Monthly Archive for August, 2008

Portland Ignites Gnomedex

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Josh Bancroft
on August 19, 2008
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Ignite Portland is breaking out of Oregon (for a short time)! :-)

Chris and Ponzi Pirillo, and the other organizers of the best geek conference I’ve ever been to, Gnomedex, pinged me last week to see if any Ignite Portland alumni would be interested in giving their talks at Gnomedex 8.0 this year.

As a result, at Gnomedex on Saturday morning, there’s going to be a “mini-Ignite Portland” with selections of popular talks from past Ignite Portland events. (This isn’t an official Legion of Tech event.) There’s also going to be a similar “mini Ignite Seattle” on Friday afternoon, with Brady Forest and his cadre of Igniters.

Rick Turoczy over at Silicon Florist has a writeup, with a list of the talks that will be featured, and you can see the “speaker bio” page for the talks on the Gnomedex site.

Here are the talks that are migrating north to Seattle:

The coolest thing about all of this? The idea for Ignite Portland was hatched at last year’s Gnomedex. They highlighted some of the previous evening’s Ignite Seattle talks, and I loved them. The energy and excitement were off the charts, and I immediately started thinking (and Twitter-ing) about how awesome it would be to do an Ignite event in Portland. Connections and plans were made, venues were filled to capacity, Legion of Tech was born, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Besides the obvious coolness of these talks, there’s something poetic about Ignite Portland making an appearance at Gnomedex. It goes to show that a lot of really cool things can happen in the space of one year! :-)

Want to help with Ignite Portland 4? Come to the planning kickoff tonight

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Josh Bancroft
on August 18, 2008
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Sorry for the kind of late notice, but if you’re interested in volunteering to help us with Ignite Portland 4, there’s a planning kickoff meeting tonight at Cubespace - get all the details on Upcoming.

We’re using the time tonight to feel out who is interested in helping with what, form some teams, and basically start the ball rolling.

Ignite Portland events couldn’t happen without all of the amazing people who volunteer, and if you end up helping, you get the added benefit of hanging around and getting to know a great group of really smart, motivated people.

So go RSVP on Upcoming, come to the kickoff tonight, and dive on in. If you’re reading this after the fact (August 18), but are still interested in volunteering, drop a comment below, and we’ll see if we can find a way to take advantage of you use your talents! :-)

Update: Amber Case took some good notes from the planning meeting - check them out, and thanks, Amber! :-)