The 140 Characters Conference: Syracuse will be taking place on April 19, 2012 in Schine Student Center, on the campus of Syracuse University.
Our very own Remy DeCausemaker will be giving a talk at 3:15pm entitled "Social Coding and Civic Hacking."
#140cuse will expose you to the power the real-time web has to disrupt businesses, change lives and create serendipity. You will leave with a fresh outlook on how the real time web can be used in your business and/or personal life to do something meaningful.
BarCamp Rochester is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. BarCamp Rochester is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. All attendees should give a demo, a session, or help with one. All presentations are scheduled the day they happen. Prepare in advance, but come early to get a good slot on the schedule. Check-in begins around 8am, with the first presentations starting at 9am!
"Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets - primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people - to build applications and develop a commercial case around them."
Just in time for the start of 2012, we’re staring a hacks/hackers chapter for Rochester and the greater Western NY area. hacks/hackers is an international organization dedicated to bringing together journalists (hacks) and technologists (hackers) to collaborate on the future of news and information sharing.
PyCon is the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language. PyCon is organized by the Python community for the community.
The 2012 North America FUDCon will be held in Blacksburg, Virginia, on the campus of Virginia Tech, January 13 - 15, 2012.
FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference, a major free software event held in various regions around the world, usually annually per region. FUDCon is a combination of sessions, talks, workshops, and hackfests in which contributors work on specific initiatives. Topics include infrastructure, feature development, community building, general management and governance, marketing, testing and QA, packaging, etc.
