Wow, what a great weekend for the Philadelphia scene! We had our first BarCamp here in Philly, thanks to Roz Duffy, JP Toto, and a hard working team of volunteers. Contratulations to everyone who attended on making this event not only one of the best events we’ve had in Philadelphia yet, but one of the best BarCamp’s I’ve attended!
At the end of the day, we had a “Philly Scene” session led by Kimberly Blessing, which involved us filling a whiteboard with places, events, and websites that are the lifeblood of everything awesome going on in our town. Once Kimberly shares her redux of the list we compiled, we’ll share it here. In the mean time, we’ve got a bunch of stuff coming up that you can get into to keep the Barcamp spirit going!
CocoaHeads Philly - Thursday, November 13th
CocoaHeads is a monthly get-together of cocoa developers (not chocolate, Cocoa is Apple’s development framework) to talk about development techniques and the things that they are working on. Last month Andy Mroczkowski showed off an iPhone project he’d been working on, and since then, it’s hit the iTunes app store. Check out Wolfgang’s Vault!
This month’s meeting is on Thursday, November 13th and runs from from 7-9pm, at IndyHall.
CupCakeCamp East - Sunday November 16th
BarCamp + Cupcakes = Love. Dana and Katie from OpenSourceCupcakes will be celebrating the launch of their cupcake site by having a cupcake exchange in the format of “CupcakeCamp”, pioneered in San Francisco; now we’re bringing it to Philly! Full details on the previous post about the event.
IP For Independents - Wednesday, November 19th
Frank Taney, shareholder and chair of the Information Technology Litigation Practice Group at the law firm Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, presents “IP for Independents.”
Frank will address a number of intellectual property (”IP”) topics with particular significance for Independents, including:
- The main categories of IP and how Independents are likely to encounter them
- The basic steps Independents need to take to protect their IP
- “Safe” licensing, conveyance and use of IP
- Identifying actionable IP infringement
- Enforcement of IP rights and remedies for infringement
We tend to take pretty liberal views on IP issues here at IndyHall, so getting some varied perspective from the legal side is going to be beneficial and certainly interesting. We look forward to Frank’s lecture. Please RSVP on Upcoming!
IndyHall Show and Tell - Thursday, November 20th [lunchtime!]
Who said Show and Tell was just for kids? We’re going to be hosting a lunchtime Show and Tell monthly, at least, where 4 people from the community (that’s folks who work at IndyHall AND folks who don’t) will be able to talk about and show off whatever they’ve been working on, have found interesting, learned about, etc. We’ll order some sandwiches and drinks, and if you’re able to get to Old City between 12 and 1pm on Thursday, November 20th, you should join us! Interested in showing or telling? Drop us a note. Either way, please RSVP on Upcoming since space is limited and we need to order food.
