The Mashroom is a dedicated space during Web2Open where people can bring their APIs, developers and a passion for smashing up technology in a social environment.

When?

April 17-18, 1pm-7pm

Where

Somewhere in Moscone... we'll have signs. ;)

What?

So, what's going down in the Mashroom? Well, here's what we're thinking.

We're basing this on the Mash Pits we've previously run, so there's no sales pitches, no talking heads, just good fun, collaboration and hacking. It's kind of an all-for-one-one-for-all mashup event (less like the Mashup Camp... more anarchy...!). That being said, everyone has equal opportunity to pitch their mashup ideas (for about 2-3 minutes) as we go around the room.

The basic format is:

First hour - Intros

1. introduce the goals of the Mashroom, talk a little bit about it (about 10 mins)
2. go around the room so everyone can introduce themselves and then use 3 tags to describe their interests/abilities

We'll possibly generate an on-the-fly tagcloud and get people matched up accordingly. Or we'll count off. We'll see. But somehow, after introductions, we'll make teams of 3-5 folks.

Hour 2-13 (day 1 & 2) - mashing up

The teams will work as hard as they can on making their mashup... people will come along to check progress and make certain they have everything they need as well as tell them the time left...

Last hour - Presentations + voting

Each team gets 120 seconds (depending on the turnout) to present their final product. After all of the presentations, voting begins.

Maybe we'll have prizes, maybe not.

Attendees

For now, if you're interested, leave your name, company and APIs/tech/web services you want to hack on here:

• Chris Messina, Citizen Agency, OpenID, microformats, design patterns
• Rowan Nairn, PARC, open social network. I'll bring (almost) an implementation and seek help to finish it.
• Andy Edmonds, Free IQ. Firefox based privileged apps, see surf trail idea below.
• Newton Chan, Foothill College. All-client-side dynamic mashups. GeoRoute format and sharing.
• Dave Morin, Facebook Platform, Using Facebook data to add social context to your apps.
• Kevin Lawver, AOL, Ruby on Rails + OpenID + hcard = no more entering the same data every time you sign up for a new social network.
• Renat Khasanshyn from Naked Open Source, I would like to demo Apatar Data Mashup Integration (Beta), the first open source data mashup application to join your desktop data with on-demand applications and APIs. Connectors include Flickr, local file system, CSV, MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, Sybase, FTP, WebDav, POP3, SalesForce.com, all available today; Amazon API connector is coming out later this week. What are the must-have connectors (like Google Maps, eBay, perhaps Dabble DB and/or Swivel)? What are the desired capabilities? Fellow masher uppers are invited to crunch the Apatar Beta.
• Luke Closs, Socialtext, wikis, juggling

Hack projects and ideas

• OSS OpenID CardSpace-like implementation ideas... designs, mockups, prototype
• I have a prototype of Rails+OpenID+hcard that could be a decent open cardspace alternative.
• Opensource, open data-format social network node - XFN+(h)Atom+OpenID
• Open "surf trail" implementation, xml format, and blog posting wizard
• Client-side library for visualizing many to many data like tags and wiki forward - back links, code name LinkDeli
• CSS Restyler -- mouseHole script = "restyle.user.rb"