Matt did a great job talking about all the fun we had at CodeAway on Saturday:

CodeAway » CodeAway Recap for Nov, 2007

Here are a couple of photos from the event:

I love these two photos because you can see Joan taking a picture of me while I take pictures of everyone else:

Lots of fun and pizza this month!

Our next CodeAway event is:

Date and Time: Saturday, 01-19-08 1pm-5pm

Location: SupaSecret Location! Contact Laura Moncur to get the address.

Feel free to bring treats, your laptop, your Nintendo DS and your buddies!

You can RSVP at Upcoming.org:

CodeAway: SLC Geeks at SupaSecret Location (Sunday, November 18, 2007) - Upcoming

Quick recap of yesterday’s last CodeAway geek social event, in bullets:

• Thanks to Jason A, we got some hands on time with the Chumby. It’s an extremely interesting gadget that would be idea for a preschooler.
• We had an open discussion on just where to find web development talent. After everybody in the room expressed interest and then retracted after thinking about their upcoming schedule a few things thrown out were
  • Craigslist (lots of people looking but talent varies widely)
  • eLance (a bit more focused, but you get what you pay for and if you end up with foreign developers/designers be prepared to over communicate)
  • Job.Wordpress.net (for Wordpress centric tasks go straight to the niche marketplace where everyone is specifically skilled in the desired platform)
  • XHTML Slicer (for those that already have a photoshopped layout this firm exists to slice and dice it into a functional website)
• I got some great recommendations on how to allow visitors to a website to draw images.
• Brief discussions of NanoWrimo, the upcoming PodCampSLC, a rundown of the utah tech events leading up to 2008, and so much more.
• One bowl of M&Ms
• Three pizzas
• Too many rounds of Guitar Hero III to count

For pictures of this and previous events check out the pictures tagged ‘codeaway’ on flickr.

The Utah Blogger/Geek Dinner is Thursday 11-29-07 at 6pm at the Sampan at Southtowne Mall.

Here is the address and a link to Google Maps:

Sampan Asian Cuisine at Southtowne Mall 10450 S State St Sandy, UT 84070 (801) 576-0688

Google Map

PLEASE RSVP!!

We are using Upcoming.org to plan our meetups, so please RSVP there so we can give them an idea of how many people are coming.

Nov Blogger/Geek Dinner at Southtown Sampan (Thursday, November 29, 2007) - Upcoming

See you on the 29th!

You might have already heard that on November 17th we’ll be having the last CodeAway get together for the year. What you may have known is that the same day Utah’s Tier Four is sponsoring paintball for local computer geeks (from 10am to approximately 2pm). More about the event is on the Utah Open Source Foundation website.

It’s important to mention that just because you pwn n00bs in Halo 3 you won’t automatically be l33t here.

We set up a time for the November CodeAway:

Date and Time: Saturday, 11-17-07 1pm-5pm

Location: SupaSecret Location! Contact Laura Moncur to get the address.

Feel free to bring treats, your laptop, your Nintendo DS and your buddies! See you in a couple weeks!

Update: There has been a request to play Guitar Hero III. Better practice at home to limber up those fingers. It sounds like Matt is ready to kick some butt!

Here are the photos I took from the Guy Kawasaki Lunch.

Guy Kawasaki Lunch - a photoset on Flickr

It was nice to see everyone.