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Last Geek Dinner of the Summer! Wed. July 25th Featuring Digication

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 5:30pm – 9pm
AS220
115 Empire Street, Providence, RI

This is your last chance to get your geek on before September. Yup, we take August off. Even geeks need to “shut down” sometimes… did I really just type that?

We’ve got another great presenter lined up – Providence-based startup, Digication. Digication provides an easy way for schools to create online communities and for teachers and students to showcase their work. Digication is founded by faculty at RISD’s Art + Design Education Department. Digication was made available to US schools in August 2006, within 10 months, it has attracted users from over 1000 schools in all 50 states in the US.

Digication has been featured in numerous publications and outlets including Forbes and The Christian Science Monitor. And last Fall, Digication Founder, Jeff Yan was interviewed Leo Laporte for a TWIT podcast.

On Wednesday, Jeff and Jeffrey Tagen, one of Digication’s software developers will share some of the lessons learned, including business strategies, technology scalability, choice of software library/ framework / platform.


Please RSVP in the comments section of this post so that we can give the good folks at AS220 an estimated headcount. And while you’re at it, subscribe to Providence Geeks’ RSS feed (see sidebar) and/or join our very-low-volume email announcement list (for the announcement list, send an email to Jack Templin, jtemplin over at Gmail with your name and affiliation).

As always, for first-timers here are the details on the Geek Dinners:


  • It’s totally casual. Wear whatever, bring whoever, arrive and vamoose whenever… And don’t worry about eating or not – come famished or full – eating is optional, and frankly, the least of the festivities (that’s not say the food isn’t good—it’s actually great).

  • Topics of conversation will vary as they will at any gathering of geeks, but many of us will be talking about AJAX, mash-ups, start-ups, new devices, innovative business models, interaction design, social computing, digital art, web services, etc. etc. etc.

  • Food and beverages are for sale at the adjoining Taqueria Pacifica and bar.

  • There is WiFi so bring your connected device of choice.

66 Responses to “Last Geek Dinner of the Summer! Wed. July 25th Featuring Digication”

  1. Jack Templin
    July 18th, 2007 18:09
    1

    YUP!

  2. Tom Hoffman
    July 18th, 2007 18:32
    2

    I’ll be there.

  3. Steve
    July 18th, 2007 20:11
    3

    I’ll be there

  4. Adam Lynch
    July 19th, 2007 07:33
    4

    I’m in.

  5. Maat Wright
    July 19th, 2007 07:35
    5

    I shall be there as well…

  6. Jo Lee
    July 19th, 2007 08:03
    6

    I’ll be there too

  7. Martin Omansky
    July 19th, 2007 08:12
    7

    First-time attendee. Looking forward to it.

  8. Chris Murray
    July 19th, 2007 08:25
    8

    I’ll be there!

  9. Jeff Robbins
    July 19th, 2007 08:27
    9

    Hooray! Finally, a Prov Geek event that I can make it to! I’ll be there.

  10. Todd Page
    July 19th, 2007 08:37
    10

    Hullo, me and 2 other representatives from the URI REU will be there!

    Woot! Can’t wait.

  11. Richard Stang
    July 19th, 2007 09:30
    11

    Count me in. I may be bringing one other invitee.

  12. Tibet Sprague
    July 19th, 2007 09:49
    12

    definitely

  13. John West
    July 19th, 2007 09:50
    13

    My wife and I will be there.

  14. Dan Bergeron
    July 19th, 2007 10:22
    14

    I will be attending on the 25th

  15. Brendan McCarthy
    July 19th, 2007 11:36
    15

    I’ll be there.

  16. matt cottam
    July 19th, 2007 12:56
    16

    maia and I will be there

  17. Jim Rizzo
    July 19th, 2007 12:58
    17

    Barring anything crazy happening, I will most likely be there, probably with the fiancee in tow.

  18. Kipp
    July 19th, 2007 13:59
    18

    I should be there. I certainly don’t have anything better to do!

  19. jim enoch
    July 19th, 2007 16:27
    19

    I’ll be there

  20. karen holmes
    July 19th, 2007 19:43
    20

    I’ll be there!

  21. Alex Rockwood
    July 19th, 2007 21:42
    21

    I’ll be there.

  22. Steve Mecca
    July 19th, 2007 22:13
    22

    I’ll be there.

  23. Tibet Sprague
    July 19th, 2007 23:15
    23

    im down

  24. Matt Sly
    July 20th, 2007 08:15
    24

    rookie (providence) geek very much looking forward it – digication looks rad.

  25. Gail Schilke
    July 20th, 2007 08:15
    25

    First geek peep, count me in.

  26. Brian
    July 20th, 2007 09:44
    26

    Sending my regrets-I’ll be at OSCON all week.

