Intros

[Allan Tear]

Folks, is it worth us introducing the groups we lead/are involved in?

[Jon Pierce]

Hi Allan,

Sure, I'll start. I run betahouse, a coworking space in Cambridge, MA
for entrepreneurs, technologists and creatives. In addition to being a
coworking space, we host a lot of events, including a few of the user
groups represented on this list. I also help organize both BarCamp
Boston and DevHouse Boston, the last several of which have been hosted
at betahouse. Other than that, I'm a longtime attendee at a few of the
other groups.

How about yourself?

--
Jon Pierce | j...@jonpierce.com | 617.501.2001
http://jonpierce.com | http://twitter.com/jonpierce
http://betahouse.org | http://twitter.com/betahouse

[Nick Plante]

I run the New Hampshire Ruby User Group (NH.rb) in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire. I'm also actively working with Brian Turnbull and Ted Roche
(GNHLUG commander in chief, copied on this email) to set up a
coworking space in the area and am a sporadic attendee of various
other NH seacoast and Boston area groups and events.

Unfortunately it looks like I won't be able to attend the summit,
since I'm flying out to Vegas for Railsconf that day. Sadness.

..nap

[Sara Streeter]

Greetings all,

   My name is Sara Streeter and I created and organize currently an unconference for technology newbies called NewBCamp.  We are having the second one of this year, third one overall, in two weeks, end of April.

I am also a regular at geek-glam events in Providence such as Providence Geeks, various coder Meetups, and the PodCamps and BarCamps of the greater New England area.

I hope to make it on 

Sara Streeter
401.793.1119
http://www.newbcamp.com
http://www.sarastreeter.com

[Sara Streeter]

That would be the Send button, not the Save button.  Maybe it's time for me to turn on that three second recall feature in gmail after all...

As I was saying, I hope to make it on May 2,  I'm not scheduled quite that far ahead so it looks promising.  

In the meantime, many thanks go to Brian Jepson for passing the word along and starting up this star-studded google group :-D

Looking forward to hearing about you all and perhaps meeting you.

Sara

--

Sara Streeter
401.793.1119
http://www.newbcamp.com
http://www.sarastreeter.com

[bjepson]

I'm the co-founder (along with Jack Templin) of Providence Geeks, a
monthly, free event that usually takes place at AS220, an unjuried/
uncensored art space that also has a great performance space to meet
in, an adjoining bar and taqueria, and a slowly emerging Fab Lab (they
just started offering laser cutter workshops).

The geek dinners are very casual; people can drop in/out whenever they
want, buy food/drinks (or not), and hang out to chat or hack with
other geeks. We always have one presenter from the local IT/digital
media community (20 minutes max + Q&A) and many folks end up hanging
around well into the night.

Aside Providence Geeks, I'm also an editor for O'Reilly Media, an
occasional blogger/writer for MAKE, and an advisor to the Providence
Fab Lab.

- Brian

[John Duksta]

Allan Tear wrote:
> Folks, is it worth us introducing the groups we lead/are involved in?

Ahoy NEUG Leaders!

I'm John Duksta. I run DC401, which is Rhode Island's Defcon Group. We
meet the first wednesday of each month at AS220 in Providence. Being a
Defcon group, we tend to have a primary focus on Information Security
and most meetings include an hour long presentation on a security topic.
However, we also do one or two hardware hacking/kit building workshops a
year as well as one Hacker Jeopardy game each year, just to mix things
up and keep it fun.

It's a casual group. People roll in after work, grab some food and/or
drink and enjoy the presentation. After the presentation is done, we'll
hang out at AS220 or sometimes move on to another local watering hole to
continue the conversations.

One side project that the group is working on is spinning up an
InfoSec/Hardware Hacking conference in Providence. It will be called
QuahogCon. We're shooting for this fall or Spring of 2010.

Like Brian Jepson, I'm also an advisor to the Providence FabLab. You can
find me there Tuesday evenings, helping folks out in the Lab space. As
for the day job, I'm a Senior Security Engineer in Verisign's Managed
Security Services group in Providence.

