December Geek Dinner – Wed. the 17th 5:30-9pm @ AS220 featuring Tizra + Canned Food Drive!
Posted by Jack
Photo Credit: Bret A. Ancowitz, M.D. of Garris Photography
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008, 5:30 – 9pm
AS220, 115 Empire Street, Providence, RI
FREE (buy your own food and drink – it’s cheap)
Tis’ the Season. Join us next week for the last Geek Dinner of 2008. In addition to our usual fun, we’re going to have a canned food drive in support of the Rhode Island Food Community Bank. Please bring whatever you can – 1 can or 100. Learn more about our “Geeks for Good” canned food drive here.
I’m really looking forward to next week’s presentation. Almost 3 years ago now, when Providence-based start-up Tizra was only a few weeks old, they presented at one of the very first Geek Dinners. Next week they will be returning to show just how far they’ve come.
Tizra COO Abe Dane and other team members will give an overview and demo of Tizra Publisher – a web-based software service that lets content owners create branded commerce websites from existing content. Tizra Publisher is successfully serving a host of clients now including MIT Press.
Update: Abe has written a post at the RI Nexus blog – Scaling Everything but Cost: How Tizra went from Service to Software-as-a-Service.
Update: PBN just released an interview with Abe – Five Questions With: Abe Dane.
Please RSVP in the comments section of this post so that we can give the good folks at AS220 an estimated headcount. And while you’re at it, subscribe to Providence Geeks’ RSS feed (see sidebar) and/or join our very-low-volume email announcement list (for the announcement list, send an email to Jack Templin, jtemplin over at Gmail with your name and affiliation).
As always, for first-timers here are the details on the Geek Dinners:
- The event itself is FREE! Beverages and food are for sale at the adjoining bar and Taqueria Pacifica (delicious and cheap)
- It’s totally casual. Wear whatever, bring whoever, arrive and take off whenever! And don’t worry about eating or not – come famished or full – eating is optional, and frankly, the least of the festivities (that’s not say the food isn’t good – it’s actually great)
- Topics of conversation will vary as they will at any gathering of geeks, but many of us will be talking about AJAX, mash-ups, start-ups, new devices, innovative business models, interaction design, social computing, digital art, web services, etc. etc. etc.
- There is Wi-Fi so bring your connected device of choice.
December 12th, 2008 14:41
First, I want to give a HUGE shout-out to Michelle Riggen-Ransom, Adam Darowski, Pamela O’Hara, T.J. Sodermann (and others I’m sure that I’m forgetting) for making the Canned Food Drive happen. That’s the best kind of Holiday Spirit.
Second, I will be there – and with cans in tow.
December 12th, 2008 15:41
I plan to attend and will have at least one can in tow!
December 12th, 2008 15:52
I expect to make it rolling cans all the way.
December 12th, 2008 15:53
RSVP for Dec. 17 Geek’s Dinner!
December 12th, 2008 15:57
I’ll b there w/ cans in hand!
December 12th, 2008 16:36
I can’t Can Can by I can Can in Hand.
December 12th, 2008 16:41
I’ll be there with bells on, I mean cans!
December 12th, 2008 17:09
Will try to be there with cans.
December 12th, 2008 18:22
We’ll be filling the mini-van with all kind of non-perishables. Plus, want to see Abe in a Santa hat.
December 12th, 2008 20:31
I wish to attend the last meeting of 2008
December 12th, 2008 21:48
Abe Dane is going to be there!
That settles it, in his honor I will be bringing 5 cans of Dinty Moore beef stew and 6 cans of vienna sausages.
-sean
December 12th, 2008 22:06
I’ll be there. I am looking forward to seeing how Tisra has developed in the past year
David
December 12th, 2008 23:59
Is this similar to Cannes? Should I wear a bikini?
December 13th, 2008 09:22
This is my first time here. I caught Jack Templin’s twitter page today and I would LOVE to attend the Geek Dinner. I host a successful web radio show and I am definitely interested in meeting all of you. I will be there with some canned goods and a lot of questions!
December 13th, 2008 12:52
I’ll be there!
December 13th, 2008 13:44
Ill be there.
December 14th, 2008 21:03
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it this week.
Wishing everyone a very happy holiday season – see you in 2009!
December 15th, 2008 10:46
See you there!
December 15th, 2008 11:01
Thank-you Jack and Brian! Excited to be there and see the updates on Tizra….Abe and his crew are Rockstars!
Best,
David
December 15th, 2008 12:15
I’ll be there – looking forward to attending my first Geeks dinner.
Best,
Ted Nesi
Providence Business News
http://www.pbn.com
December 15th, 2008 12:37
There. Plus one-half. And cans.
December 15th, 2008 15:29
I guess it goes without saying I’ll be there, particularly since Sean’s bringing Vienna Sausages. Much more exciting, though, it looks like our Über Geek CTO Francisco Rosa will be there, too!
December 15th, 2008 22:17
I’ll be there.
December 16th, 2008 09:57
Planning on it.
December 16th, 2008 12:36
I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to make it.
December 16th, 2008 13:36
I’m planning to attend my first Geek dinner. Should I wear a toga? Or is that Greek dinner attire? Regardless, looking forward to tomorrow night.
December 17th, 2008 08:33
Me too!
December 17th, 2008 15:07
DandyID team will be there! I can’t think if a good ‘can’ pun, so I’ll just leave it at that.
December 17th, 2008 15:10
I’ll be there for a little bit
December 17th, 2008 15:36
I’m planning to stop by briefly, though unfortunately can’t stay long this evening.