Refresh Denver

SXSW is halfway home, and the conference is proving to be another amazing experience.

The Refresh World Meetup on Friday evening was a great first stop on the journey. It was great to meet Refreshers from all over the globe.

Saturday’s highlights included a bit of local flavor as Boulder’s Kathy Sierra gave the opening remarks. Kathy is a fantastic speaker and her Creating Passionate Users talks are always a favorite of mine.

Sunday night brought the Avalonstar Bowling Extravaganza. I was proud geekmember of Team Microformats that also included Refreshers and general web geeks from AOL, Paypal, Linkd’in, The Motley Fool, and others. Our lane assignment for the preliminaries actually placed us between the Refresh DC team and the global Team Refresh. That Cindy Li can really bowl!

Out of the 36 teams, we actually made the field of 16 as the #14 seed in the tournament that pitted us against third-seeded FrogDesign. In our first head-to-head round, we rose to the occasion to knock off the design giants and make our way into the elite round of eight. We finished the evening in sixth place - which was the lottery compared to our expectations.

Look me up if you’re in Austin! Back to Matt Mullenweg’s presentation on Scaling Your Community.

One of my favorite times of the year is almost here. SXSW 2007 begins this week!

This will be my third trip to the fine city of Austin to partake in the experience that is SXSW. It will also be my first year as a platinum badge holder staying through the music festival.

I may be blogging to my yet-to-be-created personal blog site and I will be continuously updating my Flickr account with photos of all the spectacular panels and evening events.

If you are headed down to the conference this year - be sure to look for me in the mobs of geeks, designers, and bloggers. I will be at the Refresh “World” Meetup on Friday evening before heading to an event I’m organizing for all higher education attendees.

Here’s to 10 nights in a hotel room! Cheers!

Chip D.

Meet Refresher’s from around the World at this informal gathering off 6th. We’re planning two panel discussions - one on User Experience hosted by Nick Finck, Chris Bernard, Bryan Veloso, and Stephen P. Anderson — and another on Accessibility with Sharron Rush, Derek Featherstone, and Kelsey Ruger. Additionally — John Moore from Brand Autopsy will be joining our panelists to discuss how UX and Accessibility tie into Branding, Marketing, & New Social Media.

Come to learn - come to share. This event is all about making connections, exploring new media, and promoting great talent and design.

When
Friday, March 9, 2007
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Where
Bourbon Bar
508 East 6th Street
Austin, Texas 73301,/p>

Source
http://upcoming.org/event/155659/