  27. Brian Jepson’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Providence Geek Dinner: July 25, 2007
    July 20th, 2007 13:02
    27

    [...] Details and RSVP here. [...]

  28. dave
    July 20th, 2007 13:03
    28

    I’ll be there

  29. Christian Henning
    July 22nd, 2007 17:58
    29

    First timer, as well. Just read about providence geeks in the Phoenix. I’ll show up for the dinner as well.

  30. Jeffrey Fox
    July 22nd, 2007 19:36
    30

    I’ll be there.

  31. Ted Long
    July 23rd, 2007 11:26
    31

    I’m in.

  32. Robert Rogers
    July 23rd, 2007 15:22
    32

    See ya

  33. Chris Crawford
    July 23rd, 2007 15:48
    33

    yes for one.

  34. chris
    July 23rd, 2007 15:49
    34

    yes for one

  35. Jeffrey Hill
    July 23rd, 2007 19:36
    35

    I’ll be there.

  36. I play a Geek in The Phoenix at GC:PVD | Greater City: Providence
    July 23rd, 2007 20:54
    36

    [...] Geeks have one of their famous dinners coming up this Wednesday at 5:30pm at AS220, 115 Empire Street in Providence. I encourage you to check it [...]

  37. David Thornley
    July 23rd, 2007 20:57
    37

    Yes for two. My Partner Lynn will also be comming I would like to address the group. I have programing jobs to be contracted out.

    I would like to do this at the upcomming meeting.

    Thank you,
    David Thornley
    A + Computer Systems

  38. Tod Mahony
    July 23rd, 2007 21:50
    38

    My wife & I will be there!

  39. chris crawford
    July 24th, 2007 09:11
    39

    one yes

  40. chris crawford
    July 24th, 2007 09:13
    40

    one yes

  41. Stephanie Obodda
    July 24th, 2007 09:39
    41

    I’ll be there (my first)

  42. Kelly Driscoll
    July 24th, 2007 09:44
    42

    I will be there!!

  43. Heather Axworthy
    July 24th, 2007 12:26
    43

    I just found out about the group! I will be there.

  44. John Duksta
    July 24th, 2007 13:38
    44

    I’ll be there as well. Woo!

  45. judy
    July 24th, 2007 18:30
    45

    yay i love digication

  46. Doug
    July 24th, 2007 22:10
    46

    I’m planning to be there.

  47. Doug
    July 24th, 2007 22:36
    47

    FYI,
    After submitting a comment, I got an error, see below (although the comment was added successfully). Not sure if anyone else go the same error. I didn’t see a place to contact the webmaster for Prov. Geeks, so I’m adding it as a comment.

    “Internal Server Error

    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

    Please contact the server administrator, and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.”

  48. Kyle Bolton
    July 25th, 2007 07:24
    48

    First Timer. Will be there.

  49. John Hutchinson
    July 25th, 2007 08:14
    49

    I’ll be there.

  50. Bob Bruns
    July 25th, 2007 08:28
    50

    Also Alex B.

  51. David Thornley
    July 25th, 2007 08:36
    51

    Sorry something came up can not go tonight to dinner. Lynn may or may not come I am not sure

  52. Eric Holmstedt
    July 25th, 2007 10:29
    52

    One attending

  53. kathryn
    July 25th, 2007 10:51
    53

    sorry to miss it! i’m attending the boston flash platform user group meeting tonight. these always seem to conflict :-(

    go digication!

  54. Andrew Shearer
    July 25th, 2007 10:51
    54

    See everyone there.

  55. Ron Corriveau
    July 25th, 2007 10:53
    55

    Jack, I will see you there.

  56. Jay Higgins
    July 25th, 2007 10:55
    56

    2 of us will attend

  57. James Tikalsky
    July 25th, 2007 12:28
    57

    I will be there.

  58. Andy van Dam
    July 25th, 2007 13:04
    58

    attending (1)

  59. Lee Hower
    July 25th, 2007 13:14
    59

    will be late-ish (~6:30), but with a guest in tow

  60. Robert Mrozowski
    July 25th, 2007 13:24
    60

    Will attend.

  61. Sara Streeter
    July 25th, 2007 14:16
    61

    Great presenters – see you there.

  62. John Paine
    July 25th, 2007 14:31
    62

    see you there

  63. John Paine
    July 25th, 2007 14:32
    63

    see ya

  64. Adam
    July 25th, 2007 14:51
    64

    I’m in!

  65. Matt Gillooly
    July 25th, 2007 15:18
    65

    I just really like name tags.

  66. Richard
    July 25th, 2007 15:49
    66

    See you there. Taking a friend too.

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