Small but good meet-up at the Triple Rock on Saturday. After introductions and some general industry talk, we moved to discussion of how the Bay Area Mobility Forum could be effective and some first steps. We decided that this isn’t about organizing a conference, or un-conference, at least not yet. All of us valued the informal information exchange we were already having, wanted to continue that, but wanted more structure as well.
The current thinking is for some monthly meet-ups. Russ volunteered his company facility (thanks Russ!), and will be lining up the first speaker, probably a contact of his at Nokia. The format, at least for the first meeting, will be a pre-announced speaker and topic for the first half, and informal discussion time afterward. Another possible format for some meetings is to have 3-4 people each put together a 10-15 minute talk on a relavent area of personal expertise and passion. This could lead to a natural breakup into informal discussion clusters as the second part of the meet-up too.
We were pretty jazzed on Saturday, and all felt the benefit of exchanging different perspectives for just that short time. I think this is going to be great! The first meeting date will be announced once the speaker is confirmed (go Russ, go).
