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2009 in Review

Posted: January 5th, 2010 | Author: DevHousePGH | Filed under: Articles | No Comments »

January

Lightning Talk DevHousePGH Event at Remedy.

  • Dave Nelson from Talkshoe talked about Talkshoe and lessons learned from the experience.
  • Miriam Goldberg with FuseCal talked about sharing calendar technology she is writing code for.
  • Karl Schieneman presented the next AlphaLabs entry deadline for start up funding.

March

Lightning Talk DevHousePGH Event at Remedy.

  • Eric Kline from Morgan Lewis & Bockius on raising money in today’s market. A description of what deals today look like and how much is involved.
  • Andy Fraley, former CIO from Co-Manage and key employee at Fore Systems talked about his experiences with Cloud Computing services and evaluating their tool kits and support for building software.
  • Khalid Harun gave an update on the DevHouse Pgh website.
  • Nick Pinkston talked about Hack Pittsburgh and their new facility.

April

DevHousePGH coordinated a very successful networking meeting called Pittsburgh Technology Mash Up Event on April 23rd at Alpha Labs Groups that participated or were invited:

  • Rossum
  • Pittsburgh Flash Users Group
  • Web Developers Meetup
  • Coding Dojo
  • PodCampPGH
  • Alphalabs
  • Hack Pittsburgh
  • Pitt MFUG
  • Web Design Meetup
  • Pittsburgh Geeks
  • wplug
  • Refresh Pittsburgh
  • DevHousePGH

June

We met at Hack Pittsburgh to see the new hacker space that had recently opened in Pittsburgh.
Hack Pittsburgh gave a presentation on what they offer.

  • Karl Schieneman gave an assessment of the history of DevHousePGH to date and the need to get a technologist to take an active role in managing DevHousePGH. Hack Pittsburgh offered to host monthly DevHouse meetings and a working group started planning scheduled DevHousePGH events.

July

First Month coding only session at Hack Pittsburgh

August

Lightning Talk DevHousePGH Event at Remedy.

  • Pritam Advani CEO of PCN closings gave a talk about how to create a business plane for a technology company. Pritam has been a serial tech entrepreneur and has created over $6 mill. in shareholder value at TechRX, eTransport, and PCN closings.

September

Coding only session at Hack Pittsburgh.

October

Coding only session at Hack Pittsburgh.

November

Lightning Talk DevHousePGH Event at Remedy.

  • John Rodney, a tax and corporate attorney with Thorp Reed & Armstrong talked about various methods of incorporation and their advantages and disadvantages as well as common mistakes that startups make.
  • Robert Emmert, Managing Director and a Principal with Metronome Labs SEO spoke about their product for gathering mettrics on websites and applications as well as Metronome Labs unique aproche to growing a bussiness.
  • B6 Systems Presented Java PureFace, a system of developing JSF using primarily JAVA code eliminating large amounts of XML configuration.

December

Coding only session at Hack Pittsburgh.

Upcoming Events for next 6 months

January 19th

Coding only session at Hack Pittsburgh

February 16th

Lighting Talk DevHousePGH Event.

  • Joe Barron – Blue Tree Capital. Invited speakers Jim Jen Innovation Works and Jeff Kovacs Alpern Rosenthal. Common theme is raising capital in today’s market.
  • Karl Schieneman – Update on meetings with Pittsburgh Technology Council and Innovation Works to assist with marketing DevHousePgh.

Location TBD (either Innovation Works or Remedy in Lawrenceville.)

March 16th & April 20th

Coding only session at Hack Pittsburgh

May 18th

Lightning Talk DevHousePGH Event

Invitations have been sent out to solicit speakers from local technology companies.

June 15th

Coding only session at Hack Pittsburgh

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