tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546365.post-15624225806473622062008-01-16T21:40:00.000-05:002008-01-16T22:02:47.774-05:00Wow, looks like the <a href="http://www.bloomingtonstartup.com/">Bloomington Startup Weekend</a> is proceeding apace. It was <a href="http://startupweekend.com/bloomington-announced/">announced </a>today as an official part of the Startup Weekends that have been going on around the country - there was one in West Lafayette, wonder if their company made boilers - after a voting process where more than 150 people voted for Bloomington over various other cities. They're looking for around 70 people signing up, with all sorts of different skills: developers, designers, PR people, lawyers, managers; and once the group gets together on Feb. 8th, they'll brainstorm some ideas for a product, and hopefully go ahead and get it built! Good luck to them. I'm sure I'll sign up, and maybe even make some useful contributions, although I need to clear it with my boss first. I have a feeling that the weekends in places like New York tended to be from dissatisfied people working at Merril Lynch or IBM or places like that, but I work for a company that may have less employees than this weekend will have attendees, and it's a really cool company too. (Want a <a href="http://www.envisagenow.com/careers.asp">job at Envisage</a>?) So I'm not looking to make my fortune from this weekend, but it should be fun.<br /><br />The week before that we'll have a <a href="http://bloomingtongeekdinners.com/">geek dinner</a>, so I'm guessing the Startup Weekend will be a topic of conversation there too. Hope to see you at El Norteno!Ben Fultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858593972149277774noreply@blogger.com