thanks to my feedreader, I saw mention of SXSW from both Juicy Studio and Garrett Dimon’s feeds. It got me thinking about all the folks I met in Austin back at Access U, and how they talked up the creative and technical magic that is South by SouthWest Interactive. I hadn’t even had time to check out the site and all the possible panelists, however, when I received an internal email at work. Two of my coworkers are aso proposing panels for submission!
Mark A. Scholl, our resident search guru (who I’ve mentioned before in my thinking about SEO versus Accessibility) is looking to present Am I A Geek
Kris Schultz, Application Architect and resident Flash/Flex Fanatic is inviting the worthy to a Hackfight.
The hackfight one is really interesting: I am actually involved in my first ever Hackfight right now. From our company newsletter in July 2006: “Built without the constraints of client requirements, this internal team competition forces us to think quickly, to embrace theory as well as concept, and to draw meaningful and insightful conclusions—all in under 40 hours. The results tell us what we need to know in order to impact speed-to-market decision-making and to ultimately frame how we innovate and how we approach client work.”
Naturally, I knew I had to go check out the prospective panelists, and was shocked and amazed to find there were over 700.. I registered and sifted through them — and found that there were far too many fascinating topics to even pick. As I waded through them I felt that I really need to try to get out there. Especially if Mark and Kris get out there, but even if not..
Hi Andrea - from Austin
Knowbility had a press conference 8/29 launching the 10th anniversary AIR-Austin event (http://knowbility.org/AIR). Last year’s Honorary Chair, Hugh Forest, runs SXSW Interactive. He was there to introduce the new chair. I mentioned a Panel, and he just gasped. The number of submissions has doubled each year; there were 350 last year - 700 this year. They will select about 70. The Panel Picker (http://panelpicker.sxsw.com) is impossible - for everybody. Hugh said they are going to have to find a new way to handle (and filter) the panels. Ah success!