Session Organizer(s):  Gregory Heller of CivicActions.Com

Classification:  Open Discussion with Main Speaker Presentation
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‘’‘Computational thinking:’‘’
*In the early 70s, no one imagined there’d be more computers in our homes than TVs
*In the early 80s, no one imagined regular people, every day, would do their own word processing and financial spreadsheets
*In the early 90s, no one imagined hundreds of millions of people, every day, would be researching, shopping, chat, mailing, fileswapping and gaming on the Internet
*In the early 21st century, no one imagines that people will be casually and effectively programming their computers (especially the mobile ones!) every day

But they will be.  The keys are:  ‘’‘Simplicity’‘’.  ‘’‘Accessibility’‘’.  And support for the ‘’‘killer scenarios’‘’ that interest people enough to make them want to do this.  Scenarios around gaming, music, photos and chatting, for instance.

I’m exaggerating (slightly) when I say ‘no one’, of course.  Check out this Research Paper on Computational Thinking by Dr. Jeannette Wing at Carnegie Mellon University.

‘’‘Where Virtual Meets Reality:’‘’

This is already happening, but there’s a technical evolution of Internet standards which I think could happen (now) to make Virtual Reality available as a ubiquitous experience of computing.  Lots and lots to talk about here, including:
*’‘'What’s already happening here?’‘’ (Second Life, MMOs, online commerce and digital product, existing connections between virtual and real economies - others?)
*’‘'Where is this likely to go?’‘’ (This is half brainstorming and half science fiction - but we’re actually the technologists who will help make this happen!)
*’‘'How do we get there from here?’‘’ (I submit that much of the technology already exists to take the 2D experience of the Internet into 3D today - and that we can talk about specific problems and specific technology standards which we already know about)

What do you need from the community?
- Ecosystem of peers? – opportunity to network easily
- Logistics – what steps to take to start a firm?
- Access to capital?
- Training – panel discussions, insightful and interactive interviews
- Access to potential partners/employees?
- Access to potential employers?
- Mentoring and directed events

What are the different venues out there right now?

Organizations
-  TiE-Seattle (http://seattle.tie.org)
-  NWEN (http://www.nwen.org)
-  NetIP (http://www.netipseattle.org)
-  NAAAP (http://seattle.naaap.org)

User Groups and Events
-  Mind Camp
-  Seattle Tech Startups
-  Ignite!
-  Meta group aggregators like BEAN, Meetup
-  BizNik
-  Lunch 2.0
-  UW Business Plan Competition
-  Foundread.com
-  asktheVC.com
-  techstars.org
-  startupschools.com
-  startuppingg.com
-  elance.com
-  rent-a-coder.com
-  SCORE (old CEOs, part of Small Business Initiatives

Books
-  The Entrereneur Guide’s to Business Law (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0324042914)

Description: Best practices for generating cash from your blog, podcast, or video podcast.

Session Organizer(s): Andru Edwards, anyone else?

Classification: Open Discussion

USuggest.com allow the bloggers to make some extra money through recommended products directly from within their blogs, and hopefully directing their readers to online retailers. As such, the respective blogger would receive a commission from any sales generated through referrals!

brian@dorseys.org

http://briandorsey.info

Description: The piecepack is to board games what a deck of cards is to card games:  a public domain set of components to design and play multiple games.  Come get your hands on several kinds of commercial and homebrew piecepacks, and discuss prototyping and designing games with them.  We’ll also talk about and demo the related game system Icehouse, and the rare and bizarre mechanical game system Orion, now in the public domain.  The session organizer has won awards for his piecepack game designs.

Session Organizer(s):  Ron Hale-Evans

Classification: Open Discussion

Description: Get your picture taken and drawn by a robot.

Session Organizer(s): Bre Pettis & Crew

Classification: Activity

Description: Potato, apple, pumpkin guns.

Session Organizer(s): Bre Pettis

Classification: Activity

Description: Activity and discussion to learn how to write compelling titles for website blogs and articles.

Session Organizer(s): Carlos del Rio

Classification: Activity, Open Discussion