2009 Event Schedule

The following is the schedule for the 2009 Nonprofit Software Development Summit.

You can also review the complete Session List for an overview by agenda track.

Please feel free to add a session to the schedule below (and please add to Session List as well)! We welcome participants to propose additional sessions or trainings, either by directly editing the wiki or contacting us at info@aspirationtech.org

18 November

9:00am Opening Circle

9:30am

• Interactive Participant Plenary

10:30am

• What is the State of Nonprofit Software in 2009?

Sticky notes transcript

12:00am Lunch - Sit with folks you don't know!

1:00pm - Breakout Sessions

• CiviCRM 101 2009, Facilitated by CiviCRM Core Team
• Using Mobile Phones to Make a Difference: The Ushahidi Project, Facilitated by David Kobia, Ushahidi
• The State of Salsa: Empowering Online Activists, Facilitated by Geoffrey Sean Harcourt, Wired for Change
• Technology Project Management Sewing Circle, Facilitated by Tim Bishop, Project Management Consultant
• CMS Smackdown, Facilitated by Michelle Murrain, Open Issue

2:00pm - Break

2:15pm - Breakout Sessions

• CiviCRM 201 2009, Facilitated by CiviCRM Core Team
• MAPLight.org site redesign: how we did it, what we learned, Facilitated by Dan Newman and Emily Calhoun, MAPLight
• The Climate Networks Platform: Enabling Mass Collaboration for the Climate Movement, Facilitated by Leif Utne, Zanby
• The State of Open Video, Facilitated by Nate Aune, Plone Developer
• Using social media to get the word out and connect with your peeps., Facilitated by Tim Bishop, random Social Media user
• Intro to Joomla!, Facilitated by Ryan Ozimek, PICnet
• Developer Sewing Circle

3:15pm - Break

3:30pm - Breakout Sessions

• CiviCRM - Drupal Integration Modules, Facilitated by CiviCRM Core Team
• Distributed Version Control with Git, Facilitated by Austin Putman, Radical Designs
• Neat New Stuff in Drupal, Facilitated by Neil Drumm, Senior Drupal Developer
• Growing your online community: successes and snags from WiserEarth, Facilitated by Peggy Duvette, WiserEarth
• Joomla! from a Web Designer's Perspective, Facilitated by Ron Severdia,
• Taking Advantage of the Cloud, Facilitated by Ryan Ozimek, PICnet
• Who Are The Extraordinaries and What Are They Doing With My Phone?, Micro-Volunteering by mobile phone - Facilitated by Ben Rigby

4:45pm Closing Circle

5:00pm Happy Hour Hosted by DemocracyInAction and Wired For Change

19 November

9:00am Opening Circle

9:30am - Breakout Sessions

• Extending CiviCRM (without hacking core), Facilitated by CiviCRM Core Team
• What Should a Nonprofit Web Site Cost in 2009?, Facilitated by Allen Gunn, Aspiration
• Making Agile Development Methods Work in Nonprofit Contexts, Facilitated by Michelle Murrain, OpenIssue
• Intro to Plone, Facilitated by Nate Aune, Plone Developer
• Advanced Drupal, Facilitated by Neil Drumm, Senior Drupal Developer
• Introducing Oakland Local, Facilitated by Susan Mernit, Oakland Local

10:45am - Break

11:00am - Breakout Sessions

• Building CiviCRM Community Infrastructure, Facilitated by DharmaTech
• Aggregating for Impact, Facilitated by Arthur Coddington, Craigslist Foundation
• Intro to Drupal, Facilitated by Courtney Miller, Floatleft
• NetSquared and Social Media, Facilitated by Justin Massa, NetSquared
• Open Source Project Management 101, Facilitated by Ryan Ozimek, PICnet
• Real-Time Web, Facilitated by Evan "Rabble" Henshaw-Plath

12:15pm Lunch - Sit with folks you don't know!

1:30pm

• SpeedGeeking 2009

3:00pm - Breakout Sessions

• What Can You Do with a Mobile Phone This Year That You Couldn't Do Last Year?, Facilitated by Evan “Rabble” Henshaw-Plath
• Salsa 101, Facilitated by Jeanette Russell and Geoff Harcourt, of DemocracyInAction/WiredForChange.
• NPTECH and Diversity, Facilitated by Michelle Murrain, OpenIssue
• Javascript Best Practices, Facilitated by Neil Drumm, Senior Drupal Developer
• Security 101, Facilitated by Cooper Quintin and Steve McMahon
• Salesforce for Non-profits, Facilitated by Nate Aune, Jazkarta

4:45pm Closing Circle

7pm Third Annual Nonprofit Geek Trivia Pub Quiz

20 November

09:00am Opening Circle

09:30am - Breakout Sessions

• Sharing CiviCRM Use Cases, Facilitated by Mark Libkuman, OpenFlows
• What's New With Protest.net?, Facilitated by Evan “Rabble” Henshaw-Plath, Protest.net and Josh Crawford
• How can IBM better meet non-profit technology needs?, Facilitated by Juan Hindo, IBM
• Designing the WISER APIs, Facilitated by Oz Basarir, WiserEarth
• Business Models for Nonprofit Software Development, Facilitated by Ryan Ozimek, PICnet

10:45am - Break

11:00am - Breakout Sessions

• What's New With Plone?, Facilitated by Nate Aune, Plone Developer
• Managing Nonprofit Data in a Hosted Application World, Facilitated by Allen Gunn, Aspiration
• Developer Communities That Do Not Suck, Facilitated by Rachel Weidinger, Social Actions/TechSoup Global
• Using APIs to Collect Money Online, Facilitated by Jonathan
• Using Public Data Sources, Facilitated by Lena Zuniga, Corpwatch
• Social Media Dashboarding 101, Facilitated by Matt Garcia, Aspiration
• Beyond The Relational - NoSQL Databases, Facilitated by Evan “Rabble” Henshaw-Plath
• Creating a Open Source Platform for Simulation-Based Learning, Facilitated by Ronald “Skip” Cole, United States Institute of Peace

12:30pm Lunch - Sit with folks you don't know!

1:45pm - Breakout Sessions

• Running a Technology Cooperative, Facilitated by cooperative members in the participant group
• What's New With Joomla!?, Facilitated by Ryan Ozimek, PICnet
• Email Templating: Disaster of the Century 2009, Facilitated by Margot Brennan and Suzi Grishpul, of Radical Designs
• Effective Localism, Facilitated by Rob Miller, The Open Planning Project
• The Search for the Perfect Donation System, Facilitated by Mike McCaffrey, Architecture for Humanity
• Selecting a Application Development Framework, Facilitated by Evan Henshaw-Plath, Protest.net
• Drupal Sewing Circle, Facilitated by Kathryn Benedicto, Happy Snowman Consulting

3:00pm - Break

3:15pm - Breakout Sessions

• Introducing MoveSmart.org, Facilitated by Justin Massa, MoveSmart.org
• Finding Volunteers and Organizing Volunteer-Run Projects, Facilitated by Kathryn Benedicto, Happy Snowman Consulting, and Mark Libkuman, OpenFlows
• 510pen: Creating a Community Wireless Mesh Network, Facilitated by Mark Burdett, 510pen
• What Do Nonprofit Open Data Standards Look Like?, Facilitated by Rachel Weidinger, Techsoup Global
• How to Be an Ally 101, Facilitated by Ben Mauer, Quilted
• "Stuff" I Find Interesting, Facilitated by Evan "Rabble" Henshaw-Plath

4:30pm Closing Circle

5:00pm Post-event Socializing!