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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 [...]

Anatomy of a mash-up

I’ve posted a detailed explanation of how DC Tech Events works, over on my regular blog. If you’re interested, give it a read!

Event Submission Form

It’s not going to win any awards for design or usability, but hey– here’s a draft of the event submission form.

I realize the “(really) Short Description” might seem kind of gimmicky– but hear me out.
In a previous iteration of the site, I used to feature hand-selected pull-quotes for certain events, which I liked in principle [...]

See you in 2009

DC Tech Events Weekly will return January 5th.

What are the *types* of Technology Events

Here’s my first crack at a system for categorizing types of tech events:

User Group / Meetup

Presentation / Talk

Happy Hour / Party

Discussion / Summit

Project Collaboration / Open Lab

Trade Show / Conference

I scrolled through the last few months of dctechevents.com and found nothing that I couldn’t shove in one of those boxes– but that doesn’t mean it’s [...]

DC Tech Events Weekly: The Cavalcade of Hyperlinks Continues!

Mon 06:30PM: Microcontroller Monday
Mon 07:00PM: DC Drupal Meetup November 17 at Stetson’s
Tue 05:00PM: Social Matchbox DC – Q4 2008
Tue 07:00PM: Build Composite WPF Applications – Brian Noyes, RD, MVP
Tue 07:00PM: Pimp My Nonprofit: How to Stay Involved Now that Your Candidate is President
Tue 07:30PM: HacDC Weekly Org Meeting
Wed 06:00PM: DubMe DC Launch Party
Wed 06:30PM: Virtual [...]

The Future of Software

Friend-of-dctechevents Greg Gershman is part of this”Future of Software” panel on Friday morning:
Potomac Tech Wire Breakfast Round Table
The Future of Software

Sept. 5, 2008 | 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Ritz Carlton, Tysons Corner, Va.

Sponsor:

“The Future of Software” event [...]

Northern VA Girl Geek Dinner

I usually don’t like posting “exclusive” events, but I guess this one’s OK
From the official announcement:
Who: All girl geeks. Men are invited if accompanied by a Girl Geek.
What: Dinner and presentation by Dr. Joanne Cohoon
Where:
Viget Labs
400 S. Maple Avenue, Suite 200
Falls Church, VA 22046
When: September 12, 2008 7:00-9:00pm
Why: Meet, socialize, and [...]

BarCampMil

“a barcamp for the Defense, IC, Government, and Humanitarian Aid communities.”
It’s this friday– check out the Wiki page, google group, and Facebook group.

Signs of life: BarCampDC2

See Thorp, jfciii, Keith Casey, and the wiki.
It just aint a barcamp without a wiki.

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