Can't wait to meet you all at the summit on the 3rd.
-john

--
http://dc401.org
http://quahogcon.org

[Scott Macmillan]

Hey all,

My name is Scott Macmillan, I'm an indie game developer from Waltham, MA who works out of Betahouse in Cambridge.

Darius Kazemi and I are both on the board of Boston Post Mortem, the Boston chapter of the International Game Developers Association.  We meet every month at the Skellig in Waltham and usually have something like 150-200 attendees.  This tends to run the gamut from devs working in the AAA studios, smaller studios, indies, students and teachers, and a the occasional journalist.

We also were the organizers of Boston GameLoop, an game devlopment unconference we held at MIT's GAMBIT Lab last August.  We had around 45 people show up, and the unconference format was a big hit.  We're looking to do GameLoop again early this summer.

I've already got an engagement at the NE Institute of Art that day, but I'm pretty sure it will finish up in time for me to make the later part of the conference. 

Nice to meet you all!

Scott

--
Scott Macmillan
Founder
Macguffin Games
http://www.macguffingames.com
Twitter: @MacguffinGames

[Marsee Henon]

Hi

My name is Marsee Henon and I work for O'Reilly Media. I'm the User
Group
contact. If you are looking for raffle prizes or giveaways for your
group
just let me know. I'm on the west coast, but I will be at the May 2
event
in Cambridge.

Marsee Henon
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
1005 Gravenstein Hwy North
Sebastopol, CA 95472

mar...@oreilly.com
707-827-7103
http://ug.oreilly.com/

follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/oreillymedia

[Patrick Haney]

Good idea. Here's my elevator pitch:

I'm Patrick Haney, and I help make Refresh Boston happen (as often as
possible). Refresh is "a community of designers and developers working
to refresh the creative, technical, & professional culture of New
Media endeavors in the Boston area while promoting design, technology,
usability, and standards." In other words, we have somewhat regular,
informal gatherings in Boston/Cambridge to talk about a range of
topics from web standards to JavaScript libraries. Our last meeting
was in February at the Microsoft New England Research & Development
Center, where Matthew Oliphant discussed usability testing.

I won't be able to make the summit event due to the fact that I'm
heading to Florida for a golf trip with my family, but I've asked a
fellow Refresher and head of the new UX Boston Book Club, Jason Robb,
to join the group and attend the event if he can. He should be able to
talk to you about both groups and what our goals are here in Boston.

For more, you can check out our websites:

http://refreshboston.org
http://uxboston.com

Patrick

[Shimon Rura]

Hi Everyone,

I've been one of the main organizers of BarCamp Boston since our first
incarnation in 2005. BarCamp Boston 4 is coming up on April 25 & 26
at MIT, as I hope you've all heard... more info and registration at
http://www.barcampboston.org/ .

BarCamp is a yearlyish event with a budget of $8-10k per event. This
year's is looking to be the largest ever by a large margin; we have
260 registrants as of today, which matches the total for BCB3, and
there's still lots of time left before the event. By comparison, last
year's BarCamp picked up around 200 people (from around 60) in the 20
days before the conference. A lot of that is just us being more
disciplined this time. :)

I'm also involved in organizing the Cambridge/Boston Django meetup,
and have done other things like geek dinners and DevHouse Boston in
the past. I also have the website geeksinboston.com, which aspired to
help organize this community but has not been adequately maintained.
I'd like to figure out if there's a way to join with other people or
combine that site into another existing effort.

shimon.

[Brian Del Vecchio]

Hi all, 

I've been involved in betahouse (coworking), BarCamp Boston, DevHouse Boston, and through betahouse support a number of small user groups.  Looking forward to the Summit event.

