3 09/27/2008 http://wikiprojectoregon.wordpress.com/ 05/28/2008 66 WikiProject Oregon is one of the healthiest and most productive sub-projects on Wikipedia. We have worked hard to develop consistent and high-quality coverage of Oregon-related topics, and have a number of accomplishments that we hope will be a significant contribution to the state we love. We recently started a blog, and are exploring ways to get feedback from people who might have frustrations or concerns about Wikipedia, or might be having trouble finding ways to contribute. Wikipedia has become a very influential resource in a few short years, and we want to help people understand it, and understand how their own contributions can make the encyclopedia better. Pete is a compulsive contributor to Wikipedia, and has worked to establish connections between Oregonian Wikipedia editors and other organizations. He thinks everyone should be contributing to Wikipedia, to realize the goal of making the entire sum of human knowledge available to everyone. Pete Forsyth 49 WikiProject Oregon 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/28/2008 65 The 2005 book "Everything Bad is Good for You" uses pop culture to demonstrate the idea that humanity is getting smarter, and our new intelligence is heavily weighted toward our social IQ. Why are our brains mapped to engage in networking and social behavior? This presentation will look at the Bonobo, an endangered ape in the Congo and the subject of recent NOVA documentaries. The Bonobo is a highly social, highly sexual and "peace-loving" species -- the hippie of the ape world. A Bonobo named Kanzi has acquired real grammatical language and humor. Another Bonobo in a zoo attempted to save an injured bird in its enclosure. I will try to present that empathy and selflessness are the highest demonstration of social intelligence. Jenny works for a local environmental nonprofit. She enjoys music, sports and gardening. Jenny Andrews 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/28/2008 64 Why are the social sciences an important part of technology development? Our human social, economic, and political systems are webbed together by technology, with us in the center. Businesses go off of gut belief in product use for a specific consumer segment. But what if they could have real scientific numbers to make their product decisions off of? So, knowing the cultural need for a mobile device in China is important before creating the device. Digital ethnographic research done by anthropologists study this. Knowing a rural community's view on free wireless broadband is important before spending government dollars on installation and implementation. Digital ethnographic research done by psychologists study this. Knowing developmental and cognitive theory as it relates to teenagers and their needs wants for social networking applications is important before creating your startup. Digital ethnographic research done by psychologists study this. Pictures of other cultures using technology; technology as global phenomenon. But some tech uses fit better in some cultures, population segments than others? Kids use MySpace v Facebook v Bebo, why? What are they looking for? Possibly also David Hasselhoff in a banana hammock. After over 10 years of time spent in the tech industry as mostly an Interactive Producer, I went back to school to study Psychology. I am personally interested in how people and technology interact and the ethnographic research that goes into finding said information. I am currently a part of the People and Practices Research group at Intel, and am on the Executive Board of the Computer Human Interaction Forum of Oregon. Sharon Greenfield 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/28/2008 63 If you haven't studied nuclear engineering, you are probably wondering how a nuclear reactor produces electricity. We will learn how to boil water (and how you could get electricity from it) in five (plus or minus) easy steps. Okay, I lied: they aren't that easy. We will (briefly) explore how a nuclear power reactor works, from mining and enriching the uranium to splitting the atoms, to controlling the fission reaction, to the byproducts that are produced. Vanessa has been a Mac user and Portlander for 5 years. Her professional work combines math, chemistry, physics, fishing poles, and decoy ducks. In her free time, she enjoys bicycling, playing darts, and drinking Stumptown coffee (but she's only really good at one of those). Vanessa Holfeltz 38 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/28/2008 62 Social robotics and cognitive development; how do you teach robots to learn? Robots learn, as would children. Using child cognitive development theory, do you use a Piaget or Vygotsky framework? Robots as solitary or Robots in society? If the latter, can you make a socially intelligent robot? Can you program societal structure for robots like one 'programs' children? Will include: - funny pictures of robots - funny pictures of robots doing funny things - funny pictures of robots dressed in funny ways doing funny things After over 10 years of time spent in the tech industry as mostly an Interactive Producer, I went back to school to study Psychology. I am personally interested in how people and technology interact and the ethnographic research that goes into finding said information. I am currently a part of the People and Practices Research group at Intel, and am on the Executive Board of the Computer Human Interaction Forum of Oregon. Sharon Greenfield 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/28/2008 61 Kids today are becoming the largest users of technology. Technology is second nature to them; it's how they interact with each other, their family, their schools, and their society. Their lexicon is increasingly impacted by technology, as are their cultural touchpoints. Is technology good for kids from a dev psych standpoint? Why or why not and according to whom? What about from another theoretical framework? Discussion Points: - Gamer speak - Teens meeting in chatrooms and/or 'web 2.0' social networking applications to 'hook up'. - Dr. Jane M. Healy's book Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds -- and What We Can Do About It. Dr. Healy feels technology negatively impacts children; why she feels so, and why or why not her theory is flawed. - Technology (computers) as barriers to peer interaction vs Technology (computers) as enhancement tools to peer interaction. - David Hasselhoff pictures of him in a banana hammock After over 10 years of time spent in the tech industry as mostly an Interactive Producer, I went back to school to study Psychology. I am personally interested in how people and technology interact and the ethnographic research that goes into finding said information. I am currently a part of the People and Practices Research group at Intel, and am on the Executive Board of the Computer Human Interaction Forum of Oregon. Sharon Greenfield 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/28/2008 60 I want to discuss how the new connected world is leading to a clash of communities. This is bringing up uncomfortable areas in our brains and how new communication skills will be necessary to bridge those communities. CEO and President of Box Populi. We make podcasting devices and services for colleges and universities. Chris Dawson 51 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/ 05/28/2008 59 Technology is rapidly changing the way our government works. YouTube can make or break a political campaign, Wikipedia offers detailed information on obscure subjects (often rather...creative information!), blogs give us the chance to test our rhetorical skills, and various wikis offer opportunities for people to explore new methods of collaboration and consensus-building. How can we best harness these tools to foster better policy development, better communication between officials and constituents, and steer our country in the right direction? Is it possible that for the first time in history, we actually have tools available that will make democracy work? Or will the complications of technology work to subvert democracy, making truly authoritative voices hard to find among the chatter, or creating loopholes for opportunistic companies to exploit at the public's expense? I'll make the case that the choice is ours, and that those who embrace new technology the most effectively today will be building tomorrow's society and government. I will present a few simple ideas for how to work toward a better future. (Another relevant web site I built: http://aboutus.org/theopenlobby ) Pete is a writer and community organizer on Wikipedia and in the Oregon political world. He takes inspiration from the late Senator Wayne Morse, who advised that the American people are capable of making all kinds of difficult decisions, provided they are presented with the relevant facts. Pete Forsyth 49 WikiProject Oregon 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/28/2008 58 My talk will quickly walk the audience through the series of tubes that make up the Internet as a packet travels from their computer to some remote server and back. I'll illustrate this using monkeys and will touch on the nuances of the different kinds of equipment in use to support the plumbing of the Internet today. I'm a network security packet monkey Esteban Gutierrez 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.beerdrinker.org/ 05/28/2008 57 A lot of people are familiar with del.icio.us, furl, and other social bookmarking technologies available on the web. By implementing social bookmarking into the enterprise a wide variety of difficult problems become solvable, ranging from very difficult CMS issues such as the classic "why are there so many wikis?" to DAM, to how to handle searches for secure content. Drilling down even further, some truly amazing capabilities fall out, and I'll delve into one that'll make your HR friends squeal with delight. And finally, I'll put it all together with a few comments on structured and unstructured search, and OpenSearch (or why Google makes me mad sometimes). But only a few comments because I only get five minutes. Cheers. Nearly 10 years experience delivering content for ISPs, ASPs, and a Fortune 500 using a wide variety of platforms and technologies. Rick Rezinas 23 Nike, Inc. I guess you're asking where I work? 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.cubespacepdx.com/ 05/28/2008 56 Firstly, let’s be clear that if you have already started a business, it is too late for you. Anyone who starts a business is already nuts. Running a business is like parenting—it is a 24/7 occupation. And parents can be pretty darn miserable if they never have an opportunity to be adults in their own right. So here are some hard-earned thoughts on forcing a separation between work and life when there is no end to your work day. Eva is CubeSpace's Chief Cat Herder and volunteers on way too many boards. Her latest involvement is with the Small Business Advisory Council where she combines her love of microbusinesses and public policy. Eva Schweber 47 CubeSpace 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.offsetcollective.com/ 05/28/2008 55 Climate change is upon us. Rapid action is essential and individuals can make a significant difference. We each need to know our carbon footprint, and begin reducing it as soon as we can. But what do we do about emissions that we can't avoid? Should we buy carbon offsets? Or do nothing but reduce and conserve? So what actually are carbon offsets, why are they an important part of many emissions reduction approaches? How do offsets work, and how do they apply to individuals and households? What do you look for? What makes an offset? What is "additionality" and why is it so important? What are the major flaws of offsets, and how are they being addressed? In 5 minutes, I will explain carbon offsets, their role in adressing climate change, how they are important to individuals, and address the controversy that doggedly follows them. Ewan is a recovering management consultant, who is making amends for vast quantities of carbon dioxide emitted traversing the US visiting clients. He lived off-grid, at a hot spring resort in remote rural Colorado, until he was seduced by the promise of Portland. Ewan began his career in finance in South Africa, switched to technology after he discovered servers, and moved to the US in the last tech boom. He is the founder of Offset Collective, a green business startup that provides carbon solutions for climate-conscious consumers and a founding member of PDX CRAG, Portland's first Carbon Reduction Action Group. Ewan O'Leary 19 CEO, Offset Collective, Inc. (Carbon Offset Startup) and Member, PDX Carbon Action Reduction Group 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.youtube.com/user/phillipk 05/28/2008 54 Low budget youtube videos are good for more than just cat lovers and exhibitionists. Once you make a simple video to expose something that frustrates you, you'll find it's a ton of fun and can actually help relieve stress. For me, when a new technology fails to live up to its hyped promise (which is often) I make a critical video using satire to hit hard. In this presentation, you'll get tons of ideas how to make your own videos… and—if we're lucky—some of my alternate personalities (from the videos) will channel through my body and emerge in person! Seriously, creating characters that say things you could never say in real life is a great release. For the last 15 years I've been a successful self-employed programmer. I teach Flash, write books about Flash, and do contract programming. Working in a field of ever-changing technology can fill one with a certain amount of angst—so maybe that's why I became jaded enough to finally do something about it! I've discovered great joy in producing videos that poke fun at any new technology as it becomes popular. Phillip Kerman 37 phillipkerman.com LLC 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.heartofbusiness.com/ 05/28/2008 53 Understanding the True Purpose of Marketing, and how profoundly heart-based marketing from transformative small businesses can help heal the world. Main Points: • The Heart wants love and connection, but the ego wants control and safety. • Marketing’s purpose is to create safety. • Safety is created through Empathy, Witnessing, Identity and Hope. • If transformative, socially-aware businesses learn to create safety with the ego, they can get attention even in a consumer/consumption-based market place- without selling out their integrity or their ideals. -- p.s. Adrienne Fritze presented at Ignite Portland and mentioned she was taught by a Sufi spiritual teacher and business coach. She was referring to me. Mark is the founder of Heart of Business, and a successful business consultant and healer, who brings an active connection with the Divine to his work. He is the author of Unveiling the Heart of Your Business, How money, marketing and sales can deepen your heart, heal the world, and still add to your bottom line, in addition to other programs and publications. He has worked with thousands of entrepreneurs, small business owners, and non-profits in the areas of marketing, sales, employee management, business mission, and just plain taking care of yourself and your business. Mark has run a magazine, worked as a paramedic, run a distribution business, been an activist, and worked in the non-profit arena. He has failed horribly in business, and he has succeeded beautifully, each in turn. Trained at the Jaffe Institute in Organizational and Business Healing, he is a Sufi healer and has been named a master teacher in his lineage. His vision is that in the process of your business becoming profitable and sustainable, that your heart will deepen in knowing its own truth. Mark publishes an article every week to several thousand readers, and is also a blogger in the business section of the Huffington Post. He has spoken widely, including presenting at the National Speakers Association international convention in San Diego in 2007, and at the 9th International Conference on Business and Consciousness in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2008. Mark Silver Heart of Business 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://natesmithcomedy.com/ 05/28/2008 52 My name is Nate Smith. During the course of my life I have discovered there are many Nate Smiths in the world. I think I am the best Nate Smith Ever! In this short comedic presentation I will compare myself to other Nate Smiths from around the country to determine who is the Best Nate Smith Ever! Nate Smith is a comedian and writer from Portland, Oregon. His mustache is fake. Nate Smith 46 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/28/2008 51 There are a few qualities that geeks in general possess. 1. Constantly on the cutting edge of technology 2. Really like new shining gadgets 3. Short attention spam due to new technology and gadgets There are also a few qualities business people in general possess. 