Bug+(BLANK)
One of the big themes here at Bug Labs is inclusion.
With get-togethers, this can be a bit of a tricky thing to do, since it’s not
really practical to have a hundred people at a dinner discussion, and we’d have
a tough time convincing the landlords to install all-plexiglass walls in the
building. But, we DO want to get out and in front of everyone/anyone interested
in chatting. So we’ll be setting up events around the country that we’re
calling "Bug + (BLANK)". Each one is a public, everyone’s-invited activity of some sort.
BLANK will include words like “campus” – when we show up at a school and meet
with students and teachers who are interested in learning more. BLANK
could be “Austin” – for finding an interesting venue in that fine town to have
hands-on demonstrations and coding workshops with the Bug platform. BLANK
could even be “the mall”, but we’re having a tough time seeing how that would
fit.
BLANK right now is going to be “bar+NYC” (I almost said "booze" – which I’ve always found an
attention-grabbing word), and by that it means we are going to have a night at
a bar in New York City, where a few people from the company will be on hand to chat
about whatever topics come up, whether related to Bug, open source hardware, cool gadgets, or Call of Duty 2 strategies. In fact, I’m of the opinion
that all of those topics will come up and might even make a small bet on it.
So please join us on August 14th at Punch Restaurant (upstairs) in Manhattan for an open bar from 6-8pm. As soon as we can logistically set up more BLANKs, you’ll hear
about them here. Got a BLANKing good suggestion? Comment on the
blog or shoot me an email, we’d be happy to BLANK with you anytime!
August 8th, 2007 at 7:32 am
Darn, I’ll be out of town. Hope you do another NYC event soon…
August 8th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Great idea. How about doing an event in San Francisco? We’re open to almost everything. Only our hardware tends to be a little pretentious.
August 8th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Jeremy – i’m coming. thought you could sneak in and out of town w/out me finding out!!!
August 9th, 2007 at 5:50 am
Jeremy,
I’m a neighbor of Peter’s and an interested bystander. Also, I’m ancient and probably resistant to new ideas. (Old dogs and new tricks..).
So having read all I can about Bug Labs, I have an old timer’s summarizing observation. You need to make the transition from abstraction (yada-yada) to concrete, before the world will pay attention
Stan
August 9th, 2007 at 8:25 am
Bill – absolutely, going to shoot for once a month-ish
Steve – planning for mid-September
Barry – you caught me!
Stan – so that means you’re coming, right?
You raise an excellent point, which is why we are focusing on having a lot of interesting conversations right now (hence these events) and learn what we can from them.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Hi:
I may be coming in from PA, what’s the parking situation like?
Dave
August 9th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
I’d definitely like to come but will be out of town. Looking forward to the next even in NYC.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:36 am
There’s a thriving community in London that would be thrilled to fill in the BLANK.
August 10th, 2007 at 10:46 am
I’ll be out of town on the 14th, but next time I am definitely there.
August 10th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
looking forward to it!
August 10th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
i’ll be there
August 12th, 2007 at 9:18 am
Dave – would be great to have you attend. The parking situation is typical NYC. You MIGHT find parking on the street. That time of day (6PM) is actually not a terrible time to look. Just make sure you read parking the signs carefully. If that fails there are several public lots in the area where you can park but expect to pay $40 or so. Hope to see you there.
August 13th, 2007 at 9:41 am
I feel somehow obligated to attend!
-Dan Blank
August 13th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
I will be there…looking forward to some more info.
August 13th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
While Austin would certainly be a great place to visit, I’d like to suggest considering San Antonio – just down the road – instead. First off, I’d be happy to give you a tour of Southwest Research Institute (where they may have a few uses for the product and they definitely have some knowledgeable hackers). Then lunch or dinner could be on San Antonio’s famous Riverwalk. Plenty of good outdoor eateries there.
Just a suggestion,
Ewan
August 13th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Exciting new hardware/software AND liquor? Count me in.
August 13th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Dan – we could’ve call it Bug+Dan, but I don’t think it’d be as inviting…
Jed & Ewan – thanks very much for the suggestions, we’ll get out to as many places as we can! As soon as we know specific timing for events, we’ll blog about them here, and have a section on the Web site as well.
Looking forward to meeting the rest of you tomorrow!
August 14th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Will the Bug breed?
I went to the Bug BLANK gathering tonight, and learned a bit more about what Bug Labs is gestating. A Bug is a small, diskless, fanless, single board computer with Linux preloaded onto it, and a standardized peripheral interface. It comes
August 15th, 2007 at 7:37 am
Bug Labs
Estas últimas semanas ha estado sonando un poco por allí y por allá el nombre de Bug Labs, aunque no terminaba de quedar en claro que era lo que estaban haciendo. Pues ayer tuvieron un pequeño evento que llamaron BUG+BAR+NYC…
August 15th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Bug Labs Open Source Hardware
Went out to meet the Bug Labs team last night at the first of their Bug+BLANK events (where BLANK in this case was NYC+bar).
Bug Labs is a New York City based startup building an open source hardware platform. What does that mean? Their soon-to-be-…
August 20th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
How about BUG+BAR+DC