--
Brian Del Vecchio  |  b...@hybernaut.com  |  @hybernaut

[Owen Johnson]

Hello All,

I'm the founder and co-organizer of <a href="http://connectprovidence.org/
">Connect Providence</a>, dedicated to helping folks connect to the
City of Providence. We hold informal monthly gatherings that typically
have 75-150 attendees. We also hold special events like <a href="http://connectprovidence.org/blog/2009/03/29/i-heart-providence-the-peoples-confessions-parts-i-ii/
">I HEART PROVIDENCE</a>. I also frequently attend Providence Geeks.

As well, I am one of the partners of <a href="http://
betaspring.com/">Betaspring</a>, a newly-launched micro-seed venture
platform in Providence, along with Allan Tear and Jack Templin.

Cheers,
Owen

[Stephanie Gerson]

howdy folks. my name is Stephanie and I'm the coordinator of <a
href="http://www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/providence">Pecha Kucha
Providence</a>. Pecha Kucha is a monthly gathering for sharing ideas,
in which presenters are allotted 20 PowerPoint slides and 20 seconds
per slide. (Put simply: 6 minutes and 40 seconds of PowerPoint
performance art.) It began in Tokyo in 2003, has since spread to 166
cities worldwide, and I recently brought it to Providence, RI.

I'm also the proud co-hostess of the <a href="http://
www.moishehouse.org/houses_r.asp?HouseID=17">Moishe House in
Providence</a>. Moishe House is dedicated to cultivating young adult
Jewish community, and we host 3+ events per month in our home - from
dichromatic shabbatlucks to Passover seders (this week) to blind
feasts.

I look forward to meeting all of you and talking group leadership!

the Dalai Lama will be close to us that day, geographically speaking.

if anyone is reading this, you are amazing.

On Apr 3, 6:10 pm, Owen Johnson <o...@existence.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm the founder and co-organizer of <a href="http://connectprovidence.org/
> ">Connect Providence</a>, dedicated to helping folks connect to the  
> City of Providence. We hold informal monthly gatherings that typically  

> have 75-150 attendees. We also hold special events like <a href="http://connectprovidence.org/blog/2009/03/29/i-heart-providence-the-p...

[Chris Bowen]

Hi Everyone,

My name is Chris Bowen, and I'm one of the people from Microsoft
working with O'Reilly and others to help bring this event together.

I'm a dev/architect by trade and now focus on working with the
professional developer community in the northeast. I fairly
frequently deliver developer sessions at various events, companies,
and groups, and have been involved in the New England user group
community for many years. I also help to organize the New England
Code Camp series (community-driven events run twice a year in Waltham
since 2004, now with 400-500 registrants.)

I've met some of you at various events in the community (BarCamp,
Ignite, Meetups, etc.) and look forward to meeting the rest at the
Summit!

Best,
Chris

Chris Bowen | cbo...@microsoft.com | 774.249.4804 | http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen
| Twitter @ChrisBowen

On Apr 1, 4:55 pm, Allan Tear <akt...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Laurel Ruma]

Hello everyone,
I'm an editor at O'Reilly, as well as one of the founding members of
Girl Geek Dinner Boston (http://www.bostongirlgeeks.com/). We meet
once a month at Betahouse, drink wine, and talk tech over dinner.

Looking forward to the Summit.
Laurel
lau...@oreilly.com
@laurelatoreilly

[Michael de la Maza]

Hello,

Along with Talbott Crowell and Rick Minerich, I am one of the co-
founders and co-leads of the New England F# User Group (www.fsug.org).

Our upcoming schedule:
May 4: Antonio Cisternino, co-author of Expert F#
June 1: Richard Hale Shaw, Microsoft MVP
July 6: Amanda Laucher, founder of F# It! LinkedIn Group

We meet the first Monday of every month at Microsoft Cambridge (http://
www.microsoftcambridge.com/).

We are a new group and are interested in speaking with folks about the
following issues:
1. What is the goal of a user group? How does a UG measure its
success?
2. What legal structure should a UG adopt?

Michael de la Maza, the Paris Hilton of F#

[CapeCoder]

Wow, the talent in these intros(!) Really looking forward to meeting
everyone at the Summit.

