SXSWi 2009: Panel Proposals | Comments (2)

Posted in Events on 12th August 2008, 12:05 am by Stuart

Following SXSW 2008 it’s been good to see that the organisers have really picked up on the fact that this year’s SXSW was lacking more technical panels and presentations and they’re really looking to address that this year by encouraging more technical proposals.

This year I’ve put forward two panel ideas for SXSWi which are along the lines of the kind of panels I’d like to see at SXSWi 2009. Both are going to be reasonably technical and will certainly aim to provide plenty of practical information along the way.

Practical Website Performance

The first is a panel on practical performance techniques featuring Stoyan Stefanov and Nicole Sullivan of Yahoo!’s Exceptional performance team alongside Ed Eliot and myself. In this panel we’d like to talk about all aspects of the practical things that can be applied to any site to improve the front-end performance.

To vote for this panel please visit “Practical Website Performance”

Decentralize Yourself: Why Distributed Version Control Rocks

The second panel idea is about Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) e.g: Bazaar, git, mercurial etc. This session aims to look at what DVCS is, why it’s cool, and how DVCS can make your software much better by not getting in the way of how you want to work. In this panel we also plan to look at DVCS’s role in lowering the barriers to contribution from 3rd parties which is particularly useful for open-source development. This panel will be featuring Gareth Rushgrove and myself with other panellists TBC.

To vote for this panel head over to “Decentralize Yourself: Why Distributed Version Control Rocks“.

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