2012 Agenda
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Verily, what lies below is a work of sincere fiction.
Sessions will be poured into time slots starting Tuesday afternoon.
Session times will change, session titles will morph, new sessions will come and and existing ones will go. But this is the latest we know, and we invite your feedback and contributions.
You are welcome to add a session, but make sure to place the link here.
Please do not change the time of any session that you are *not* facilitating :^)
Wednesday 14 November
8:30am - Coffee & Breakfast
9:00am - Opening Circle
9:30am - Interactive Participant Plenary
10:30am - What is the State of Nonprofit Software in 2012?
12:00pm - Lunch
Sit with folks you don't know!
1:00pm - Breakout Sessions
- Nonprofit Tech Capacity Building
- Occupy and Tech a Year Later - What Have We Learned?
- Agile practices in nonprofit contexts
- Introduction to WordPress
- Building SaaS models to serve the sector
- Introduction to Drupal
- Introduction to Web Analytics
- The State of Mobile for Nonprofit Needs 2012
- Intro to Command Line
- What Do Activists Need?
2:00pm - Break
2:15pm - Breakout Sessions
- Introductions to Node.js
- Delivering Minimum Viable Product - MVP isn't just for athletes anymore
- Analytics Integrations
- Protecting Human Rights Activist Who Use Mobile
- Open Data in UK and beyond
- Introduction to Nonprofit CRM
- Open Source 'vs.' the Cloud
- Cryptography for Nonprofits
- Business Models Round Table
3:15pm - Break
3:30pm - Breakout Sessions
- NPTech things I learend from Sex Workers
- What's new with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and How Can You Help?
- Ethical Consulting for Nonprofit Tech
- Security and Privacy in Projects Supporting At-Risk Populations
- State of Community Wireless
- Free and Open Source Story Circle
- Global Information Internship Program
- Promoting Mobile Apps
- Being a data driven organization
- Node.js
4:45pm - Closing Circle
5:00pm - Happy Hour!!!
Thursday 15 November
8:30am - Coffee & Breakfast
9:00am - Opening Circle
9:30am - Breakout Sessions
- Designers Talking to Developers 2012
- Advanced WordPress: WordPress is an Application Engine!
- Things I Learned Doing Mobile Work in Africa
- Taming the data hodge-podge
- The State of Joomla! 2012
- CiviCRM 101 - An Introduction to Open Source CRM 2012
- Multi-Organization Collaboration relying on Free & Open Source applications
- Managing Hackathon Expectations
- Advanced Wordpress
10:45pm - Break
11:00am - Breakout Sessions
- Introduction to TileMill
- MoveOn.org's Progressive Partners Program
- How to prepare for a website development project from the org side
- What is up with Online Identity in 2012?
- Care and Feeding of your Open Source CMS
- CiviCRM 201 - Getting the Most Out of the Platform 2012
- Introducing the 2012 NOSI Primer
- How to Use Data Informed Campaigns
- Responsive Design
12:15pm - Lunch
Sit with folks you don't know!
1:30pm - SpeedGeeking
2012 SpeedGeeking Extravaganza
2:45pm - Break
3:00pm - Breakout Sessions
- Surviving Salsa and Looking Beyond
- Introducing EtherSheet
- Orbot workshop. Install Tor on your Android.
- SocialCoding4Good - Harnessing New Types of Volunteers to Power Humanitarian Open Source Projects
- Advanced TileMill: Taking Mapping to Places It Has Not Gone
- Best and Worst Practices for Work Agreements from both side of the fence
- Online Fundraising Help Session
- Decentralization of Nonprofit Software through PaaS
- The State of the HTML Email
- What does Strategic Hosting look like in 2012?
- Git
4:45pm - Closing Circle
5:00pm - Extracurriculars
Friday 16 November
8:30am - Coffee & Breakfast
9:00am - Opening Circle
9:30am - Breakout Sessions
- OSM Mapping Party
- Test-Driven Development
- Tax Increment Finance Illumination Project
- Motivating and Rewarding Knowledge Sharing
- Building movements: tech for moving beyond emails, beyond campaigns and beyond organizations
- Getting Things Done in Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress: share, compare, and contrast
- More about Sandy Response, and also cool presentation tools
- Workshop - Writing User Stories for Non Profits
11:00am - Breakout Sessions
- The Specialists Guild - A New Approach to Software Testing
- Advanced Problems in Open Mapping
- Managing "Techies" and Developers
- Being a non-male developer
- RFPh: Request for Philanthropy
- Best Practices for Presentations
- Book Sprints and the importance of High Quality Technical Documentation
- Distributed Teams
12:15pm - Lunch
Sit with folks you don't know!
1:15 - Breakout Sessions
- What Should a Web Site Cost?
- Rails vs Node.js - A Sympathetic Comparison
- How to Write Low-Cost Mobile Apps and Mobile Tools
- Case Study: Saving Lives with Crowd-Sourced Mapping in Haiti
- Worker Owned Cooperative and Allies Jam Session
- Management IS Measurement
- The Free and Open Non-Profit
- Dashboard Gripe Session
- Introduction to Programming in Ruby on Rails
2:45 - Breakout Sessions
- Open Data around the World
- Prioritizing User Experience For the Win!
- What Can an Online Organizer do With the Facebook Graph?
- Mobile Security for Activists
- Advanced WordPress: Getting the most out of the platform
- Advanced Drupal: Q&A
- Avoiding Burnout in Nonprofit tech
- Very Big Companies
- Using Power Analysis to Identify Tech Tactics for Social Justice Campaign Strategies
- The State of Online Activism in 2012
- VIM for the Win!
- Regular Expressions