1. Constantly looking for new ways of making money 2. Really like new shining gadgets 3. Short attention span due to new ways of making money There are many similarities between these two types of people. In order to be a successful geek in business there is one requirement and beyond a shadow of a doubt it is one of the hardest lessons to learn. I am not done though, throw having a family into this picture and everything just goes you know where in a hand basket. I plan to combine these topics into one short lighting talk with some good advice and photos to share with the geek community. Geek turned business geek person. A.J. 45 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.pdxblackbook.com/content/view/992/405/ 05/28/2008 50 This discussion is a quick "behind the scenes" look into the life of a stripper and the world of strip club "participation". Photos will include dancers, clubs, and miscellaneous people and locations that are affliliated. All photos will be kept in a "publicly acceptable" form and any with slight nudity will be presented for approval before inclusion. Topics within the discussion will include *who are strippers... really! *who pay strippers... really! *what are strip clubs like... really! *what is pole dancing like... really! *what are the cool things about being a stripper? *what are the drawbacks of being a stripper? *what do strippers become 'when they grow up'? and *what if I want to see a stripper, find a club I like, or take a knock at being a stripper myself? *what do "normal" people think of strippers? *why are YOU afraid of strippers? (top reasons we hear & some questions to ask yourself) I plan to supply 3 - 4 helpful websites to the curious public - NONE of which are sex-oriented sites. (And I will have a personal body - guard in attendance... in case you were wondering!) I’ve been dancing for about 7 years and have been with the Dolphin Clubs for the majority of that time. I’ve worked in Las Vegas and Hawaii also and multiple clubs in the Portland area too. I was "Miss Nude Oregon" in 2003 and I have been a feature performer (in every location above) including on the Oregon coast. I have enjoyed being the trainer for the Dolphin dancers in the past, a creator for some of the Dolphin ad campaigns. In addition, I privately trained 4 out of the 5 most recent "Miss Nude Oregon" title holders including the current one (and am currently training a dancer who wishes to become the next one!) Now I only dance about 2-3 days a week at the Dolphin Clubs. I also teach privately. My business, "Bringin' Sexy Back" shares secrets with women that should not be secrets, like how to dress sexier, how to do your make-up so you don't look like a doll or a hooker, and how to move your body in a way that oozes sexiness - which includes pole dancing. I do not teach classes; I work by private tutorial only. (Sort-of like the recent movie "Hitch" with Will Smith.) Currently I dance 2-3 nights a week at the Dolphin 2 in Beaverton and my schedule updates are found on www.pdxblackbook.com which is a stripper directory I helped launch. Also, I am working with an author on the "Strip Clubs For Dummies" book and I'm excited to be creating a web presence on several web sites for blogging about the life of a stripper. I'm VERY proud of what I do & the women I represent, and I'm a happier person because of it! Sasha B 44 Dolphin 2 / "Bringin' Sexy Back" / Pdx Blackbook.com 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.theincidentalpoet.com/ 05/28/2008 49 Most writers experience moments of Writer’s Block. This will be a look at ways to blast your way out of that block whether you’re writing a presentation, a new resume, or War and Peace – although War and Peace has already been written so you might want to rethink that idea. Ideas include… - playing Solitaire - finding multiple versions of 99 Red Balloons (Goldfinger’s is the best) - reading about What White People Like - and, god forbid, cleaning the house Sally K Lehman is a former Mathematics Major from UC Berkeley and a former IT person from DEC and SGI, who has given it all up in favor of writing poems, short stories and novels. Luckily, she’s also married to someone who has a real job. Sally K Lehman 43 05/28/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/27/2008 48 I wish to discuss the practical challenges of a mathematically vetted method of time travel now that the Large Hadron Collider is coming online. The method employs sinusoidal oscillations of electrical bombardment on the surface of one Kerr type singularity in close proximity to a second Kerr type singularity in such a method to take advantage of the Lense-Thirring effect, to simulate the effect of two point masses on nearly radial orbits in a 2+1 dimensional anti-de Sitter space resulting in creation of circular timelike geodesics conforming to the van Stockum under the Van Den Broeck modification of the Alcubierre geometry (Van Den Broeck 1999) permitting topology change from one spacelike boundary to the other in accordance with Geroch's theorem (Geroch 1967) resulting in a method for the formation of Godel-type geodesically complete spacetime envelopes complete with closed timelike curves. I will present 15 high-level slides for a general audience with 5 focusing on the mathematical approach. In 2003 Marlin Pohlman was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and underwent a stem cell transplant. To combat the effects of the chemotherapy he was given high doses of Modafinil in a clinical trial. Modafinil, a nootropic gave him a short term increase his mathematical and cognitive ability. Making the best of a bad situation Marlin put his short-term ability and enhanced focus to work on the mathematics of time travel, a life long interest. This work lead to the publication of USPTO Application #: 20060073976, A Method of gravity distortion and time displacement. This invention is being offered royalty free to any and all groups desiring to pursue this field of study. (e.g. not a product pitch) In his day job Marlin Pohlman is Director of Governance, Risk and Compliance product strategy for a major bay area enterprise software company he has authored three texts on IT governance and security, Marlin received his BS in Engineering physics from the University of Tulsa, his MBA from Lexington Business School and his PhD in computer science from Trinity University. Marlin is member of Portland Mensa, a Licensed Professional Engineer, Certified Information Systems Auditor, Certified Information Security Manager & Certified Information Systems Security Professional. Marlin Pohlman 41 Makerlab 05/27/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/27/2008 47 Like many Portlanders, I've been obsessively following Barack Obama's Presidential campaign. Regardless of the election outcome this November, Obama's campaign has been both unique and monumentally successful. Aside from being caught up in the excitement and promise of Obama's run, I've also been impressed by the management of the campaign. His team's approach can teach us valuable lessons applicable to any business, and especially to the high-pressure environment of a startup. Following these lessons might not raise $265 million in capital, but it will put you in a better position to succeed. I've been on software development teams in one role or another for 1/3 of my life. I'm currently a project manager at Intrigo, a design and development firm focused on helping startups succeed. Dan Blaker 39 Intrigo 05/27/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://userfirstweb.com/ 05/27/2008 46 Faced with an shrinking food market and competitors copying its innovative Ramen product, Nissin Foods faced a financial crisis. In the face of this crisis, Momofuku Andou saw opportunity in a product that didn't exist in a country (America) that didn't know it needed it. His vision: Japanese noodles that could be ready to eat in three minutes anywhere. Finding a way to accomplish this vision involved inventing entirely new food processing techniques and caused one developer to lose 12 kilos of weight during the process. The end result is was a revolutionary product, a staple of grocery stores everywhere, a essential part of disaster relief efforts worldwide, and the greatest Japanese business story ever told. This presentation will feature artwork from the Eisner-award nominated Project X Challenger: Cup Noodle manga book. My background includes a degree in Public Relations with a minor in Political Science. Despite my educational background, I have been a computer geek since childhood. My parents bought my first computer, a Commodore 64, in the fourth grade and my first modem in the fifth grade. Online culture was such a large part of my life that at one point I could whistle