Tech Talk in Bay Area?
February 21, 2007 | By Joel Dehlin | 22 Comments
Several of our directors will be in the bay area April 22 - April 26. We are considering a tech talk there if there is enough interest.
The tentative agenda would be:
- Keynote (joel)
- Infrastructure breakout (dave)
- Development breakout (david)
- Interaction Design breakout (tadd)
- Community breakout (tom)
- Building to building video breakout (pete)
Please respond to this post if a) you’d be interested in attending a tech talk in the bay area or b) if you have a suggested venue. We’ve had these on site at a vendor location in the past and that has worked quite well.
[Deleted my comment asking people not to post requests for tech talks in other locations as it sounded a little snooty. Thanks to the reader who pointed that out.]
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Scott Schlegel said...
I would be interested. I would like to suggest the Los Altos Stake center (in Mountian View, just north of San Jose) as a center point for folks coming up and down the peninsula.
February 21, 2007 5:17 pm #
Paul Hepworth said...
Ditto (on both my interest and the location)
February 21, 2007 8:30 pm #
Tom Palmer said...
I would be interested. I’m in Sacramento, so Saturday (the 26th) would be best for me.
If not on Saturday, I might be able to take work off if I plan in advance. Hard to promise, but it might work out.
February 21, 2007 10:09 pm #
Jay McCarthy said...
Yes. I am happen to be at Stanford for exactly those days and was really hoping for one around me soon. I support the Los Altos stake.
February 22, 2007 4:27 am #
jrj said...
Absolutely interested! Los Altos would be fine. If you want a to do this on-site at a vendor location, I can look into a couple of places (Apple & HP) - both in Cupertino. Let me know if there is a preference.
February 22, 2007 7:23 am #
Dave Johnston said...
I’m there for it. Just let me know when and where. I’m coming from up in Ukiah, so pretty much anywhere in the bay area will be a 2-3 hour drive but it’ll be worth it!
February 22, 2007 9:44 am #
Joseph Scott said...
Interested++
I’m also in Sacramento so I’d vote for locations that would be easier for me to get to
February 22, 2007 11:23 am #
hhs said...
I’m also interested. Somewhere in Santa Clara County would be the best location.
February 22, 2007 6:33 pm #
Joe Lindsey said...
I think we could drum up a lot of interest in the Bay Area (South Bay particularly). There was a meeting like this a couple of years ago in Pleasanton. But as suggested above, Los Altos would be a good location, too. Set a date and we’ll get the word out.
February 22, 2007 6:39 pm #
Kathryn Grant said...
Yes! Yes! Come! Los Altos is fine for me too. Saturday is easier for me because of work, but I could possibly get off for a weekday.
February 22, 2007 7:47 pm #
jrj said...
Sacramento != Bay Area
It’s close, as in hand-grenades & horse-shoes!
The folks from SLC are probably here to visit vendors, let’s not make them travel another 6 hours (3 to Sac. & 3 back to the Bay Area - that’s on a day with good traffic).
February 22, 2007 8:33 pm #
Joseph Scott said...
I have no problem driving to the bay area from Sacramento for an event like this.
February 23, 2007 12:50 am #
Greg Hart said...
I would go. Another vote for Santa Clara County.
February 23, 2007 6:17 pm #
Keith Carsten said...
San Francisco or East Bay would be great for me. It sounds like we are willing to work around where you and your staff will be. If you give it, we will come. I am an Infrastructure and database guy, so that is what interests me.
Thanks for offering this!
February 24, 2007 9:30 am #
Justin Masters said...
I (and a person also viewing this web page on the phone as we speak) would LOVE to attend this, and would welcome the opportunity for other Sacramento people to be able to carpool together, and be able to network in the process.
Can someone (or Joel) set up a Sacramento carpool web site? Please require an email address and verification so that we don’t get spammed, etc.
Just an idea… rather than gripe about how far away it is, let’s make the best use of the opportunity to network, discuss our regional talents, and compare notes on the presentation on the way home and beyond that.
[Joel: No problem. You can create one for Sacramento (or any town for that matter) over on the general discussion forum at http://beta.tech.lds.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=14.
February 24, 2007 12:21 pm #
Vic Walker said...
I’d love to see something in the Sacramento area too. Sacramento and Bay Area aren’t exactly the same thing, especially when you get further south toward San Jose, even though it’s all part of Northern California (Superior California, as the Sacramento Bee calls it
).
Having said that, I’ll drive to the Bay Area to participate in this. It’d definitely be worth the drive.
February 24, 2007 12:40 pm #
Kyle Topham said...
Count me in.
February 26, 2007 11:47 am #
Benjamin Hofmann said...
I’m from Tulsa Oklahoma and unfortunately I don’t anticipate tech talks coming to my neck of the woods. Is there a way to record these tech talks and post them on the site as a webcast or podcast so everyone can participate? I know these are starting to occur more frequently so we probably don’t need to have every tech talk online.
February 26, 2007 10:09 pm #
Justin Masters said...
Joel, thank you!
Folks, I’ve put up a topic on the lds tech web site for Sacramentans who might want to carpool to the bay area for a tech talk. Here’s the location: http://beta.tech.lds.org/forum/showthread.php?t=276
Justin
February 28, 2007 9:53 am #
Tom Ortega said...
I’m good for attending. I work at eBay and we have a conference center. If you’re interested in using it, I’ll need to know quickly so I can check availability and “book it”. It’s free of cost.
February 28, 2007 11:26 pm #
Enrique Romero said...
I vote for one in Southern California
March 5, 2007 2:20 pm #
Bryan Hansen said...
People that are attending the tech talks and choose to blog about them, would you please put in the title of your blog LDSTECH07 so that people can search for them easily?
Thanks!
April 11, 2007 11:31 am #