Time for some more mountain geekery.

February 10th will be Ignite Boulder 8. More details will be posted on the Ignite Boulder website.

Once again Ignite Boulder will take place at the Boulder Theater, with more sparks, local music and the usual community mingling.

Cost is still $10, tickets will be on sale here starting January 10th.

We’re thrilled to be hosting the first ever Ignite WordCamp at the inaugural WordCamp Boston on January 23rd, 2010. WordCamps are community-organized events around the world where users and developers of WordPress gather to share their love and knowledge of the popular blogging and CMS platform. The Ignite WordCamp will be a feature slot at the end of the day and will be presented in front of the entire 400 people crowd of WordCampers!

A call for speakers is now live and we’ll be taking proposals through January 5th. Any WordPress-related talk is welcome. We await your proposals! :)

Hi guys,

I'm Red, a communications and design consultant from Manila. I'm excited about bringing Ignite to all the geeks here in the Philippines -- and there are a lot.

It'll be held during GIW on March 4. I still have to take care of the venue, but I already have some prospects, so it shouldn't be a problem.

I already have some geeks lined up to present -- a Go (the board game) geek, an astronomy geek, and a trivia geek -- as well as some who can be considered geeks based on their passion for their advocacies -- AIDS awareness, reproductive health, national pride.

If you'd like to support the event by presenting or sponsoring, please send an email to redtani at gmail dot com .

For updates, please follow us on twitter @IgniteManila and stay tuned to this blog for more details soon.

And congratulations to all involved with Ignite! I look forward to helping this community grow through our own Ignite events next year.

On January 9th, we will be holding the first Ignite CLS West in San Francisco. CLS West is short for West Coast Community Leadership Summit. Building upon the momentum of the first International Community Leadership Summit held this past summer, CLS West is the first annual regional community leadership summit for the San Francisco Bay Area.

In conjunction with the CLS West Unconference, this community-themed Ignite is being held on the very same day in the evening. This will be a private event for CLS West attendees and their invited guests. If you are a community leader in the bay area, you should consider signing up for both events.

If you just like the idea of a community theme Ignite, you should find someone you know in community leadership that is attending the Unconference on this attendee list and ask them to invite you as their guest to the Ignite. The local community leaders giving Ignite Talks on January 9th are:

• Ann Winblad: SDForum
• Carlos Hernandez: Social Media for the Uncomfortable
• Dave Nielsen: CloudCamp
• Grant Bowman: Ubuntu California
• Kaliya Hamlin: Internet Identity Workshop, She's Geeky
• Kami Griffiths: Community Technology Network, TechSoup
• Karsten Wade: Red Hat Community
• Leslie Hawthorn: Google Summer of Code
• Mary Vincent: Green Software Unconference
• Nancy Frishberg: BayCHI
• Peter Kellner: Silicon Valley Code Camp
• Robert Stephenson: The Program for the Future Conference
• Sudha Jamthe: Twitter Meetup, Facebook Meetup, Social Media Strategist at PayPal
• Tammy Baker: Dare 2B Digital Conference
• Vincent Lauria: Silicon Valley New Tech Meetup

All of our speakers except for Ann Winblad and Robert Stephenson can be followed from this Ignite CLS West Speakers twitter list. They are also listed in the CLS West People Photo Gallery on our wiki. Check it out!

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Sion chickens caused a social meltdown in Second Life. The digital birds were bred for their color and numbered almost one-hundred thousand causing server slowdowns and attracting griefers.

Patrick Davison heard about the controversy and shares his findings. Patrick is a digital artist living in Brooklyn. The talk was filmed at Ignite NYC.

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The Denver Open Source Users Group is proud to announce our first Ignite event, happening at the Microsoft offices in the Denver Tech Center, on February 2nd, 2010 at 6:00pm.

We have 14 energetic speakers lined up to share a broad set of technology, career, and life skill talks. Come join us for a night of learning, networking, career building, and free beers after the event.

Our committed speakers thus far are (with more being added each week):

John Whitson - CouchDB
Mike Prasad - Performance Tuning
Tom Flaherty - Principles of Programming Languages - Past Present & Future
Tom Marrs - TBD
Tim Berglund - Then Our Houses Build Us (Form and Content in Software Development)
Matthew McCullough - Information Alchemy through Better Presentations
Gabe Hamilton - What's new in Dojo 1.4
Garrett Foster - eCommerce Thrills and Spills!
Paul Rayner - Still No Silver Bullet? Thoughts on Design, Complexity and the Architect
Joe McTee - Agile Estimation
Demian - Interviewing Skills
Andy Ennamorato - Complex Event Processing
Mark Maslyn - Text Mining Using JBoss Rules
Joe Shirey - TBD

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Does it always make sense to get a new car? Cash For Clunkers was a great program for offsetting the cost of that new Prius. However, the math is not always that simple. Bill Moore walks through the total cost of a new car.

