LDS Tech Talk

Kudos to whomever put together the Tech Talk Seminar thing and set up this site. I look forward to more cool stuff here.

The tech talk are Joel's idea. We look forward to next Tuesday night!

Website is easy to use and I like the design. I like the Bio's, neat to read about the technology gurus of the Church. I am very excited to see future growth of this website. Nice to have a friendly enviorment to discuss Church and Technology.

We had a fantastic time last time! It was amazing to see the interest in technology at the Church. We knew there were some smart, committed people out there who were showing interest, but we were pleasantly surprised by the response!!

Thank you!! We'll do it again.

I plan to be at the upcoming tech talk in Provo on Tuesday and am very excited about it. From your experience with the previous session in SLC, is there anything that it would be especially good for me to bring?

Looking forward to it,

- J. Max Wilson

jmaxwilson wrote:I plan to be at the upcoming tech talk in Provo on Tuesday and am very excited about it. From your experience with the previous session in SLC, is there anything that it would be especially good for me to bring?

Ditto that comment and question. I plan on being at the Tech Talk in Provo, as well. While I'm about to move further away from church headquarters (in April), I want to be a part of open-source projects that the church wants to sponsor.

Brice

jmaxwilson wrote:is there anything that it would be especially good for me to bring?

Bring your own chair.

Seriously, there were a lot of people there last night. More than they were expecting, I think.

Will the meeting in Utah County be in the same format as last night's? I would consider driving down to pick up some other sessions that I was interested in but wasn't able to attend.

Joel or someone may correct me if I am wrong but I believe that the format will be the exact same as last nights.

Tom

jlp wrote:Bring your own chair.

Seriously, there were a lot of people there last night. More than they were expecting, I think.

Heh. I'll see if I can fit one in the back seat of the car. I wonder where I stored those old collapsible camping chairs...

Sounds like it will be fun. Hopefully I can meet a few of you there.

The format was supposed to stay the same, but I think the meeting location will be a little more capable of larger crowds and general flow of people. Since there isn't and RSVP mechanism it is a little hard to judge how big of a venue to book.

Please bear with us through these learning/growing pains.

I plan to be there tomorrow night... but what's the dress code? Geeky and informal, Non-geeky and formal (Sunday dress), or somewhere in between?

Business casual is what I've been recommending.

Kudos to everybody involved in the Tech Talk tonight in Provo! It was awesome. I really wish I would have been able to attend all the sessions, as they each seemed to be of interest to me, but I realize that there are time constraints.

You all did a great job. I praise you for exposing yourselves and bringing us LDS nerds into the loop on what the Church is up to. I look forward to future projects and websites with anticipation!

Thanks again. Awesome job, everybody.

Look forward to attending more Tech Talks. Wish I could have attended all the sessions. Interaction design was very informative, and loved CIO Presentation! It was refreshing! Looking forward to some great discussions.

We had a lot of fun putting these on and we appreciate everyone's support! Thanks for coming out!

Tom

I wish there was a way that those of us outside of SLC/Provo could at least watch and listen. <sigh>

I am pretty sure that someone said that they'd release a podcast of it once it got approved, as for now if people placed their notes in their blogs and then referenced us to them, I believe that would be better then nothing.

thedqs wrote:...as for now if people placed their notes in their blogs and then referenced us to them, I believe that would be better then nothing.

My brief notes are here: http://www.connorboyack.com/blog/tech-talk
J. Max posted a link to his in another thread, they are here: http://www.sixteensmallstones.org/lds-tech-talk-report

RussellHltn wrote:I wish there was a way that those of us outside of SLC/Provo could at least watch and listen. <sigh>

Yeah, if it didn't take 16 hours for me to get to Utah, I'd consider going myself.

Any information about what's going on at the talks is better than none, but having it all (in any format) would be awesome.

I'm new to the group and would love to attend a LDS Tech Talk when are they and where are they held? I live in Utah County. How can I stay informed of them? Still trying to navigate the site and will probably find the answer somewhere. Can the average Joe attend?

Renee:)

As for the next tech talk, I don't believe one has been announced yet, though it will be posted here and on the calendar. If you are in the Utah area, there will most likely be another tech talk.

The next tech talk was rumored to be in Seattle, but nothing has been scheduled nor confirmed yet. Obviously it would be easy to have another one here before all the orchestration to have one out of state could take place.

rzamor1 wrote:I'm new to the group and would love to attend a LDS Tech Talk when are they and where are they held? I live in Utah County. How can I stay informed of them? Still trying to navigate the site and will probably find the answer somewhere. Can the average Joe attend?

Renee:)

The "average joe" can attend as they are open to the public. We will announce them on this site (home page) when we have more. Right now because we just finished up with some, we don't have any new ones scheduled.

