I think all speaker should indicate a duration so that it is easier for the organize to organize a time slot. If timing is flexible, or not sure how long you want to talk, then make it 31.4159265 minutes.

Just saw the wiki entry: "Participants who are presenting can choose between two durations for their talks: 45-minute and 5-minute" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeekCamp]. May I know why must it be either 45 or 5?

Yo @hongster
5 min's for lightning talks while 45min's for your regular talks. :)

@patrickhaller are you talking any shell in particular? Bash?

@hongster -- Bash specifically, however the concepts apply generally.

Wishlist: Linux Kernel Development

@Thomas Tan
Can you give us a little more info on the robotic thing?

@Thomas Tan
"Build, see and control an Internet robotic watergun in minutes with zero computer programming"
This is geekcamp, so +1 if you add "..and then hack it to automate target acquisition WITH programming" ;-)

+1 for ".. and world domination WITH c"

ok, just discovered I've got comments here.

@Leong Hean Hong, tardate
Indeed, 'also with programming' would be nicely geekier but that'll take more than 45 mins.

Perhaps I could change the title to "Build, see and control a robotic watergun over the Internet with and without computer programming - a comparison".

The point of the session was really to show that the task can now be done in minutes without programming with MakeAffinity, rather than in weeks/months requiring lots of heavy web/encryption/networking/scheduling and other expertise without it.

I'd love to get into a discussion about how automated target acquisition can be incorporated at the session's Q&A. Code to do this exists and someone could take that and build on it...

Hey Thomas. A comparison would be good coz I think the crowd would like to know the technologies used in MakeAffinity. Personally I would like to know more about the program used to control the robot's hardware :)

hi Thomas, be great to find out more about MakeAffinity, and actually the robotics platform you're using and why/how you compare to others. seriously.

... but did you mean the discussion can be incorporated into the Q&A, or the target acquisition? the later sounds more fun;-)

@triplez82 are you talking abt Design Patterns?

I wonder if anyone is interested to listen to me talk for 5 mins on a research topic I'm working on regarding Beauty of Design in Development?

Nope. Not design patterns. It's different. My thesis is still in the initial stage, but essentially it is using the fundamental principles of design and applying it to a developer. There are 3 sections I've identified as tools of "Developer". The "language", the "framework" and the "environment". And how we can use design to improve what we call "Developer Experience" or DX. It's more of a talk to ponder about rather than showing something, hence the 5 minute lightning talk.

Nice :) If duration is longer, you can make it a forum where everyone can exchange ideas on this topic.

@justin

I'll be interested to hear about your talk. Considered it confirmed! :)

Making my talk tentative until I find my passport :D

This geekcamp seems to be getting better and better! I'm extremely interested in the NLP talk. And shoutout to Shunjie~ :) Can we do a GWT + Flex + Silverlight??

@patrickhaller https://www.haller.ws/snotes is broken. Can I have your email address? Mine is expertleong{at}gmail{dot}com. Jason mentioned (http://bit.ly/FqBxn) that you are looking for a place in Sim Lim Towers to build a hackerspace. I would like to know more about it, and get involve ;) I (with 2 friends) have also started a hackerspace in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

Hackerspace? Count me in! mine's triplez82{at}gmail{dot}com

Hacker's meeting, count me! with Contact: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>

Count me in as well :)

Is there any interest in Palm's WebOS platform ? ;)

Seems like quite a number of interest in a "hackerspace". Patrick and I will be sourcing for one this sat morning at Sim Lim Tower. Join us if you can. Maybe the shop owners might be more convinced to sub-let or donate a space if he sees more ppl.

@daniel

I'm interested in WebOS. You can give a talk on it? :)

Hi all! I am interested to attend this Geekcamp! is it still open?

@elaine

Yup it's still open. See ya on the Aug 22nd?

Is it still open? Cannot find the RSVP button.

@Chris, just join as a member, edit the page & add your name into the "Who's Going" list.

Hi,

I am curious in attending this. Is it still opened? I cant find RSVP Button.

@Vishnu,
Thank you very much

@patrickhaller @jasonong Any update on the hackerspace?

@hongster

Hey dude. Sorry no updates as of yet. You know of any suitable venues we can host hackerspace? :)

:( I don't know any. Maybe we can bring this up in the Geekcamp, we might be able to get some help.

Looks like it's going to be a good turn out. Thanks for organizing, see you guys

@MikeFoong could not make it to Singapore this weekend due to family commitments. Anyone want to volunteer video-taking equipments? I'm already UStreaming from my laptop but as you all know, the video quality is still much to be desired.

Hey Hisham,

We managed to get Shaun Stanislaus to do the videography :)

Oh great! Finally managed to squeeze time out for this. Will catch the lightning talks at least!

Argh!!! I can't even make it in time for the lightning talks...so late already!!! Do hope to see this organized more often. Tech only talks are key to growing our pool of technical experts.