Bill was filmed at Ignite Lansing. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Tuesday's Ignite Bay Area | Women Innovators talks are to include everything from SF Weekly's Alexia Tsotsis' "Why hussle is more important than talent" and Neighborgoods' Micki Krimmel "All I Really Need to Know (About Love) I Learned Playing Roller Derby" (with coffee talk and digital book publishing observations in between). If you would like to see these and other talks by women in technology, entrepreneurship and media, production network Business Boomer will be hosting a Livesteam channel starting at 7 PM PST thanks to O'Reilly Conferences' sponsorship.

These talks are being brought to the stage thanks of the support of Intel, TechWeb, Automattic, and Microsoft BizSpark. We're also looking forward to having Rickshaw Bags, 9 Catering, TCHO Chocolates, and Venus Restaurant take part in tomorrow's event.

Will you be one of the first to Ignite Austin? Submit your proposals here: https://bit.ly/QGez6

Ignite Anchorage #2: Thursday January 14, 2010

The next Ignite Anchorage conference will be held at the Snow Goose Theater on Thursday, January 14th at 7pm, with the doors opening at 6:30pm. Get there early for more social time and we might even have something fun for you. Admission is free, so register to attend now and join us for an evening of presentations and fun.

The Snow Goose will staff a bar in the theater so come thirsty and try one of the great local beers made by the Sleeping Lady Brewing Company. You will be able to order food off the menu either at the bar or through Snow Goose Restaurant takeout. If you are planning to have dinner at the event then we recommend you order ahead of time through takeout. Their telephone number is (907) 277-7727.

Ignite Anchorage #2

Snow Goose Theater
717 West Third Avenue [Google map]
Thursday, January 14th at 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm)

More information: IgniteAnchorage.com

We have more than half of our speakers confirmed already and tentative speakers for most of the remaining slots, but we still need a few more speakers to fill out the slate of presentations. If you would like to speak at our January 14th conference then please email your topic proposal to Ignite (at) IgniteAnchorage.com. Send your topic right away because the speaker submission deadline is December 17th.

Ignite Portugal 3 will be held in Lisbon again on Thursday, December 17, 2009. You can find more information and submit talk ideas at the event's site, https://www.igniteportugal.blogspot.com

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Hilary Mason, a data researcher for Bit.ly, gave a great, geeky talk on how she has automated her email correspondence; all she used was a very small shell script.

As she explains on her blog:

The title of my talk is a classic geek reference (you can get the t-shirt). I’m very interested in developing automated techniques for handling the massive and growing amounts of information that we all have to deal with. I started with e-mail and twitter, both of which are easy to access programmatically (via IMAP and the Twitter API).

In the talk, I went through several of the simple and successful e-mail management scripts that I’ve developed.

I decided to talk about this project because I’m not sure where this should go next, but I got some great feedback and I’m looking forward to future work on the project!

This talk was filmed at Ignite NYC. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

The Bay Area is buzzing about Ignite, and we're as excited as anyone for the Tuesday's sold out event in Berkeley. Our speakers are incredible, our venue is eco-amazing, and our list of attendees promises a room full of exceptional people. We're also thrilled to announce an all-star line up of amazing companies and organizations that are helping to make the first Ignite Bay Area possible - without whom we'd be totally bolloxed.

Huge appreciation goes out to:

• Rickshaw Bags


• Automattic


• O'Reilly


• Microsoft Biz Spark


• TCHO Chocolate

We also owe heartfelt high fives to our fantastic media sponsors Divine Caroline, Women 2.0 and Social Media Club, and to the provider of our organic, sustainable snacks, Berkeley's Venus Restaurant. Special thanks also go out to Ritual Coffee for keeping our guests caffeinated, and to Scott Berkun for keeping them well read*.

And last but not least, we'd like to dedicate some heavy groveling to our guests, who are not only helping to support Ignite and the amazingly innovative women of the Bay Area with their attendance, but are also keeping less fortunate feet toasty by supporting our charity partner, Hannah's Socks. Thank you, everyone - we can't wait to see you!

*We have a few free copies of Scott's popular new book, Confessions of a Public Speaker, to share. Cross your fingers!

CAMBIO DE FECHA DEL PRIMER IGNITE

Debido a un solapamiento de eventos donde ibamos a realizar el primer Ignite Madrid, hemos movido la fecha del Primer Ignite en Madrid al _____ de Febrero del 2010