I sat in on many panels this year in Austin. Some of them turned out to be major duds and some were simply amazing. Of the set of panels I felt I got a lot out of, two have placed their slides online for everyone to enjoy. They are obviously not as good as actually sitting in on their panels, but you can still get something from them.
The first up is John Resig’s Secrets of JavaScript libraries. The panel consisted of Sam Stephenson (prototype), Alex Russell (dojo and fellow Purdue alumni), Thomas Fuchs (Scriptaculous), John Resig (jQuery), and Andrew Dupont (also prototype):
The second was a panel put on by Derek Powazek called Weird turn Pro: Crowdsourcing for Creatives. Derek talked about his vast experience in building growing online communities, highlighting what works and what doesn’t work and how you can help your contributors and fans feel like they’re a part of something larger than themselves:
There currently exists no audio for these two panels, but the SXSW staff is producing and posting them at a rate of about three to four a day and posting them on their podcasts page.
