Tech Presentations

I’ve added one more useful feed, the one I’d be using most often (if I wasn’t the one who updates it mostly) - feed of conferences that posted a page with presentation materials (slides/videos/transcripts and etc).

If you’ll find a good presentations, you’re more then welcome to post it.

I’m working on adding more feeds to the site (thanks to Semantic MediaWiki automation).

First two are, the most helpful ones:

• Upcoming conferences
• Open calls for papers

I hope to add them for each topic, but it’ll take some URL rewriting and performance optimization magic which takes longer.

Enjoy!

I forgot to mention that I also added Call for papers functionality. If you post future conference, please include call for papers information.

This will help those of us who wants to talk at the conference / event - list of conferences with open CFP is available on Conferences page.

I’ve made some significant improvements to the wiki:

First of all, I added Semantic Forms extension and created data entry forms for:

• Presentations
• conferences
• conference series

and I’m going to add more forms (e.g. for entering people, companies, topics and etc.).

Note that if you use “Add conference” form on Conference Series page, new page gets pre-populated with last conference available to allow quick editing (it might be confusing though unless you enter many conferences as I do). Also, notice that some fields, e.g. conference names and so on, have pre-population based on available pages.

A lot of thanks to Yaron Koren, developer of Semantic Forms, for listening to my wishes and implementing many of them.

Also I wrote SlideShare.net widget and added this as a form field so please if you find a slides for the talk on SlideShare, add them as well. You can see how it works on OpenID Bottcamp tutorial by David Recordon and Simon Willison.

I added inline Google Video widget and flv player some time ago, but never had time to announce it.

I hope all these improvements will help you help me in populating the site ;)

Some stats: 81 presentations, 142 conferences (including historical ones, e.g. DEFCON 1 from 1993), 36 people pages, 15 companies.