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DC Tech Events Weekly for May 5th: Later than usual

TheRoss — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:57:35 -0700

Subscription options and the complete calendar are at dctechevents.com.

Cool companies like Lotame and Positive energy are hiring.

Strat@comm (the place I work) is also looking for a web developer to join the team. See the job description below.

Strat@comm is seeking a web developer.

Strat@comm’s Creative Group is seeking a talented Web Developer to join its rapidly growing team. Strat@comm is a 60-person boutique strategic communications firm that integrates online and traditional communications & technology to raise awareness, enhance image, shape policy and build market share for their clients.

The Strat@comm Creative Group designs and produces digital and print media such as websites, microsites, widgets, social networking sites, multimedia content and applications, content management systems, email campaigns, video, print collateral and trade show exhibits. Strat@comm’s continually expanding clients include non-profits, trade associations and Fortune 100 companies. Please visit our portfolio at http://www.stratacomm.net/ (Click on Creativity & The Gallery).

Candidates must display proficiency in HTML, XML, CSS and PHP. Familiarity with Flash/Actionscript, Javascript, SQL and blog/CMS tools are ideal.

Experience with any of the following would be a strong plus: OOP scripting/programming languages (Ruby, Python, Smalltalk, Java…); MVC web application frameworks (Ruby on Rails, Django, Turbogears, Pylons, CakePHP, Seaside…); Rich Internet Application environments (Flex, Silverlight, AJAX…); mobile web development; Unix/Linux; Microformats; web usability; web accessibility.

The ideal candidate will have minimum of 2 years of working experience. Previous experience working on a development team is a plus. To apply, please email your resume and portfolio to brian.batchelder@fleishman.com

DC Tech Events Weekly for April 28th: Sprung

TheRoss — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:57:39 -0700

Thank you so much for reading DC tech Events.

Subscription options and the complete calendar are at dctechevents.com.

Shaun Farrell created a Clearspring widget of the calendar. Do what the widget says and "get & share" the thing!

Cool companies like Lotame and Positive energy are hiring.

Report mistakes and ommisions to rosskarchner@gmail.com

DC Tech Events Weekly for April 21st: Tech Cocktail DC 2

TheRoss — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:45:11 -0700

Welcome to DC Tech Events Weekly!

The complete calendar and subscription options (SO many subscription options…) are at dctechevents.com.

Ross Notes correspondent Joe Logon has dispatches from last weeks Blogger meetup and Podcamp. Joe doesn’t know he’s a Ross Notes correspondent yet.

Nifty company’s like ComScore are hiring, see more at JOBMATCHBOX.

DC Tech Events Weekly for April 14th: Less Sweet

TheRoss — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:18:12 -0700

Event details, subscription options, and the complete calendar are at dctechevents.com.

Cool companies like Positive Energy are looking for smart people like you.

Monday, April 14

6:30pm

AU Panel & Networking Night: Starting Your Own Business - The Trials & Tribulations

7:00pm

Eventful: DC Drupal Meetup at James Hoban’s Pub (Washington, DC)

Tuesday, April 15

7:00pm

NetSquared DC April Meeting

Wednesday, April 16

7:00pm

DC New Media Technology - Web 2.0 - Video 2.0 - Social Web April Meeting

7:00pm

The Washington Blogger April Meeting

Thursday, April 17

12:00pm

Internet Advocacy Roundtable

12:00pm

"Training an HIT-Enabled Healthcare Workforce: Addressing Shortages"

6:30pm

DC New Media, Movie & Creative Industry Happy Hour

7:30pm

Kick off Database Pro’s Meetup

Friday, April 18

All day

PodcampDC

Saturday, April 19

All day

PodcampDC

Sunday, April 20

All day

PodcampDC

12:30pm

Web Design & Combined Networking Group April Meeting

DC Tech Events Weekly for April 7th: No Fluff Just Events

TheRoss — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:29:14 -0700

Who wouldn’t want to go to a World Space Party?

More information on these events and the complete calendar are at dctechevents.com.

