Which topics can I present?
All topics related to WebObjects are accepted. Related topics like database tips and tricks, using WO as a back-end for iPhone apps, or HTML5 are considered too. According to the 2009 surveys, the most popular topics that people want to hear about at WOWODC 2010 are :
- Deployment
- Sessions available between multiple instances (in-db sessions store)
- WO in a SOA architecture
- Scaling
- Servlet deployment
- Deployment strategies
- Ajax/Web 2.0/RIA
- HTML5
- UI tools
- iPhone
- REST
- Third-party frameworks
- Reports/PDF generation
- Getting started with Wonder
- Useful bits from third-party frameworks
- EOF
- EOF optimization (read-only, refresh)
- EOF cache customization/optimization
- Validation
- multithreading
- D2W
Please note that according to the 2009 survey, 47% of developers consider themselves experts, 44% consider themselved intermediate developers, and 10% are novice, so we can have any level of content.
We also accept case studies, as long as much of your presentation talks about the implementation in WO
What are the rules?
To deliver a better experience to everyone, we established a couple of rules for WOWODC 2010 :
- You must provide a outline of your presentation content before June 15th 2010;
- You must provide a draft of your presentation before August 12th 2010; The draft (slides) will be given to attendants a week before the event;
- You have to use our Keynote (09 or 08 versions) template for our presentation. You are allowed to make small modifications, like adding your organization logo in the footer and the first slide;
- Presentation length should be 75 minutes, including Q&A time. Please record your session before the event to see how long your session is really is, and it will help us to stop going overtime :-)
What am I getting back?
Most conferences only give free admission to presenters, but WOWODC was never like this, and we understand that doing a good presentation takes time to prepare. We also want to encourage people to give code back to the community or to talk about open-source projects, so for WOWODC 2010, we came out with those rules :
- Case studies : 50% off admission price;
- Presentation without any code or not about an open-source project : free admission + we pay back one hotel night per 60 minutes of presentation;
- Presentation where you are giving back code or is about a open-source project : free admission + we pay back one hotel night per 30 minutes of presentation.
That's the minimum we give back. If we make any profit, it will be distributed to every presenter (except for case studies). You can also sell your presentation on the Community Store or give away the recording for free to the community, it's your choice.
Remote presentation
If you can't attend the event but still want to present, you can do a remote presentation. At WOWODC West 2009, some sessions were delivered by iChat screen sharing, and at WOWODC East we used Yuuguu, and there is a good chance that we will use Yuuguu again. Please note that a maximum of 25% of the sessions can be done remotely, if everyone wants to do it this way, it won't make sense to host a physical event... For remote presentations, we give back $75 USD per hour of presentation + your profits on the recording sales. As for on-site presentations, if we make any profit, you also get your share.