geeks have lead the most recent evolution of our society and some do it better than others. i’ve been incredibly curious about how geek praxis outside of a professional setting has contributed to geek success and would like to share a few ways i’ve found that geeks harness their obesssions and obsessive natures for fun and profit.
As a young geek i know said “feel free to make fun of me now, i’ll forgive you and maybe even hire you when we’re adults”.
About Sarah Novotny
Sarah is constantly seeking ways to promote Seattle as a technology mecca. She is a founder of and evangelist in open source databases for Blue Gecko. She is additionally a Program Chair for OSCON and the Chair of the IOUG’s MySQL Council. For Twittery things, check out @sarahnovotny and to connect with her on LinkedIn wander over to linkedin.com/in/sarahnovotny.
Ignite Seattle and Dorkbot Seattle are collaborating to bring you a new kind of festival this August. On the afternoon of Saturday, August 20th (before Ignite Seattle 15), we’ll be opening up the Fremont Outdoor Movie Cinema parking lot (N. 35th St. & Phinney Ave) for builders, garage hackers, diy makers and the generally curious. Everyone is encouraged to bring an interesting project to share or something to show off. There are a few caveats, though. We have a limited amount of power, so we can’t promise electricity for everyone. And if you’re bringing something dangerous (please do!), let us know, so we can make sure the appropriate signage gets posted.
If you’re interested in participating, or if you know of a cool project we should seek out, let us know in the comments of this post, or on the Facebook Wall. We’ll be adding additional information about the event as we get closer to the day. Get building!
Since launching her first internet dot com at 21, Nathalie’s been neck deep in high-tech, masculine, start up juice. She recently left Seattle, her dream home and a $100M business she helped found in order to chill out, meditate and continue her path as a recovering Alpha Male in relaxing New York City. During her first return to her beloved Seattle as a special guest at SIFF 2011′s opening GALA, hear Nathalie as she comes out publicly about her personal experience as a global business misfit and how it took nearly killing someone for her to realize she needed to rethink how businesses work.
About Nathalie Molina
Nathalie is the Senior Director of Strategic Development in Media & Ads at Lionbridge, explores the perilous new world of translation since the advent of global crowdsourcing, search and social media. You can find her online at her personal site, nathaliemolina.com and on Twitter, @globalmisfit.
When I was a kid, you started Kindergarten down the street, or maybe the Catholic school a few blocks away. Today, though, Seattle parents have an incredibly complex system of both public and private schools – and parents don’t know how to navigate it (or that there’s even anything to navigate).
If you might have a kid entering Kindergarten someday, and you’re the kind of person who builds a 10-column spreadsheet to pick the next flat screen TV, you might want to know how this process works – and how to optimize for your own family.
About Scott Ruthfield
Scott is the CEO & Founder of Rooster Park , a technology consulting and staffing firm. Before that, he led software engineering organizations at various small and large companies around Seattle. He and his wife obsessed over the kindergarten process for their older daughter (who had a great year!), and he used this talk to pass his burden on to the rest of you. You can find Scott on Twitter @scottru.
Why: With the advent of food-focused social media and celebrity chef bloggers—not to mention understaffed magazines—food photography is everywhere. Everybody is taking photos of what they eat and very few are doing it right.
What: I would like to identify the four major enemies of good food porn and offer simple solutions on how to avoid them. The presentation will show real-world examples of failed attempts at shooting good food porn and the necessary steps and equipment needed—both purchased and improvised—to make your food porn better.
About Geoffrey Smith
Geoffrey runs LookatLao Studio in Seattle. LookatLao is a smallish design and photography studio with a tendency to work with people who love food, wine and cocktails. When not working, Geoff can be found found exploring the back alleys of Bangkok or riding his bike around Lake Washington. You can find him on Twitter @lookatlao.
You like board gaming, but lately the fun has gone out for you. Maybe you have a closet full of board games that never get played anymore. Maybe you have an hyper-competitive jackass attending your board game nights, who you feel ruins the fun for everyone. Maybe you just hate following a bunch of silly [...]
All of us have been conditioned from birth by our families, our friends, and marketers to want (or not want) certain things. And while I’m a big fan of Facebook, I have this theory that it reinforces social conditioning in some pretty insidious ways. In this talk, I’ll explain how I used Facebook’s self-serve advertising [...]
We’ve had a few requests to extend our deadline for talk submissions, so we’re extending until Monday, July 18th. If you’d like to speak, have your talk submitted here, no later than 11:59pm, July 18th. Our next event will be August 20, 2011 at the Fremont Outdoor Movies and will be an all ages event.
Do you sit at work saving up your virtual currency for a Shetland Pony? Do you create Facebook profiles for your cats, dogs & infants just so that you can ensure your crops are properly hydrated? What has our world become when people actually decorate their virtual barns for Christmas? Did you pre-order Farmville for [...]
