Geeks in Boston

Update 2: The location is set. We’ll meet at 7pm at Barlola Tapas Lounge on Comm Ave & Dartmouth in Boston. Thanks to Ryan Sarver for setting up reservations.

Update: Rescheduled to Wednesday 4/26 from 4/19.
The BarCamp Boston group has settled on a date of June 3-4, and secured generous venue sponsorship from Monster. But there are still many important areas to work on:

• publicity
• planning / un-agenda
• getting more sponsors
• website / registration system
• t-shirts
• undoubtedly, many other things I haven’t thought of

Since it’s hard to coordinate all these efforts among people who don’t already know each other over an email list, I propose we get together over dinner, introduce ourselves, and divvy up the work. Thus:

Dinner for POTENTIAL ORGANIZERS of Boston BarCamp

When: Wednesday, April 26; 7:00pm
Where: Barlola Tapas Lounge on Comm Ave & Dartmouth in Boston
RSVP: by commenting on this post

This gathering is for people who want to help organize Boston Bar Camp. If you just want to attend and present a session, or want to be a sponsor, you do not need to come to this dinner.

My name is Shimon Rura. I’m a geek. I live in Boston. I organize the Boston Startup Meetup and the Genius Workshop, two groups designed to help geeks meet and talk with each other. I also work at Renesys, a startup that analyzes the growth and usage of the Internet, and run Voo2do, a popular web-based task management system.

In August 2007, Josh Nichols joined the site as a co-blogger. Welcome, Josh!

By “geek” I mean someone with a strong incination toward technical work, usually as a main occupation, and usually in software. To do good work, geeks don’t just need computers — we need a whole ecosystem of people and places, from power users to investors to marketers and more. And we need the company of other geeks, so that we can discuss new ideas and find partners.

The mission of this blog is to assist the growth of this ecosystem in the Boston area, and to help interested geeks orient themselves to it.