DC Tech Events

DC Tech Events for the week of January 25th.

Mon 08:00AM: Social Media Breakfast DC
Mon 07:00PM: Microcontroller Mondays
Tue 08:00AM: Walk in the Cloud Seminar Series: IT-as-a-Service Using Virtualization
Tue 06:00PM: DCPHP Beverage Subgroup
Tue 06:30PM: Health 2.0 STAT – featuring rapid fire presentations from Health 2.0 leaders
Tue 07:00PM: Digital Design and FPGA Workshop
Tue 07:00PM: NSCoderNightDC
Wed 05:00PM: CapSec DC January Meetup
Wed 05:30PM: An Evening with Java Champion Dr. Heinz Kabutz — Secrets of Concurrency
Wed 06:30PM: DC Media Makers: Tech Entrepreneur and Photographer Jen Consalvo
Wed 07:00PM: DC ALT.NET 1/27/2010 – Clojure with Craig Andera
Wed 07:00PM: GeoDC
Thu 07:00PM: “Ad” Some “Life” to Your Semantic Relationships
Fri: StartUp Scramble™ DC University Challenge (through Sun 01/31)
Sat 09:30AM: Digital Success™ Bootcamp: Social Media & Social Networking for Businesses and Professionals
Sun: Black Hat DC (through Wed 02/03)

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¶ Posted 25 January 2010 † Ross Karchner § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

DC Tech Events Weekly taking a break

Keep watching the calendar, but the weekly newsletter is taking a break until mid-January. See you next year!

¶ Posted 29 December 2009 † Ross Karchner § DC Tech Events Weekly ‡ Comments (0) °

Video: Last Weeks DCRUG

Via Luc Castera

Ruby Enumerator Basics by Doug Peterson

Kyle Banker on MongoDB

¶ Posted 22 December 2009 † admin § Recorded Events ‡ Comments (0) °

DC Tech Events for the Week of December 14 2009

Please disregard this weeks newsletter! I apologize for the inconvenience. For this weeks events, check the calendar.

¶ Posted 14 December 2009 † Ross Karchner § DC Tech Events Weekly ‡ Comments (0) °

DC Tech Events for the Week of December 07 2009

Mon 07:00PM: DC Area Online News Association December Meetup
Mon 07:00PM: Microcontroller Mondays
Tue 05:30PM: December New Tech Happy Hour @ Bombay (12/08/09)
Tue 05:30PM: SECOND TUESDAYS NEW MEDIA SALON & "Dot Com" NETWORKING PARTY
Tue 07:00PM: NSCoderNightDC
Tue 07:00PM: Overview of Intellectual Property Law and Contacts
Wed: SANS WhatWorks in Incident Detection Summit 2009 (through Thu 12/10)
Wed 06:00PM: Ruby Hack Night December Meetup
Wed 06:30PM: RESCHEDULED for Weds Dec 9 – A Meeting With Mark Jacobs of Mythic Entertainment
Wed 07:00PM: DCPHP Meetup
Wed 07:00PM: HacDC: Digital Design and FPGA Workshop
Wed 07:00PM: The Washington, DC Blogger December Meetup
Thu 05:00PM: DC ACM Happy Hour
Thu 07:00PM: December DCRUG: Ruby Enumerator Basics, MongoDB, Ruby Refactorings and Resque
Thu 07:00PM: Metro DC Flash Users Group Meetup
Fri 06:30PM: LATISM DC
Sat 09:00AM: django-district December
Sat 09:30AM: Hack Day "Intro To Ruby Metaprogramming"
Sat 12:30PM: Research Skills and Strategies for Business: Do You Know What’s Out There?
Sat 04:30PM: Wii Love Mario Kart Championship
Sat 08:00PM: ��A Better Holiday�� Party 2.0
Sun 02:00PM: HacDC Kit Build – Game of Life

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¶ Posted 07 December 2009 † Ross Karchner § DC Tech Events Weekly ‡ Comments (0) °

