Nick Sieger: Let's keep the minnebar hightag:blog.nicksieger.com,2005:TypoTypo2010-11-22T20:31:43+00:00Peter Fleckurn:uuid:506d7621-ca01-4fbe-83ae-1c57316d4a7c2006-05-08T19:44:30+00:002010-11-22T20:31:43+00:00Comment on Let's keep the minnebar high by Peter Fleck<p>Have to say, Nick, that I hope we keep the entity out of the minnebar for most purposes (as I noticed you did in the title to the post). Too much work in the tagging and search world.</p>
<p>I also had a great time at our first local barcamp and look forward to seeing your videos. I don’t know about getting together regularly but I know I would like to at least debrief about this one with a group so the next one can get better.</p>Nick Siegerurn:uuid:18dac9d2-0ef8-455d-bb0b-3dcdaa3e81c82006-05-08T03:17:00+00:002010-11-22T20:31:43+00:00Let's keep the minnebar high<p>It’s going to take me a while to recover from <a href="http://barcamp.org/MinneBar">minnēbar</a>. I met some great people, got motivated by some new noble ideas, and generally had a blast. A thousand kudos to <a href="http://alttext.com/">Ben</a> as well as the sponsors for making the event a smashing success.</p>
<p>But, let’s not stop there. We made some initial contact, hit it off well, vibed off of the energy in the venue. I’d be disappointed to say the least if I didn’t hear from anyone for another six months until the next event gets planned and scheduled.</p>
<p>So, can we make a concerted effort to keep in touch? May I suggest a monthly (or so) geek dinner, drinks or something similarly informal (e.g., the Friday night get together? I wasn’t there) where we can keep some momentum going and build our relationships? Find out where our own strengths are and how we complement each other?</p>
<p>If there’s one thing coming out of Saturday’s event where I hope we have a shared vision, it’s for increasing the amount of innovation in the technology sector in the Twin Cities. This group of people has the talent to make that real.</p>
<p>On a side note, I recorded four sessions of audio from Saturday, and at first listen they appeared to come out pretty well. I hope to post them in the coming days.</p>
<p>Another side note: the “ē” in minnēbar is represented in HTML as unicode entity <code>&#x0113;</code>. Don’t let your minnēbar posts suffer encoding issues on the highway!</p>