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BarCampLA-Geek1

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Geek Dinner

 

 

Attendees (those who RSVPed - add your name or URL if I missed it):

  • heathervescent - www.heathervescent.com
  • Jason Cosper - www.preshrunk.info
  • EricGradman (Tuesday, 10:36am: but I'm hungry now!)
  • Amanda McConnell
  • Amy Raymond
  • Jillian Tate
  • Chris Holland – Earthlink (also seeking java+html/css/dom/js-fu)
  • Kyle Bunch - kyle(at)kylebunch.org - Pinacol, Blogebrity
  • Eric Grademan – Yahoo
  • Jon Bischke – Learn out loud
  • Crystal Williams - cleverclevergirl(at)gmail.com
  • Lucas Gonze – Yahoo
  • Jim Payne
  • Michael Goff
  • Catherine
  • Alex Piner
  • Alissa Huskey – Bitscribe
  • Adam Wiggins - Bitscribe
  • Seong Kim
  • Alexander Platt
  • Matt Laws
  • Jon Bauer
  • Mack Reed – LA Voice
  • Nick Mote
  • Mike Manning – Yahoo
  • Mike Spiegelman – Yahoo
  • Jason Cosper
  • Sam – Napster
  • Kareem Mayan - Fox Interactive
  • Jory Felice
  • Adam Bain - Fox Interactive

 

Recap and Discussions

  • What we covered - please add your comments here.
  • We had about 30 people show up with a heavy contingency from Yahoo! Introductions from around the table showed a diverse gathering of tech-heads and a biology post-doc. Dinner came and everyone was involved in multiple discussions. Towards the end, Adam Bain, EVP from Fox started a discussion about innovation and integrating new companies into a larger one.

 

Innovation ideas included:

  • Get a champion
  • Hire people with passion
  • Set time aside for developers to geek out
  • Have CEO/upper mgmt and developers talk to each other
  • Keep new groups sheltered from management overhead – let them do what you hired the to do
  • Rapid development cycles – not 6 months, 1 month!
  • Keep a culture of innovation
  • Have a sabbatical camp or your own corporate unconference
  • Have ideas be actionable
  • Compare with the University Grant system, where working groups take up specific areas of expertise, research and present findings.
  • Agile prototyping: "don't tell me about your idea. show me a working prototype". Let the prototype be the product specification.

 

Got Jobs?

  • Please add any companies/positions here with contact info
  • Yahoo - graphic designers, web developers, product managers, developers
  • Belkin has some
  • Fox has a lot ~300 - designers, developers, product managers
  • Bitscribe - php developers

 

Who's looking for work?

  • Please add your name here with contact info
  • Crystal, who is a graphic/web designer/copy writer is looking

 

What do you think? What do you want next time?

  • Add your comments here or send an email to Heather

 

 

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