Comments on: Congratulations to the OpenWorld Session Winners

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:50:35 +0000

Yes, it defeats the unconference purpose, but I think the 1) blank grid can be a little daunting to first-time presenters and 2) first-time attendees see a blank grid and wonder why they should care about the unconference at all, or what it is.

By: topperge

topperge — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:29:17 +0000

I was actually looking at this stuff for something else, but Pentabarf (http://pentabarf.org/Main_Page) seems to deal with most of the functionality needed. Though one would debate that putting a schedule together would defeat the unconference idea. I do like the Jabber support in Pentabarf to remind where where I'm supposed to be and when.

It's written in rails using PL/pgSQL so I'm sure it wouldn't be too tough to get running on XE. Maybe something for my free time.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:56:53 +0000

Good idea, maybe Carl will chime in with a whizzy APEX app to manage the Unconference schedule. APEX was pretty popular in the top 25 and overall, so maybe someone in the community will do it.

By: Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:30:22 +0000

I agree–there may be a little technology needed to support the Unconf scheduling. I betcha there an application developer-minded person or two that could whip something together pretty quickly for that. Doesn't necessarily need to be on oracle.com even I suppose…where are those quick APEX dudes at when you need 'em?

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:01:07 +0000

You should call your session, "If I could be like Dan."

"Sometimes I dream, that he is me."

I like the idea of rolling the other sessions into the Unconference. I think OOW might not be quite ready for a blank grid of timeslots, so pre-populating some of the sessions would be a good idea. Maybe open the Unconference schedule early.

Justin/Marius: You guys listening?

By: Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:27:31 +0000

Thanks, Jake. And congratulations to the other selected sessions as well. I know there are some great sessions that didn't make the cut, so I hope that those sessions will appear in the Unconference in some form (http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Oracle+OpenWorld+Un...).

As for me, I'm wide open for suggestions on how the session will be organized. As my session isn't product-focused, I'm not sure how it will appear in terms of the tracks and focus areas, but I'll figure that out. If anyone has suggestions (specific or otherwise) that will help determine how the ACE session is created, I'm all ears. Comment here or on my blog entry (http://www.dannorris.com/2008/07/21/oow-mix-ses...) or on the session entry on Mix (https://mix.oracle.com/ideas/27616-so-you-want-...).