Anyone else from the Philly area want to help set this up? - JasonColeman

I'm in philly, and also interested in setting up a BarCamp. -Alex Hillman

Count me in. What's next? - SamRosen

Hey guys. I've met with Stan Schwartz, another near-Philly resident interested in pulling the tech-entrepreneur community out of the woodwook around Philadelphia. We think a good first step is to start a mailing list of folks working/living around Philly. Leave your email address on this page, and I will include you in the first note I send out. Thanks.

For motivation, Stan told me about these two articles which kind of diss Philadelphia as a place to start a tech company:

How to Be Silicon Valley: http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html

Quote: "It would be a waste of time to try to reverse the fortunes of a declining industrial town like Detroit or Philadelphia by trying to encourage startups."

Startup Radar: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/06/startup_centers.html

Point of Interest: This follows through with some nice graphs showing how few tech jobs and specifically startup jobs there are in Philadelphia.

Let's prove them wrong, guys!