[socal-piggies] [BarCampLA] Re: Too many tech event collisions in LA

[Chuck Esterbrook]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Eric Hammond <ehammond at thinksome.com> wrote:
>
>  Amanda Abelove wrote:
>  > http://calendars.techvenue.com/cgi-bin/techvenue.pl?CalendarName=Los_Angeles
>
>  Thanks, I've added this to the list of tech event calendars on:
>
>   http://LAgeeks.org
>
>
>  Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
>  > Perhaps all we need is some psuedo-community calendar on Google or
>  > something, give key people write access and promote it. I'd call it
>  > the "LA Tech Calendar".
>
>  This is being done with a Google Calendar started by Emad Fanous. I
>  registered a domain to make it easy to get to:
>
>   http://LAtechCalendar.com
>
>  You can submit new events using the email link at the top right. If you
>  submit enough, you're likely to get promoted to editor on the calendar :)
>
>  I also monitor a few mailing lists like BarCampLA looking for cool
>  events to add.

These are great. I didn't know about these sites and other respondents
didn't mention them so maybe they are not so well known.

I have some suggested tweaks which I'll send direct.

I'll use http://www.lageeks.org/ as my entry point for events.


Thanks,
-Chuck