Call for Summer of Code topics
We’re starting to organise the Summer of Code seminar series, and we’re looking for speakers to talk to our students.
We’re looking for speakers and topics to help create a kick ass seminar series. We have 15 seminars that run over the summer (Nov 07 – Feb 08) and we’re looking for any topics that you can benefit the next generation of ICT graduates. All the seminars are based in Wellington, but they’ll be video’d and put up on youtube.
We’re looking at three different categories: Inspirational People, Technology ideas & concepts and new thinking.
If you think that you or your company have a speaker or topic that you think will be a hit with the Summer of Code students then let us know.
Here’s the list of speakers from last year’s programme to give you a taste of what we’re looking for:
- Michael Koziarski – Ruby on Rails Workshop
- Milton Ngan (CTO – Weta) on Distributed computing
- Rowan Simpson (Trade Me) on developing high level web systems
- Mark Robotham (CHQ) on NZ start-ups and what incubators can provide
- Nat Torkington (O’Reilly) on US start-up culture.
- Paul Gould (Trade Me) on Database systems.
- Tomek Piatek (ProjectX) on code management practices.
- Rod Drury (Aftermail) on Entrepreneurship in NZ.
- Hayden Vink (Hansel) on Interactive Design.
- Stephen Cheng (Innaworks) on Mobile phone development
- Chris Di Bona (Google) Opensource and life at Google
- Mark Robotham (Creative HQ) Entreneurship and Incubators
- John Clegg (ProjectX) on how to improve your resume.