Startup Weekend OKC

Startup weekend is a 54 hour event that provides networking resources and incentives for individuals and teams to go from idea to launch. Get connected with local developers, innovators and entrepreneurs. Build Community. Start Companies. No Talk. All Action. Startup Weekend OKC will be held March 5-7th. Visit the Startup Weekend Website for more details.

Getting Real Competition

The Getting Real Competition is a high pressure race to develop web-based software and launch an online startup. Competitors are asked to work in teams and go from an idea to online startup in two weeks. A series of hack days are scheduled at the okcCoCo where teams will be provided space, drinks and food to fuel technology and business development. The startups will launch at OpenBeta 4 and will be asked to give a technology demonstration and a 10 minute pitch to a panel of expert judges made up of experienced entrepreneurs, investors and technologists. The winner of the competition will take home cash and business services towards supporting a public launch. Getting Real Competition Launch Event will be held 9am – 5pm, Saturday, March 13th. Visit the Getting Real Competition Website for more details.

OpenBeta 4 – Where Ideas Meet Opportunity

OpenBeta is a participant-driven community event aimed at exposing innovative ideas and creating business opportunities by connecting smart, passionate and motivated people, with similar interests in technology but different talents. OpenBeta 4 is scheduled for Thursday, March 24th, 2010 at the Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative.
The keynote speaker will be Wynn Netherland, web designer and developer, and creater of the SXSW award winning online service TweetCongress.
The event will also have technology demonstrations, lightning talks, business pitches from the Getting Real Competition and an after party. Visit the OpenBeta Website for more details.

Startup Weekend Oklahoma City
March 5-7th,2010
Friday: 5:30pm – 11pm
Saturday: 9am – 11pm
Sunday: 9am – 10pm
Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative

Startup Weekend is a grass roots organization of 15,000+
entrepreneurs/developers that rapidly develop new startups in 54 hours. Startup Weekend is a tech focused event currently operating in 60 cities spanning 18 countries and growing. During the event, attendees form new ventures from mobile apps to web services to cupcake shops and anything between.

The event is open to anyone interested in the local entrepreneurial community, and it puts them in a setting where anything is possible. In the past 2 years, 280+ startups have started, 9,000+ entrepreneurs have been inspired. Teams have even started to generate revenue during the 54hr event, and others have even gone on to direct angel and VC investment. None of these stats take into account the amazing networking, ongoing professional relationships, and amazing experience that happen at every event.

Speakers & Mentors that will be there to help teams during the weekend including: Jim Rogers, Daniel Mercer, J.D. Meryweather, Piyush Patel, and Michael Smith

Startup Weekend Oklahoma Organizers:
Adam Dani
778-8484
adani@irapllc.com
Clint Nelsen
clint@startupweekend.org

Offices available at okcCoCo are a spacious 250 square feet in size with hardwood floors, high ceilings and window pane doors. Each office comes with a reserved parking spot in our adjacent parking lot. Offices are located in a secure area, with immediate access to the okcCoCo coworking area.

Having an office at okcCoCo also give you access to our community resources including the coworking facilities, 14 person board room, 6 person conference room, social area and event space. If you are running a company from your office, we do our best to promote your services through co-branding on our website (see the sidebar), listing you in our service provider directory, and providing you sponsorships on our events like OpenBeta.

An important part of being part of the okcCoCo community is the professional networking opportunities that exist only at okcCoCo. okcCoCo members are some of this city’s top developers and developers. We host the meetings of a dozen technology focused community groups each month. We also run special educations events and host invited speakers that are free for okcCoCo members to attend.

To really understand okcCoCo and the benefits that having an office at okcCoCo can provide, you need to visit. Please stop by anytime from 9am to 9pm to get a tour of our facility and our available offices.

Thursday February 11th: 6pm.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Application Integration is a key part of IT strategy for every business today. Businesses are looking at Service Oriented Architecture to help their business become more flexible and responsive. For SOA, the Connectivity Entry Point is fundamental to the success of a SOA strategy and deployment.

Join us for anti-pasti and pizza from The Wedge Pizzeria and age-appropriate beverages from COOP Ale Works as we discuss some core WebSphere Connectivity products including:

* WebSphere MQ, the award-winning messaging backbone for deploying your ESB today as the connectivity layer of a SOA.
* WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition, the reliable, managed file transfer solution for moving files – regardless of size – between IT systems.
* WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, the standards-based connectivity and integration solution that allows you to create and deploy interactions quickly and easily between applications and services, with a reduced number and complexity of interfaces.
* WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, the industry leading solution that enables you to easily and quickly publish, find, enrich, manage and govern services and policies in your SOA.

IBM experts will be on hand to explain the benefits of utilizing WebSphere products as part of your development strategy. There will also be ample Q&A opportunities.

“Non-disclosure and Non-compete Agreements”
Shawn J Roberts

6:30pm, Thursday, Feb 4th (Note the new date!)
The Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative

So, you are working at a local technology company and you have a great idea for a new start-up company? What is the best approach to getting your new company off the ground without running afoul of any non-disclosure or non-compete agreements that you might have already signed? What kind of contracts can companies force employees to sign? How enforceable are these contracts? What are the consequences if you violate such an agreement? What are smart strategies for getting your company off the group free and clear of claims from your current employer? We’ll discuss these issues and then have an extended question and answer session, so please bring your questions.

The Bootstrappers beer is a free to attend monthly meeting for entrepreneurs in Oklahoma City. The goal of the meeting is to provide educational and networking opportunities to young entrepreneurs. Many of the attendees are passionate about bootstrapping start-up companies and… beer.

Phone A Clone, LLC, an Oklahoma City based company which offers Personal Assisting and Professional Organizing Services, will open its Midtown location on Tuesday, January 26, at 11:30am with a special ribbon cutting event at okcCoCo
723 N. Hudson, Suite 300. Suzy Warmack, founder and president, will preside over the ceremony.

Phone A Clone, LLC was inspired in 2005 and founded in 2007 as a resource to reduce daily stress for small businesses, families, working parents, single parents, shut-ins or caregivers. Phone A Clone offers a vast variety of services from simple errands and tasks to home or business organization and partial or full event planning. The company’s user-friendly website, www.phoneaclone.com, offers detailed information as well as links to contact the owner or to request more information.
For more information, contact Suzy Warmack at (405) 574-5474.

More Details and Registration Here

This workshop will be the first of two workshops that will take the participant from the start to completely developing a basic iPhone application and submitting the application to the Apple App Store.

This first workshop will be a basic introduction to iPhone programming for someone that has ZERO experience in iPhone development.

Instructors
Gregg Dickson – iPhoneSumos
Troy Carter of Troy Carter Consulting

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Join us for a going away party for our good friend and okcCoCo member Jake Behrens, Thursday, Jan 7th at 8pm. Jake recently accepted a job at Apple and will be moving to Cupertino, CA. We’ll have drinks and music by Jake’s now defunct Ska Band – “Special Disaster Team”.

Prolog: We had a great time Roasting Jake and wish him the very best. Of course, he’ll always have a place here in OKC if he ever needs it.