Refresh Austin is teaming up with Geek Austin and the Austin WordPress Meetup Group for WordPress Fest at Union Park on May 21st. This is another great opportunity to meet other Web folks here in Austin and have a great time, so c’mon out if you can! People will begin gathering around 6:00, and if past events are any indication, many people will stay into the night, enjoying the roof top deck or the comfortable lounge areas, catching up with old friends and making new ones.
There are entries for the event on Facebook and Upcoming.
Tags: Austin, event, geek austin, happy hour, informal, party
May 13th, 7:00 p.m.
Buffalo Billiards, 6th and Brazos
We had a couple of challenges getting a topic together this month, so our May meeting is going to be an informal happy hour. Come by Buffalo Billiards and half-priced appetizers and drink specials with your fellow Refreshers. We’ll keep to the downstairs bar, since we’ll have no presentation.View the event on Upcoming.org
Tags: happy hour, informal, meeting
- Lots of folks, including many Austin Refreshers, came out for the SXSW Mixer at Mohawk. Short recap here.
- On Tuesday, Grant Hutchins led a presentation titled “Grids in Depth” and David Humphreys led an Introduction to Rails and shared his 10 favorite things about the framework at our February Refresh Austin Meeting. Excellent presentations from both, as well as a great turnout!
- Julie Gomoll finally answered the questions, “When can we start coworking in Austin already?” Turns out we can start coworking in downtown Austin on July 1st. Launchpad Coworking’s space will be located at 800 Brazos Street. Be sure to head over to the Launchpad site to learn more!
- Justin Perkins has announced that he has a new site coming in a week. Or two. His site always takes a creative approach to blogging/bookmarking/lifestreaming/whatever, so it’s exciting to see what’s next.
- On a serious note, Alex Jones takes Pixish to task for fomenting an environment where “clients will view the talent pool as relatively equal, opting for a crap shoot instead of finding the right match for their needs”. As Alex notes in his blog post, this constitutes spec-work and should be guarded against. Derek Powazek did take the time to respond to some of the issues brought up, but only time will tell on this one. Many creatives in in the industry remain unconvinced.
- Christian Watson takes us on a whimisical Journey Through Web Design & Usability Domain Names. Sadly, it appears that the majority of semantically named web/dev/design domains are just parked.
- Do you googlebate? Ryan Joy sure does.
- GeekAustin announced that their May happy hour would be a special Wordpress edition. RSVP here if you enjoy socializing with geeks in a libacious environments.
That’s it for this week, folks!
Tags: coworking, design, geek austin, happy hour, meeting, ruby on rails, SXSW, sxswi
Our January meeting is going to be different than our norm. As many of us will be playing post-holiday catch-up, and likely be a bit overwhelmed, we’re teaming up with Geek Austin to co-host a happy hour. The day is the same, Tuesday, January 8th, but the location is different. We’ll be gathering at J Black’s Feel Good Lounge, to meet and converse with other local tech folks.
Details: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/389567/
I was able to hit the last Geek Austin happy hour for a short while and met some great people. This is a great opportunity to meet cool people, widen your network should you be looking for a new role, or hire someone for a job.
We will return to our normal format come February, so if you have suggestions for a topic that you’d like to hear, please drop me a note off-list. :)
Thanks to LinearB (Lynn Bender) and Whurley for putting this together! I’ll kick out more details as we get closer to the event.
Tags: event, geek austin, happy hour, meeting
