Teknoids

At the unsession at the end of this year's conference, several folks talked about a "deep tech" track (for lack of a better name). The consensus seemed to be (correct me if I've got this wrong) that we wanted a track that emphasized "hands-on" howto tech....like the old installfest only broader. The idea would be to actually demonstrate your topic during the presentation. Some ideas put forth were:

• Build an ajaxish/web 2.0 app
• In-depth stylesheets (CSS, XSLT)
• Put up a Drupal site
• Virtualization (vmware)
• Using regular expressions
• Talking to mysql/postgresql from php/perl/python/etc.
• . . . and others I missed.

The key seemed to be that folks wanted to see people doing things, not just talking about doing things.