From the monthly archives:

August 2007

Free 360 Flex Pass from Picnik

by brady on August 11, 2007

in Seattle

360 Flex is a Seattle developer conference. As they describe themselves:

360|Flex was the first all Flex/Apollo themed conference. Our inaugural conference in San Jose was a sell-out success. No doubt due to Adobe’s Flex Evangelist, Ted Patrick, helping to rally the community. This conference takes you into the nitty-gritty of Flex development. If you’re serious about Flex, then you need to attend this conference.

360|Flex is a community driven event. The sole purpose of the show is to bring the best of the Flex community together in one place to share war stories from the trenches and to allow the experts to share their deep technical knowledge to a large group. Another benefit is finally being able to put a face, voice and personality onto the bloggers, flexcoders and article writers that you’ve come to depend on.

Picnik, the awesome online photo-editor, is giving a way one pass to 360 Flex. The first Flex Developer to mail Picnik founder Mike Harringon gets it. Use mike at picnik dotcom.

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Watch Ignite at Gnomedex

by brady on August 11, 2007

in Seattle

We selected some talks to be done again at Gnomedex this morning. The video is streaming at http://chris.pirillo.com/live/

We go on at 11:30. We’ll see the following speakers again:

Make Art Not Content
Scotto Moore

Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR!
Dave McClure

Stop Yelling, Start Weaving
Deborah Schultz

Is 2008 the year the “Third Screen” takes center stage?
Beth Goza

Venture Capital Term Sheets
Leo Dirac

An embarrassment of riches – the story of Noonhat
Brian Dorsey

LIFE: if you’re bored, you’re doing it wrong
Elan Lee

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A little retroactive blogging. Published October 20, 2009

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Thanks and Some Links

by brady on August 9, 2007

in Seattle

scotto

I’d like to thank all the attendees, volunteers, the CHAC, the people who promoted the event, and the speakers. It was an amazing event and it couldn’t have happened without you all.

As promised here are some of the links mentioned in presentations last night:

Noonhat – Changing the world through lunch

VC Term Sheets – Leo Dirac has put up his slides, but has judged that the spreadsheets aren’t ready to be shared yet. We’ll post them here when they are.

Jobs – in case you were interested both Ontela and Mifos are hiring.

Art Not Content – Before Scotto (in pic) started pondering the artist merits of LOLCats, he made a two season video series entitled “Cherub: The Vampire with Bunny Slippers“. I helped, but don’t hold that against it; it really is funny — especially if you are familiar with the Buffyverse.

Werewolf RulesHere you go.

Thanks again!

(Photo credit: Stewtopia, stay-at-home-blogger)

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Follow Ignite

by brady on August 9, 2007

in Seattle

If you want to be alerted about Ignite there are a couple of different ways.

1) Join the announcement list. Bre and I are the only people who post to it. It’s generally just alerts about upcoming events.

2) Follow us on Twitter. We are ignitesea. You can text “follow ignitesea” to 40404. Alternately, just go to the webpage.

3)  Subscribe to the blog via RSS. We’re going to start posting more about local tech events in case the periodically, quarterly ignite events aren’t enough for you.

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We had some last minute changes to our schedule. Here is the final line-up!

Starting at 8:30:
Make Art Not Content
Scotto Moore
Small medicine: Nanotechnology and biology
Deepak Singh
building real community
scott kennedy
No, not skin: Epidemiology for the layman
Maegan Ashworth
How to buy a new car
Rob Gruhl
Werewolf Strategy
HB Siegel
Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR!
Dave McClure
Hacking Chocolate
Shawn Murphy

Starting at 9:45
Is 2008 the year the “Third Screen” takes center stage?
Beth Goza
Ten valuable lessons you shouldn’t learn from your last job
Dan Shapiro
Venture Capital Term Sheets
Leo Dirac
An embarrassment of riches – the story of Noonhat
Brian Dorsey
Stop Yelling, Start Weaving
Deborah Schultz
WikiProgress & Gross National Happiness (GNH)
Jesse Robbins
Mifos: Open Source Software for Microfinance
George Conard
LIFE: if you’re bored, you’re doing it wrong
Elan Lee

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There Has Never Been Stranger Love Than This Before

August 8, 2007

Igntie got noticed by the Stranger. Woot! Maybe Dan Savage will give an Ignite talk next time. Their sight unseen description of the event is one of the best yet…
And while geeks also tend to be socially awkward, we still want them to kick some ass designing our software and answering difficult questions—but stop talking [...]

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Help McLeods!

August 8, 2007

Buster McLeod just sent out this email to all members of McLeods. To sum: The awesome tech art gallery needs help. Details below:
This is a difficult email to write, but we owe it to our members to be transparent about our situation. Simply put, McLeod Residence is in big trouble, as in financial trouble. The [...]

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Sponsor: Biznik

August 7, 2007

Biznik is going to sponsor Ignite for the first time. Thanks Biznik!

Biznik is a business-building social network for independent professionals with 2,500 members in Seattle. Find other entrepreneurs interested in collaborating or forming groups, or jump into a discussion on a topic that interests you. Discover what people just like you have learned and avoid [...]

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Sponsor: Adobe AIR

August 7, 2007

Adobe is sponsoring Ignite for the first time to promote AIR. Thanks Adobe!

Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.

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Sponsor: Ontela!

August 6, 2007

Ontela is sponsoring Ignite again! Thanks guys!
Ontela is a venture-backed startup that makes it ridiculously easy to get pictures from your camera phone to your PC. We just raised a bunch of money so we could hire smart, creative people JUST LIKE YOU — see our web site for job openings!

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Ignite Seattle 4 Schedule

August 6, 2007

Here is the final order for the Ignite Seattle talks this Wednesday!Starting at 8:30:
Make Art Not Content
Scotto Moore
Hacking Chocolate
Shawn Murphy
Small medicine: Nanotechnology and biology
Deepak Singh
Run the Government: A Primer for Online Citizens
Sarah Schacht
No, not skin: Epidemiology for the layman
Maegan Ashworth
How to buy a new car
Rob Gruhl
Werewolf Strategy
HB Siegel
Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR!
Dave McClure
Starting at 9:45
Is [...]

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Final Talks Selected For Ignite 4

August 3, 2007

Ignite is happening next Wednesday on 8/8. It’s a free geek event at the CHAC. I’ve announced the 12 of the 16 talks earlier this week. Here are the final four talks.

Scott Kennedy – Building Real Community Software
Local activist Scott Kennedy shows off his homemade electronic bulletin board, and [...]

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