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1. Social Sandbox
Kinshuk Sunil
Community Manager, OSSCube
kinshuk@osscube.com
An Ignite Talk
presented at
Delhi March 2009

2. Agenda
What is Social Sandbox
Why Social Sandbox
Relevance?

3. What is Social Sandbox ?
A concept I am working at
A term coined by me

4. What is Social Sandbox ?
Perhaps the ideal format for unconferences

5. Social ?
Group of people
Interactions between people
Common Interests, Passions

6. Sandbox ?
An open environment for experimentation and
play-testing
Open access to all participants

7. Social Sandbox
A Sandbox of people
Promoting interactions and knowledge-sharing
discussions
Usually takes place over a cup of
coffee/cigarette/beer

8. example
I can play all Ever tried
Commercial Making Sites
games! IE compliant?
MS? #fail
Which anti-
Virus to use?

9. example
Content
Management Taxonomy ftw!
Framework!
Drupal!!!
Geez!
Why did I go
for Joomla

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

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

12. Relevance ?
Linear “Talks”? #fail
Interactive “Talks”? #help
Social Sandbox? #ftw

13. Why Social Sandbox ?
Sessions oriented unconferences defeat the
purpose of unconferences
The “real” “un”conference

14. What does it need ?
> Small group of people
>> People know a language
>>> People have brain
>>> Coffee/Cigarette/Beer

15. 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)

16. More ?
kinshuk at osscamp dot in
http://kinshuksunil.com/blog/tag/social-sandbox

17. 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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