I'm Marcia McLean, have led or co-led the Cape Cod .NET User Group for
the last 5+ years.

Started a custom software development company, CapeCoder, 10 years ago
because I hate working in offices; still at it through good times and
bad.

I'm on the ground floor of starting a new project, Inspiration for
Girls, http://www.inspirationforgirls.com

Our mission is to help girls develop modern survival skills, leading
to increased confidence, pride in accomplishment and self-reliance.
We're interested in skills transfer, like financial literacy, building
a business, basic homeowner repair projects, self-defense and whatever
else matches the interests and talents of the people involved as
coaches/mentors.

I would love to get a Summer of Code going on Cape this year, so am
especially interested in talking with anyone into training, games
development, STEM and mentorship of beginning software developers.

Marcia McLean - CapeCoder.com, Ltd.
Phone: 508-477-6141; Cell: 508-280-9216
E-mail: cape...@capecoder.com
www.capecoder.com
Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/capecoder
Follow me on Twitter @thecapecoder

[Jim O'Neil]

Hi,

I'm Jim O'Neil a Microsoft Developer Evangelist covering the Northeast
along with Chris Bowen, whom I'm beginning to realize has rock star
status around here :). I've just celebrated my first year at
Microsoft and in role, so am looking forward to this event as a way to
get to meet many of you out there in the greater New England
technosphere that I haven't touched base with yet.

Prior to MS, I was at Sybase/Powersoft for 12 years and focused on
product direction and community for PowerBuilder and related tools.
Over time, it's become more of a niche technology - but no less
passionate!

One of the challenges I've had in the role so far that I thought might
be an appropriate topic for discussion at the summit is 'how do you
balance the level of technical sophistication in your group?' My
Sybase customer audiences were overwhelmingly veteran users (5 or more
years with the product/tech), so the common ground was easy to find.
With technologies that have a wider reach, how do you continue to
challenge and excite the veterans while also educating and
enlightening the newbies?

See you on May 2nd, and if you've got question on logistics, getting
to the event, etc., please feel free to ping me.

Jim O'Neil
jim....@microsoft.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/jimoneil
Twitter: jimoneil

[Fearless Leader]

I am Dan Mezick.

Here I am providing a <a href="http://www.newtechusa.com/agileboston/
fearlessleader.htm>link</a> to my bio.

On Apr 1, 4:55 pm, Allan Tear <akt...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Sara Streeter]

Hi Jim,

   I've thought a lot about that question running the NewBCamp event here in Providence.  To recap, Jim asks

With technologies that have a wider reach, how do you continue to

challenge and excite the veterans while also educating and

enlightening the newbies?

We are prone as tech types to oversimplify a range of skills into a newbie-geek dichotomy.  The name of my event may even encourage this, "NewBCamp" being marketed as an event for newbies.  However, the NewBCamp motto is "we are all newbies at something".  We all have something to learn from each other, and we all have something to contribute. 

 

There is one skill that does distinguish a geek from a newbie, that is very teachable and is crucial to using technology and adapting to a modern workplace.  This is usually NOT taught in school.  Self-driven learning allows an IT professional to troubleshoot a problem by using all resources at hand and persisting until he or she finds an answer.  I want to distinguish this from being a smart human. I would argue that self-driven learning is a skill and an attitude, not equivalent to the characteristic of high intelligence. 

 

Events, especially day long or weekend long events such as the unconferences in the area, must not expect to teach specific skills.  What they can do instead is demonstrate to newbies how to learn and they can facilitate introductions between newbies and potential mentors.  The content of the sessions are important, but they are not the point of the event.  Rather they introduce topics and provide a road map for newbies to find out more on their own.  As for the geeks, they can take the opportunity to meet newbies and become mentors.  They should come prepared to find their own knowledge tested and increased by answering the innocent and often profound questions of newbies.

Sara Streeter
401.793.1119
http://www.newbcamp.com
http://www.sarastreeter.com

[Fearless Leader]

Hello All,

I'm Dan, time to introduce myself. I see the other introductions and
all I can say is wow! This is a diverse and interesting set of people.

