DevHouse:DC
(a SuperHappyDevHouse event for the Washington DC area!)
Hey there! DevHouse:DC now has its own site.
Check out http://devhousedc.org for future events!
-- first event info, kept for posterity... --
When:
Saturday, October 2nd, noon-11pm
Where:
Palantir Tech's DC Office (AKA Rivendell)
8th Floor
1660 International Drive
McLean, VA 22102
(Google Maps Link)
(Palantir_DC_Rivendell_Directions.pdf - feel free to park in the 'short term' all day on Saturday!)
(No walkable metro stop; post in requests if you need a ride from West Falls Church Metro...)
What:
- Come to code, craft, create. More info:
- Check out this article for more info about (SuperHappy)DevHouse in Silcon Valley.
- Check out a past event to see what people work on at these things.
- Bring your laptop (and/or other gear) and your brain, we'll provide wifi and food.
- Present cool stuff during five-minute Lightning talks.
- Meet other hackers and thinkers
- Hang out with friends. (INVITE YOUR FRIENDS!!)
- Free wifi, food, and drinks to fuel creativity
- Past pictures: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=shdh&m=tags
- It's not a party (but it's fun), it's not a conference (but you'll learn something), it's not a networking event (though you'll meet cool people)
Schedule:
- 12:00pm-6pm: hacking and partying
- 6pm-7pm: dinner
- 7pm-8pm: lighting talks
- 8pm-11pm: more hacking and more partying
RSVP:
Who's going to be here and why?
- Steve Downing
- Zachary Wyatt - making something fun for new android
- Tony Nassar, black belt - Hadoop + Cascading, if we're all lucky.
- Laura Rubin - Fibercraft with LEDs: felt and lace.
- Damen Knight - Voted "Most Likely to Burst Into Flames"
- Jason Kohles - Robot Nerf Turret, possibly other robot projects...
- Jessy Kate - WordAPI (NLP stuff with python/nltk/machine learning classifiers...)
- Kelly O'Blennis
- Ben Matheny
- Jon Rios
- Paul Singh - messing around with Rails, probably on a side project - notarycrm.com
- Varvn Aryacetas - Crisis Mapping
- Tony Primerano - I need to get out of the house. Rails3/Linux/coder @primerano
Questions? Want to help organize?
Email organizers at devhousedc@googlegroups.com.
Requests:
carpooling? need a ride from the metro? holla.