Tech Talk in Bay Area?

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.] 

Thanks!

21 comments:

  1. Scott SchlegelFebruary 21, 2007 at 9:17 AM

    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.

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  2. Paul HepworthFebruary 21, 2007 at 12:30 PM

    Ditto (on both my interest and the location)

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  3. Tom PalmerFebruary 21, 2007 at 2:09 PM

    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.

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  4. Jay McCarthyFebruary 21, 2007 at 8:27 PM

    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.

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  5. jrjFebruary 21, 2007 at 11:23 PM

    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.

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  6. Dave JohnstonFebruary 22, 2007 at 1:44 AM

    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!

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  7. Joseph ScottFebruary 22, 2007 at 3:23 AM

    Interested++

    I'm also in Sacramento so I'd vote for locations that would be easier for me to get to :-)

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  8. hhsFebruary 22, 2007 at 10:33 AM

    I'm also interested. Somewhere in Santa Clara County would be the best location.

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  9. Joe LindseyFebruary 22, 2007 at 10:39 AM

    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.

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  10. Kathryn GrantFebruary 22, 2007 at 11:47 AM

    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.

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  11. jrjFebruary 22, 2007 at 12:33 PM

    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).

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  12. Joseph ScottFebruary 22, 2007 at 4:50 PM

    I have no problem driving to the bay area from Sacramento for an event like this.

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  13. Greg HartFebruary 23, 2007 at 10:17 AM

    I would go. Another vote for Santa Clara County.

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  14. Keith CarstenFebruary 24, 2007 at 1:30 AM

    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!

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  15. Vic WalkerFebruary 24, 2007 at 4:40 AM

    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.

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  16. Kyle TophamFebruary 26, 2007 at 3:47 AM

    Count me in.

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  17. Benjamin HofmannFebruary 26, 2007 at 2:09 PM

    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.

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  18. Justin MastersFebruary 28, 2007 at 1:53 AM

    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

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  19. Tom OrtegaFebruary 28, 2007 at 3:26 PM

    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.

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  20. Enrique RomeroMarch 5, 2007 at 6:20 AM

    I vote for one in Southern California

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  21. Bryan HansenApril 11, 2007 at 4:31 AM

    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!

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