DC Tech Events for the Week of November 30 2009

Mon 07:00PM: Microcontroller Mondays
Tue: Government Video Expo (through Thu 12/03)
Tue 09:00AM: Let’s Make a Deal: Broadcasters, Mobile Broadband, and a Market in Spectrum
Tue 06:30PM: Cyber Forensics: Digital CSI
Tue 06:30PM: MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF) Commercialization Lab: Crossing the Commercial Chasm!
Tue 07:00PM: DC Perlmongers
Tue 07:00PM: Meeting: Zenoss (Chet Luther)
Tue 07:00PM: NSCoderNightDC
Wed 08:00AM: TECHknowledge Speaker Series – Chris Hughes, Co-Founder of Facebook
Wed 05:30PM: Getting Started with Podcasting Advice from the Pros
Wed 06:00PM: PHP Beverage Subgroup (DC Chapter)
Wed 06:30PM: Dec 2: Debugging Ruby: Understanding and Troubleshooting the VM and Your Application
Wed 06:30PM: Northern Virginia Drupal December Meetup
Wed 07:00PM: HacDC: Digital Design and FPGA Workshop
Thu 06:30PM: TECH cocktail DC 7
Sat 08:30AM: The Conscience Un-Conference: Using Social Media for Good
Sat 10:00AM: NOVALUG (must confirm at official site)
Sat 10:30AM: New Media Women Entrepreneurs:Coffee meetup
Sat 10:30AM: Tribute to The Pi Journal, Open House and Holiday Party

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¶ Posted 30 November 2009 † Ross Karchner § DC Tech Events Weekly ‡ Comments (0) °

DC Tech Events for the Week of November 23 2009

Mon 07:00PM: Microcontroller Mondays
Tue 06:00PM: DCPHP Beverage Subgroup
Tue 06:00PM: TweetsGiving Washington DC
Tue 06:30PM: Brian Berenbach: "A Categorization of Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering"
Tue 07:00PM: NSCoderNightDC
Tue 07:30PM: DC useR Group November Meetup
Wed 07:00PM: HacDC: Digital Design and FPGA Workshop
Fri 01:00PM: The Washington D.C. Palm webOS Developers November Meetup

REQUEST FOR COMMENTS: Let’s Record Everything

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¶ Posted 23 November 2009 † Ross Karchner § DC Tech Events Weekly ‡ Comments (0) °

"Yeah, Our Website Sucks…What Can We Do About It?"

Via Matt Stempeck– Last night’s netsquared was recorded. I think it turned out great.

¶ Posted 18 November 2009 † Ross Karchner § Recorded Events ‡ Comments (0) °

DC Tech Events for the Week of November 16 2009

REQUEST FOR COMMENTS: Let’s Record Everything

Mon 09:30AM: Open Government: Pages from the Playbook
Mon 06:30PM: New Business Models for the New Net
Mon 07:00PM: DC Drupal Meetup: Managing News, and Whitehouse.gov
Mon 07:00PM: DC LinuxChix
Mon 07:00PM: Microcontroller Mondays
Tue 06:30PM: Accessibility DC Nov. 2009
Tue 07:00PM: November NetSquared
Tue 07:00PM: NSCoderNightDC
Tue 07:00PM: Yeah, Our Website Sucks…What Can We Do About it?
Tue 07:30PM: HacDC Lightning Talks
Wed 07:00PM: DC Area Online News Association November Meetup
Wed 07:00PM: HacDC: Digital Design and FPGA Workshop
Thu 08:30AM: The NoVa-DC SAP Professional November Meetup
Thu 07:00PM: Refresh DC November Meetup: Moving from Freelance to Agency
Sat 09:30AM: Utilities for Your Mac: The Good, The Misguided, The Unnecessary
Sat 01:00PM: Productivity Without the Steep Cost: An Overview of Free Open Source Software

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¶ Posted 16 November 2009 † Ross Karchner § DC Tech Events Weekly ‡ Comments (0) °

Let's record everything

It’s a shame that so many tech events in DC go un-recorded. The talks given at Refresh, developer events, unconferences, lectures, and presentations could all have lasting value, but are essentially discarded by not being captured in the first place.

So, lets stop letting that happen. For about $2k we can get a dozen flip cameras, with tripods. We can get free bandwidth, hosting, and transcoding simply by uploading to the internet archive.

I’m sure the logistics of managing a pool of loaner camera’s would be challenging, but doable.

For discussion:

What am I missing?

How do we raise the money?

Got any better ideas for the capture hardware, or the hosting solution?

¶ Posted 15 November 2009 † Ross Karchner § meta ‡ Comments (14) °

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