The New Big » meetatthepig http://thenewbig.com Small pieces of the new big world Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:32:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Meet at the Pig: a Seattle geek events blog http://thenewbig.com/2007/08/11/meet-at-the-pig-a-seattle-geek-events-blog/ http://thenewbig.com/2007/08/11/meet-at-the-pig-a-seattle-geek-events-blog/#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:55:52 +0000 stumax http://thenewbig.com/2007/08/11/meet-at-the-pig-a-seattle-geek-events-blog/ Meet at the Pig
I’ve been privileged to help organize Seattle Mind Camp over the past couple of years. One of the main reasons that project started was to bring the Seattle tech community together, to create more opportunities for interaction among local entrepreneurs and other passionate technologists. Events like Ignite Seattle, Biznik, and Lunch 2.0, have helped strengthen this sense of community over the past few years.

But in addition to these well-publicized events, there are dozens of other meetups, workshops, and gatherings going on in our fair city. Despite the appearance of services such as Eventful and Upcoming, there is still no single place on the web where you can discover all these smaller gatherings. That’s why I’m pleased to announce a new blog:

Meet at the Pig, a Seattle events blog for geeks, techies, hackers, and makers.

Meet at the Pig is the brainchild and passion of Justin Martenstein, and I’m happy that he asked me to help work on the site. Each week, we’ll track meetups, workshops, lunches, conferences, and other events of interest to the local geek community. We’ll add as many events as we can to Upcoming, and then highlight some of the more interesting events on the main page of Meet at the Pig.

The title of the blog comes from the brass pig at Pike Market, a popular landmark that’s often used as a gathering point for groups heading out to some downtown restaurant, bar, or event. Eventually, we hope that Meet at the Pig will be the one place on the web where Seattle-area geeks gather to find out what’s happening. Hope you’ll join us there.

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