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    • Jeremy Lightsmith Jeremy Lightsmith

      Bio: Jeremy spends most of his time & energy building highly performant software development teams. A seasoned agile coach, trainer & facilitator, Jeremy excels at creating environments where teams can discover how they work best.

      He has a deep understanding of agile, and is constantly looking for better ways to share knowledge and collaborate. As a presenter, Jeremy favors interactive and group techniques and pulls from disciplines as diverse as Theatre Improv and Montessori. Though Jeremy is now an independent consultant in Seattle, most of his 11 year career has been spent at companies like ThoughtWorks and Pivotal. During his time at ThoughtWorks, Jeremy coached teams and trained facilitators; he owes much of his toolbox to the ThoughtWorkers with whom he worked. He is currently writing a book about Facilitation Patterns.


    • Marc Nager Marc Nager

      Bio: I am lucky enough to be a director of Startup Weekend's global operations - a true passion. Raised in Mammoth Lakes, CA (I love to ski).

      Went to college at Chapman University in SoCal. Backpacked for 3 summers. Moved to Switzerland. Got a job making more money than I knew what to do with but was miserable, so I moved to Seattle. Love it here! I don't have a car. I'm always ready to go camping/backpacking/biking/skiing/hiking at a moments notice. My company went under in Jan '09, and I started my own startup. While still going, I jumped full-time into Startup Weekend May 2009. The pay isn't great, but it sure is a crazy ride. We live in an age of entrepreneurs, and I'm lucky enough to be part of something much larger than just me. Now I work as little as I want as long as I'm working 24/7....

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TechStars offer to top Startup Weekend team!

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techstars

We are excited to announce that TechStars Seattle will be have an amazing offer for Startup Weekend Seattle Attendees – There will be two top team that will will get 2-two hour consulting sessions with Tech Stars’ Andy Sack after Startup Weekend as well as “priority consideration” for the next TechStars Seattle application this Spring (applications due by June 1)

This is an amazing opportunity to take a startup to the next step post Startup Weekend. The “top teams” will be selected by a community and panel combined vote after the Sunday night presentations at the end of the weekend.

2 FREE Bootcamps Pre-Startup Weekend

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FREE AppEngine & Rails Bootcamp for SW Attendees

We have 2 FREE bootcamps pre-Startup Weekend this time to help add to the educational opportunities of Startup Weekend. There are ONLY 12 spots available at each, so REGISTER NOW!

A huge thank you to Mike and StartPad for helping make these events happen and by donating the space!

More info on the AppEngine Bootcamp:

We’ve found that teams can waste a lot of their precious weekend time setting up their development environment at Startup Weekend.  In this session, we hope to get you prepared to hit the ground running.  For participants that would like to build their sites using Google’s scalable AppEngine service, this introductory session will cover:

  1. AppEngine strengths and weaknesses – what can I build with AppEngine?
  2. Installing and configuring source control to simplify team interaction (Subversion, Git, or Mercurial)
  3. Intro to Python
  4. Installing the Android development environment
  5. WebApp on AppEngine – Simple Hello, World
  6. Deploying to appspot.com
  7. Intro to Django on AppEngine
    1. Data Models
    2. Views
    3. URL design
    4. Templates
    5. A simple Django starter application template
  8. Hosting your site on your own domain

Just in case you can’t make Startup Weekend, the price is still only $25.

What to bring:

  1. Laptop (Windows or Mac)
  2. Participants will receive a list of installation links before the session to save some time in configuring their machines.
  3. You can bring a sack lunch or take a break with us to eat at one of several local lunch spots.

More info on the Rails Bootcamp:

Today, more startups than ever are choosing hyper productive language / frameworks like Ruby w/ Rails or Python w/ Django and cloud deployments.  If you’d like to use Startup Weekend as a place to get your Rails on (and on the cloud), then this class is for you.

Join us for a day of intense project based learning.  We’ll build and deploy to the cloud :

  • a quote of the day app
  • a blog
  • a task list app
  • a music database

Along the way, you’ll have a chance to learn how to :

  • deploy a rails app to the cloud in 5 minutes
  • create a database schema & migrate it over time
  • write models, views, and controllers in rails
  • use plugins for
    • logging in
    • picture resizing

If you’re new to Ruby or Rails, we’ll have a lot of training wheels for you to hold on to as we pull you through these projects.

If you’ve played with Rails a bit, but want some more practice before living and breathing it for 54 hours at Startup Weekend, then we’ll give you a chance to dig deeper into the functionality of each of these apps.

Ignite Seattle tomorrow!

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Ignite Seattle

Hope to see everyone at Ignite Seattle #9 tomorrow (March 4th). It starts at 7pm at the King Cat Theatre. All the info is here: http://www.igniteseattle.com/

Adobe Venue Finalized

Posted by Marc Nager

Wouldn’t you know the day after we posted that we would be moving the date because we couldn’t nail down the venue, we did!

Plan: March 19-21st IS the next Seattle Startup Weekend, and it is FOR SURE at Adobe’s campus in Freemont.

We’ll be confirming with some of our speakers/mentors for the event, but we should have a pretty great lineup again, and we will get some other cool things together.

Get your tickets now!

Hunting for a venue!

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Hey everyone! We have to apologize, but we were aiming for the next event to be held mid-March in Seattle, but we have been hitting dead ends in terms of venue availability over and over! Amazon is in the midst of moving to their new facility (which we will surely be shooting for an event there mid-year), Google has offered a space, but due to some changes, they only have space for about 40 people comfortably. Adobe has approved us to use their space, but we are working on finalizing a date that works for them.

We want to give everyone at least a month’s notice, so in the meantime, join the Community Group here, and we will be finalizing everything very soon.

Thanks,

Clint & Marc

Ignite Seattle

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Sign up now for Ignite Seattle. We met the organizing team for drinks about a week ago, and they have a solid plan as always. We’ll see you there!

NEXT IGNITE SEATTLE

Ignite Seattle 9
March 4th at 7pm

King Cat Theatre
2130 6th Avenue,
Seattle, Washington 98121

http://www.igniteseattle.com/

Seattle Startup Weekend 4 Planning Meeting

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Come join us on January 25th at Cyclops beginning at 6pm for drinks to talk about the upcoming Seattle Startup Weekend event.  We have our sights set on March 19-21 for Seattle Startup Weekend 4.  We want to get everyone involved that is interested in being part of the event and want your feedback to keep making it better.

We’re hoping to see some familiar faces and new ones as well.  This is a great reason to mingle with the Seattle startup community.  Looking forward to seeing you there and getting your input!

Map of Cyclops

Join the Google Group!!!!!

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Join this group to stay in touch with all of the ongoings in the community! Seattle area Startup Weekend group

Coming Soon!

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