Amazon has a free sampler of the Music you’ll hear at SxSWm – you can grab it here and put it on your Zune for that flight down. (Well I guess you could put it on another MP3 player as well… Like your Kindle or something.)
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I’ll be talking tomorrow at the Sustainable Startup event hosted by Green Technology Alliance. For those following my blog – here’s a bit of homework for in the morning.
There’s a great overview of the BizSpark program here. I’ll be covering the details in my talk, but if you want to prep some questions for the Q&A or follow on discussions give it a read over!
Startups everywhere
Mar 3
I had a nice little blog post I was working up about StartupCamp Austin this past weekend (I still want to work up some more there- it was a great camp) but it seems like I’m getting swamped by Startup activities these days.
Saturday was a great event with plenty of briefings, pitches, and super conversations going on. This is the second time I’ve done StartupCamp Austin and each one is always a delight – the mix of ideas and execution and vision. And I really did enjoy the fact that we explicitly called out that EVERYONE can do a startup – veterans and interns alike.
One of the great presentations that was done was around the Capital Factory – a project to not just to mentor startups, but to execute on a 10 week program to kickstart startups with a bit of seed funding as well. Check the site for the full details (note that I did see the BizSpark logo in the presentation!)
Coming up on Thursday we’ll be talking about startups and the sustainability market at the Green Technology Alliance event. I’ll be talking a bit more about the BizSpark program and areas I’ve seen that makes Austin a great crossroads between sustainability and entrepreneurship.
I’ll spend the next week getting swamped by both .Net Dojo, ArcReady and trying to make the amazing number of startup sessions at SxSW Interactive, but on Monday the 16th the big startup event happens with the Accelerator event .
Oh, and if you’re not around Austin but still wanting to stay plugged in – CNet has some coverage of Demo 09 today as well – http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10173971-93.html
Pause – gasp. I keep hearing on the news that everything’s slowing down, but I look around at our communities and the activity and energy really seems to be headed UP not down!
.Net Dojo on Monday
Mar 3
If you’re working with Silverlight or have been thinking about it and are in Austin next Monday, .Net Dojo is going to be in town talking about how to take advantage of Silverlight in your projects. Todd Anglin will be speaking (a key presenter in our MSDN Developer’s Conference) on one of his favorite topics and one of the hottest techs going right now. You can get the full details and sign up for this free training at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032405197&Culture=en-US
So in that spirit, I’m going to be posting events and activities as they come on my radar. I’ve got some more details for both PhizzPop and Austin BarCamp, but I just got the word on this, and since my local Gamers always like to hear about where the Frag Dolls are going to be, here’s the lowdown. (Oh, and I got the word that getting there early would be very helpful for you to be able to get in – it’s going to be packed. But then again, can you name much during SxSW that isn’t?)
FRIDAY MARCH 13th – OFFICIAL SCREENING PARTY:
Critical Mass Interactive and Voodoo Cowboy are excited to invite you to the official screening party for The 2 Bobs, a comedic adventure written and directed by Tim McCanlies (Secondhand Lions and The Iron Giant)! While you celebrate and enjoy the open-bar, take on two professional gamers and former Frag Dolls, Nin9tyNin9 and Tart, in Halo 3 for your chance to prove your video-game skills and win prizes! The party starts at 6PM, gaming competition at 6:30PM! Free entry and open-bar!
When: March 13th, 2009
Time: 6-8PM (Competition from 6:30-7:30PM)
Place: Aces Lounge, 222 East 6th Street, Austin, TX 78701
Party co-sponsored by CRITICAL MASS INTERACTIVE. www.criticalmassinteractive.com
I’m behind on some of my event posts, but I was asked enough about when ArcReady is coming back around that I thought I need to drop it in pronto! This ArcReady tour is starting in St Louis (Clint gets to be the point guy) but it’s coming to Austin the following week – March 10th (just in time to beat SxSWi). Registration is Here – as usual, you can absolutely show up at the door, but if you register we can make sure to have enough breakfast for everyone.
Dallas will be next for the district, coming in on the 19th (Yes, that means I can’t hang around for all the music part of SxSW and it’s during Mix but if you’re not booked for either of those, here is where you register for that session – it’s back at our regular location after moving down to the convention center in the fall.
Houston rounds out our sessions on March 24th – info (you guessed it) here. We had a good turnout last time with Houston, but we’re coming back this time with our Cloud Computing topic which I’ve gotten a lot of questions around during Houston TechFest so if you’d like to hear more about the industry as a whole and what Windows Azure means – this is the spot to be.
And as always – if you want to keep up with when each of the events happen in the 15 city tour, it’s always up to date on www.arcready.com
The 2009 Austin Code Camp date has been announced. It’s going to be May 30th, you can find the details and registration links at http://austincodecamp.blogspot.blog.
Procrastination does fill up your calendar I’ve found and I didn’t block off this weekend aggressively enough, so I won’t be able to attend BIL this weekend, but the BIL plane from Austin is heading that way so I thought I’d point out that there will be a lot of online coverage of the event. I’m lucky enough to have local folks who are BIL coordinators AND people who are involved with TED, so it’s probably good I can’t get out there – I’d be stressed out trying to stay connected with both events!
Anyway – the BIL web site is at http://bilconference.com/conferences/ – and you’ll see a lot of information about what’s going on this weekend being updated at a rapid pace.
I’ve gotten a number of question about the Vista kits that has been given out at some events – if you got one of these and were wondering about the key, please take a look at https://microsoft.order-1.com/registerwindowsvistasp1//Default.aspx. This is where you can enter the PIN that was in your package to get your product code.
It’s a bit out of my local neck of the woods, but David Walker mentioned it highly so I thought I’d pass along the info.
http://www.sharepointconference.org/Pages/default.aspx
March 22-24 in Baltimore, MD. I haven’t talked with the organizers yet, but the topics look quite interesting.
