Featured Sessions
The sessions listed below are emblematic of the types of session that we want to encourage. Check them out and draw inspiration for your own session! Remember, sessions aren't limited to just "talks," it can be a presentation, panel or discussion group.
Expanding your command line toolbox
Presented by: Mike Cugini
Category: Technology Mike will be stepping through examples of how to use common command line utilities to find, process, and view text data efficiently.
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A Million Paper Cuts:
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The Incredible Amazon Machine: How You can put amazon to work for you
Presented by: Johnny Diamantas
Category: Entrepreneur Amazon's innovative fulfillment system, Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) has completely changed the game for e-commerce entrepreneurs. I'll show you how Amazon's FBA system turbocharges the speed at which an entrepreneur can go from 0 to $1 million.
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Solving the Puzzle:
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Restoring the historic Depot
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Succeeding as a Knowledge Worker
Presented by: David Norris
Category: Entrprenuer This talk presents a lot of common and not-so-common practical strategies you can implement right away to help you manage your career, get ahead and stay ahead in the fast paced world of Information Technology. This is the stuff they don't teach you in school.
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The Accessibility of Programming
Presented by: Chris Dolphin
Category: Technology Exploring why learning to program seems to be so scary and how easy it can be to learn. Overview of how the front-end web works and how its not magic.
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Single Page Applications:
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Scrum Master Sermon
Presented by: Chris Burns
Category: Kitchen Sink / Technology Like doing Scrum or another flavor of agile development, but having trouble of letting go of some old waterfall habits? Chris will run through parts of the Scrum guide and give pointers to keep you agile.
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Mildfulness and movement: Mindbody fitness training for the office athlete
Presented by: Eric Morrow
Category: Kitchen Sink This is an interactive introduction to Mindbody fitness principles from Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gong and Meditation. Together, we'll explore some practical applications of mindfulness and some simple mental and physical exercises you can do to reduce stress and the risk of disease in the modern workplace while improving creativity, productivity, communication and enhancing the overall business culture in any community!
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Introduction to Practical Self Defense Life Skills
Presented by: John Aylward
Category: Kitchen Sink We are a new company in Gainesville teaching realistic self defense karate dealing with the physical and psychological aspects of real life conflict management - skills not relying on youthful athleticism.
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Architecture:
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Ding! Leveling up via soft skills
Presented by: Jared Koumentis
Category: Technology There are plenty of resources describing the technical aspects of learning to program. However, there are remarkable few for how to actually become a developer. While there are plenty of Fine Manuals to read on the languages, services and technologies involved in software development, few sources cover how to actually become a developer. Jared Koumentis will share his experiences, talk about some soft skills important to becoming a better developer, and how to grow yourself going forward.
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Pitch & Connect:
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The Tale of Two Real-Life Unicorns:
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Lead by: Sara Schuster & Killian McCoy:
Category: Technology
Category: Technology
A sometimes humorous, sometimes serious discussion on what it is like to be a woman in the overwhelmingly male-dominated field of computer science. We will take a closer look at the causes, effects, and possible solutions of software's gender gap.
Look Ma, No Server: Introducing Firebase
Presented by: John Tucker
Category: Technology The complexity in web development has been steadily shifting from the server to the client, i.e., browser. A recent Google acquisition of [Firebase] (http://firebase.com) has shined a light on a powerful solution that radically simplifies server development.
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Need Interns? Better Call Honors
Presented by: Melissa Johnson
Category: Kitchen Sink Whether you are part of a bootstrapping start-up or an established business, you're going to need quality interns. Learn how to gain access to 3200 of the best and brightest students at the University of Florida to pitch your internship opportunities.
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How Technology Innovation is Like Mountain Biking
Presented by: Matthew Donovan
Category: Technology Seven concepts that show clear parallels between the struggles, perils, *and* joys of technology innovation and mountain biking.
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sencha touch/phonegap for phone apps
Presented by: John Mcfetridge
Category: Technology Will look at building phone apps in Sencha Touch and Phonegap. Sencha is a JavaScript/HTML5 framework licensed under free commercial and open source licenses for application development. I will show how it can be used to build compelling UX that will satisfy the needs of many phone apps. Thus there is no need to reproduce the UX as we support different platforms. Phonegap can be used to provide a native wrapper for the Sencha code if required.
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object oriented Javascript
Presented by: John Mcfetridge
Category: Technology Javascript can be used to deliver web and phone apps and has the big advantage of being crossplatform. see how we apply OO concept to enhance the good part of the language and deliver robust apps
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Session Examples
Below are a list of titles of sessions done at previous BarCamps in other regions. Use these as a starting point for building your session topic and choosing what category your session fits into.
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Kitchen SinkPoker Theory & Hold-Em Strategy
Mimosas: How to Drink'em
The Art of YOLOing
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