Tag Archive for 'geeks'

Saturday House

Posted by Justin Martenstein on October 25, 2007 Closed

Saturday, October 27th
1952 1st Ave. S, Suite 5 (SoDo)

Saturday House is hard to describe in a single sentence. It’s based loosely on the concepts behind the Sudbury Schools, but in an adult setting. People come together for a whole Saturday every week, working on projects together or by themselves, having conversations, or just working. Saturday House is not a geek event, per se, though it was founded by geeks, and get rather geek-centric (lots of laptops, Python, board games, etc). The group has been gathering in some form for almost 6 months now, rotating among people’s homes (including my own). But now they’ve found a quasi-permanent space down in SoDo, and are thinking about using it to explore some concepts around co-working. Come down, poke around, check it out. Or sign up on the mailing list to learn more.

Ignite Seattle 4

Posted by Justin Martenstein on August 6, 2007 Closed

Wednesday, August 8th
Capitol Hill Arts Center
1621 12th Ave. (Capitol Hill)

I think everyone knows the drill of this by now. Brady Forrest (of O’Reilly Media) and Bre Pettis (of Make Magazine) are hosting the fourth Ignite Seattle event on Wednesday. If you haven’t been, it starts out with a Make-inspired contest (building bridges, dropping eggs, etc), and then that’s followed by three rounds of 5 minute lighting talks. This is one of the best geek events in Seattle these days – check out the Ignite Blog for speaker information.