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Thanks to everyone who braved the snow
(we had 11 all told). There was too much
talked about to summarize. I'll try to just
type in a few of the notes I made.

Mike Finney (michaelfinney@...)
is CEO of SPARK and is charged with the
task of capturing some of the innovation in
the Ann Arbor area and turning it into
good and profitable companies. He asked
the question, "is this a good time to be a
software developer?"

Alan Guiterrez (thinknola@...) has
software patents on his mind and asked
"how do independents and inventors compete
with big companies with big and aggressive
patent portfolios?"

Lou Rosenfeld (lou@...) asks
"What does it mean to be a community organization
in 2005?" and in particular how can you do
things differently now than they might have been
done ten years ago.

Diane Durance (ddurance@...)
asks "if you're not on the IT Zone events mailing
list, let me know and I'll add you"

Matt Hampel (matt.hampel@...) is looking
at college next year - U of Michigan Engineering,
Cornell, RPI, and Michigan Tech. It looks likely that
the Neutral Zone will be moving downtown to the
place where Kolossus is now.

Jose Nazario (jose@...) is working at
Arbor Networks, notes that it just got ranked as
#9 on the Inc Magazine 500 list, and notes that
they are hiring for his team.

Joe Cothrel (cothrel@...) is working
as a consultant on projects involving building
communities online which range from economic
development in NE Ohio to mapping industry
networks in oil and gas.

Ron Suarez ()
is building a podcasting and media platform for
music labels.

David C. Bloom (dcb@...)
was full of words and ideas like he usually is,
and the one which i captured was "wikinomics" -
how to be an aggregator of information.

Kathy Brade (brade@...) showed
Alan her new browser tool Pearl Comments,
which puts comments on web pages right into
the browser.

Some more open questions from the table -

How does Ann Arbor capitalize on its diaspora?

Thanks all. One followup from this meeting is
something I'll pursue with Lou about helping
set some direction and gather some ideas for
community organizing. (My inclination would
be to do another open space event some
afternoon and see who shows up and what
comes of it - all we really need for that is a
time and a venue and a mailing list to invite
people to it.)

thanks

your list-keeper


Ed
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Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910

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