at the exact pitch of a 1200 baud modem so that it would stop squelching when the phone rang. It was either develop this skill or my mother would ungraciously unplug the computer. Jason Grigsby 36 Cloud Four 05/27/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://gabrielboone.com/ 05/27/2008 45 i always hear people who are into photography say "i only use available light". well if you can get a vivitar 285 off ebay for 45 bucks i'd say thats availble light so start using it... too. we'll take a look at the gear to get (on a shoestring budget), the 4 main rules, and the tips that will get you set straight on adding light to your images, a great and inexpensive way to make your images "one thousand times better". i am a wedding and commercial photographer residing in nw portland, shooting up and down the west coast. boone 34 gabriel boone photography 05/27/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://concrete5.org/ 05/27/2008 44 Inspired by Renny Gleeson's "What is Ignite?", Franz will take us down memory lane with some philosophical banter about the role de-centralized media plays in history. Ripe with irony and examples of the web already making the world a better place today, this fast paced presentation won't be revolutionary, but should get even the most jaded dot-commie excited about the medium again. Franz Maruna is a interactive media professional who dropped out of art school to make the web a better place in 1995. He has freelanced for large and small companies alike, led a team of programmers as a Director in huge-corporate-IT, and now runs a small consultancy out of Old Town Portland. Franz Maruna 33 Concrete5.org 05/27/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://hook.org/ 05/27/2008 43 Our civilization is on the verge of a technological breakthrough that will allow for image based search. Soon you'll be able to take a picture with your camera phone, send it to a computer and then have it tell you more about that thing you photographed. My talk stems from reflections and concerns about the implications of this critical juncture of technology. We live in an image saturated world. Images straddle barriers of language and culture. Corporations work hard to create a brand association between certain images and their products. Photographers and artists often go out of their way to protect an ownership over their images. Certain images have a strong cultural value for one community and a totally different value for another community. Some images are taboo and other images are enshrined. Computers are going to start to allow our thoughts about images to begin to leak across normally disconnected boundaries. Search providers great and small are gearing up rapidly to service this emerging potential for visual search as a new market. But who gets to dictate what information is returned on a visual search of a Coke can? How about a visual search of a childs' drawing of a Coke can? How do we crowd-source trustworthy statements about the things we see? What are the Patent issues of various image recognition approaches such as SIFT? What are the implications for Trademark owners? How about for stock photographers and flickr enthusiasts? Will there need to be a Creative Commons license to cover this? If we think of images as a new kind of hyperlink then does visual search then become a valid "resolving opportunity" like DNS? Copyright has not even begun to touch this space. Some of these questions are rhetorical but we believe that these issues and more are pushing us towards a need to define an Image Commons. In 5 brief minutes I hope to present on these issues and also introduce the ImageWiki project. This will not be a pitch insofar as that project is open source, but rather a call to arms encouraging everyone to see and claim this space. My hope out of this work is praxis; to have a clear statement made not just in words but in code. Anselm Hook is a Hacker, Dad, Backpacker, Entrepreneur, and former Games Developer. He was born in Paris, France in 1967 but grew up mostly in Alberta and Saskatchewan. His father followed the Oil Boom west and started The Computer Shop of Calgary in 1976. Anselm has traveled, spelunked and hiked in places including Canada, the US, the UK, Iceland, Europe, Mexico, South America, New Zealand, Hawaii, Japan and India. Today Anselm is the CTO of Meedan a real-time English/Arabic translation project funded by IBM and MacArthur. Anselm is passionate about Social Cartography. He is focused on creating tools to help people understand and appreciate the world around them. He helped launch Ning and led the engineering of Platial. Currently he is the co-chair of WhereCamp, volunteered a tiny bit on Calagator, as well as co-founding the MakerLab, a project incubator based in Portland, Oregon. Within the Makerlab, the current project he is working on is the ImageWiki. With an ImageWiki a person can point their phone at an image of anything and have it find similar images and comments that other people have submitted on that image. One can take a picture of a favorite bar, or of a beer label or of a music album and see what people think about that thing, or even see if friends nearby have commented on the same thing. Anselm Hook 32 http://makerlab.org http://meedan.net 05/27/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/26/2008 42 Oral traditions made us human - and embody our relationship with the Land upon which our species evolved. Riddles, Dreams, and Myths all express our essential need to map our complex relationships with the world that made us, and to live in accord with its ways. We can relearn to make and solve Riddles, understand how they connect to our Dreams and the role of Myth, and come back to a sense-of-place and the Land around us. Willem Larsen has taught land-based and ancestral heritage skills, such as animal tracking, wilderness survival, storytelling, dream interviewing, and riddling, in the Portland area for over a decade. Willem Larsen 31 TrackersNW, the College of Mythic Cartography 05/26/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/26/2008 41 Bob will "Ignite" the creativity of the audience with a laughter exercise (not jokes) that will stimulate their mental alertness, memory, and interpersonal responses. Attendees will learn the scientific benefits of laughter and be inspired to create their own giggles for a life filled with better health, happiness, youthfulness, and plain old fun. Bob Ferguson has used laughter in his careers as a Marine Corps Officer, Camp Director for handicapped kids, and thirty years as a sales agent. He believes "Laughter is the best medicine" and is a CLL (Certified Laugh Leader.) He uses the power of the giggle to put a spark of enthusiasm into every occasion from business meetings to funerals. Bob Ferguson 05/26/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/26/2008 40 throughout the ages, secrets have allowed civilizations, organizations, and leaders to progress. even today, we are aware of secrets that allow individuals to maintain an advantage over others, sometimes as simple as a secret recipe, a secret door, or a secret handshake. what is that power, in both keeping a secret or obtaining a secret and what is the power lost when secrets are revealed. why? these are some of the topics i will address and explore at ignite portland 3 filled in for chet fiedler-where does imagination go?