I organize and run the following regional user groups:

*************************************************
Agile Boston (http://www.newtechusa.com/agileboston/)
...meets at Microsoft Waltham 4th Wednesday 630PM.
*************************************************
*************************************************
Agile Connecticut (http://www.newtechusa.com/agile/)
...meets at Microsoft Farmington CT 1st Tuesday 630PM.
*************************************************

At Agile Boston we have experience with up to 148 persons attending a
single meeting.

At Agile Boston we average about 80 and have come to expect at least
50 at each meeting.

We as a group are very lively, meeting every month and covering
anything Agile. I'm a very hardcore Scrum guy, so the group and the
content of our meetings tend to reflect that.

We have some terrific meetings planned for 2009 and the calendar is
full with great speakers who are well-known Agile community people,
Agile book authors, thought leaders etc. We are actively booking
speakers for 2010. If you have something to say to an Agile audience,
I am eager to hear from you.

The CT group is gaining traction more slowly. We have big huge
insurance companies here; and change develops slowly.

Some of you may know me as the guy that ran a large VB user group in
CT for almost 10 years.

Some of you may also remember me from Microsoft Developer Days, which
I ran in Hartford and Boston for 7 years in the 1990's. We’d get up to
700 attending these annual dev-community events.

So I am an experienced Community Organizer.
That seems good to have on my resume; maybe I can run for President of
the USA someday.

I have some experience delivering .NET coding talks at Code Camp in CT
and MA.

I have some experience delivering talks at Agile2007, Agile2008 and
soon Agile2009.

I am the [Manifesting Agility] Stage producer for Agile2009 held Aug
24-27 2009 in Chicago.



I teach .NET development for a living and I am an active Scrum Coach,
most recently coaching Scrum for a large insurance company in
Hartford. They have a couple of projects going.

You can learn more about me here: http://www.newtechusa.com/agileboston/fearlessleader.htm

I’m eager to experience this Northeast User Group Summit event coming
up.

I plan to see you there !

[Josh Nichols]

Allan Tear wrote:
> Folks, is it worth us introducing the groups we lead/are involved in?

Josh Nichols here. I'm an organizer for the Boston Ruby Group
(http://bostonrb.org). We have a budding Ruby community here in the
Boston area, and we have a number of regular monthly meetings.

1st Tuesday, Hackfest:

People get together to hack on codes. An example of what we did last
Tuesday: http://gist.github.com/92531 . ~10-20 attendees

2nd Tuesday, User Group Meeting:

This is your more typical kind of user group meeting. We get 1 or 2
speakers, and make time for lightning talks if group members are
interested. ~40-80 attendees (depending on the topic)

3rd Tuesday, another Hackfest

More of the same.

4th Tuesday, Ruby Theatre:

There's a lot of professional Ruby-related screencasts, and recorded
lectures from other groups and conferences. We sit down to watch such
recordings, and have round table discussions about the content. ~10-15
attendees

[Rob Hale]

Rob Hale here from the VT .NET user group. I've presented some of the
newbie sessions up here and regularly travel to the code camp in
Waltham, MA (I grew up in Norwood so I say with family... makes it
financially viable for me). I'm also in the process of trying to get
a code camp started up here in the green mountain state. I look
forward to meeting many of you.

-Rob

On Apr 1, 4:55 pm, Allan Tear <akt...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Andy Shearer]

Late to the party here. (I was busy this month getting married, but
that's over now. The wedding, that is.)

I organize the monthly Providence Web Developers' Lunch Hour and the
Providence PHP Meetup, and am the lead developer of RI Nexus, a tech &
digital media community site. I'm gauging interest in a local Python/
Django group.

http://php.meetup.com/338/
http://webdesign.meetup.com/410/
http://rinexus.com/

On the non-organizer side, I'm a Providence Geek Dinner,
BarCampBoston, Providence Pecha Kucha, and NewBCamp regular.

