SxSW Interactive has over 200 sessions this year. If you’ve never been there it can be a bit overwhelming. There’s also a bunch of ancillary, off the grid events, that occur around SxSW. It’s always great to know what’s going on at those events too.
Here’s a few things I’ll be checking out this year.
Barcamp Austin 4
This event is a staple of my SxSW experience, it will occur over three days this year and details on the event can be found here.
SxSW Panels and Parties
SCHED*SXSW is a great resource to plan your own SxSW schedule or you can use mySXSW. Here are some things I’m looking at.
Friday, March 13
Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong
Room A
Friday, March 13th
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Just as early filmmakers struggled to break free from the conventions of live theater, after 10+ years Web designers are still trapped in the structures of the past. Forget pages, linear text and other archaic vestiges of design's print ancestry; the separation of content from presentation has already changed everything.
Dan Willis Consultant, Sapient
The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development
Room Day Stage
Friday, March 13th
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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What do the Adobe Flex and ActionScript compilers; the award-winning 3D Flash library, Papervision3D; the native data format for Flash, SWX; and the excellent Flash streaming and interactive server, Red5 have in common? They're all open source. And they're all introduced in this book by the project leads themselves.Contrary to its popular perception as a closed platform, the Flash Platform has an active and thriving grassroots open source community and a plethora of open source projects. In this session, Aral Balkan, founder of OSFlash.org and creator of SWX, will give you an overview of what's possible with open source Flash with examples from the book.
Aral Balkan CEO, Naklab
TechSet Blogger Lounge, Sponsored by Windows Mobile - Austin Suite
Friday, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
This year we have something very special lined up for the 2009 SXSWi, and your presence is formally requested. Join us at The TechSet blogger lounge sponsored by Windows Mobile to collaborate and celebrate everyday during the conference. We're assembling an agenda rich with activities, entertainment, and resources to make this year unforgettable, fun, and also productive. Drinks, snacks, and all you can eat broadband provided. Follow @techset and @wmdev on Twitter for all the latest news.
The TechSet Meets The Rat Pack at SXSWi
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
The Belmont Lounge (305 W 6th St)
Come enjoy the unique and stylish period-specific décor that conjures scenes from Las Vegas and Palm Springs during the Sinatra era. You'll be surrounded by incredible and pioneering entrepreneurs and influencers as we create our own Rat Pack rich with relationships that will propel us long after the curtain closes on SXSWi 09. Hosted by TechSet and Windows Mobile.
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