[dorkbotsea-announce] Fwd: [WSCI]: TONIGHT: geeks, techies, and makers

[shelly at hive-mind.com]

Brady from Ignite talked at Dorkbot last night.  Wanted to make sure you all
saw this, tonight's Ignite schedule.

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From: William Beaty <billb at eskimo.com>
Date: Apr 5, 2007 1:36 PM
Subject: [WSCI]: TONIGHT: geeks, techies, and makers
To: weirdsci-announce at eskimo.com


IGNITE SEATTLE, a night for geeks, techies, and makers

Ignite-III happens tonight (Thursday 4/5/2007). Here are the details:

Where: CHAC Upstairs - 1621 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 (don't worry we'll
have more space this time)

When:

   * 6:00 - Doors Open
   * 6:30 - Paper Airplane Challenge Begins
   * 8:00 - Break
   * 8:30 - Ask Later Talks: Round 1 begins (full schedule)
   * 9:15 - Break
   * 9:45 - Ask Later Talks: Round 2 begins
   * 10:30 - End of Ignite

Why: Because it's fun!

SCHEDULE: SEE BELOW

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William J. Beaty                            SCIENCE HOBBYIST website
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Seattle, WA  425-222-5066    unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci

First Round 8:30

  1. Bruce Leban (Google, National Puzzlers' League) - What I Learned in
Prison

     Yes, I spent time in not one but two Massachusetts prisons and it
was an educational experience in many ways. Find out why I went to prison
and if I would do it again. Learn about the differences between "minimum"
and "medium" security and how this applies to computer security. Learn
what "good time," "man trap" and "code 100? mean, why khaki pants were the
required dress code, and other equally practical information. Don't ask
about the dogs.
  2. Alex Hopmann (Launch21 LLC, FastCarrot LLC) - Maximizing performance
in aircraft engines

     Aircraft engines are basically the same as they were 60 years ago
but pilots have recently rediscovered how to squeeze extra performance
with advanced engine monitors and adjusting air/oxygen mixture. A
five-minute talk on how engines actually work, how they compare to car
engines and how knowing what's actually happening can squeeze extra
efficiency out of this system, with a bias towards non-pilots who care
about knowing the details of how everything in the world works.
  3. Jordan Schwartz (Hive-Mind Backyard Beekeeping) - Beekeeping and the
Hive Mind

     Beekeeping can be a simple, sweet and rewarding hobby. Learn how to
set up a hive in your backyard, free yourself from the iron grip of
International Honey Cartel and get a glimpse into the amazing social
structure of these clever insects. Bonus: Hear early reports on Colony
Collapse Disorder and impending demise of civilization as we know it!
  4. Karen Anderson (Writer Way, Biznik) - Workplace Survival Tips

     I'm a graying geek with many years of tech workplace experience,
most recently six years at Apple's .Mac Internet Services and the iTunes
Music Store. Workplace Survival Tips is quirky look at what's over-rated,
what's under-rated and what's absolutely essential in the workplace
environment. Slides will cover the topics listed below. My presentation
experience includes commentary for KUOW-FM. For a sense of my
communication style, take a look at my blog, Writer Way. Teamwork Money
Apologies Office Friendships Office Romances The "In" Crowd Indignation
Martinis, Mojitos and Single Malts Making the Rounds Training Evil People
Phone, SMS and Email Skills Humor Sweat Management Books The Impact of
Visuals "Being Yourself"
  5. Brian McConnell (Worldwide Lexicon, Radio Handi) - Worldwide Lexicon
- Participatory Translation For The Web

     The Worldwide Lexicon enables website and blog authors to translate
their sites through a combination of automated and human translation. The
service, which is in internal testing, and will go to public beta shortly,
works as follows: It monitors a site's RSS feed for new works If possible,
it obtains a rough machine translation to several target languages It
creates a wiki page for each translation in progress The publisher directs
readers to the wikis to participate in refining translations or starting
translations to additional languages.
  6. Candace McNaughton, ND (Crescent Natural Health, ) - Health Hacks

     Natural medicine quick fixes. Eight simple solves for common issues.
Candace McNaughton is a naturopath who specializes in diabetes and
practices in Capitol Hill.
  7. Carl Coryell-Martin(Cassettes2Cds) - Tamasheq Technology: Living La
Vie Nomad

     What kinds of technology do you find 4 days of driving from the
nearest paved road? In the winter of 2005, I spent a month living and
traveling with members of an extended Tamasheq family in the deserts of
central Mali, West Africa. This will be a quick tour of the tools and
systems from sat phones to forges to food preservation practiced by one
tribe of modern African nomads.
  8. Scott Berkun - Attention and Sex

     What things in your life demand undivided attention? Whatever they
are, I claim they define your life more than anything else you do. Your
obituary will not list the hours you fought off boring meetings or ignored
your friends by reading forgettable blurbs about forgettable things on
your cell phone. This talk explores how the wise and happy throughout
history have avoided situations that divided their attention.

