Conference Program
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Saturday, May 17
| Time | Event |
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| 10:30 | Space opens; breakfast; mingling |
| 11:15-12:00 |
- Opening remarks
- Keynote: David Nolen
Invent the Future You Want to Live In!
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| 12:00-12:15 | Break! |
| 12:15-1:05: Traveling Swift-ly through Time! |
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| 1:05-1:30 | Unconferencing! |
| 1:30-2:30 | Lunch! |
| 2:30-3:20: (Analytic) Philosophizing! |
- What Programmers and Economists Can Learn from Each Other! (Rob Jefferson) (Note: unfortunately, this talk had to be cancelled due to illness)
- Contributing to open source should be like ROLLER DERBY!! (Libby Horacek)
- MissingNo., my favourite Pokémon! (Igor Wiedler)
- QUINE + TAR = QUININE!! (Peter Boothe)
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| 3:20-4:30 | Unconferencing! |
| 4:30-5:20: As Real As It Gets! |
- From text to textiles! (Lea Albaugh)
- Lightpainting with Robots! And JavaScript! (Jon Williams)
- Music! Programming! Arduino! (Or: Building Electronic Musical Interfaces to Create Awesome) (Bonnie Eisenman)
- I made a cell phone! (DON'T TELL THE FCC KTHX!) (Kevin Lynagh)
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| 5:20-5:30 | Closing remarks |
| 5:30 | Optional: find your dinner group! |
Sunday, May 18
| Time | Event |
|---|
| 9:45 | Space opens; breakfast; mingling |
| 10:30-11:15 |
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| 11:15-11:30 | Break! |
| 11:30-12:20: Weirding Language! |
- The Burrows-Wheeler Transform: Better Compression with a Reversible Sort!! (Scott Vokes)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Search Index!! (Fiona Condon)
- Git Pushes from Paradise: Adding a remote island alphabet to Wikipedia! (Nick Doiron)
- Dissecting a Bestseller: The Art and Science of Storytelling! (Allison Nelson)
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| 12:20-1:30 | Unconferencing! |
| 1:30-2:30 | Lunch! |
| 2:30-3:20: Heroic Hacks! |
- Recovering data from an SD card — the hard way! (Joshua Wise)
- Cross-platform file names in Rust: a wonderful and horrifying hack! (Simon Sapin)
- Limitless and recursion-free recursion limits! (Allison Kaptur)
- i'm in ur javaz haxxing ur codez! (Max Veytsman)
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| 3:20-4:30 | Unconferencing! |
| 4:30-5:10: Tales from the Production Server! |
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| 5:10 | Thanks and closing remarks |
