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Tag Archives: minnebar
Saving Innovation: Can a DIY culture of meet-ups, competitions, and “unconferences” spark more start-ups in the state?
Post by Ben Edwards
Oct
20
2010
It was a warm Saturday in late May, and instead of rolling out the dock up at the cabin or going for a jog around the chain of lakes, more than 600 people chose to spend their day inside Best … Continue reading
Posted in community
Tagged barcamp, barcamp Minnesota, entrepreneurship, innovation, minnebar, Minnesota, start-up, startup
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Call for session organizers: MinneBar ’09
Post by Ben Edwards
Nov
4
2009
We’d love to see some Groovy/Grails/Agile sessions at Minnesota’s barcamp, MinneBar. Jesse, Scott, and I are a bit too harried at the moment to lead too many sessions so we are calling on the community to take the baton. We’d … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes
Tagged barcamp, community, conference, grails, groovy, Minneapolis, minnebar, Minnesota
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Getting risky in Minnesota
Post by Ben Edwards
Jun
11
2008
Minnesotan technologists are working hard and giving their time and energies inside big companies that have sparse ability to innovate. Similarly talented people on the coasts, meanwhile are starting companies and changing the roles technology plays in our lives. Why can’t the Minnesota tech scene produce equally cool and inspiring technologies. The answer may be the extreme aversion to risk we cultivate next to our corn here in the Midwest. Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes, Business
Tagged barcamp Minnesota, entrepreneurism, Local, minnebar, Minnesota, start-up, startup, starups, venture
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Live-blogging from minnēbar
Post by Ben Edwards
May
10
2008
In a rare moment of downtime, I am able to live blog from this session about WordPress as a CMS. I was very happy with the panel discussion (that could have rune for 4 hours) about the State of the … Continue reading
Refactr at minnēbar
Post by Ben Edwards
May
6
2008
The Refactr offices are humming as of late with activity on several fronts. In addition to our client-based software development work, we have been toiling away, putting the last few touches on our first product*, an agile project tracking app … Continue reading
Posted in Misc
Tagged (un)conference, barcamp, community, conference, Design, Local, minnebar, Minnesota, Refactr, startup, tech
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Selling Agile to the Enterprise.
Post by Ben Edwards
Apr
27
2007
I wrote a longish follow-up to MinneBar over at Alt Text but wanted to make mention here of the presentation that Ross Niemi of Thoughtworks and I gave this year, titled: You can do that? Selling agile to the enterprise. … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes, Business
Tagged community, grails, groovy, Local, minnebar, Rails, Refactr, scaling agile
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minnēbar is blowing up
Post by Ben Edwards
Apr
18
2007
With over 300 participants and growing, I am glad we have the space to hold everyone at this year’s event. Now feeding them, that may be another story. Refactr will be representing a number of things at this year’s barcamp … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes
Tagged (un)conference, 37signals, conference, convention over configuration, grails, groovy, minnebar, Rails, Refactr, Ruby
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MinneDemo – Holiday Edition
Post by Ben Edwards
Dec
8
2006
Join me and the rest of the Refactr gang for the holiday edition of MinneDemo on Monday, December 11th at the Acadia Cafe near downtown Minneapolis. It should be a great time with a great lineup of demos and and … Continue reading