Second Round 9:45

  1. Keith Schorsch (PeerWisdom, ex-Amazon) - Making Sweet Lemonade

     How do find the idea that you are passionate about? How do you
integrate your life and work experiences, both good and bad? I'll share
how my experiences at Amazon, McCaw, and with some personal health issues
inspired the idea for our new venture, PeerWisdom, a social network for
health.
  2. Shelly Farnham (Waggle Labs, ) - Why Social Tagging Really Matters
(to me): Semantic Overlays on Social Networks

     Social tagging has revolutioned how we organize and retrieve online
resources in systems such as Delicio.us, Flickr, and BlueDot. Yet, they
have been incorporated into social networking systems in only rudimentary
forms. I will talk about the potential for social tags to provide a
semantic overlay to social networks, and illustrate how we used them to
develop a social map of Seattle Mind Camp, and are incorporating them into
our Pathable project.
  3. Christopher Johnson (Phrasetrain, The Name Inspector) - The Science
(and Art) of Naming

     Many of you have faced, or will face, the challenge of naming a
company, a blog, a product, or a service. In this talk The Name Inspector
will give uncensored voice to his inner geek and present a lightning intro
to the science (and art) of names, drawing heavily on linguistics,
cognitive science, and his own experience as a namer and name analyst.
He'll talk about the mechanics of speech sound production, the symbolic
properties of sounds, the structure of syllables, the poetics of names,
the morphological types of names, the way words and their meanings are
stored and accessed in memory, the conceptual principles of metaphor and
metonymy at the root of word associations, and
using some prominent examples
not only what but HOW names mean.
  4. Coe Roberts (Real Networks, ) - No-Frills Getting Things Done

     Getting Things Done is a powerful system that you can use to run
your whole life. But what if you don't want to run your whole life? What
if you just want to make sure some things don't fall through the cracks?
Here's an easy-to-implement, low-overhead suggestion.
  5. Thomas Schmitz (SEOcritique.com, ) - Become a Marketing Piranha

     Think about the piranha. You know, that monstrous tiny little fish.
By itself its just small and ugly. It might nip at you, but you can easily
get away. As a school, piranhas are fierce and can take down large prey.
You wouldn't want to be a caribou in a pack of hungry piranhas. If you set
aside the horror movie connotation there is a lesson here. By working
together the piranhas get the caribou and there is enough food for each
fish. The piranhas are the sellers in your market or the members of your
network. The caribou is the market, the buyers and the prospects. It's a
big Amazon river out there, but by working together it's your school of
fish that is enjoying the meal. I especially like this analogy because
when you look at a school of feeding piranhas you will see that there is
also competition within the pack. It's not uncommon for individual fish to
get pecked and cut-up a little. Still, there is enough caribou or market
share for every fish to get a meal. Also related with concepts to be
included, What Dr. Doolittle Can Teach About Marketing and Networking.
  6. Chris Heuer (Social Media Club) - Different Strokes for Different
Folks - It's a multi-channel world out there and everyone chooses for
themselves, despite how much you prefer being digital. Of all the channels
for communication, the most important is interpersonal and face to face.
When we can meet each other with civility, as humans, it is harder to hate
and easier to collaborate.
  7. Mark Novak (Microsoft, University of Washington) - Security
Guarantees

     The topic is "security guarantees" - a way for the uninitiated to
dissect security of systems (including software systems) and demand more
secure solutions. I will use my 5 minutes to illustrate the concept by
breaking security of OpenID - twice! - using nothing but common sense and
a little bit of common knowledge.
  8. Eric Nevala - IT at Marine Headquarters, Al Anbar Province, Iraq

     * As a local US Marine Reservist who recently completed a second
tour of duty in Iraq, I maintained servers, software systems, databases,
built web applications, and tested cutting edge technology in an unstable
environment. * In my presentation are a series of photographs and
antecdotes about some of the cool stuff that I worked on * The future of
IT in the Marine Corps and the practical concept of mobile, virtualized
server rooms with no downtime (And if I have time, some info about the
centralized reconstruction management website application I developed for
western Iraq)
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