Monday, April 7

All day

Computers in Libraries 2008

7:30am

Refresh Baltimore / Intro to jQuery / Intro to SVN

6:30pm

Tales from the Trenches: Lessons from a Seasoned CEO

7:00pm

Washington DC Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Group April Meeting

7:00pm

The Northern Virginia MySQL April Meeting

Tuesday, April 8

All day

Computers in Libraries 2008

7:30am

National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) Opens Its Doors and Facilities

11:30am

Eventful: Drupal in Libraries at Computers in Libraries 2008 Conference

5:30pm

SECOND TUESDAYS NEW MEDIA SALON & "Dot Com" NETWORKING PARTY

Wednesday, April 9

7:00pm

April 9th PHP Developer’s Group Meeting

Thursday, April 10

6:30pm

WhyGoSolo: The Social Media Platform at the Next Social Media Club DC Event

6:30pm

Designing Highly Concurrent SQL Server Database Applications

7:15pm

The Washington Web Standards April Meeting

Saturday, April 12

All day

CMAP Code Camp 2008 Spring Edition

11:00am

Search Marketing and Cherry Blossoms

12:00pm

Coffee House - open discussion

2:00pm

FLASH THE DISTRICT - D.C. Flash April Meeting

7:00pm

Yuri’s Night DC

Featured jobs are at JobMatchBox.

DC Tech Events for March 31: Match'ed

TheRoss — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:15:00 -0700

Social Matchbox is tonight

The event brings in members from around the DC startup and technology community for what some like to call an open mic night for hiring teams and entrepreneurs. The open format is a fusion of resume clinic, startup job fair and networking event. Attendees include hiring teams representing top startup companies from around the DC area, job seekers, founders with entrepreneurial ideas looking for others to join them, and people interested in getting into the mix.

New Featured Jobs, too.

Other events. Get the full calendar and subscription options at dctechevents.com.

Monday, March 31

All day

F2C: Freedom to Connect 2008

6:00pm

Social Matchbox DC — Back by Popular Demand

Tuesday, April 1

All day

F2C: Freedom to Connect 2008

All day

FOSE

12:00pm

Randall Packer: The Artist as Mediator

3:00pm

OPEN HOUSE: Join us to learn about Real-World SOA for Government

7:00pm

The Washington DC Python April Meeting

Wednesday, April 2

All day

FOSE

6:00pm

Crypto Talk

6:30pm

Fantasy Gaming: From Football to Congress

7:00pm

Refresh Baltimore

7:00pm

Rails for Change DC April Meeting

7:00pm

The Columbia PHP April Meeting

Thursday, April 3

All day

FOSE

Friday, April 4

11:00am

Virginia Real Estate BloggerCon 2.0

Saturday, April 5

10:00am

The Washington DC Metro LGBT IT Professionals April Meeting

1:00pm

The Washington Digital Video April Meeting

1:30pm

Film and Video April Meeting

DC Tech Events for March 24th: One of those Wednesdays

TheRoss — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:00:00 -0700

Welcome to DC Tech Events Weekly.

I wrote a post this weekend on the multiple competing definitions of what the "DC Tech Community" is. It’s the most substantial bit of blogging to appear on Ross Notes in quite a while. It’s even got a nice picture.

The full calendar and subscription options are at dctechevents.com. Also, check out DC Tech Events on Facebook, Twitter, and the brand new LinkedIn group. One of these days the events below will be clickable, but for now you’ll just have to use the calendar.

Check out the changes at JOBMATCHBOX, and this weeks featured jobs.

Monday, March 24

7:00pm

Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group

Tuesday, March 25

6:00pm

10 Ways to use Hibernate Effectively by Brian Sam-Bodden

6:20pm

CopyNight DC

6:30pm

DC StartupLab: Informatics Event

7:00pm

Dorkbot DC Meeting

Wednesday, March 26

6:00pm

Presentation: Amanda Open Source Backup

6:00pm

First Fridays DC Business Networking Reception Series

6:30pm

Richmond Meet and Code Dinner

7:00pm

Chad Fowler and Rich Kilmer at DCRUG

7:00pm

March DC Drupal Meetup

7:00pm

What’s New in Visual Studio 200

7:00pm

Nonprofit Technology Meetup - 1st meeting

7:00pm

Web Content Mavens: Using SharePoint to Create a Web CMS

Thursday, March 27

6:30pm

NOVASec: ZFS concepts, features, and abilities

7:00pm

Refresh DC March Happy Hour

7:30pm

NoVA Sec Meeting 1730 Thu 27 Mar 08

Saturday, March 29

9:00am

NoVa CodeCamp South

9:30am

Washington Apple Pi Mac User Group March Meeting

1:30pm

An Introduction to Audio Podcasting

DC Tech Events Weekly for March 17th: Disinfect

TheRoss — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:05:12 -0700

It’s Sunshine Week—

Sunshine Week is a national initiative to open a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include print, broadcast and online news media, civic groups, libraries, non-profits, schools and others interested in the public’s right to know.

