Meetups around San Francisco and Random Observations from a Foreigner

dkberktas — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:37:46 +0000

For the last two months, I am visiting San Francisco, as I would say if I see you during a meet-up lately. I arrived San Francisco on 1st of March, and since then I have attended many meet-ups mostly the ones I found from meetup.com which is by the way a wonderful site (and also plancast), and also met with some very interesting characters.

Before mentioning the meetups and the people (SF Bay Groovy and Grails Meetup Group, SF New Tech, SFDUG – San Francisco Drupal Users group, The San Francisco Java User Group, WebMapSocial Silicon Valley Meetup Group, Web 2.0 Expo, Google I/O, and some other), I briefly want to talk about my thought on the community around bay area (actually mostly around San Francisco (sf)).

There are many (many) things (meet-ups, breakfasts, book clubs, expos, ignites…) that can consume all your time easily. I wonder how people focus on anything around here. (The best way can be disconnect from internet so that you don’t see invitation emails that rain all day.)

the people. They are very very welcoming, and really interested in your story if you can explain it in 15-20 seconds. Really, if it exceeds this threshold, they start to think something else (probably because they are bored) in their mind, and try not to show it to you. But you can see it on their face

Another thing is you can instantly tell whether the person in front of you is a technical guy or a marketing guy, or a guy with money and time (these are the categories I come up so far). Tech guys mostly either very geeky and friendly (like the one in TBBT) or very tense like the ones mentioned in Rework in the chapter about burn outs. Marketing guys seems to be really talkative even if you stop listening them, they keep talking. The guys w/ money seems to be very relaxed and cool (this is the nice way of saying high ego).

For the time being, this post will be a prologue.

At the end of May, I will turn back to Turkey, and hopefully I will have more time to write about my observations.

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Yeni Tohumlar — etohum 2010

dkberktas — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:22:08 +0000

2009 bizim (ben ve yekmer) için çok heyecanli bir yil oldu. Bunda etohum’un ve Burak hoca‘nin payi çok büyük.

Bu sene etohum 20 Ocak’ta yeni tohumlari duyuracak, inaniyorumki etohum bu sene daha da etkili ve basarili olacak. bu sene geçen seneki gibi girisimcilere 4 günlük bir kurs verilecek. 2009 yilinda bogaz manzarasi esliginde yapilan kurs, bu sene akdeniz sahilllerine tasinmis bir de incubator acilldi, bu sene etohumcular için harika geçecek sanirim. ilgili etohum linki‘de budur.

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Meetups around San Francisco and Random Observations from a Foreigner

Yeni Tohumlar — etohum 2010