Kinshuk Presents on Social Sandbox at OSSCamp New Delhi

Social Sandbox

Kinshuk SunilCommunity Manager, OSSCube

[email protected]

An Ignite Talkpresented at

Delhi March 2009

Agenda

What is Social SandboxWhy Social Sandbox

Relevance?

What is Social Sandbox ?

A concept I am working at

A term coined by me

What is Social Sandbox ?

Perhaps the ideal format for unconferences

Social ?

Group of people

Interactions between people

Common Interests, Passions

Sandbox ?

An open environment for experimentation and play-testing

Open access to all participants

Social Sandbox

A Sandbox of people

Promoting interactions and knowledge-sharing discussions

Usually takes place over a cup of coffee/cigarette/beer

example

MS? #fail

Ever tried Making Sites IE compliant?

I can play all Commercial

games!

Which anti-Virus to use?

example

Drupal!!!

Geez! Why did I go

for Joomla

Taxonomy ftw!Content

ManagementFramework!

example

FOSS #ftw

Linux!

Collaborative Development

I can make useful

contribution!

Scope ?

MS? #fail Drupal!!!

FOSS #ftw

How an Unconference

should be

Relevance ?

Linear “Talks”? #fail

Interactive “Talks”? #help

Social Sandbox? #ftw

Why Social Sandbox ?

Sessions oriented unconferences defeat the purpose of unconferences

The “real” “un”conference

What does it need ?

> Small group of people>> People know a language

>>> People have brain>>> Coffee/Cigarette/Beer

Challenges ?

Easy to get distracted

Difficult to document ideas and maintain records

Difficult to quantify outcomes

(idea is still under processing and needs to be worked and tested)

More ?

kinshuk at osscamp dot inhttp://kinshuksunil.com/blog/tag/social-sandbox

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