http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2006/05/08/lets-keep-the-minnebar-high en-us 40 do what you love <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&#8217;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> Mon, 08 May 2006 19:44:30 +0000 urn:uuid:506d7621-ca01-4fbe-83ae-1c57316d4a7c http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2006/05/08/lets-keep-the-minnebar-high#comment-11 <p>It&#8217;s going to take me a while to recover from <a href="http://barcamp.org/MinneBar">minn&#x0113;bar</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&#8217;s not stop there. We made some initial contact, hit it off well, vibed off of the energy in the venue. I&#8217;d be disappointed to say the least if I didn&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;s one thing coming out of Saturday&#8217;s event where I hope we have a shared vision, it&#8217;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 &#8220;&#x0113;&#8221; in minn&#x0113;bar is represented in HTML as unicode entity <code>&amp;#x0113;</code>. Don&#8217;t let your minn&#x0113;bar posts suffer encoding issues on the highway!</p> Mon, 08 May 2006 03:17:00 +0000 urn:uuid:18dac9d2-0ef8-455d-bb0b-3dcdaa3e81c8 Nick Sieger http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2006/05/08/lets-keep-the-minnebar-high random minnebar http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/trackback/10