I’d like to highlight (and hope to attend) two Sunshine-related events: On 3/19 is Government Secrecy: Censoring Your Right to Know. Most relevent to the Tech Events reader is the second part of that event:

We will be visiting and talking with creators of websites that help the public avoid having to file official requests or go to offices and meetings to learn what our government is doing: Bill Allison (Sunlight Foundation), Sheila Krumholz (Center for Responsive Politics/OpenSecrets.org), David Moore (OpenCongress.org), Sean Moulton (FedSpending.org), and Daniel X. O’Neil (EveryBlock); Greg Elin of Sunlight Labs will moderate. These sites make hard-to-find government information — federal, state and local — easy for the public to find and use and may inspire you to do likewise. A quick report will be given, as well, on an initiative to develop a 21st Century Right-to-Know agenda and recommendations for the next President and Congress.

The next day, Larry Lessig will be at the press club talking about the "beta" version of his Change Congress project.

Sure, you read this every week, but have you really integrated DC Tech Events into your life? Learn how!

Here’s this weeks calendar— more information on the events is available at dctechevents.com. Featured jobs from JobMatchBox follow. The Social Matchbox craziness returns March 31st.

Monday, March 17

8:00pm

Internet Video Policy Symposium: The Future of a New TV Medium

Tuesday, March 18

6:00pm

Internet Video Policy Symposium

7:00pm

DC DrupalCon Debrief

7:00pm

NetSquared DC

Wednesday, March 19

1:00pm

Government Secrecy: Censoring Your Right to Know

6:30pm

DC New Media Technology - Web 2.0 & Video 2.0 - DC, VA & MD March Happy Hour

7:00pm

OpenID and Rails

7:00pm

The Washington Blogger March Meeting

Thursday, March 20

12:30am

March WIT.Connect: Fast Forward to 2015: Technology and Its Impact on our Future

1:30pm

Lessig Launches beta of Change Congress Project

Saturday, March 22

9:30am

Washington Apple Pi Mac User Group March Meeting

10:00am

OLPC Family XO Mesh Meetup

1:00pm

FringeDC Formal Meeting: Haskell Spectacular: XMonad, Zippers and More!

Here are this week’s featured jobs:
Ruby on Rails Developer, Searchles, Washington, DC
Senior Web Developer, Siteworx, Reston, VA
Web Designer, Intridea, Inc., Washington, DC
Ruby on Rails Developer, OpNet, Bethesda, MD
Web Content Specialist, U.S. Green Building Council, Washington, DC
Ruby on Rails Architect, Voxant, Reston, VA
Internet Project Manager, emPivot.com, Washington, DC
User Interface Ninja, WhyGoSolo, Springfield, VA (telecommute)
Web Developer, Rosetta Stone, Arlington, VA
Web User Interface Developer, Razoo, Washington, DC
Web Developer, Positive Energy USA, Rosslyn, VA
Freelance Graphic Designer, Positive Energy USA, Rosslyn, VA
Design Director, Viget Labs, Falls Church, VA

DC Tech Events Weekly for March 10th 2008: Annapolis!

TheRoss — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:59:11 -0700

Yeah, the A-List is at SXSW, but there’s some cool stuff happening for the people still in DC.

Of course, if you’re reading this from Austin, you’ve got FOUR chances to check out Kid Beyond’s crazy beat-boxing + live looping act, which I’ve only seen on the youtubes. Go.

I won’t pretend I’ve read up on and have a fully informed opinion on Maryland’s "tech tax" and those who are fighting it, but Mitch and crew are holding a rally at the State House on Wednesday.

Oh, there’s a nifty new thing on Ross Notes.

Great companies like emPivot, WhyGoSolo, Rosetta Stone, Razoo, Positive Energy, and Viget Labs are hiring. Robert also has details about the next SocialMatchbox event, which is going down on March 31st.

The complete calendar and subscription options are at dctechevents.com.

DC Tech Events Weekly for March 3rd 2008

TheRoss — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:51:00 -0800

DC Tech Events Weekly is now a year old. Thanks to everyone for making it such a great year.

Subscription options and the complete calendar are available at dctechevents.com.

Great companies like emPivot, WhyGoSolo, Rosetta Stone, Razoo, Positive Energy, and Viget Labs are hiring.