What’s the Haps: conferences, co-working & meetups

There are some cool things going on around here that I wanted to share:

• Lafayette CampFiber — Saturday, October 4 — As I’ve mentioned previously, excitement is in the air in Lafayette with the fiber network that is being installed as we speak. With this as a theme, Geoff Daily has been spearheading the BarCamp-style event planned for the October 4th. This is the second BarCamp in Louisiana and already has a lot of people registering. I was hoping to do a VC 101 talk, but have a wedding that weekend. Will Donaldson is going to lead the discussion. Get over to Lafayette for this great unconference. Register on the wiki or through Eventbright.

• NetSquared NO Meetup — Tuesday, September 2 @ 7pm — Jessica Rohloff is rocking out the social media + nonprofit focus of NetSquared by getting this event kicked off right here in New Orleans. The location is TBD, but should be a great group. I’ll be leading a discussion on what New Orleans Non-Profits can learn from Web 2.0 — blogging, community building, brand authenticity & transparency.This is going to be a lot of fun. Sign up on the Meetup site.

• Jelly Co-Working — Friday, August 29 — Benjamin Reese is getting Jelly, a national collective of co-working initiatives off the ground here in NOLA. If you haven’t heard of co-working, its a way for those of us who work alone “virtually” either from an office or at home, to get together with other human’s every once in a while and have a conversation in person, not just over twitter. We’re going to try to do one right here at Voodoo next Friday! Register on the wiki if you think you can make it. Free wifi and coffee, and maybe we’ll get some beer for the afternoon.

Hope you can make it to all of these, its exciting to see the Louisiana Tech community gelling this way.

Take note: these are all “open source” community initiatives. We’re getting it together down here, and its by the contribution that we all make. We get out of it what we put in. Let’s build it together.