A une semaine de notre événement Ignite Strasbourg, je voulais faire un point sur l'organisation de l'événement...

Nous avons plus de 10 sessions confirmées (et j'ai encore des demandes)... Et je ne dis pas encore non, mais il va falloir se dépécher!

Au fur et à mesure que la semaine se déroule, nous allons lancer quelques indiscrétions et news et surprises, so stay tuned to this blog...

Frédéric Mossmann va filmer notre soirée et nous pourrons garder une trace de cette soirée (formidable en devenir).

Un grand merci à nos sponsors: GreenIvory (http://www.greenivory.fr), ADIRA (http://www.adira.com) et même (et surtout) à un généreux donateur anonyme qui nous a permis d'acheter un micro sans fil pour avoir une super qualité sonore...

Petit rappel:

Ignite Strasbourg
26 novembre 2009 (Thanksgiving)
à partir de 18h
à La Salamandre
3 Rue Paul Janet, 67000 Strasbourg, France

http://bit.ly/3R4dQL

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Cheese was a happy accident. It was discovered when animal milk was exposed to bacteria. It has since been elevated to a tasty artform. Dale Dougherty, the founder of Make Magazine, has reclaimed this art from corporations and makes his own cheese.

This was filmed at Ignite Sebastopol. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

It feels like we've been planning it for months (well, I guess we have) and it's nice to know that the day is finally here. Ignite London is happening tonight at Ginglik. Doors open at 7 pm and talks will begin sometime between 7:45 and 8 pm. Admission is free.

A last word of thanks to our sponsors: presenting sponsor Box UK, venue sponsor Ginglik (especially Colin for all his help) and non-monetary promotional sponsors the BBC and O'Reilly. Most important, thanks to all of tonight's speakers who have donated their time, energy and creativity to creating an interesting and eclectic range of talks.

Both Dan and I have really enjoyed putting together this event. If you are at Ignite tonight, please come up and say hello. For more on Dan, visit his Twitter or his website. You can also find me (Amy) on Twitter or on my blog. We also both write for The Januarist.

Hope to see many of you tonight! Stay tuned in the next few weeks to videos and pictures from Ignite London.

Registration is now open for the first ever Ignite Bay Area on December 8th, when some of the Bay Area's most notable female thinkers will come together to explore innovation across communications, entrepreneurship, programming, and development.

Featuring 12 presentations from leaders, founders and activists, this Ignite will create an opportunity for local leaders and individuals to share their experiences, knowledge and the things that make them tick. The auditorium and gallery at Berkeley's David Brower Center (2150 Allston Way) should be a beautiful space for networking and creative motivation.

Our charity partner for the night is Hannah's Socks, a non-profit focused on providing clothing necessities to shelters for the homeless and survivors of domestic violence. Donations of new socks will benefit adults and children in the Bay Area as the weather cools this winter.

Thanks to media partners DivineCaroline, Women 2.0 and Social Media Club. The team behind the event includes Jennifer Lindsay, Janetti Chon, Carmel Hagen, and Emily Goligoski. Thanks are also in order to Jen Pahlka, who we look forward to seeing on stage in December.

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O'Reilly Media's Founder and CEO Tim O'Reilly has used language to shape the software industry's thinking several times. In the 1990's he helped create and define the term Open Source (o help de-stigmatize "free software"). In this century he defined the term Web 2.0. By finding and evangelizing a meaningful name, Tim boosted the development and adoption of these world-changing technologies.

Tim had been exposed to the idea of using language as a map in the 1970's through a man named George Simon. As Tim wrote in his 2002 essay Science and Consensus:

At about the same time, I studied with a man named George Simon, who was trying to build what he called "languages for consciousness," believing, like Benjamin Whorf (author of Language, Thought and Reality), that our language limits our ability to perceive, and that until we have languages for certain states of consciousness and perception, we won't be able to use them. He saw his work as an extension of general semantics, a system developed in the 30's by Alfred Korzybski, author of Science and Sanity. Korzybski's famous statement, "the map is not the territory" is more than an observation; it's a tool for living more perceptively. A lot of my friend George's work was in training people to open up the ladder of perception, to recognize the difference between what you are experiencing directly vs. through various levels of abstraction, to let go preconceived notions and let the world come in fresh.

George also argued that as human consciousness evolves, certain things that were once on the frontiers of awareness, and that were experienced with near-mystical force, become commonplaces as they are routinely abstracted into language. In my classics honors thesis at Harvard, I used this premise to assess certain of Plato's dialogues, arguing that the mystical overtones with which Socrates describes concepts like justice and truth were the result of the newness of his ideas. As we "rehearse" these now familiar ideas thousands of years later, we don't get that same rush. Most of us receive them at a level of abstraction, fitting them into our accepted system of facts, rather than taking them in through the entire ABCD perceptual cycle.

