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.

Meet at the Pig is a Seattle events blog for geeks, techies, hackers, and makers. Justin Martenstein and I track local meetups, workshops, lunches, conferences, and other events of interest to the local geek community. We post as many events as we can at Upcoming, and then highlight some of the more interesting events on the main page.

The Seattle Podcasting Network promotes podcasting in the Pacific Northwest and provides instruction and encouragement for those just getting into the scene. I work with Travis Petershagen, Eric Weaver, and Kevin Maude to plan and organize the meetups and map the direction of the network. I develop and maintain the blog, wiki, and forum, and contribute blog posts and original podcasts.

The Louverture Project uses a MediaWiki platform to collect and promote knowledge, analysis, and understanding of the Haitian revolution of 1791–1804. This unique history project currently holds over 330 pages of information. Inspired by my grandfather’s research, I created the wiki to honor and carry on his work. I currently act as the project’s managing editor.

Read the Founders encourages bloggers and podcasters to read America’s founding documents and other works of the Founding Fathers.

I maintain three Squidoo lenses: one on Policital Humor, one on Civics, and another on essential Mac software. My goal is 23 Squidoo lenses. 23. Squidoo. Ha-ha. (That joke killed in 1928.)

A blog on topics technical, political, and personal at The Sufferable Ass. I design and maintain this for a friend.

Seattle Mind Camp is a twice-yearly, self-organizing, digitally-minded, entrepreneur-driven, overnight Seattle confab. I’m a founding member of the planning committee, and I contribute to the blog. I also designed the logo.