9-5er missing out on local geek-awesomeness

Posted on May 19th, 2009, by chempel

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Used to have the freedom to attend geek dinners at very least. I have been working full time for a few months, following the boards, and realizing that there is a huge tech movement in the city that I am bummed I am missing out on

I try to stay active on as many boards as possible, but in-person meetings in our favorite city are always enjoyable.

Point of the post, who else is in this position? In this position and making it to a lot of the goings-on?
And, how can we include people that may be in my similar position in the creative movement? What's going on during the weekends?

I graduated recently, started off working with a talented team of web developers, and since have been the heading up the marketing department at a local corporation.

I feel like I have learned a TON since getting out, and want to share and reconnect to the local scene, but getting home around 7PM is making it tough.

Thanks all in advance!

-chris

Comments

bjepson

Submitted on June 10th, 2009 - 6:53pm link

I hear you; it can be tricky. I'm temporarily dividing my time between RI and the DC area, and I make a trip (train or plane) back each month for the geek dinners. I'm going to try to catch a couple of RI-Nexus Open Coffees, South County Edition during the summer as well, if I can swing it. But it's tricky to schedule my time, especially since I travel for work occasionally as well.

But if you can't make it to one of the events, why not start one of your own? What do you like to hack/make/create? Come up with an idea for a meetup, and throw out some ideas on the forum for location and time, and see what happens. You'll find that a lot of folks have good ideas, and you should be able to get something fun happening.