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Slide 1: www.osscube.com Social Sandbox Kinshuk Sunil Community Manager, OSSCube kinshuk@osscube.com An Ignite Talk presented at Delhi March 2009
Slide 2: www.osscube.com Agenda What is Social Sandbox Why Social Sandbox Relevance?
Slide 3: www.osscube.com What is Social Sandbox ? A concept I am working at A term coined by me
Slide 4: www.osscube.com What is Social Sandbox ? Perhaps the ideal format for unconferences
Slide 5: www.osscube.com Social ? Group of people Interactions between people Common Interests, Passions
Slide 6: www.osscube.com Sandbox ? An open environment for experimentation and play-testing Open access to all participants
Slide 7: www.osscube.com Social Sandbox A Sandbox of people Promoting interactions and knowledge-sharing discussions Usually takes place over a cup of coffee/cigarette/beer
Slide 8: www.osscube.com example I can play all Commercial games! Ever tried Making Sites IE compliant? MS? #fail Which antiVirus to use?
Slide 9: www.osscube.com example Content Management Framework! Taxonomy ftw! Drupal!!! Geez! Why did I go for Joomla
Slide 10: www.osscube.com example I can make useful contribution! Linux! FOSS #ftw Collaborative Development
Slide 11: www.osscube.com Scope ? MS? #fail Drupal!!! FOSS #ftw How an Unconference should be
Slide 12: www.osscube.com Relevance ? Linear “Talks”? #fail Interactive “Talks”? #help Social Sandbox? #ftw
Slide 13: www.osscube.com Why Social Sandbox ? Sessions oriented unconferences defeat the purpose of unconferences The “real” “un”conference
Slide 14: www.osscube.com What does it need ? > Small group of people >> People know a language >>> People have brain >>> Coffee/Cigarette/Beer
Slide 15: www.osscube.com Challenges ? Easy to get distracted Difficult to document ideas and maintain records Difficult to quantify outcomes (idea is still under processing and needs to be worked and tested)
Slide 16: www.osscube.com More ? kinshuk at osscamp dot in http://kinshuksunil.com/blog/tag/social-sandbox
Slide 17: www.osscube.com This was an Ignite Talk An Ignite talks is one where: slides automatically change after 15 seconds the speaker can only use a maximum of 20 slides So 5 minutes to say everything you have to say http://ignite.oreilly.com
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