Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

These are a few of the ideas already submitted for sessions at CreateBaltimore. We'll be starting fresh on Saturday morning, when the people present will decide on the entire agenda, but these topics (lightly edited) are already on the minds of participants.  

What will you want to discuss?  Are there sessions you would like to lead? What are people overlooking? Please share your thoughts, reactions, and proposals in the comment section below.  

* How could the city government be more friendly to arts organizations, artists, entrepreneurs, and tech start-ups?

* Creating the Silicon Harbor: a discussion on how to build a new middle-class in Baltimore, and ways to leverage that employment base to attract investors.

* Baltimore's Emerging Arts Scene: Balancing Economics and Integrity. Creating a sustainable model for the expansion of Baltimore's emerging arts and culture scene. How can we as a community balance economic viability (both for artists and for the region) with the need to preserve the integrity and uniqueness of the local arts/culture landscape?

* Why institutions and business need "edge perspectives" and vice versa

* How Baltimore's cultural scene could be integrated with the apps, check-ins, the location-based web, and mobile internet.

* Distributed patronage:  kickstarting artistic endeavors via the web

* "The Rules" What designers and techies need to know about working together with mutual respect - spec work, "crowdsourcing," expertise, and professionalism.

* Live visual coding with Ruby Processing (lesson / demo / workshop)

* Starting and maintaining Baltimore Node (re: organizing hackers)

* Ralph Waldo Emerson is for Hackers (readings and discussion from "Self-Reliance")

* "Made in Baltimore" - community building - DIY - the new/emerging economy -  An Etsy-driven economic development policy for Baltimore? Hand-made, vertically-integrated manufacturing.

* What is "design thinking"? Design thinking for next gen manufacturing

* Connecting local artists and technologists with local historians and historic sites to interpret & preserve Baltimore history and historic buildings.

* Literature on the Web & Tablet

* How artists and organizations can use (and be used via) social media tools.  Tactics and strategies to utilize online advertising and social media to promote the arts and business projects.

* How 'engineering thinking' could create value for artists and entrepreneurs in Baltimore.

* The New Marriage of Design & Development: How the two have merged into one over the past few years.

* Screenwriting

* Where is startup funding for sustainable and green businesses in Maryland (or anywhere)?

* How to Create Media That Matters

* How to Learn from Criticism Without Being Scared to Death

* Blogging as a combination of the creative and technical. So many different types of art and tech come together in the creation of a blog--regardless of the subject or goal of the blog, writing, design, photography, coding, and marketing are all involved in a successful blog.

* Prospects for cross-pollenating disparate film and video organizations and institutions.

* Essentials for building a community website

* Connecting local artists and technologists with local historians and historic sites to interpret & preserve Baltimore history and historic buildings.