Tim expands on these beginnings in his Wired Profile, The Trend Spotter. This talk was filmed at Ignite Sebastopol. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

We at IgniteBA clearly rock and roll. People at Endeavor Argentina noticed how cool we are, and asked us to close the amazing "Entrepreneur Day" they are organizing together with the City Gov. of Buenos Aires.

We are thrilled!!! In this very special occasion, we will feature two of our favourite speakers from each IgniteBA show, plus a bunch of super sizzling stars added for flavour and zing, including geek hottie Santi Siri.

This awesome, sexy show will sure blow your mind.

It's free! Sign up here!

When and where:
20th Nov @ UADE, Lima 717
Entrepreneur day starts at 8.45 am, IgniteBA VIP starts at 18hs.

Sign up now!!!

BTW, they have promised us free ice-cream, free coffee, free celebrities. We have promised free DJ Laura Seh :D

Yup, just click, and sign up! Easy as chocolate, and a lot richer!

On December 8th, the Bay Area's most notable female thinkers will come together to explore innovation across communications, entrepreneurship, programming, and development.

Featuring twelve five-minute presentations from leaders, founders and activists, the first ever Ignite Bay Area | Women will demonstrate the power and promise of females in the spotlight, empowering attendees to explore their own creative potential (and it will help support a charity, too!).

Tickets | $5

We are really pleased to announce our 20 confirmed speakers for Ignite London, which is happening on Wednesday, November 18th at Ginglik in Shepherd's Bush. Doors open at 7 pm and talks will begin between 7:30 and 8 pm. Admission is free but we recommend people arrive early to avoid disappointment. For more information, please visit http://ignitelondon.net

Ignite London Speakers (in no particular order)

• Ben Hammersley, The Sex Lives of the Great Renaissance Masters: How the Old Masters and their Mistresses Changed Art


• Matthew Baker, Diarrhea & Dodgy Doners: What's Special About Bacteria


• Nicky Smyth, Analogue World Design Patterns: A Look at User Behaviour


• Christian Howes, Tomorrow World - The Truth


• Craig Smith, The Upsides and Downsides of Standards (web, language and otherwise)


• Katy Lindemann, What We Can All Learn from Children


• Gerard Darby, Sideways Thinking


• Sofia Pires, Creativity slash Autism


• Matt Edgar, 1794 - So Much to Answer For


• Mandy Saven, Ideas We'd Like to See More Of


• Allan Smith, Design + Business - A Real Life Partnership


• Dafydd Rees, Guerrilla Software design - How to Make the Most of the Power of Small, Creative Software Teams


• Jimmy Greer, Rediscovery: Brazil and the 21st Century


• Ashley Benigno, error(e) 404: Italy as a Country Not Found


• Matt Clarke, Human Energy


• Jennie Albone, Things that Might Not Work Out


• Alby Reid, Operation Paul Bunyan


• Melissa McVeigh, Why Photography Defines Our World


• J.K Tina Basi, Surfing the Net as a Path to Enlightenment


• Chris Thorpe, Perils, Wonders and Learning to "be" in a Networked World

Ignite London is grateful for the support of Box UK, creators of the Amaxus Web CMS and our presenting sponsor. A big thanks also to Ginglik, our venue sponsor and our two non-monetary promotional sponsors the BBC and O'Reilly UK.

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The U.S. Senate's legislation is the result of ever-shifting alliances. Using data from Govtrack you can get every Senator since John Adams. You also get their roll call votes. By summing the amount of times Senators voted together and dividing it by the number of sessions in a given year, Andrew Odewahn was able to calculate Senatorial affinities. He then plugged the affinities into GraphViz to visualize each year's social network.

These graphs reveal a lot about the state of bipartisanship at the time. For example in 1991 there was some cross-party voting. However, by the time 1994 rolled around with the "Republican Revolution" there was almost no cross-party voting. During the Clinton impeachment, the Democrats show a distinct rift, while the Republicans are solid (with the notable exceptions of future party-switchers Jeffords and Specter). This excellent talk reveals some of the secrets hidden in public data.

Andrew Odewahn works for O'Reilly in Cambridge. You can read more about his Senate graph research on our Broadcast blog. This talk was filmed at Ignite Boston. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Ignite Ann Arbor will be Nov 6th at 7pm (This Friday!) at Blau Auditorium at the Ross school of business. We're really excited about our program:

Bilal Ghalib: Hacker Spaces and PBLE's - American Re-education and the Importance of Making Things
Mary Lemmer: I scream for Gelato
Patti Smith: The Braille Embossinator: Technology for the Visually Impaired and Disabled
Aaron Worsham: Why Geeks Love Wood
Devon Persing: Ambient Librarianship, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Job
Linda Diane Feldt: There is a free lunch - and twitter helps to find it.
Carl Wright: How to spin a rope
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Jack Zaientz: The Silver Age of American Jewish Music is Happening Now! And Why We're Missing It.
Garrett Scott: Rosicrucian Barber-Orators, Humanist Doodles, and a Bible Dictionary amid the Cherokee.
Brenda E. Bentley: These Buns are Made for Walking
Bill Van Loo: Are our kids technologically literate?
Peggy Daub: What was Galileo thinking about 400 years ago today?
Aaron Santos: How Many Licks Does It Take?
Angela Kujava: The Uprising Behind the Robot Store or, Why One-On-One Attention is Crucial for our Students.
David Bloom: Why Sex Is Great

