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Mon, 23 Feb 2004
Why not in Seattle?
(I'm slowly catching up with a backlog of posts -- Ecto is a mixed blessing). Danny O'Brien wrote about a
spontaneous geek meeting that happened in San Francisco between ETech and CodeCon. His comments at the end about the geek community in San Francisco and London got me thinking.
Why not Seattle? I'm not proposing that Danny and friends come on up here. There are plenty of geek type people that are working on interesting stuff. It would be cool to have a little grassroots geek soiree in the Emerald city, a place for all the little communities to get together and cross pollinate...
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Some of that is already happening. The blog meetups (which result in much neeping among the geek contingent as you know), Scoble's 'geek dinners' (such as the one tonight) and so on.
But, if you want to organize something more purely geek/Open Source oriented I am up for that. Once Potlatch is out of the way (IOW, after next weekend) I might even be willing to help set it up.
Posted by Jack William Bell at Tue Feb 24 09:08:08 2004
But, if you want to organize something more purely geek/Open Source oriented I am up for that. Once Potlatch is out of the way (IOW, after next weekend) I might even be willing to help set it up.
Posted by Jack William Bell at Tue Feb 24 09:08:08 2004
I don't know that I'd want to restrict it to Open Source only -- that doesn't seem very open. But I do think that something a little more concentrated and semi-self organizing, in the spirit of the O'Reilly Foo camp (but without the requirement for an invite) would be interesting.
I'm maxed out until after Pycon at the end of March, but I'm curious to see if there's enough interest to make something like this worth it.
Posted by Ted Leung at Tue Feb 24 22:13:47 2004
I'm maxed out until after Pycon at the end of March, but I'm curious to see if there's enough interest to make something like this worth it.
Posted by Ted Leung at Tue Feb 24 22:13:47 2004
How about a one-day (Saturday or Sunday) thing with one track of geek-related programming, a separate track that anyone can sign up for fifteen minutes of speaking time and a big lan party for computer gaming after the dinner hour. Something like this could be booked into any public space fairly cheaply.
Posted by Jack William Bell at Wed Feb 25 09:22:46 2004
Posted by Jack William Bell at Wed Feb 25 09:22:46 2004
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