Ignite Where Talks

• Building Personalized Slices of the GeoWeb
  Andrew Turner (Mapufacture Inc.)
  User-generated geospatial content has become plentiful as the tools of the GeoStack have become nearly ubiquitous. We're becoming awash in masses of geospatial data and the next question will be how to manage it. This presentation will discuss solutions that have been developed to enable users to find personalized interesting localized content from the GeoWeb.
• Health In the Real World
  Steven Hammond (PatientsLikeMe)
  By opening a geospatial window on patient-entered medical information, PatientsLikeMe is changing the way patients and researchers look at diseases and treatments in long-term illnesses like ALS, MS, and HIV.
• Who Is in Your Neighborhood? Defining Neighborhood Boundaries & Identifying Localized
  Bernt Wahl (U.C. Berkeley)
  As Internet search and mobile mapping become more granular, location-based services based on neighborhood data can now tailor to communities’ needs and demographics more effectively.

Launch Pad Talks

• Focation.com: Info at Their Location
  Nguyen Le (Focation.com)
  Focation.com is a map project based on Google map in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City. In the next two months they will have "crowd source mapping" available for aread that lack GIS data, including Ho Chi Minh city.
• GeoFi: Global Positioning for WiFi-enabled Devices
  John Barrus (Ricoh Innovations, Inc.)
  GeoFi, a new approach to geo-positioning based on WiFi networks, will be presented. This low-power, low-cost solution requires no new hardware and works on most laptops. It is effective indoors and can be used for a variety of location-based services, from resource discovery to tracking. Attendees will learn how to set up a GeoFi network and can even try it out on their own machines.
• How to Make a Geographic Wiki
  Frank San Miguel (Concharto)
  Wikipedia has transformed how people think about collaboration and challenged long-standing traditions about creation and distribution of knowledge. Yet the wiki form has hardly changed in the past 10 years. The next logical step is to enable Wikipedia-style mass collaboration on a map. This presentation discusses the necessary components to make it happen.
• Introducing Whrrl: Real-Time Personalization for the Real World
  Blake Scholl (Pelago, Inc. )
  "Whrrl":https://www.whrrl.com – new for Web and mobile -organizes information about where people go, uncovering interesting places and events.
• Ipoki: a GPS-based Social Network
  Diego Fernández Domínguez (Ipoki), Alberto Andres (Ipoki)
  Ipoki.com is a GPS-based social network that allows people to share geolocation data using a small application installed in their mobile devices. Ipoki integrates this data with other social web sites like Facebook, Flickr, Netvibes, or IGoogle. Open Social and Android are the future integrations for Ipoki. Social networks, mobile devices, and geodata are joined in this project.
• On the Shoulders of Giants: Bridging the Divide Between Science and Advocacy
  Josh Knauer (Rhiza Labs)
  While they might share common goals, creating easy to use GIS applications that satisfy the needs of sophisticated data producers and motivated (but less skilled) data consumers is no easy task. Issues of trust, data provenance, statistical accuracy, and usability are all challenges that cause collaborative GIS systems for experts and novices to fail.
• Open Space – Ordnance Survey on the web
  Steve Coast (OpenStreetMap), Ian Holt (Ordnance Survey)
  
• Ordnance Survey – Britain’s National Mapping Agency – has launched OpenSpace, a mapping API pushing OS’s unique cartography in to the hands of geohackers everywhere. Based on OpenLayers and the Ordnance Survey’s hundreds of years experience in top-rate data collection and maps, OpenSpace is perhaps the best API for use in the UK.
• The Future of Location-Based Gaming
  Georg Broxtermann (Orbster GmbH), Jörn Rehse (Orbster GmbH)
  The presentation shows how easy it will be to upload and play a LB Game and how item purchasing works.
• The REST is Up to You: A Deeper GeoStack for Better Apps
  Jaron Waldman (Placebase)
  The free mapping platforms have evolved in relation to a simple set of consumer requirements like getting driving directions, finding coffee shops, and viewing aerials.
• TurfTag Launch
  Zachary Holmquist (TurfTag)
  TurfTag is a Social Utility to assist its users in rediscovering the world around them. TurfTag will connect users to their friends in real space, allow location based searching, connect users to events happening around them, and also give a new look at the objects and locations that surround us. TurfTag is about seeing what you are missing . . .
• Why Trust Top-Down Data? Building Services on Better Maps.
  Nick Black (Cloud Made)
  Cloud Made provides products and services on top of OpenStreetMap.

The third Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, May 29, from 6 to 10pm at Tommy Doyle's in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. This time, we're using two floors at Tommy Doyle's, so the acoustics will be better than our first event there. From 6-6:45 pm, mingle and talk tech with your fellow FOOs, alpha geeks, and techies from the greater Boston area. After the mingling and social stuff, we'll have a couple of special keynote presentations by Jonathan Zdziarski of iPhone notoriety and John Viega of Security notoriety to kick off our Ignite talks. Then, onto guest speakers who'll catch you up on the cool, new, innovative stuff going on in technology today. Don’t blink or you’ll miss their lightning-fast, five-minute presentations. During intermissions, get a cold beer and chat with speakers, sponsors, and O’Reilly’s own editors. Join us Thursday, May 29, for a fun, energetic evening of talking, learning, collaborating and drinking!

Check out the events and activities of previous our Ignite events.

RSVP
If you plan to attend, email IgniteBoston at oreilly dot com for the chance to win $300 worth of O'Reilly books of your choosing. You must be present to win. There will likely be other items like tee-shirts and other promo items for those who alert us ahead that they plan to attend.

Presentation Guidelines
Ignite is a user-generated event. If you’re interested in speaking, then submit a proposal for consideration.

Presentations must:

• Be no longer than 5 minutes
• Be on an innovative topic (no sales pitches, please!)
• Be viewable on a PC [a MacBook Pro with Powerpoint and Keynote, and PDF] with standard AV equipment
• Did we mention, no Sales Pitches.

For anyone that's never been to Ignite, you may find it useful to see a talk or two. Here's a link to a few good examples from the Seattle ignite talks.