At MinneBar on May 10, a major event was a panel titled State of the State: Technology in Minnesota. The panel included Douglas Olson, Jamie Thinglestad, Michael Gorman, Robert Stephens, Dan Grigsby, and Matthew Dornquast. This is a recording of that session.
At MinneBar on May 10, Dan Grigsby presented a session titled Screw You LAMP. Plus Virtualization. This is a recording of that session.
At MinneBar on May 10, Matt Bauer of Mosquito Mole Multiworks presented a session titled Farmsourcing Rails: or How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Enterprise. This is a recording of that session.
Somehow I've managed to not tell some people about this, so I'm going to attempt to cover my bases by posting it here. MinneBar 2008 is this Saturday at Coffman Union at UMN. For those who have never heard about it, it's an "unconference" where attendees present on their interests rather than pushing a corporate agenda. For more info, see the MinneBar site and the BarCamp site.
Surprisingly it came up today in conversation with a complete stranger, and we had a nice discussion about some of the philosophies behind it. Getting a bunch of tech people together, not caring about all the typical corporate limitations, but instead just sharing knowledge and talking tech. It seems every discussion just makes me look forward to it more. If you're at all interested and are not already committed to something else this Saturday, you should sign up and join us!
