Kinshuk Presents on Social Sandbox at OSSCamp New Delhi

Social Sandbox Kinshuk Sunil Community Manager, OSSCube [email_address] An Ignite Talk presented at Delhi March 2009

Agenda What is Social Sandbox Why 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 Management Framework!

example FOSS #ftw Linux! Collaborative Development I can make useful contribution!

Scope ? How an Unconference should be MS? #fail Drupal!!! FOSS #ftw

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 in http://kinshuksunil.com/blog/tag/social-sandbox

This was an Ignite Talk An Ignite talks is one where: slides automatically change after 15 seconds the speaker can only use a maximum of 20 slides So 5 minutes to say everything you have to say http://ignite.oreilly.com

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