--
Andy Shearer | and...@ashearer.com
http://twitter.com/ashearer

[Marsee Henon]

Congrats on your marriage Andy. Look forward to seeing you soon.

Marsee

[Jason Robb]

Hello everyone,

I'm Jason Robb, a jack-of-all-trades working at a start up company in
Cambridge, MA -- MyHappyPlanet, a language education company.

I organize a book club called the UX Book Club Boston <http://
www.uxboston.com/> and I'm a frequent attendee at Patrick Haney's
Refresh Boston <http://refreshboston.com/>. I also attend Build Guild
(Salem) and The Markup & Style Society (Boston).

The UX Book Club Boston is a relatively new venture. We've had one
meeting so far. Betahouse is hosting our next event on Wednesday, May
6th @ 7PM. We'll be reading Steve Krug's book, Don't Make Me Think,
and I'm 99% sure Steve is coming to the event as well. Very exciting!

The event page is here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2512056

Thanks for listening, and hope to meet you all this Saturday!

Cheers,

Jason Robb
ja...@jasonrobb.com
www.jasonrobb.com - personal site
www.uxboston.com - UX book club
www.myhappyplanet.com - work
www.languageinternational.com - work, too

[David Nunez]

Hi all,

I'm David Nunez, transplanted from Austin last July. (day job:
physical computing freelancer. Gigs in the past year include the
software & hardware for a Children's Museum of Houston robot
exhibit,
an animatronics controller for a special fx company, and a number of
iphone apps for clients).

I'm one of the organizers for dorkbot-boston (dorkbotboston.com).
We're a group of artists, technologists, hackers, and makers that do
strange things with electricity in the broadest sense of the word
(topics range from electronics, robotics, new media art, software
visualizations, tinkering, performance art, etc). I started dorkbot-
austin and and found that getting involved w/ dorkbot was a great
way
to meet my tribe as soon as I moved here.

We meet every month (next: 5/26) with a couple people presenting
projects followed by an "openDork" where anybody can stand up and
talk about something they're working on and get feedback from their
peers.

Every week I've been collecting an events listing mailed out to our
members (see example below). I suspect something like this can be
useful as a shared resource. A really good example is Portland's
calgator.org -- for me, the killer feature would be the ability to
filter by curator (ex. "these are the events that are recommended by
dorkbot-boston vs. those recommended by the django user's group")

Also, take a look at geekaustin.org. I'm eager to see if this is
something that might work in our region (monthly social gatherings,
at bars, which are "co-organized" by geekaustin and the "sponsoring"
organization for cross-pollination. Example: "geekaustin happy hour
w/ austin ruby users group")

Finally: Venues! I'm especially interested in discussion about
places
where we can do things like host hands-on-activities and also how
coffee shops/bars vs. lecture halls work for you in Boston.

===
Some factoids about dorkbot (would be interesting to share this kind
of data amongst ourselves):

* dorkbot-austin grew to a couple thousand "members" (as defined by
mailing list size) w/ 200 person meetings. The Boston group is
currently at a little over 300 "members" w/ 30-40 that show up on a
monthly basis (lots of regulars, but some new faces every time). A
special exception was our meeting that coincided with the CHI
conference: it drew about 200 people, but about half were from out
of
town.

* dorkbot-austin has 3-4 organizers at any given time. dorkbot-
boston now has 2 (myself and Emily Daniels).

* dorkbot-austin is roughly 20% women. I don't have a sense what
the
percentage here is, but we only get 2-3 women per 30 at our meetings.

