Today I attended my first #BigDOCC meetup this morning at Coffee House Cafe. The meeting was huge. I'd say about 40 people attended. I'd like to thank the Coffee House Cafe for hosting us.
The conversations ranged from local tech news, startups, BitCoin, and Mac/iOS vs. PC/Windows. BitCoin was the big topic of the day. I even got to introduce myself and mention Kids In Touch.
As the meeting progressed, I started trying to enter notes about good ideas and websites into my reminder app( Due ) on my phone. Needless to say, that's hard to do and keep up with the conversation. So, I dug out the nice notebook we all received at Ng-Conf last month and scribbled away. Since so many other people were also pecking away at their screens trying to keep up, I decided to post some notes and links here. Hopefully, it will be a helpful resourece to everyone. Unfortunately, I've only got a small bit in here. If anyone has more notes or links, hit me up on Twitter to let me know.
Upcoming Events:
1 Million Cups : 1 hour presentations for local startups every Wednesday.
Launch DFW Tech Startup Happy Hour : Thursday, February 20, 2014 from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm at Call-Em-All - Pokemon Much?
HootUp Dallas : Monday, February 20, 2014 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at Improving Enterprises. Discussing HootSuite. Let me also take a moment to thank Improving Enterprises for their amazing support of the development community. I've attended about 20 meetups at their location in the last 2 years. They are incredible hosts and go all out to support the DFW community.
Hiring
Time Warner is hiring Network Applications developers. Links anyone?
General Topics
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KIPP DFW : Michael is trying to get some folks together to talk to this local charter school organization for Thursday, February 20, 2014.
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Boost : Michael's startup is looking for some local retail outlets to help test their new location aware marketing application. Boost helps retailers identify their visitor's home addresses to enable focused direct mail marketing.
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Stupid Good Coffee : Did you know Dallas has a tunnel system? Apparently, there is some good "underground" coffee too.
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CRM Solutions : An attendee wanted suggestions for Customer Relationship Management software. Here are some that were discussed :
-Base
-Zoho : FYI : Also great mail, calendar, chat, discussion, wiki, support desk, kitchen sink applicaitons.
-Base
-Trello : I'm not sure if it's really a CRM, but someone did mention it.
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Rumors
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BitCoin
-https://bitcoin.org/en/
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
-https://www.mtgox.com/
-http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/12/technology/security/bitcoin-attack/index.html
