The PhizzPop Design Challenge pits top interactive, Web, and design agencies
against one another to push the limits of technology and creativity in a battle
royale. Think Mad Max for design. The regional teams have been selected and
will duke it out in New York, Boston, Chicago, Austin, and Los Angeles, with the
regional winners competing against one another, and San Francisco winner AKQA, at South by Southwest Interactive
in Austin, TX.
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For this month’s Geek Austin Happy Hour,
LinearB is teaming up with Connie Reece and Mike Chapman from Social Media Club Austin. This is the last Geek Austin event of the year, and one definitely not to be missed. details at: GeekAustin.com rsvp at: Upcoming |
Where is Linear going tonight? Tonight is the last Dorkbot of the year. Here’s the details:
Thursday, November 15, 7PM
1704 E 5th St. (a few blocks east of I-35)
(512) 236-8634
Yummy food and beverages to accompany your dork euphoria.
FREE EVENT
Highlights
- Mr. Fang and his Furby Youth Orchestra will be performing * Ward Christie presents a collection of his and his peers work,including his VRGoggle+Camera+ harness that makes you feel like you are viewing your own follow cam in a first-person shooter. (It’s hard to describe in text, but believe me, it is simultaneously the geekiest and most amazing things you’ll ever see) * Chase Hammock presents his garage-built invention - Space Pod: A Space Pod replaces your desk and chair with an ultra comfortable fully adjustable seating system. All of the key comfort points in the Space Pod are adjustable so the Pod molds to your entire body. The Space Pod even boasts an integrated personal air conditioning system * John P. Funk brings new and working robot props from his movie production, an homage to B-movie sci-fi special effects with honest to-goodness model making. He was a blue ribbon winner at Maker Faire * Learn details about the 2008 DorkbotAustin Workshop Series - a chance to get your hands dirty with everything from circuit bending to latex casting to subversive hacking * Before dorkbot from 5-7, drop in to the first gathering of the Austin ARDUINO SIG from 5:00-7:00 at cafe mundi. No agenda — just come with your boards, laptops, parts and projects and share what you’ve done. If you’ve never used an arduino, bring a board and we’ll get it to do the “hello world” blinking light and maybe turn a servo. A few loaner boards will be available. (see http://www.arduino.cc for more info about the Arduino)
Baby-Wise.com is looking for a dedicated web professional who “enjoys researching best practices and competitive websites and suggesting feature changes and improvements to keep us on top in our market. This individual should be familiar with search engine optimization techniques to help drive qualified traffic to the site, ultimately building brand value and loyalty. This position affords very wide latitude to control changes to our website, www.baby-wise.com, and has potential to become a leadership role in the future.
The primary attributes we seek in candidates for the PHP Developer position are: Tireless drive to achieve objectives and surpass the competition • Dedication to improved site design and performance • Knowledge of search engine marketing techniques • Programming skills with HTML and scripting languages, particularly PHP • Strong database knowledge – SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Access, etc. • Familiarity with back office applications and ability to improve operations with PHP applications • Positive, can-do attitude with a desire to assist with other company functions when necessary
Please forward your resume along with links to samples of your work to hr hr@baby-wise.com. We offer a casual work environment and the opportunity to participate significantly in the financial success of the company. $40K - $80K depending on qualifications and experience. Stock options and medical plans available.
Girlstart is looking for professionals in game development to volunteer for a one-time ad hoc advisory committee to guide us as we develop our Project IT Girl* curriculum for the spring semester. Specifically, Girlstart is looking for folks with project management experience that can help us apply some of the principles that are used in the for-profit gaming industry to our non-profit program. We need help defining milestones for individual game designs, choosing a versioning system, creating test plans, and training our classroom leaders to manage all this coding. Project management in our classrooms will be a bit different from traditional software, since girls are not working in teams on one game but instead supporting each other as they develop their own game individually.
Committee members will participate in one working lunch on Wednesday, November 14th from 11:30-1pm and then be available for technical assistance via email or phone over the next few months. The total time commitment is less than 3 hours total.
If you’re interested in volunteering your expertise for this ad hoc committee, please RSVP to Audrey Warren at audrey@girlstart.org.
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* Project IT Girl is a Girlstart program that teaches 60 high school girls throughout Austin how they can change the world by using Information Technology. This year, Project IT Girls are learning basic programming concepts through weekly lessons on the Python programming language. The girls are designing, programming, and marketing their own educational games, and the top game designs will be submitted to One Laptop Per Child for inclusion on their ultra-low-cost teaching laptop for children in developing nations.
Lynn Bender (LinearB) is holding another
GeekAustin.com Happy Hour. The happy hour will occur
next Tuesday, November 13, 2007 from 5:30 - 7:30 PM
at Joe DiMaggio’s Italian Chophouse in the Domain.
Hope to see you there!
-LinearB
Dorkbot 12: the last of the season
Thursday, November 15, 7PM
Cafe Mundi
1704 E 5th St. (a few blocks east of I-35)
FREE EVENT
Ward Christie presents a collection of his and his peers work, including his VRGoggle+Camera+harness that makes you feel like you are viewing your own follow cam in a first-person shooter. (It’s hard to describe in text, but believe me, it is simultaneously the geekiest and most amazing things you’ll ever see).
Chase Hammock presents his garage-built invention - Space Pod:A Space Pod replaces your desk and chair with an ultra comfortable fully adjustable seating system. All of the key comfort points in the Space Pod are adjustable so the Pod molds to your entire body.The Space Pod even boasts an integrated personal air conditioning system!
John P. Funk brings new and working robot props from his movie production, an homage to B-movie sci-fi special effects with honest-to-goodness model making. He was a blue ribbon winner at Maker Faire.
Learn details about the 2008 DorkbotAustin Workshop Series - a chance to get your hands dirty with everything from circuit bending to latex casting to subversive hacking.
Before dorkbot from 5-7, drop in to the first gathering of theAustin ARDUINO SIG from 5:00-7:00 at cafe mundi. No agenda — just come with your boards, laptops, parts and projects and share what you’ve done. If you’ve never used an arduino, bring a board and we’ll get it to do the “hello world” blinking light and maybe turn a servo. A few loaner boards will be available. (see http://www.arduino.cc for more info about the Arduino)
Matthew Weigel just sent this in: The Austin C/C++ Meetup is coming up (November 20 at BB Rovers), and we’d like you to know about it! People wanting to talk shop for just about any programming language, or software engineering in general, are welcome. Mostly, we talk about recent programming experiences and drink beer.
Kelley and Lee invite us to join them as they celebrate their upcoming wedding in April 2008. The party is at Homer’s Bar and Grill on Nov. 27 from 7 to 10 p.m. For all the details visit their wedding page.
William Cook needs a copy of CodeWarrior for Mac OS — version 8 or 9. “Its discontinued, by I need to build a legacy product, a photoshop plugin, and in this is the only way to do it! I live in Autin and since MetroWerks is/was here, i thought somebody must be able to…” Contact him at: william@fineEyeColor.com
