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March 2008 Meeting of The NY Tech Meetup

Mar 2008 4

Tue 7:00 PM

Location: This location is shown only to members

Estimated attendance: 396 people attended.
4.5059
Who organized?
dawn barber and Scott Heiferman

Door fee: $5.00 per person

A special meeting of the NY Tech Meetup -

For the first time, we chose a theme and invited presenters -- not necessarily from NYC -- to enlighten us... followed by our first panel discussion. The theme is...

Power to the People: The Future of Organizing

& Presenters are...
1. Jordan Goldberg http://stickk.com... (coming from Yale)
2. Peter Deitz http://socialactions.... (coming from Montreal)
3. Jesse Richards http://meetup.com/...
4. Paul Miller http://schoolofeveryt... (coming from London)
5. Andrew Mason http://thepoint.com... (coming from Chicago)
6. Clay Shirky http://shirky.com/her...

7pm Presentations begin promptly
8pm Panel Discussion
8:30pm Breakout Group Discussions
9pm Out the door (self-organize yourselves to a local bar)

Only RSVP if Interested
We encourage those interested and/or working in this specific area (self-organizing tech) to RSVP yes, and those not interested in this one wait til next month (or change your RSVP to no if you've already signed on), when we go back to our regular programming.

The last 200 slots will open up at 12pm on Monday at http://newtech.meetup...

REMEMBER: Make sure your RSVP includes your FULL NAME - FIRST & LAST - if not you'll get bumped off.

Thanks to DFJ Gotham, IAC and Wilson Sonsini for supporting our community.

The NY Tech Meetup -- We are the NY Tech community.

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Talk about this Meetup

Posted Mar 11, 2008 2:31 PM

Bojan Angelov

Interesting theme... maybe there should be a sequel...
Pre-Meetup comments below
Posted Mar 4, 2008 2:16 PM

Yaritsa Arenas

I made it in!!! Yay!
Posted Mar 3, 2008 7:27 PM

marvin mitchell

A very exciting theme, a very diverse panel, looks like scott and company have outdone themselves this time.
Posted Mar 3, 2008 7:01 PM

Michelle Mitchell

The last event was so great. After the NY - Tech Meet-up ended right outside IAC The cross town 14th street Bus became the After NY-Tech Mobile event as conversations continued till everyone got off the bus at each given destination. *Only in NY*
Posted Mar 3, 2008 1:26 PM

Thomas

Thomas Epting (please don't bump! ; )
Posted Mar 3, 2008 12:33 PM

Matt Kangas

First time I've actually gotten an RSVP! (in 3 months of trying)
Posted Mar 2, 2008 5:41 PM

Donald Schwartz

Please e-mail me if any spots open up. I'd really like to come. DS
Posted Feb 29, 2008 1:11 PM

Former Member

Please email me if any spots open up, I would really like to attend this.
Posted Feb 29, 2008 12:41 AM

Al Mejias

Please let me know if any spots open up!
Posted Feb 19, 2008 3:32 PM

Byron Cox

This should be fun... why traverse the country just to meet your fellow NY'ers in tech!
Posted Feb 19, 2008 12:06 AM

Alex Yakovlev

will there be any more spots? last one listed 400 people, i had a couple of friends that wanted to come?
Posted Feb 14, 2008 4:20 PM

Christianne Orto

My first time too--looks pretty neat.
Posted Feb 8, 2008 12:05 PM

markschlei

My first time going to this event. Can't wait!
Posted Feb 6, 2008 10:05 AM

Nagaraj Kowsik

It is Great event, worth attending to know about start up portals.

Who attended?

396 attendees
- Tom Hughes
  
  “ Well done, well programmed, well executed. ”
- bret brase
  
  “ will be interesting to see where these companies or ideas go in a year. i like the idea off a meet up tracker. ”
- Asi Burak
  
  “ Loved the social issues focus, the demos were inspiring ”
- Dan
  
  “ Good presentation and it got my wheels spinning in a helpful way. I wish there was a longer Q&A period as I was interested in the types of questions other ppl were thinking. ”
- Steven Lehrburger
  
  “ The Point was a very cool idea, and Clay Shirky is an especially good speaker. ”
- Matt Kangas
  
  “ Amazingly, I got an RSVP (after 3 months of trying) ”
- Richard Klotz
  
  “ I liked the ideas presented. ”
- Tito Ingargiola
  
  “ Interesting content crisply delivered in a compelling environment. Very nice. ”
- Yaritsa Arenas
  
  “ I actually showed up late, but what I did see was really cool. It was a great first impression for me. ”
- Travis Millman
  
  “ Excellent line up of speakers. Fascinating and sure to be important theme. Kudos to the organizers. ”
- Lauren Sperber
  
  “ Great lineup of people working on inspiring projects. A common theme uniting the presentation adds a nice coherence to the evening. ”
- Matt
  
  “ I really liked this meeting versus February. I also liked the general communities theme for the meeting and hope to see that continue. ”
- Joseph Piekarski
  
  “ we need more ladies ”
- Vikas Sapra
  
  “ I was at the edge of my seat throughout yesterday's meetup. Not only was the topic - future of (self)organizing - particularly relevant, but the presenters also were top-notch. Stickk and The Point demonstrated very unique (and possibly world-changing) business models. As per usual, Clay Shirky's presentation was equal parts insightful and comedic. I'm looking forward to reading his book "Here Comes Everybody." Nice work Scott. ”
- Brian Driscoll
  
  “ I like the idea of grouping similar companies/presenters together. ”
- Lawrence Wang
  
  “ i liked the theme, especially The Point and Clay Shirky's presentation. ”
- Jeff Wald
  
  “ this should just be about building links and supporting the NYC tech community. We have so much work to do in order to build the institutions and support structures that SV, Boston, Austin, etc. have. Although the presentation by Clay was amazing. As he was not pitching a specific company that was a great way to educate the community; loved that part. ”
- Kfir Shay
  
  “ I came to see startups not talk abstract! ”
- Diane Deely
  
  “ It was great. Very informative. ”
- Jessica Perilla
  
  “ I loved the format and location, well organized and very informative. ”
- Federico Lara ViCaDi
- Ilya Zatulovskiy
- Alberto Escarlate
- Bethany Soule
- Alex Yakovlev
- Chris W
- Alex Wimbush
- Avishai Weiss
- Al Mejias
- Charles Parra
- Veronica Price
- Peter Chislett
- Alex
- Sean Flannagan
- Bitsy Metcalf
- Paul Horrocks
- Varun Mehta
- Daniel Reeves
- Kevin Moradi
- Steve Rosenbaum
- Anne Andiorio
- Christianne Orto
- Bill Ryan
- Paul Klipp
- Troy Sechrist
- cheni yerushalmi
- Arthur Kinley
- Maxine Friedman
- Eugene
- Dean Collins