For the past year I’ve ramped up my own tech networking. Someone asked on the excellent and long-running Web405 list for places to network a la VIC (Venice Interactive Community) of the old days (late 1990s) and these were the answers:
- BarCampLA: http://barcampla.org/
- Dealmaker LA: http://www.dealmakermedia.com/la.html
- Digital Family Reunion: http://www.digitalfamilyreunion.net/
- Dorkbot: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsocal/
- ExecTech: http://www.meetup.com/ExecTec/
- Geek Dinner: http://www.g33kd1nner.com/
- LA Flash Group: http://laflash.org/laflash
- LA Friday Coffee: http://www.lafridaycoffee.com/
- LA UX Meetup: http://ia.meetup.com/55/
- LA Web Application Developer Meetup: http://web.meetup.com/34/
- LINC: http://www.linc-networking.com/
- MindShare LA: http://mindshare.la
- Mixergy: http://www.mixergy.com/
- MySQL Developer Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/The-Los-Angeles-MySQL-Meetup-Group/
- SIGGRAPH LA: http://la.siggraph.org/html/
- Twiistup: http://www.twiistup.com/
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Great list Joe. Thanks for sharing!
Hey Joe, yeah we’re getting the ‘digital family’ together for the holidays Thurs Dec. 11th @ the Skirball~
http://www.digitalfamilyreunion.net
we’d love to see you, ping me for the promo code, and we just released 200 more tickets.
Also, we’d love to hear a video comment on our site from ya~
cya~!