Charlotte, NC—Nov 2-4, 2007
We hope you’re as excited as we are by the schedule for RubyConf 2007. This year’s event will be even bigger than last year’s, and for the first time in the history of RubyConf we’ve made some changes to the event format. More at http://www.rubyconf.org.
Chapel Hill, NC—Nov 2-4, 2007
Startup Weekend is an idea, an experiment, a chance gather the tech community and create a company over one jam packed weekend. More at http://chapelhill.startupweekend.com/.
A local PHP group founded by David Rasch. Consistent and valuable monthly meetings. More at http://www.tripug.org/.
Raleigh, NC—Oct 16, 2007, 7:00pm
Clinton Nixon will be sharing some Rails goodness with us this month: Building Applications as Plugins. More at http://ruby.meetup.com/3/calendar/6385025/.
Like the Ruby programming language? We do too! Want to learn more about it? You’re in good company. Come join us in our pursuit of humane programming. Check out raleigh.rb.
TriUX.org is a blog that provides a central source for user experience-related events, organizations, and information in the Research Triangle Park (North Carolina, USA) area.
TriUPA.org is a group that focuses on supporting the local community of practitioners in usability testing, user research, interaction design, and information architecture.
Raleigh, NC—Oct 9, 2007, 7:30pm
Check out the topic and location for this month: http://webdesign.meetup.com/36/calendar/6340480/
This group appears to be pretty active and has a reliable monthly meeting. I’m hoping to make it this month for the first time. Is anyone else a member of this group or planning to attend this month’s meeting?
This Meet-Up group includes Freelancers, Entrepreneurs, “Back-end” Developers, Web & Graphic Designers, IT professionals, your average person who wants to create a Web site. We like to network, give presentations about our specialized areas, and enjoy ourselves!
This month’s meeting topic: August Design Heuristic: Bitmaps - Image Editing, Basic Photo Tips, Tools, Resources. Check it out at http://webdesign.meetup.com/36/calendar/6181844/
Greensboro, NC—October 19-20, 2007
ConvergeSouth is a dynamic, interactive and truly unique conference. Through a hands-on leader-led approach, this year’s ConvergeSouth focuses on dialogue and participation. The people formerly known as the audience become discussion leaders. Everyone joins in, as panelists and leaders encourage an exchange of ideas, tools and best practices. The conference promotes ongoing conversation online and in real-life.
ConvergeSouth is simply the most affordable conference of its kind (it’s free!). Attend this exciting forum if you want to:
You can’t afford to miss ConvergeSouth!
September 8-9, 2007
The concept is simple: you and your team get 48 hours to design, develop, and deploy a web application from scratch. After those 48 hours are up, you’ll be judged by the community through a peer-ranking system in a variety of categories.
After about a week of controlled mayhem, judging wraps up and the dust settles. Winners are then declared, and awarded some cool prizes. Visit the official Rails Rumble site for details.
Washington, DC—August 13-16, 2007
Under the guidance of experienced practitioners from Adaptive Path and other top companies, this four-day conference introduces user experience practitioners to new rich internet application design approaches, practical prototyping techniques, effective cross-organization communications strategies and more.
Who should attend?
Information architects, visual designers, interaction designers, user experience practitioners, or anyone whose current (or desired) job involves creating a user experience will benefit from the four full-days of inspirational crosspollination and education that UX Week offers.
Durham, NC — Thurs, Oct 25, 2007, 6:30-8:00PM
Jackson Fox is a User Experience Engineer at Lulu.com, and a graduate student in Information & Library Science at UNC Chapel Hill. He is responsible for the community and marketplace functionality on Lulu.com, and is currently learning why MySpace is definitely not a “platform.” He and his wife live in Durham.
Viget Labs
The Brightleaf District
908 West Main Street
Durham, NC 27701
Raleigh, NC—August 4, 2007
A Bar Camp is an unconference where people interested in a wide range of technologies come together to teach and learn. Unfamiliar with the un-conference format? Here’s the idea in a nutshell. Rather than having scheduled speakers, everyone pitches sessions the morning of the BarCamp. Those sessions are put on a schedule, and lots of little groups form for intense group learning. Everyone is expected to teach, to talk, to participate. Yeah, its different from a regular conference - but it works!
The Idea
The idea of an unconference came together when people realized the best times they were having at conferences were the times between sessions - where people with like interests could meet ad hoc. The goal of BarCamp is to facilitate this type of interaction for an entire day. We supply the food, the space, the wireless, the projectors - you show up to teach and learn.
It’s understood that Refresh the Triangle is only as good as the involvement of its members, and that the group dynamic is a bit unique in that it strives to appeal to designers and developers alike. As we try to strike the right balance and take a very forward-thinking approach toward our meetings and topics, ideas and feedback are crucial.
This site is implemented using Expression Engine 1.6.0. While the group is the effort of many, the site is a bit of a learn-as-you-go type side project by member/designer pcrump to learn a bit about the ins and outs of Expression Engine. So, the features/functionality of the site are limited primarily by the knowledge and dev skills of a newbie EE guy, secondarily by the limited amount of time to invest in the site, and lastly by the limitations of EE itself. Feel free to share comments here about the site, request features/functionality, ask questions, or share your own knowledge of EE.