I came straight from TechShop with a new stack of laser-cut business cards to hand out, both my classically fancy ones and a new set of geeky-science ones that fold out in to a working model of Mercury’s orbit. See, I was trying to do a Chic version and a Geek version…to be thematic. I planned to let people choose whether they wanted the Chic or Geek card.
Of course, what I like best about this event is that the most interesting people aren’t either Chic or Geek, but just joyfully creative people who span all areas of interest.
In any party, there are things that work well, and thing that don’t work out. Unfortunately I was only able to see a few of the speakers who came for the evening. The speakers were being recorded, and any talking inside would spoil the audio quality.
What a terrible choice, to choose between listening to famous speaker, or actually conversing with the equally interesting people I had just met. I did enjoy Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s presentation, and got to speak with her afterwards.
But for much of the night, I hung out on the front step, enjoying the lovely night and networking with the people I met.
Here are Eric Boyd* of NoiseBridge (see the shirt) and Rose Broome, who I’d previously met at Up For Stuff, and who’s going to let me teach a mini programming course at the next one! And Eric bought a ForeSight, and later took it to NoiseBridge to show off! Viral marketing, woo!
* Now in Canada. How sad.
