Ben Atkin
often thinks the old fashioned way, with a pen & a paper notebook

About CloudCamp: CloudCamp is an unconference where attendees can exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supporting environment, advancing the current state of cloud computing and related technologies. As an informal, member-supported gathering, we rely entirely on volunteers to help with meeting content, speakers, meeting...

  Remember the drinking game, code-challenge-thing, from The Social Network? That’s the vibe we’re going for with Geek Field Day. :P Boulder's smartest startups have created challenges that you will compete in for prizes and glory - and probably some dizziness! Are you geek enough? Come, compete, rep your company schwag, enjoy beverages...

Join the Snapjoy team for an easy hike from Pearl Street to the top of Red Rocks Trail. All you need is your smartphone camera and a bottle of water. After all, no visit to Boulder is complete without a little outdoor activity.

We’ll be hanging out on the Courthouse lawn from 10:30am until we head West to the Red Rocks trailhead.

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Meet fellow hackers and enjoy delicious local beers with the Snapjoy team. Geek out on all topics technical and share stories about the most interesting projects you've hacked on. Big data, Javascript/Coffeescript, iOS/Android, interaction design.

About Snapjoy - We're a YCombinator-backed startup that is organizing the world's...

Ignite Boulder 18   Ignite 18 will help kickoff Boulder Startup Week, a 5 day buffet of events celebrating the unique startup and entrepreneur community in Boulder.   What is Ignite? Ignite is a night of presentations on a variety of topics, with a twist. Each presentation has 20 slides that automatically advance every 15 seconds. It is...

Come join Engine Yard and New Relic for drinks at the Jackalope! We'll be doing giveaways and knockin' 'em back following day 1 of RailsConf 2012. Hope to see you there.

RailsConf is coming to Austin! Join us in Austin, TX from April 23 - 25 for the seventh annual RailsConf

5 minutes, 20 slides. What would you say?

At every Ignite, 16 artists, technologists, thinkers, and personalities
will take the stage to answer this challenge.

Your favorite startup event is bringing back the fun in 2012. Remember the great times we had back in December? ...the gifts, the drinks, the friends and the reindeer antlers... Well, all that awesomeness is back for the new year (except maybe the reindeer antlers)... Join your community on Thursday, March 1, to meet the freshest batch of startups...

A new Rails BugMash for a new year. Come and mash some bugs with us.

We'll get everybody setup and running the Rails tests, grab lunch and mash some bugs.

Colorado Code Retreat -  What is code retreat? http://coderetreat.com/ Code Retreat Denver Denver 2 - Jan 21st Want to start 2012 with a day practising software craftsmanship, and discuss software craftmanship with a well known Agile development practitioner & author? Then you should be at this event!   Venkat Subramaniam,...

What is a Code Retreat?   Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design. By providing developers the opportunity to take part in focused practice, away from the pressures of ‘getting things done’, the coderetreat format has proven itself to be a highly effective means of...

Ignite Boulder 17 - Fall Ball   That's right, it's dress up time!  If you look snazzy in black tie apparel, then come to Ignite dressed like the 1%. We'll be dressing classy...try and outdo us! (Dressing up is highly encouraged, but optional. Clothing of some sort is, of course, required).   What is Ignite? Ignite is a night of...

Calling all hackers, developers, code monkeys, and data junkies! In conjunction with Defrag Conference 2011, the API Hackday crew is making a stop in Boulder! This will be our first stop in colorful Colorado, after touring around the country and hacking with awesome people in cities like SF, NYC, Chicago, LA, Portland, Austin, SLC, and beyond! ...

Why are you doing a Job Fair for startups?Startups have unique issues when it comes to hiring employees. Specifically most startups don't have the bandwidth to deal with the deluge of resumes that come when posting job openings. That's why StartupDenver Job Fair is set up to alleviate these issues and ensure that both the recruiters and...

PodCamp is The New Media Community Unconference that is not solely for podcasters. If you have content you want your audience to see, our event is for you. People coming are: developers, copywriters, storytellers, photographers, web designers, videographers, podcasters. And you! Contact: Paul Merrill if you have any question: paul at...

TechStars is going to be on TV!  This past winter, Bloomberg followed TechStars our NYC program and created a documentary highlighting the experience of the TechStars teams.  The show, called TechStars, premiers on September 13th, so we're celebrating BIG by renting out the Boulder Theater and inviting the very community that hatched the...

Next week, Boulder has the pleasure of hosting the second annual Rocky Mountain Ruby conference. We're really excited to both sponsor the conference and host a hackfest during it! The hackfest will be a little different this time though. We've got...

- A killer panel of judges
- A neat competition
- A burrito bar, kegs of beer, and some...

A repeat of http://plancast.com/p/4yvw/rails-bugmash-boulder

If you've never contributed to Rails before this is a good place to get started.

We'll get everybody setup with the Rails test suite and then start picking up issues from Rails' Github issue tracker.

Let's mash some Rails bugs.

Lunch! Fresh food! People smiling! Join @ryanwanger as he guides you through the Boulder Farmers Market in order to select a delicious lunch.

(Let's meet in the amphitheater which is a few hundred feet west of the market.)

Come drink, meet, and hack with current and past Techstars teams.

Jive is hosting a big data meetup for anyone interested in the latest tech, best practices, and real-world applications of web-scale infrastructure. Free food & beer provided!

4:00-4:15 Meet and greet
4:15-4:30 Insider workings of Hadoop/Apache Projects by Nigel Daley
4:45-5:00 Flume Use by Lance Riedel, Brent Halsey, Ryan Tyer
5:00-5:15...

**You MUST BUY TICKETS to this event! http://bit.ly/ig15tix **

IGNITE BOULDER RETURNS for another night of the ol' razzle-dazzle. Fast-paced presentations on inspiring topics, delivered by local lovelies. **Special Boulder Startup Week edition**

Questions? Contact Ef Rodriguez via email: pugofwar [at] gmail [dot] com

Peter McGraw leads a salon style discussion on what startups can learn from academic style experiments at the Bolderado (Mezzanine level).

Questions? Peter.McGraw@colorado.edu

Doors open at 6:30 for food, beer and socializing. At 7:30 Tyler Montgomery will start first with his presentation Sinatra: Unlearning Rails Magic. If you haven’t dabbled with Sinatra yet, you should check this out. It’s a great Ruby framework alternative to Rails to have in your toolbox. Nick Howard will follow up with a talk on Dubious and...