- at ignite2. spent the previous year working with wieden and kennedy's 12 program. currently freelance writer/planner i love sandwiches thomas landers wieden kennedy 05/26/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/26/2008 39 Based on my master's thesis research, I will present a quick breakdown of what consumers think the labels on specialty eggs like cage free or free range mean, and what they actually mean. This talk should be educative and inspiring for a consumer, but I will steer clear of depressing the crowd with any PETA-style shock exposure to the realities of battery caged eggs. I am a former chef and restaurant owner, turned food advocate and educator. I have a brand spanking new Masters degree from the Leadership in Ecology, Culture and Learning Ed program from PSU. My work in focused on food shed education and getting people to pay attention to where their food comes from. Michele Knaus 30 05/26/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/25/2008 38 Portland is teeming with geeks. Have a look at Calagator, any of the many Portland and Oregon Tech Event Google Calendars, the OTBC Meetup Calendar and prepare to be overwhelmed. We have a ton of crazy tech collaboration happening -- BarCamp is the most recent example of how easily geeks find community here in Portland. We have separate user groups dedicated to Ruby, PHP, Python, Perl, .NET and functional languages that meet every month. There's the Linux Users Group, PostgreSQL Users Group, SQL Server Users Group, DorkBot, Portland Mobile, the new PDX Critique and tons more. But there's something wrong. Open source groups seem to trade people and resources, presenting at each other's groups, connecting at the many language-agnostic social events. But we rarely see the .NET people mingling at the open source-focused user groups. Why is that? What about other proprietary or commercial software systems developers? Oracle? Lotus Notes? Why don't they join us? Aaron Hockley, a .NET developer, and Selena Deckelmann, from the PostgreSQL and Perl communities, think this is a problem. Open Source and Proprietary communities have tons to learn from each other - like, why are there more women working on proprietary software than open source? And, what's it going to take to get more proprietary software developers and companies to engage in their user communities the way that open source developers do? Aaron and Selena won't solve those problems. We'll just show you to have fun together - despite software licensing differences. There's a great divide among the tech folks in Portland, and we're going to bridge it. In 5 minutes. Aaron Hockley is a software developer who works primarily with Microsoft technologies including .NET and SQL Server. He is also a professional photographer and can't resist that temptation to blog. Selena Deckelmann is the PostgreSQL User Group Liaison, treasurer for PgUS, PDXPUG leader and occasional Perl Monger. She bikes herself to work everyday, and loves having fresh eggs from her chickens. Aaron Hockley / Selena Deckelmann 26 05/25/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.mikewills.com/ 05/24/2008 37 When you think about it, attracting love interests isn't all that different from attracting people to your web site. You have to determine your target audience, deduce what he/she wants, use words that they are looking for (like doctor, money, backrubs, health club), and then provide a compelling call-to-action. People who are: - searching for love or just love to be searched - wanting to be Googled or ogled - ranked 254,387th for the keyword "great date" will all benefit from this brief discussion. Mike is a 20-year veteran of the Internet and multimedia, his last eight years working in Internet marketing and project management. Following corporate positions at Boeing and Safeco, he moved to the web agency world, including time at Via Training, Avenue A | Razorfish, and White Horse for clients such as HP, Adidas, Microsoft, Countrywide, Citibank, and PacificSource Health Plans. Currently, he is the principal of an Internet marketing consulting firm that specializes in providing e-marketing direction, both partnering with web agencies and directly to businesses such as Portland General Electric, with an emphasis on search engine marketing, audience-content relevancy, and email strategies. Mike Wills 29 05/24/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.lunarr.com/ 05/24/2008 36 Description What kind of "scent" do you first smell, if you have just landed on the street of a small town during the Frontier Era, 1851 by time-travel? Questions are a very powerful tool to change your perspective, scope, or objective, as you know. It is hard to get to a great answer / idea / solution, but it's easy to ask good questions which could guide you there. But how can we come up with them? Making a question is not an Art. It is more like Engineering : ) If you are: - searching for a new idea for your product, - working on innovation in your service, - trying to change the tempo of your life, or - wanting to know a new aspect of your friends, this presentation will help you. Build questions and enjoy the power of QUESTIONeering. Concept Creator and Strategist. Designer who cannot draw pictures. COO of LUNARR. Hideshi Hamaguchi 28 LUNARR 05/24/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.chris-logan.com/ 05/24/2008 35 We have entered the urban century. In 2000 45% of the world’s population lived in cities. Dramatic urban growth will push us over the 50% mark this year. My presentation will show that Portland is the prototype for this future. Portland’s ½ million people demonstrate how the education, employment and services of a dense urban existence yield a higher standard of living and quality of life. The 18 million inhabitants of Shanghai are now proving out many of these practices at scale. I will make the case that the emergent global urban culture with its resource efficiencies and low birth rates will prove to be our planets salvation. Chris Logan is an entrepreneur living in Portland. A veteran of the high tech industry, Chris founded and ran several venture-funded startups and held executive positions with established companies like Avaya (a spin out of AT&T). Christopher Logan 27 05/24/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.cbchambercoalition.com/ 05/23/2008 34 In the Startup Business Sprinting process: our experiences growing a support project to accelerate startup success. This is an overview of what worked in SixHourStartup , StartupWeekendPortland and some of the lessons learned in the process. Assuming that StartupWeekendPortland produces a working website, this will be a review of one of those projects: A support tool to help a startup move from Idea to revenue. An Entrepreneurial Collaborator who has worked at HP, OSU, Started an ISP, supported R+D and now helps companies startup. I am active in the PortlandBarCamp process, ran the BeaverBarCamp and have participated in SixHourStartup in Seattle and StartupWeekend in Portland. I am active in supporting a Business Facilitation group, an Angel Investing group and on the board of our local Business Accelerator. John Sechrest 25 Corvallis Benton Chamber Coalition 05/23/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://writersisland.wordpress.com/ 05/23/2008 33 I will explore how the creative exercise of writing poetry can open one up to the secrets of language, communication, dynamic inquiry, and your suppressed inner-self -- as well as the secrets of the spirit of life and living bold... and maybe save your sanity is a stressful world. I'll share a tip on how to use a brief sojourn into poetry at the office to free your power of dynamic thought. I'll show how poetry will make you smarter, more effective, better looking, and a whole lot happier -- it's rumored to even improve your sex life. I can personally attest to the fact that it keeps you in touch with your sense of wonder and possibility -- something from which the political, spiritual, and academic leaders of our world could benefit enormously. I will expose the audience to the vast underground, and often unknown world of personal poetry/writing that thrives today on the internet -- how to access it, enjoy it, and be enriched by it... even how to participate in it if one wishes. In the final 3 minutes we will create a spontaneous public poem by having audience members at random, and spur of the moment supply phrases or sentences that will combine linearly, uncensored and unedited, to create a free verse public poem. Provocative, stimulating, challenging, elevating, introspective, and damned "hot" -- poetry can save the world, or at least make it a damned sight more interesting)!! Please come visit one or all of my poetry/writing and art blogs -- it might give you a sense just where this 15 minutes might lead... I am a writer, poet, artist, singer, song lyricist, and contemporary furniture designer. I have great fascination for free-verse poetry noir, and dabble occasionally in futuristic themes. You can see examples of my creations throughout my blogs. Coming to www.image-verse.com will link you to each of them. At 61 years of age, my heart is still full of wonder, as I grow younger everyday. I'm lucky to live an adventurous life. Went to three different colleges in the 1960's, furthering my education at the "university of the road" -- cross country on motorcycles, then in traveling R&B and Rock & Roll bands for quite a few years. I still sing. I was fortunate to have been one of the country's first home theater architects, having evolved from designing and installing custom residential audio systems in the mid 1970's. I was a member of George Lucas's Lucasfilm LTD, THX Division. What a great time! It was a blast having an office on Skywalker Ranch being surrounded by, and encountering