Tom

Please do record these and podcast them! I'd really love to hear what's going on.

Thanks, TomJ

michaelcox wrote:http://www.lds.org/techtalks

Yes, this is the link I originally found that started this whole LDS Tech journey. First I attended a Tech Talk, then I heard about this site, and now I'm here to stay on the forums!

I imagine this Tech site will be the best resource we have about finding out when new Tech Talks will be held.

People attending the Tech Talks that are going to blog about them, we would like to ask you to please include LDSTECH07 in the title of your post so that others can easily search and find your comments.

Thanks!

bh5k wrote:People attending the Tech Talks that are going to blog about them, we would like to ask you to please include LDSTECH07 in the title of your post so that others can easily search and find your comments.

Thanks!

Great idea! This will make the search engines pick up info about the tech talks.

Tom

A very cool idea indeed!

This will be very nice for those of us who cannot attend.

michaelcox wrote:http://www.lds.org/techtalks

Just checked this page and noticed it doesn't include info for the upcoming tech talk in Mountain View, CA. Will this info be added? (I realize the info is available elsewhere... just curious.)

Kathryn

Kathryn wrote:Just checked this page and noticed it doesn't include info for the upcoming tech talk in Mountain View, CA. Will this info be added? (I realize the info is available elsewhere... just curious.)

Kathryn

You can find the latest tech talk announcement here.

Tom

There was talk of doing a podcast of the tech talks for those of us in other parts of the country/world. What ever happened to that?

jayaskre wrote:There was talk of doing a podcast of the tech talks for those of us in other parts of the country/world. What ever happened to that?

Our request to podcast it was not approved for various legal reasons.

Tom

there's a few of us downunder (Australia) who would love to hear the latest on the Tech Talk.

Is there any documented "minutes" that we could read up on?? hehehe... ;)

kolisikepu wrote:there's a few of us downunder (Australia) who would love to hear the latest on the Tech Talk.

Is there any documented "minutes" that we could read up on?? hehehe... ;)

There is another Tech Talk scheduled for this Wednesday (April 25th) in Mountain View California. I believe we will be posting our materials on the web after the show.

kolisikepu wrote:there's a few of us downunder (Australia) who would love to hear the latest on the Tech Talk.

Is there any documented "minutes" that we could read up on?? hehehe... ;)

Documented no, but some others have been posting in there blogs:

cboyack wrote:My brief notes are here: http://www.connorboyack.com/blog/tech-talk
J. Max posted a link to his in another thread, they are here: http://www.sixteensmallstones.org/lds-tech-talk-report

thank you for the reply guys. I just have to remember, I'm a day ahead of you... So your Wednesday will be my Thursday morning or something like that. I'll find out exactly the time difference... however, I do look forward to anything from your discussions.

Just my input with regards to the website... it's nice and clean. It's easy to use, especially for the many novice users we have around the world.

I love "opensource" apps. Reading LDS Technology Site, I was quite happy to see Joomla used for this site. I totally recommend Joomla for people who want to build their own websites. I've used Joomla now for 3 websites and have created a full working intranet at work. I've even experient with Joomla on test servers... hehehehe

I don't know whether wards there in the states are utilising the opportunity to have their own Ward websites, but I really would find a website useful in our Ward in Sydney. Thinking of Joomla, I thought this would be perfect for our Ward. Anyone in the ward could add contents, add calendar events quite easily... but pushing something like this in our stake is quite slow and I have to wait till you guys in the states are 20 years ahead of us before we can use the next advance software/hardware for our units.

However... I love the site you've created and I love the blogs written up thus far.

I look forward in reading more about "technology in the church". I would post replies if I feel I could be of any assistance.

well done!!

kolisikepu wrote:I don't know whether wards there in the states are utilising the opportunity to have their own Ward websites, but I really would find a website useful in our Ward in Sydney. Thinking of Joomla, I thought this would be perfect for our Ward. Anyone in the ward could add contents, add calendar events quite easily... but pushing something like this in our stake is quite slow and I have to wait till you guys in the states are 20 years ahead of us before we can use the next advance software/hardware for our units.

As for Ward Websites, the church hosts them currently for only those stakes in the US but is working on expanding it worldwide. If you want to read more about is search for LUWS which stands for Local Unit WebSite. As for making your own ward website I believe the church still discourages it.

tomw wrote:
Originally Posted by Kathryn
Just checked this page and noticed it doesn't include info for the upcoming tech talk in Mountain View, CA. Will this info be added? (I realize the info is available elsewhere... just curious.)

You can find the latest tech talk announcement here.

Tom

Right... I was just pointing out that www.lds.org/techtalks is outdated, in case that's helpful.

Kathryn