* When I got here, dorkbot was meeting twice a month. We're now
only
meeting once a month -- makes it far easier to manage and doesn't
burn out members (or organizers!)
===

David Nunez
Twitter: davidnunez

da...@davidnunez.com
http://www.davidnunez.com
Urgent: 512.796.9545
Main: 512.366.3330


Upcoming Events
=============
* [04/24-05/10] Boston Cyberarts Festival
bostoncyberarts.org
* [04/25-05/03] Cambridge Science Festival
http://cambridgesciencefestival.org
* [04/28 6PM] Tech Tuesday: Gadgets and Gathering
Microsoft, 1 Memorial Drive Cambridge
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/305001267
* [04/29 7PM] Radio Lab Listening Party ($)
Museum of Science, Boston
http://www.mos.org/events_activities/lectures&d=3039
* [04/29 730PM] Boston Digital Arts Meetup Group Portfolio Night (r)
Boston, MA 02115
http://www.meetup.com/boston-arts/calendar/10067185/
* [04/30 4PM] IBM Open House
IBM Cambridge, One Rogers Street, Cambridge MA
http://boston.garysguide.org/events/2056067/ibm-open-house-
* [04/30 6PM] Christopher Abrams / Paul Allen Bernstein - The Lab -
Artist Talk
FPAC Gallery, 300 Summer Street M1 Boston
http://www.fortpointarts.org/cgi-bin/FPAC
* [05/02 3PM] The Improbable Research Cabaret ($)
Central Square Theater, 450 Mass Ave, Cambridge
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2408583/
* [05/04 1030PM] US Imagine Cup Community Showcase
Microsoft, One Memorial Drive, 1st Floor, Cambridge
http://www.mitx.org/events/1878.cfm
* [05/07-05/08] Independent Game Conference East Boston ($)
http://www.igceast.com/
* [05/17 9AM] Flea at MIT
Albany and Main St., Cambridge, MA
http://web.mit.edu/w1mx/www/swapfest
* [05/26 7PM] dorkbot-boston 200905

* [06/30 7PM] dorkbot-boston 200906
Axiom Gallery


(R) RSVP required ($) Not Free (K) Especially great for kids

Calls for Art
=============
* [06/15] Deadline: FEED: The Exhibition
http://www.reanimationstudios.com/feed/main.html
* [06/19] Deadline: Tectonic
www.rahwayartsguild.org


Volunteer Opportunity
================
CyberArts REMIX volunteers needed!

Friday, May 1

REMIX! is a night of video installations featuring local, national,
and international artists who use copyrighted material to make videos
that blur the line between passive pop-culture consumer and active
artistic creators.

REMOVED! is a collection of outlawed videos removed from YouTube for
copyright violations and the artists' email conversations and disputes
with their lawyers. This work, along with the REMIX installation will
be shown on Friday May 1 at 6 PM in the Amphitheater at Lesley
University.

PANEL DISCUSSION on the re-cutting, re-framing, and queering of
pop-culture often to the chagrin of YouTube and copyright holders will
follow at 7 PM.

Featuring:
Renee Lloyd, Esq. I.P. + Copyright Law
Carmin Karasic, Boston CyberArts Assistant Director
Kevin Driscoll, MIT's Free Culture

Volunteers are needed to distribute press information, help hang work,
trouble shoot a/v issues, and document the panel discussion for
online distribution.

This event is part of the city-wide CyberArts festival.

For more information visit: www.remixboston.wordpress.com
Contact Elisa at Elisa.Kr...@gmail.com for volunteer information.

[David Nunez]

The portland aggregated calendar link is actually: calagator.org. The
code for their system is open source.

> da...@davidnunez.comhttp://www.davidnunez.com

> Contact Elisa at Elisa.Kreisin...@gmail.com for volunteer information.

[Owen Johnson]

[Andrew]

Hey all... I'm Andrew Sempere, maker of interactive art for the last 9
years or so and a Research Designer for IBM CUE (Social Software
research - Irene Grief's group, in the old Lotus building next to the
Galleria).

I am a sometimes-member of a number of tech and maker type groups in
the area (dorkbot, willoughby+baltic, attendee of Barcamp, FooEast,
TechTuesday) but am toying with the idea of an art and tech interest
group with a heavy emphasis on the art end of things. I'm looking
forward to meeting everyone, and am particularly interested in talking
with you if you consider yourself an artist/technologist rather than a
technologist/artist (bonus points if you can name the reference
there).

See you all soon!

Andrew Sempere
andrewsempere.org
and...@media.mit.edu