daily, remarkably creative individuals. I now settle in the Pacific Northwest. I am thrilled to spend available time exploring this magnificent part of the world, while doing my best to be a loving husband and father. I am the moderator of an active international writing community blog called Writer's Island. We offer two writing prompts every week. It is somewhat demanding, but very satisfying. The address is my 'website' address is displayed above here. I also author 3 other poetry/writing blogs: 1.) Image & Verse (www.image-verse.com) 2.) Image & Verse Too (www.imageverse2.wordpress.com) 3.) Re•flect (www.winedarksea.wordpress.com) Pick one and come visit! Rob Kistner Founder and moderator of Writer's Island - international writers community blog 05/23/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://amysampleward.org/ 05/23/2008 32 The 'common good' is usually both a pretty nice gang of folks to hang out with and a terrific reason to do something. I have had the pleasure, and pain some days, to be part of a project for those working for the common good in and around Oregon to share information, data, ideas, and more all in the name of the common good. Enough with the repeating words. June 10 is the public launch of an open source tool for foundations, nonprofits, state agencies, and citizens to find and share information the aids the work everyone is doing to make the world better. We are super excited to get people involved in this new educational resource that Meyer Memorial Trust is providing to the community at no charge, and as an open source tool, to the world. Still, what is it though? connec+ipedia (if you go find it online now, don't be discouraged, as we get to see what is on the dev server and you don't until June 10th!) is built by WagN using Ruby on Rails to combine wiki and database functionality. It connects people, places and things to help users easily connect to information they need. It's pretty cool. I'll tell you all about it, in five minutes. A 'Woman Who Tech's in the NPTech world. Blogger, activist, biker, friend, lover, wife. Currently working for Meyer Memorial Trust and excited for June 10th. Amy Sample Ward 21 Meyer Memorial Trust 05/23/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/23/2008 31 I can't get over the number of conversations I have with people about trash and recycling. I'm not talking about the conversations I have with my colleagues, where talking trash <heh> is our job. For example, here are some of the questions I've gotten in the last few months: -"So... why *aren't* plastic bags allowed in our curbside bins?" -"Do the numbers on the bottom of water bottles indicate the amount of times you can reuse the bottle safely?" (no, they don't). -"Um, can I have some of your worms?" -"Dude, do you really jump in dumpsters for a living?" I would like to share answers to these questions, as well as some of the in's and out's of the garbage/recycling world of Portland, with the ignite community. Thank you for your time. Meredith Sorensen has a slightly freakish interest in trash. Composting bins make her squeal with delight. A well-sorted recycling bin set at the curb? Smiles all around. Since moving to Oregon in 2005, Meredith has embedded herself (sometimes by jumping in the dumpster) in the waste scene in Portland. Most often she can be found at PDX Airport, where she coordinates the waste minimization and recycling program for millions of passengers and thousands of employees. Meredith was recently granted a fellowship to look at waste management strategies of different countries around the world. Meredith Sorensen 22 Community Environmental Services, PSU 05/23/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/20/2008 30 Riding freight trains is a uniquely American but risky and underground activity with a long history, subculture and cadence all its own. Like anything worth doing in life, riding freight is fraught with potentially deadly risks, yet offers unbelieveablly vivid and exhilarating rewards. Railriders experience a degree of freedom and inner peace that has almost disappeared in today's society, and they routinely experience both urban and wilderness sights seldom seen by anyone else. Against a backdrop of beautiful photography, this presentation provides a short overview of how to safely and successfully ride freight trains. It takes both a strategic and tactical approach on how to play the game successfully: "reading" trains; avoiding capture by authorities; using technology to track and predict railroad operations in real time; carrying appropriate gear; strategies for getting on and off trains; successfully dealing with railroad personnel; dealing with other hobos and tramps; and how to travel far and fast at minimal cost. Gerry Van Zandt lives in Portland and has worked in the analyst relations, press relations, brand management, and marketing fields for nearly 20 years for a variety of companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Intel, SAP and IBM. He is an avid photographer and expert on anything Macintosh. Gerry also is a collector of and world-renowned expert on postwar Mercedes-Benz automobiles. Grinch (Gerry's hobo name, for his uncanny resemblance to said character) has ridden freight trains since his college days at OSU in Corvallis in the mid-1980s, and has traveled more than 50,000 rail miles to date. Gerry is married, has two school-age children, and lives in a historic home in the Irvington District. Gerry Van Zandt 13 05/20/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.easci.com/ 05/20/2008 29 "We are hybrids absorbed in hybrid literature," wrote Stevens in the 50's. What time travel device did Stevens have, that he foresaw the blogosphere within the signs and symbols of the burgeoning consumer economy? What other wisdom can Uncle Wallace provide to the young folks of today? And what's the deal with that blue guitar poem? J-P is a lawyer/poet who does legal stuff and fabricates awesome for Extreme Arts & Sciences. In his spare time he plays whatever game is to hand, reads or torments his six year old daughter. He makes a mean jambalaya. J-P Voillequé Extreme Arts and Sciences 05/20/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/20/2008 28 There is a legend in Japan if you fold 1,000 paper cranes - your wish will be granted. I started folding paper cranes for peace about a year ago and want to share the passion and grace of paper cranes. Also want to share the anti-war story of Sadako Sasaki and how she inspired people like me to fold cranes for peace. I love being part of different communities and bringing people together. I own a web design business designed to help small businesses. I am also a crafty girl for causes: I make cookies every week for p:ear, like to do random acts of kindness, and have knitted hats for cancer patients. Nedra Rezinas 05/20/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.sagecircle.com/ 05/19/2008 27 Many small companies believe that Industry Analyst Relations (AR) is only important for large vendors selling to Enterprise customers. They think it is a costly exercise that does not apply to them. This presentation will quickly show how buying patterns are influenced by firms like Gartner and Forrester and how a small company can gain recognition and recommendations by just wisely investing some time. Dave has been an end-user client of the analysts and managed Analyst Relations (AR) programs at multiple companies including Novell, Openwave, and HP. At SageCircle he has researched AR best practices and helped design the Architect analyst relationship management (ARM) software. He is a SageCircle co-founder and strategist as well as an ARchitect instructor. He has a BS, Masters, and MEd in Physics and has worked in various high tech companies for years. Dave 18 SageCircle. LLC 05/19/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://pdxstump.com/ 05/19/2008 26 The analysis of realtime data recorded in 2008 produces some interesting results in the area of an individual's trust relationships as expressed with the use of mobile devices. By interpreting the ambient signals produced by the opportunity of mobile networks one can asses the efficacy of the establishment of trust relationships. Compounding this issue is available bandwidth for enabling ambient analysis. A portion of the presentation will center around currently available bandwidth's impact on the scalability of mobile trust relationships in finite realms. While certain logistic and technological hurdles still exist in this problem space it behooves us to explore strategies of cooperative trust relationship