Mayor Bob Cashell of The City of Reno has issued a proclamation for Reno’s first Hack4Reno event. The document does a great job of explaining why Hack4Reno exists and we’re very excited to be putting on the event. There tends to be some reservations within tech/startup communities to work together with their cities but this [...] Read more – ‘Building a more informed & engaged city’.
Reno-Tahoe WordCamp is in just over a week! This event will sell out so if you haven’t signed up yet, you can register here. There is a whole lot of awesome planned for the weekend including the WordPress Genius Bar, great speakers, and the opportunity to meet a lot of WordPress users, developers, and designers. [...] Read more – ‘Let’s get WordPressin’’.
Reno-Tahoe WordCamp 2011 is happening June 4-5! For more details keep your eyes on http://2011.reno.wordcamp.org/. Stepping Back While I organized RTWC 2009 and 2010 with the help of a great number of volunteers, the building of Lively Labs is my primary focus right now and I am happy to pass on the WordCamp torch to [...] Read more – ‘Reno-Tahoe WordCamp 2011 in June’.
We’ve had great success working with Reno.rb to put on monthly Hacknights at Reno Collective. The hacking is starting to heat up as all of the hackers/devs who have attended have gotten to know one another over the last couple meetings. For this month’s hacknight, I worked with Robert Bousquet on communicating RFID data to [...] Read more – ‘Hacknights!’.
South by Southwest 2011 will take place in Austin, TX in March and each year the conference sessions are submitted by people all over the country to present on topics including web apps, entrepreneurship, social media, and more. This year I submitted a presentation with Eric Jennings from Loopshot called “Beyond Mashups: Connecting Web Apps [...] Read more – ‘Vote for my presentation at SXSW!’.
Ignite Reno #2 is coming up on the night of Thursday, July 16th at Amendment 21. Wondering Ignite Reno is all about? Watch the intro video to find out! Check out presentations from the last Ignite Reno. Read more – ‘Ignite Reno #2 coming in July!’.
Think Kindness has collected over 2,500 3,800 pairs of shoes and now we need help delivering them to Nyeri, Kenya, where they will be personally placed on the feet of children in need. Many of these children have never owned a pair of shoes. Join me on June 7th at the Manzanita Bowl at the [...] Read more – ‘Take the Walk to send shoes to Kenya!’.
