Ignite Chicago
Over the past several months I have been organizing a gathering in Chicago called Ignite Chicago - based on the Ignites that Brady Forrest organized in Seattle and San Francisco earlier in the year. Jesper Andersen was my conspirator in this endeavor.
An Ignite consists of an Ignite Contest and a series of Ignite Talks. Our Ignite contest was to build piles of junk that cast interesting shadows on the wall when illuminated with a flashlight similar to those made by English artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster.
The Ignite Talks are 5-minute talks with 20 slides on autoprogress (so you only get 15 seconds / slide). They can be about anything, but usually have a geeky theme. I will put the videos up when I get back from San Francisco - we really had some great talks. There are lots of folks in Chicago working on interesting stuff.
These were the speakers / topics:
Sean Blanton - Using Perl to Control Java
Matt McCall - Ugly Duckling or Black Swan?
Derek Wade - Scrum: It Depends on Common Sense
Steve Heady - Divless - CSS Coding that Works from Front To Back
Brawley Reishman - How to Preserve Your Sanity in the Global Economy
Massimo DiPierro - Gluon (Python web framework)
Justin Kruger - Game Economics
Erin McKean - lex i cog ra pher
Ravi Shankar - Moving Toward Rich Internet Aplpications
Keith Shacht - Why You Should Care About Platforms Like Facebook
Leon Chism - WoW! Everything I Know I Learned in Azeroth
Jon Pasky - Protecting Your IP in 5 Minutes
Michael Gruber - Killing Your Startup’s Changes to Receiving Early Stage Funding
Jason Fried - 20 Questions
Harper Reed and Scott Van Den Plas - Zebras vs. Mustaches
Jason Rexilius - Scaling Web Applications Across Distributed Networks
Paul Caswell - Thinking Together