building in order to provide a firmer grasp on each other's trust enablers and in the end to allow us to discover the value our networks can provide us in such a capacity. Thank you kindly for your consideration. http://bnf.net has most of the interesting stuff. But you should also look at my projects Maker Lab (with anselm, paige marlin and John) as well as pdxstump.com to see what's up with me. Oh, and I'm in the process of opening a gallery space at the Everett Station Lofts that will be somewhat devoted to interactive arts, so please contact me if that interests you at all. Benjamin Foote 17 pdxstump 05/19/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/17/2008 25 Anyone who has ever demonstrated software to an audience knows that it can be a terrifying, gratifying, frustrating and/or embarrassing experience. My presentation will introduce a few simple principles that I have used over the years that will help you create engaging demonstrations and deliver them with confidence. To do so, I will borrow concepts from narrative story structure, screen play writing techniques and public speaking fundamentals. Demonstrating software can be a really fun experience – both for the presenter as well as the audience. If you are like most technology start-ups today, you have invested a lot of your time, money, blood, sweat and tears. With a few simple principles from my presentation, you can make sure that hard work is shown in the best possible way and have fun doing it. Eric Lee has delivered great demos, bad demos and demos of products that don’t exist. While on stage, he has experienced applause, boos, heckling, computer crashes, malfunctioning keyboards and had the chance to deliver one really good joke about NASCAR. In 2008, after 8 years at Microsoft - where he built demos for executives like Steve Ballmer, Eric Rudder and S. Somasegar – Eric Lee founded wonderaffect. He likes to think of his fledgling company as the world’s first software special effects company. Much like how Hollywood movies use visual special effects to tell their story; wonderaffect uses special techniques to help companies tell engaging and convincing stories with their software. Eric Lee 16 05/17/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://grantkruger.com/ 05/15/2008 24 How to get a group of overworked consultants and freelancers to help run a BarCamp-style open-source tech event, with the following gains: - Grow and mobilize the community. - Grow the community's skill-sets. - Foster networking, friendships, knowledge-sharing, collaboration and volunteerism. And these requirements: - It takes a team effort, so first you need a team of volunteers, which is harder than it sounds. - Make it more organized than usual. - Make it more interesting, more fun and more useful than most tech conferences. - Learn from other all-volunteer-run events, no matter how geeky. - Organizers must also have fun and a sense of accomplishment, without having a nervous breakdown. - Sponsorship, or getting someone to prove there is such a thing as a free lunch (and dinner). - Get your head examined, I mean, you have to be nuts to do this! Those could be billable hours! Well, being a little nuts is all a part of being a Portlander. And free BarCamp-style events are so compatible with the wacky giving nature of Portland, and Oregon. I'll expand on this, and have fun doing it. I'm a South African now living in Portland, and loving it. I've been an IT professional for twenty years, having traded in my proprietary world for the open source world back in 2006-2007. Recently I was one of a team of volunteers who ran DrupalCampPDX 2008. I've helped run non-tech conferences before, but this put a whole new spin on things. Grant Kruger 14 MMT 05/15/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://jyte.com/profile/kfox.myvidoop.com 05/15/2008 23 A talk about how to use local free resources (Craigslist and eBay) to located and purchase a reliable mode of transportation for $1,000 or less. Specifically there are several key points: 1) The car has to be under $1,000 dont go over, you dont need to. Never leave a deposit. 2) Car must be ready to drive, no major broken parts, cant be towed, you dont want someone elses problem. 3) Dont buy from a dealer, go private party. Dealers are shady mmmkay 4) What cars to look for, Older Dodge/GMC/Chevy mini-vans, 4x4 Jimmy/Blazers, Mercedes Diesels, Hondas 5) What not to look for... older jags, gas engine merdedes, 6) Share my experiences with CL and cheap car buying... Thats about it, will expand more on these points if my talk is accepted. http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevindfox Basically a tech/business guy who likes the community aspect of product development. My main hobbies are cars and computers and the combo of the two Kevin Fox 11 Vidoop 05/15/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/14/2008 20 A brief guide to altruism. Various skills and actions will be touted among all levels of rapport with people you do and do not know. This is not meant to improve your happiness, instead it is intended for everybody else's. Poorly drawn graphs and charts to be included. A thinker and advocate of joy. Evan Dumas 05/14/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.gibberish.com/ 05/14/2008 19 What if you took Dungeons & Dragons, ripped out the wargaming at its heart, and replaced it with improv theater? Or silly party games, or just plain collaboration? For the last 10 years, a small but growing community of game designers and players has been exploring the potential of tabletop games to create real human stories, instead of (or in addition to!) ripping yarns about swords and orcs. This talk will highlight some of the unique, unjustly obscure game experiences available today, and shed light on what storytellers, fiction writers, and anyone who's ever gotten together with friends to watch a favorite TV show stand to gain from seizing the tools of the dungeon-dwellers. Mike is a longtime web developer, and publishes and co-edits OgreCave.com, a popular weblog and podcast about tabletop gaming, along with his brother Allan. He also has other interests; no, seriously, he does. He lives ten or so blocks from the Bagdad, with his girlfriend and their wandering monster. Mike Sugarbaker 12 05/14/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://djwong.org/ 05/14/2008 18 Have you ever wondered just how much energy your computer drinks out of the mains? Wanted to squeeze just a bit more life out of your laptop's battery? Or perhaps you're just stingy like I am and want to spend as little money to run the computer as is possible? If so, this talk is for you. I will present some simple tricks that one can use inside Linux to reduce the amount of energy that a computer consumes-- moving tasks onto a single core, decreasing the amount of disk I/O, etc. I will also demonstrates some techniques to monitor the energy consumption patterns of a computer. Darrick is a software engineer in the Linux Technology Center at IBM in Beaverton, Oregon. Currently, he is working with the server designers and the performance analysis teams to create tools to monitor and control energy consumption in Linux, and to analyze the power use of various software workloads. In the past, he has worked on a diverse array of subject areas such as Serial Attached SCSI Drivers, environmental sensor controls, and automated deployment and testing software. Darrick Wong 10 05/14/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.fundinguniverse.com/ 05/14/2008 17 PowerPoint. It doesn't seem like a menacing word, yet on a daily basis, every one of us is under constant risk of LOSING VALUABLE BRAIN CELLS because of the lame, boring, meaningless PowerPoint presentations notably disrupting our professional lives. Let's face it: if PowerPoint is the fabric of our professional lives, frankly, we are ALL wearing unflattering spandex unitards. *Shudder* Yeah-- that's awkward. Something has to change. So let's raise the bar. Let's learn together about secret hacks and tips to use PowerPoint as it was always meant to be used: "To communicate and reinforce meaningful statements about things that actually matter." Then we can take that knowledge and empower our co-workers, employees, and everyone we meet everywhere, to STOP killing off brain cells at company meetings. The mass genocide of brain cells by PowerPoint is unacceptable, and must end on June 18th. We *can* make a difference. Carolynn Duncan has seen, heard, and created way too many PowerPoint presentations in her work with entrepreneurs raising capital. In fact, she herself has