  • Branding
  • Effective Use of Web Analytics
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques
  • Viral content creation & distribution
  • Buying ad spots online & Participating in ad networks
  • Effective use of Social Media outlets to drive visitors to your website

Topics for Design Talks

  • Essentials of Web Design - Howard Eilers?
  • Creativity - Rodney Hill? or Kelsey Ruger?

Topics for Front-End Development Talks

  • JavaScript libraries e.g. YUI, Prototype, Jquery, Mootools
  • JavaScript widgets e.g. News story/image rotator, quiz/poll, calendar, scoreboard, ad/testimonial rotator, ...
  • WordPress - Stephanie?
  • Microformats - Stephanie? Rob? Monty?
  • Flex - Grant
  • User eXperience (UX) design - Robert?
  • Web Writing (maybe as workshop?)
  • Performance optimization (Firebug, YSlow, etc.) - Robert? Monty?
  • Security

Topics for Project Management/Team Building Talks

  • Distributed Version Control - Kyle Marshall? or Mike Abney?
  • Lean vs. Agile - Mike Abney?
  • Quality, Agile and ROI - Ed Grannan?
  • User Stories - Nicholas Cancelliere? Wondering if someone could go check out his talk on Saturday in Austin.
  • Story Testing
    • (something about dev and QA working hand in hand) - Ed Grannan?
    • Cucumber - Mike taught this thru AgileBCS on Tuesday 09/29/09 it was good
  • Agile Modeling/DDD - Joe Ocampo?
  • Retrospectives - Mike Abney?

Topics for Programming Talks

  • PHP for CAS3 - Chris Siems (other ports welcome)
  • Memcached - Ben Burkert
  • Ruby on Rails III with MERB power!
  • Make, Rake, & Bake - (re)Deployment tools for administration of web applications
  • PHP Topics (Frameworks, Best Practices, Beginner Tutorials) - Daniel Cousineau
  • Application Security for Developers
  • REST -Monty (Representational state transfer (REST) was introduced and defined in 2000 by the doctoral dissertation of Roy Fielding, one of the principal authors of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) specification versions 1.0 and 1.1. Conforming to the REST constraints is often referred to as being 'RESTful'.)

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