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I have a couple ideas for preconf sessions, but I am wondering whether anyone would be interested in them before further committing by posting one to the wiki. Would you be interested in attending or suggesting someone attend either of these? 1. An introduction to coding through Ruby and Rails. I'm looking at something like the RailsBridge Curriculum [1] as a quick, gentle introduction to getting started coding web applications. It seems that with the bigger venue that more folks may be attending that do not do coding in their regular job but may like to get started. Is there something like a basic training that the Code4Lib conference and community can do to bridge that gap and get more folks in libraries coding and having a better understanding what is involved in the work? Anyone else who would be interested in helping to lead this or help field questions and help folks work through problems? 2. An HTML5 Video workshop. I've pitched a talk on HTML5 Video that I'd really like to give, but wonder if there would be enough interest to do a 1/2 day workshop on the topic? It would allow time to do some hands-on work with the whole process of making video available this way. Anyone else with experience with video who would like to help put this together? Interest in either of these? Would you commit to attend one? Willing to help plan one? Jason [1] http://curriculum.railsbridge.org/curriculum/curriculum