been guilty of creating a boring PowerPoint presentation on more than one occasion, but thankfully, that's all in the past now. Now she has a mission: to stop the city of Portland-- and thus, the world-- from continuing the genocide of brain cells by mind-rotting, meaningless, ineffective, boring, rambling (you get the point!) PowerPoint presentations. Carolynn Duncan FundingUniverse 05/14/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.feedia.net/ 05/13/2008 16 I will dig into how the UI as we know is about to change forever. With the mass market release of new camera’s that can see in 3D. In other words imagine a web camera that can see depth without all those little white dots. Now this may not seem like such revolutionary news but just listen to some of the things this allows. * Control applications using hand gesture * Control games using any intuitive body gesture * Combine personal 3D image in the game scene * Playing sports games and actually be engaged in physical exercise * Using hands gestures in order to cast a spell, fire a fireball, pick up objects or any other gaming activity previously required a pointing device such as a mouse * Participate in fighting games by actually kicking and punching your opponents with your hands and legs * Get into shape: an aerobics virtual trainer can monitor your actual pace and analyze the way you perform exercises in order to deliver a truly interactive and effective training experience * A virtual golf trainer can actually analyze your swings and interactively provide improvement instructions and advices * Conference from home, but look as if you are in the office or at the beach * Locate your presentation slides behind you, so that you can point at a graph etc. * Immerse yourself in video clips, films or games * Replace mouse and keyboard * Control home appliances using hand gestures * Real-time face tracking * Tracked person separation from background * Face detection independent of light conditions and face direction * Triggering safe deployment of airbags * Driver fatigue detection * Warning drivers about potential collisions * 3D vision for robots * 3D vision for the blind and in-body operations Are you having Minority Report flashbacks yet? It’s time to get PDX in the know and Ignite the mental energy of this amazing community creating the new stories, software, solutions and possibilities of this coming shift in how we interact with our machines and each other. My Name is John Anthony Hartman and I am the President of a company called Feedia . I was very fortunate to have had family that owned a computer store in 1981 this kindled the spark that now burns throughout my life. From desktop to server and all the topology in-between I have worked the full spectrum of the Information Technology. I have been working with connected networks since before the web existed. 300 baud modems and the like back when BBS was the WWW of its time. Inspired by Rheingold and Lanier I had a stint as a Virtual Reality consultant back in the mid 90's. This was an unbelievable time and some of the technologies I saw back then still have yet to come to maturity, if you really want to understand this space watch what DARPA, NASA or what the Military is doing. The world was not ready for VR on the consumer end and I moved into my other passion at the time this little thing that Tim was working on called the World Wide Web. I worked with Intel early on beta testing some of the very first "web" servers and developed what I have to guess were some of the very first Intranets. I ran a consulting firm prior to the dot bomb and then took an offer I could not refuse from one of my clients that I was doing Y2K consulting for. I then went on to become the Sr. Network Engineer for an international company with 30 subsidiaries where I modernized that network. I was responsible for entire corporate network including LAN, WAN, and Internet presence. I researched, proposed, and implemented new technologies as well as maintaining legacy systems. I worked with government agencies and major corporations on a litany of projects in the IT space and one day decided it was time for a change. I left and went to work on a project that is trying to change the world by creating the Digital Universe. Based in part on Carl Sagan's borrowed idea from the writings of Isaac Asimov that someday there may exist an Encyclopedia Galactica. "The Digital Universe aims to be the definitive repository of human knowledge online." I ended up as the Technology Evangelist for the Digital Universe Foundation (DUF) where I worked with major scientific organizations and universities to create next generation vetted internet content. Developing Semantic web strategies and helping to evolve the Digital Universe from a customized Mozilla browser hooked to a PostgreSQL DB to a browser independent platform using Dojo Ajax framework and a customized Media Wiki implementation called the Encyclopedia of Earth. This was an amazing project to work with but the itch of entrepreneurialism in me needed to be scratched and thus I stepped back from the DUF and started my own company around social media and this new web 2.0 space. I also wanted to jump into the metaverse space and extend my experience from projects like creating a prototype for 3D data visualization of information about the Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster in 2004 and present that data overlaid onto a globe in web browser. Looking at platforms like Second Life, Google Earth and others to start developing what some are referring to as web 3.0. John Anthony Hartman 7 05/13/2008 3 09/27/2008 http://www.cafemama.com/ 05/13/2008 15 hungry? aren't we all? americans are starving, and it's certainly not for the lack of food. no, it's for the lack of knowledge, simplicity, and love in our food. we're at once the most overweight and nutrition-deprived people, ever, and i'm not the only one who's narrowed down the cause to our habit of letting others (most especially corporations, who *may* not have our best interests at heart) feed us. take back your dinner! and your breakfast, and your lunch, your midnight snacks, your rhubarb fool and your bagel, chevre and black forest ham sandwich. take back your asparagus and green garlic frittata, your artichoke gratin, your watercress and bacon salad, your oatmeal bread with butter and honey. take it back, discover taste again, regain your connection with what you put in your body. it's not as hard as you think. and it just might make you cry, laugh, dance, fall in love. cook your food. sarah is a woman cursed with many passions, ranging from the highly geeky (she has a thing for spreadsheets) to the downright zany (keeping chickens of course!). she doesn't like to drive, instead biking and busing around portland, often with her three very dirty but nonetheless adorable little boys in tow. she prefers shopping for greens and cheeses at the farmer's market to a trip to costco. she blogs for a living, but if you were to see her around town, she'd likely be taking pictures of left-behind starbucks cups or knitting a hat or drinking stumptown's latest fancy bean. if it's late at night, chances are she's futzing around on twitter or writing something entirely too revealing. sarah gilbert 6 locavore, chicken keeper, and mama of boys 05/13/2008 3 09/27/2008 05/13/2008 14 Once upon a time, in the midst of war, I went to Afghanistan with one hundred dollars to my name, a one-way airplane ticket and no promise of a job. Even though it seemed insane and frightening, I went because of my belief in the human spirit and that ALL will work out. I will briefly share this and similar experiences to show that anyone (even little hippie chics like me) can overcome ALL obstacles. My presentation will be a challenge to go where one has always dreamed of going, but put off because of fear or doubt. Liz Kimmerly's activism started at the age of 15 when she helped to organize Maine communities to stand up to corporate polluters by filing a class action lawsuit. Over the years, she has taught in the Nepalese school system, designed the Internet structure for Afghanistan's first free and fair elections, worked with the United Nations to help facilitate parliamentary elections in East Timor, and organized powerful actions such as CODEPINK's Walk in their Shoes, an art installation that displayed on the Washington National Mall to memorialize Iraqis who lost their lives to the war. When she's not designing websites, Liz likes to document social movements and Buddhist history with her blogging, photography and film making skills. Liz Kimmerly 05/13/2008