Two weeks ago I mentioned – in passing – that it’d be a great idea to have an informal evening affair in San Francisco where people could braindump what they’d learnt at Emerging Technology and preview the sort of stuff that they’d see at CodeCon . There’s more people who should see this stuff than just people who can scrape up the fare and ticket to go to San Diego.
Well, it’s done. Rachel “Moonbase University’ Chalmers , Marc “rotten.com ” Powell and Karen “dorkbot sf ” Marcelo magicked it through a flurry of emails. It’s happening this Monday the 16th:
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<a href="http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/tce/24264513.html" title="2/16: Post-Etech Decompression - Pre-CodeCon Quickening">Post-Etech Decompression - Pre-CodeCon Quickening </a> RX Gallery 132 Eddy Street @ Mason San Francisco, CA Monday 16th, 7pm-10pm Lightning talks, Old Skool Arcade Games, BYOB 5$ suggested donation no one turned away for lack of funds |
The best bit of this ConCon may well mirror Etech: meeting new smart people between the official talks. Then again, the five minute lightning talks look to be great too. Here’s who is set up to speak so far:
- Jonathan Moore, Hacking Social Networks
- Me, doing the Life Hacks talk with all the jokes taken out
- Ralf Muehlen,A Tale of Two Wireless Cities
- Kevin Marks,Technorati Hacks
- Kevin Marks & Tantek Celik realworldsemantics
- Schuyler Erle : Hey, Free Maps!
- Jo Walsh : FOAF — It’s Not YASN
- Scott Draves electric sheep SPOTWORKS
- Mike Leahy preview of SCREAM
- Jason Harlan: review of Locative events at Transmediale and Emerging Tech
- Kevin Burton : Social Network Export and Sync with Exportster, FOAF, and RDF
I’m not sure we’ll have time for many more speakers, but if you’d like to talk about either Etech or CodeCon and you’re near San Francisco, stick your name down on the Wiki. I’ll try and get to you. I’m compering. I’m easily bribed.
When this started actually happening, I got a little bit guilty, as this is exactly the sort of spontaneous Bay Area event that I used to look very bitterly at when I lived in London. It was a mixture of irritation that San Francisco thought the whole world revolved around San Francisco, and envy that we couldn’t do something like that in London.
Amusingly, when I got to SF, lots of people told me about how much more vibrant they thought the geek community was in Britain, and how they wished they could do the same kind of events as they’d seen talked about in the UK and Europe.
So, anyway, there were enough Brits at Etech to pull off another spin-off braindump, so now I’m pushing my luck and hand-waving them do the same thing in the UK for next Monday (the 23rd).
Here’s the Wiki page where people are sorting out a venue. Go to it, my helpless puppets!
(No, I don’t know why I’m calling it Etech and not Etcon now either.)