2007 SXSW Interactive Panel Proposal Picker

August 16th, 2006 Author: Lindsey Simon

This year, the coordinators of SXSW Interactive are taking it to the streets, soliciting votes about what panel ideas seem most exciting and relevant for next year’s conference. When Shawn O’Keefe and Hugh Forrest of SXSW approached me with this concept, I got really excited about it. I put together what I hope folks will find to be an intuitive and simple user interface for choosing 10 panels and sorting them from top to bottom, using the scriptaculous Sortable. I’ve gotten feedback from some users so far and I’ve tried to implement as many of their suggestions as I could (thanks to Khoi Vinh, Gordon Montgomery, Michael Mahemoff, and some others). Head on over and pick your favorites!

I’ve got a Panel Proposal in the “browsers / web apps” category that will essentially be about a forthcoming article I’m working on regarding using XSLT in the browser and on the server for AJAX widgets. So if that sounds interesting to you, go vote for it!

On a side note, the folks working on BarCamp mentioned the panel picker on their listserve, which my friend whurley pointed out to me. It seems like maybe this thing might have some other uses and people are interested. Feel free to download it at http://www.commoner.com/~lsimon/PanelPicker.tgz

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