A down day leads to an agenda refresh

I'm a bit under the weather today, so I ended canceling my Monday phone calls (which makes Tueday through Thursday hellish, of course). That left me with some "easy time" to work on the Glue agenda - something which I get more excited about every day. Here are some updates:1. In case you missed it earlier David Heinemeier Hansson and Mitch Kapor were announced as Keynote speakers.2. To that I've now added Josh Elman (of the Facebook Platform group) and Bob Frankston (co-creator of VisiCalc). Facebook's recent movements around "openness" should provide a pretty fertile foundation for Josh talking about what "gluing together the web" looks like from Facebook's perspective, and Bob (who is just flat out, scary smart) will be addressing how we need to re-think some of our assumptions around bindings, platforms and achieving the structures of simplicity needed for innovation.3. Keynotes are always fun to ooh and ahhh over, but when you really start to dig into Glue's agenda, things get truly glorious (hat tip to Will Ferrell). Sidenote: I'm now writing about stuff that, for the most part, hasn't even been updated on the agenda page yet.4. Pam Dingle, of Nulli Secundus (and one of the smartest "identity people" I know) is going to be leading a workshop session on the "domain-less" enterprise. That is, "how far could a company get today, with the tools and protocols available to them, towards creating a business where employees could access exactly the same work environment from any computer in any location, without any concept of being inside or outside a network perimeter. " The session will take a look at what's available in the way of distributed identity tools, and specifically show how to do this with Microsoft's beta Geneva set of tools, as well as a "how to" with open source tools. [sidenote: those of you that have seen me write about optimism in the past know that I love Pam's blog's name.]5. A session around Data Portability will feature Daniela Barbosa and Chris Saad from the Data Portability Working Group and Ben Metcalfe with a perspective of what he thinks is right and wrong about data portability. I think this discussion is *vital* to the overall Glue picture, and I'm hoping this talk (in particular) draws a bunch of the cloud computing crowd.6. There's a session coming together around Cloud database standards. The whole idea actually comes from a post that Albert Wenger wrote, and the session is meant to tease out some of the threads around what I'm finding to be a REALLY important topic to this whole "glue mess" (databases, that is). We've enlisted Alex Iskold of Adaptive Blue so far (Alex made a key design decision around SimpleDB), and I've got invites out to some Google folks, etc. [sidenote: I applaud Alex's product naming choice. ]7. There are a whole bunch of sessions coming together around web app description languages (needed?), cloud interoperability on a grand scale (possible?), the open social stack, and how RESful APIs play into rich internet applications....and so much more.8. I'm also adding some key moderators/discussion leaders -- notably, Jeff Nolan and Stewart Alsop (of Alsop Louie Partners).9. Don't forget all of the already announced stuff around Web Oriented Archiecture (Aaron Fulkerson), Harnessing the Cloud (Mike West of Saugatech Research), Leveraging API infrastructure (Kevin Matheny from Best Buy and Oren Michels from Mashery), Complex event processing across web apps (Mike Clymer), etc etc.10. And the best part of all? The agenda isn't even CLOSE to finished, so the goodies are just gonna keep on rolling in. Topics yet to come: data integration and mashups, web app integration, glue metrics, gluing together devices and data, social networks and glue, the evolution of the client-server model, etc.I really hope you're gonna choose to join us for Gluecon. If you wanna get lost in the crowds and listen to some non-impactful stuff, go somewhere else. If you want intimacy, connections, and sessions and interactions with impact, come to Glue. Seriously. (last sidenote: don't just take my word for it, ask Pete Warden or Sameer Patel, or Zoli Erdos about the kinds of interactions you can expect.)