2007 Event Schedule
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The following is the latest schedule and agenda for the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit. Also see the Event Agenda Overview for an alternative summary of the sessions
It is *critical* to note the ALL SESSIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, as the agenda is evolved by participants before and during the event.
Times are approximate, and mild chaos will always be considered a positive event virtue.
What is listed below represents approximately half of the sessions to be offered at the Summit; the remainder will be proposed and created by participants during the event.
Wednesday, February 21
- 8:30am Coffee and pastries
- 9:00am Welcome and Opening Circle
- 10:00am Interactive Opinion Polls
- 11:00am Break
- 11:30am Participant Agenda Breakouts
- 12:30pm Lunch
- 1:30pm Afternoon Sessions I
- Building in Usability
- Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Tools
- Engineering for Accessibility and the Differently-Abled
- Free Software and Open Source: How can the nonprofit sector do it better?
- Integration Experiments: What's Happening, What's Working, What's Next?
- Towards an Activist Social Networking Platform
- Participant-Driven Sessions
- 3:00pm Break
- 3:30pm Afternoon Sessions II
- Agile Development and Rapid Prototyping: What Works in the Nonprofit Context
- Business Models for Software Development in the Nonprofit Sector
- If I Could Do the NPTech Tag Over Again
- NPO SysAdmin Sewing Circle
- Towards an Open Source Grants Management Platform
- Whither Open APIs?
- Participant-Driven Sessions
- 4:45pm Closing Circle
- 6:00pm - Evening activities: Public Beveration
Thursday, February 22
- 8:30am Coffee and pastries
- 9:00am Welcome and Opening Circle
- 9:30am Peer-to-Peer Trainings and Skillshares
- 10:45am Break
- 11:00am Morning Sessions
- Case Study: Benetech's Miradi Project
- Evolving Content Management Systems to Meet Nonprofit Needs: Stories from the Field
- For-Profit / Nonprofit Software Collaborations
- Hierarchy on the Fly: Making Collaborative Projects Work Without Predefined Structures
- Intro To Ruby On Rails
- Where Are the Biggest Tool Gaps?
- Rethinking Telephone Advocacy for Member Organizations
- Open Standards Deep Dive: Single Sign On / Identity
- Participant-Driven Sessions
- 12:30pm Lunch
- 1:30pm SpeedGeeking
- 3:00pm Break
- 3:30pm Afternoon Sessions
- 4:45pm Closing Circle
- 6:00pm Evening activities: Nonprofit Geek Trivia Contest in fun, comfortable location
Friday, February 23
- 8:30am Coffee and pastries
- 9:00am Welcome and Opening Circle
- 9:30am Morning Sessions I
- Building Outcome Measurement into Nonprofit Software
- Developer Horror Story Circle
- Free Software Communities in Latin America
- Software Project Management Mind Meld
- Redesigning an Interface for a Large User Base: The DIA Salsa Story
- Security Checkup for Nonprofit Software Developers
- Open-Source To Transform The Way Government Does Business: The Case of NASA
- Usability, part 2
- Participant-Driven Sessions
- 11:00am Break
- 11:15am Morning Sessions II
- 12:30pm Lunch
- 1:30pm Afternoon Sessions I
- Addressing the Language Challenge: Open Source, localisation, and NGO Software
- Email Deliverability and Open Legislative Databases
- Making Social Source Commons relevant to Nonprofit Developers
- GIS, GPS, and Open Source Mapping
- Smelling the AJAX Koolaid
- Values and politics of open-source communities: what role can advocacy software developers play in international social change and political advocacy?
- Participant-Driven Sessions
- 3:00pm Break
- 3:30pm Summit Plenary
- 3:56pm 3.4 Quake Rocks NPDS!!
- 4:45pm Closing Circle and Final Groups
- 6:00pm Evening activities: Possible SF Nightlife Tour
Saturday, February 24
- 10:00am - 4:00pm Code Sprints at SF Nonprofit Technology Center
- 9:00pm Evening activities: Party at gunner's house