Draft Schedule for Monospace

This is still in the works, and certainly some changes may be made to it, but I thought I'd share this with the community right off before it gets final polish and is published to the conference website.

TUTORIAL PROGRAM

Tuesday, October 27th, Morning

Registration
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Opening Session
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room 18C

iPhone Development with MonoTouch
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 18C
Geoff Norton, Engineering Lead for MonoTouch, Novell
MonoTouch is one of the most exciting developments in the iPhone apps world. Use your .NET skills to build beautiful mobile apps on the world's most successful and lucrative mobile applications platform.

Introduction to Developing on Mono
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 18D
Miguel de Icaza, Mono Project Founder and Vice President of Developer Platform, Novell
All things Mono taught by the founder of the Mono Project

The Mono Runtime and Core Extensions
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 18B
Rodrigo Kumpera, Software Engineer, Novell
Learn how to use the Mono.Simd and Mono.Tasklets API to do things at runtime that are not presently possible on .NET! A deep dive into runtime embedding and profiling APIs, Mono.Tasklets, and Mono.Simd.

Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Many eateries for every budget around the Austin Convention Center

Tuesday, October 27th, Afternoon

Advanced iPhone Development with MonoTouch
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room 18C
Miguel de Icaza, Mono Project Founder and Vice President of Developer Platform, Novell
This tutorial, taught by the founder of the Mono Project, takes you beyond the basics of iPhone development with MonoTouch, going deeper into iPhone application development, the iPhone platform, and the high-productivity developer experience provided by the MonoTouch tools and framework.

Extensible Applications Using the Managed Extensibility Framework
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room 18D
Glenn Block, Program Manager, Microsoft
The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a composition framework supporting plugin architectures and third-party extensions of applications. MEF will ship in Microsoft .NET 4.0 but is available right now as MSPL code that in compatible with Mono.

(session TBA)
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room 18B

Tuesday, October 27th, Evening

Special Event: MonoTouch presentation at Austin's Cocoa Coders user group by Geoff Norton


Wednesday, October 28th, Morning

Opening Session
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room 18C

Mono and the Web - ASP.NET MVC, WebForms, Tools, and Servers
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 18C
Jackson Harper, Engineer, Mono Project, Novell
Eric Hexter, Principal Consultant, Headspring Systems
ASP.NET WebForms and MVC apps run out-of-the-box on either Windows and .NET or on Mono on a variety of platforms. Build applications on one platform and deploy to another. Lean all about taking advantage of all of the platforms that run your ASP.NET apps.

Advanced NHibernate
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 18D
Ayende Rahien, Consultant, NHibernate Principal Contributor, Author of Building Domain Specific Languages in Boo
The most mature and most widely-adopted object-relational mapping system for Mono and .NET taught by one of its foremost experts and project contributors.

Moonlight
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 18B
Larry Ewing, Engineer, Mono Project, Novell
Rod Paddock, Editor, Code Magazine and Principal Consultant, Dashpoint Software
Moonlight is the Mono implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight RIA platform. Developed with the support of Microsoft, Moonlight brings the power of RIA to Mono. Learn about the platform and the tool support for RIA on Mono with Moonlight.

Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Many eateries for every budget around the Austin Convention Center

Wednesday, October 28th, Afternoon

Cross-Platform Development with Mono
13:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room 18C
Aaron Bockover, Maintainer and Lead Developer of the Banshee Media Player, Novell
The demands of cross-platform development push design, testing, and pattern to its limits. Learn from the experience and success of the cross-platform Banshee Media Player.

Linux Jumpstart for Windows Developers
13:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room 18D
Joseph Hill, Mono Product Manager, Novell
New to Linux? Don't let that get in your way. Get a giant head start on being as comfortable with developing .NET applications on Linux as you are with Windows.

Amazon EC2 and Amazon Web Services
13:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room 18B
Marcus Irven, Vice President of Development and Co-Founder, Minggl
EC2 allows scalable deployment of applications by providing a web services interface through which a customer can create virtual machines on which the software of their choice can be installed. Amazon also provides message queueing services and storage service. Learn about Amazon's platform in an overview taught by someone who runs applications in Amazon's cloud.

Wednesday, October 28th, Evening

Monospace Attendee Party!
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
The Highball
http://thehighball.com/

OPEN SPACE PROGRAM

Thursday, October 29th, Morning

Opening the Space
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Room 18C
A welcome to the Open Space: An introduction to the Open Space format and protocols, and how the next two days' agendas will be set by you, the participant.

Open Source Panel and Fishbowl
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room 18C
With so many open source power houses at the conference, we'd be missing an incredible opportunity if we didn't put them in the same room at the same time for a panel discussion on open source in .NET. The panel is moderated by Rod Paddock, Editor of CoDe Magazine and will include Miguel de Icaza (Mono), Sam Ramji (CodePlex), Ayende Rahien (NHibernate, Rhino), and Glenn Block (Microsoft). But this is no ordinary panel discussion! After a period of the traditional panel discussion format, we'll turn the panel into a fishbowl, allowing you, the conference attendee, to cycle through the panel, adding your voice to the dialog.

Creating the Schedule
10:00 AM - 12:00PM
Room 18C
Using the Open Space format and protocols, participants will build their own conference by suggesting topics for the schedule, and taking ownership of convening sessions, discussions, panels, fishbowls, demonstrations, and presentations.

Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Many eateries for every budget around the Austin Convention Center

Thursday, October 29th, Afternoon

Breakout Sessions
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Breakout Sessions
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Closing the Day
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room 18C
Closing comments, observations from participants, suggestions, questions, announcements, life, the universe, and everything. Planing and reminders for the next day. Well wishes for the evening out in the Live Music Capitol of the World!

Friday, October 30th, Morning

Opening the Day
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room 18C
Morning announcements, schedule changes, comments, observations, suggestions, questions.

Breakout Sessions
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Breakout Sessions
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Lunch
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Many eateries for every budget around the Austin Convention Center

Friday, October 30th, Afternoon

Breakout Sessions
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Breakout Sessions
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 18B, 18C, 18D

Closing the Space
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room 18C
A round of closing comments from participants. Plans for the next event. A fond farewell. So long and thanks for all the fish! Be careful out there tonight - it's Friday before Halloween in Austin!