{"id":560,"date":"2009-12-02T12:01:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T18:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/000560"},"modified":"2009-12-02T12:01:17","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T18:01:17","slug":"december-2009-bdnt-writeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/560","title":{"rendered":"December 2009 BDNT writeup"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to the Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup last night, and as always, had a good time.\u00a0 I ran into Brett Borders<\/a>, and had a good discussion with him about why BDNT is worth going to.\u00a0 I only go every couple of quarters, but I always learn something, and meet some interesting people (last night, including Marty Frary), and get jazzed about technology again.\u00a0 This particular episode was packed–standing room only.\u00a0 In addition, in the spirit of the season, there was a food drive, which was a nice touch, and a giveaway.\u00a0 One additional change was that the twitter stream was off during presentations, though available during the q&a period (here’s a twitterstream horror story from the presenter’s point of view<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Brad Bernthal<\/a> gave an overview of Silicon Flatirons<\/a> (and asked for $ support).\u00a0 This is a center focused on tech, law and entrepeneurship, which puts on a number of programs supporting the Boulder tech scene (I attended and reviewed one a while back: IP Crash Course for Entrepeneurs<\/a>).\u00a0 Which raises the question–where is the CU CS department?\u00a0 Why is the Law school hosting BDNT and other users’ groups?\u00a0 The CS department does host Colloquia (I attend about one a year<\/a>), but I don’t think those compare to BDNT, et al.<\/p>\n

After Brad, we moved on to jobs and events.\u00a0 I was glad to see a number of jobs pop up.\u00a0 Over the last year, at BDNT there were always some developer jobs available, but this time there was also a marketing job.\u00a0 Hope it’s a sign that the Boulder tech job market is thawing (for folks other than developers).\u00a0 There were 8 job announcements, though one of them was equity only.\u00a0 About half of the presenting companies said they were looking to hire as well.\u00a0 As far as events, KGNU is having a fundraiser called ‘Beers With Brad’<\/a>.\u00a0 Ignite Boulder 7<\/a> is only a week away (here’s an interesting post on how to organize Ignites<\/a>).<\/p>\n

On to presentations…<\/p>\n