Monospace Conference Schedule

Here's the final schedule for Monospace. Thanks for all your feedback! It really helped shape the conference.

TUTORIAL PROGRAM

Tuesday, October 27th, Morning

Registration
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Conference Keynote - Miguel de Icaza
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room 18C

10 Minute Break
10:00 AM - 10:10 PM

iPhone Development with MonoTouch
10:10 AM - 12:10 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.

Extensible Applications Using the Managed Extensibility Framework
10:10 AM - 12:10 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.

Lunch
12:10 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 - 4:00 PM
Room 18C
Geoff Norton, Engineering Lead for MonoTouch, Novell
This tutorial 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.

Mono and the Web - ASP.NET MVC, WebForms, Tools, and Servers
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room 18D
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.

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

Advanced NHibernate
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 18C
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 - 11:30 AM
Room 18D
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
11:30 PM - 12:30 PM
Many eateries for every budget around the Austin Convention Center

Wednesday, October 28th, Afternoon I

Linux Jumpstart for Windows Developers
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room 18C
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.

The Mono Runtime and Core Extensions
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room 18D
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.

15 Minute Break
2:30PM - 2:45 PM

Wednesday, October 28th, Afternoon II

Mono in the Amazon Web Services Cloud
2:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Room 18C
M. David Peterson, Co-Founder & Chief Architect, 3rd&Urban
Running existing ASP.NET applications that scale-on-demand based on server load. Building a real-time queryable web logging system backed by Mono.Fuse and written directly to SimpleDB. Creating an adaptive bit-rate live audio and video streaming system using EC2's load balancing and auto-scaling service for processing incoming streams, S3 for interim storage of the processed segments, and CloudFront for on-demand high-speed access to the rendered streams over HTTP(S) to a Silverlight/Moonlight application, iPhone user, or any other RIA-enabled mobile device.

Cross-Platform Development with Mono
2:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Room 18D
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.

Functional programming on Mono with F#
2:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Room 18B
Amanda Laucher, Consultant, ThoughtWorks
Joshua Graham, Architect, ThoughtWorks
The functional paradigm brings a powerful approach to compute-intensive apps.
F# is a MSPL-licensed language from Microsoft that runs equally well on Mono
as well as on .NET without any platform restrictions.

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!

Thursday, October 29th, Evening

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


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!