Welcome slides for March 2011 BayCHI Monthly Meeting

1. Welcomes You
March 10, 2011

2. Tonight’s program…
Designing Firefox
Alex Faaborg, Mozilla
Recent Work
in Data Visualization Techniques
Jeffrey Heer, Stanford

3. Tonight’s speakers…
Alex Faaborg is principal designer at Mozilla,
where he focuses on the visual and interactive
design of Firefox
Jeffrey Heer is an assistant professor of
Computer Science at Stanford University,
where his research focuses on human-
computer interaction, interactive visualization,
and social computing

4. For all the updated information
you need about BayCHI, visit…
www.baychi.org

5. Join BayCHI…
 Visit the BayCHI web site at
www.baychi.org and click Join BayCHI
 Membership is just $20 for the first year
and $15 to renew

6. BayCHI Member Benefits
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outstanding programs, BOFs, and tutorials

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8. Become part of the
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 You must be a current member of BayCHI
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 Also visit www.baychi.org/linkedin/ for more
details
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members enrolled in the BayCHI LinkedIn
group!

9. BayCHI needs you…
 Volunteers make things happen!
 Most Urgent Volunteer Needs:
 BOF Co-Chair
 Usability Engineering BOF Leader
 Tutorials Co-Chairs
 Interested? Contact Asha or Stacie at
volunteer@baychi.org

10. For all the updated information
you need about BayCHI, visit…
www.baychi.org

11. Tonight’s program…
Designing Firefox
Alex Faaborg, Mozilla
Recent Work
in Data Visualization Techniques
Jeffrey Heer, Stanford

12. Tonight’s speakers…
Alex Faaborg is principal designer at Mozilla,
where he focuses on the visual and interactive
design of Firefox
Jeffrey Heer is an assistant professor of
Computer Science at Stanford University,
where his research focuses on human-
computer interaction, interactive visualization,
and social computing

13. Want to suggest a topic for a
BayCHI program meeting?
Contact the Program Planning Committee at
monthly-programs@baychi.org

14. Do you know an industry
leader or have a topic to
present for a BOF meeting?
Contact a BOF leader at www.baychi.org/bof

15. Upcoming BayCHI Events
BayCHI Eye Tracking BOF Event
Eye Tracking Best Practices and Mistakes to Avoid
Speaker: John Cheng, Brennan Browne and Julie Kwak
AnswerLab
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 6:00-9:00 pm
Location: AnswerLab, San Francisco
Visit www.baychi.org/calendar

16. BayCHI Tutorials
 BayCHI is looking for new Tutorial Co-
Chairs to organize tutorials!
 Interested? contact:
 BayCHI officers: officers@baychi.org
 BayCHI volunteer coordinators:
volunteer@baychi.org
Visit http://www.baychi.org/tutorial/

17. BayCHI Podcasts and
Conversations Network
 BayCHI podcasts are now available via
Conversations Network
 For more details, see:
 http://www.baychi.org/podcast/
 http://chi.conversationsnetwork.org/
 We need additional volunteers to help
with this exciting effort:
• Podcast Curator
• Podcast Copywriter

18. BayCHI Recording Policy
 Recording of this program meeting by
audience members is not permitted
 The new policy is on the program page at
www.baychi.org/program/

19. BayCHI Dinner
 Join us before the BayCHI meeting
 For information visit our web site at
www.baychi.org and click Dinner Info

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21. March BayCHI Meeting
Tuesday, April 12th, 7:30 – 9:30PM @ PARC
Building a Killer Bucketlist Site
with Python / Django
Scot Hacker, Knight Digital Media Center
and UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
For more details, see:
http://www.baychi.org/