Estamos buscando participantes para el primer Ignite Madrid. ¿Hay algo importante que quieres decirle al público de Ignite en 5 minutos?. Para comunicar tu mensaje tendrás 20 diapositivas y 15 segundos por cada una de ellas. Las diapositivas van cambiando automáticamente, así que tendrás que presentar al ritmo de las diapositivas.

Recuerda que los eventos de Ignite no son para promocionarse a uno mismo. Estamos interesados en charlas que se hagan con pasión e interés, y no por vender. No hay restricciones respecto a los temas de los que puedes hablar, desde Tecnologías de la Información hasta Arte, estamos interesados en todos los tópicos de discusión. Por ejemplo,puedes hablarnos de cómo encontrarle el punto perfecto de cocción al arroz en la paella, hechos históricos curiosos, la iluminación que puede alcanzar un objeto metálico, o como construir un avión de papel.

Nos encantaría oír sobre cualquier tema que te apasione.

Como presentar una propuesta:

Mándanos un e-mail con tu propuesta a ignitemadrid@gmail.com, incluyendo la siguiente información:

- Tu nombre.
- Titulo de tu charla.
- Resúmen descriptivo.
- Nombre en Twitter (Si tienes una cuenta.)
- Dirección de e-mail.
- URL de tu Blog Web-site .
- Una biografía breve ( explicándonos a que te dedicas.)

Una vez presentas una propuesta, nos autorizas a poder utilizar en la promoción de Ignite Madrid tu nombre y título de charla.

Fecha límite de inscripción:

Las propuestas deben ser recibidas antes del 16 de Noviembre. Esperamos contar con unos 20 participantes, pero todo depende de vuestras respuestas. Esperamos recibir muchas solicitudes, a las que contestaramos en 24horas haciendo acuso de recibo.

¿Cuáles son los requisitos para la selección?

Las Charlas serán priorizadas en relación a la originalidad y creatividad del contenido. Ofreceremos una gran variedad de temas para que así las sesiones se hagan más dinámicas y cubramos un espectro más amplio de tópicos.

Puedes mandarnos varias propuestas pero recuerda que nosotros nos reservamos el derecho de seleccionar la que será presentada.

El 20 de Noviembre haremos pública la agenda del primer Ignite Madrid.

Aviso para los participantes:

Cuanto antes nos envíes tu propuesta, más posibilidades tendrás de poder participar.

Para más información, visítanos en http://ignite.oreilly.com/2009/10/post-4.html. También puedes seguirnos en Twitter o Facebook.

http://twitter.com/IGNITE_MADRID

Ignite Sebastopol 2 went off without a hitch! We had 11 presentations and a great turn-out. We started things off with a bang and got about half of the attendees involved a fast-paced rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock tournament. Haven't heard of that variation? See http://bit.ly/rpsls for more details.

Interested in what our presenters spoke about? We had everything from the science of good luck to kayak racing and how to play the didgeridoo. You can see videos of each of the presentations here: http://www.youtube.com/user/IgniteSebastopol. Enjoy, and we hope to see you next time!

Mark your calendars for 1.14.2010! Ignite is coming to Oklahoma City. Additional details coming soon.

Follow us @IgniteOKC and igniteokc.com.

See you there!

Developer Ignite is an information exchange event for software developers to connect and share topics that are of interest to them. Since this is a technical event, topics will be centered on relevant and important information to software developers.

Already know the drill? RSVP to the event on Facebook or on Eventful!

El primer Ignite Madrid será el día 3/12/2009 @ 20:30

Ignite empezó en Seattle en 2006, gracias a Brady Forrest de O´Reilly Radar y Bre Pettis de Make. Desde entonces cientos de charlas de cinco minutos han sucedido alrededor del mundo. Además de Seattle, hay prósperas comunidades en Portland, Sydney, NYC y muchos más

La idea es simple: Lo presentadores tienen que seguir estrictamente un formato de 20 diapositivas, cada una de ellas cambiará automáticamente cada 15 segundos, asegurándose que cada presentación dure 5 minutos exactos. El formato fuerza a cada presentador a pensar largo y duro durante cada diapositiva.

Los temas de las presentaciones son diversos, desde tecnología, viajes, hobbies y pasiones personales y arte. La única regla es que el presentador no puede promocionar su propio negocio.

Si tu estas interesado en ser presentador, estar involucrado o recibir las fechas de cada evento por e-mail, contactar con ignitemadrid [at] gmail [dot] com

También puedes seguirnos en Twitter

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