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This is the 26th year of the SXSW (South by Southwest), the annual music, film, and interactive conference.  Everybody whose anybody, and even a few who aren’t, are here.   Yesterday the 10-day event kicked off.  As a company, Dell is a big participant and sponsor from panels, to music lounges, to an entrepreneur’s UnConference, to education, to gaming.

As for the Web|Tech vertical we have taken our own guerrilla approach to participation in this shindig in our own backyard.  Besides going to parties that customers and partners are throwing, Cote and I have organized a series of informal “chill and chat” meet ups for developers and tech types.

Last night we held our first soiree at Opal Divines.  Here is a mini-montage I made featuring a few of the attendees:

I asked the folks to say who they are, where they’re from, who they work for and what they hope to get out of SXSW.

The line-up

• Nosh Petigara of 10gen, from NYC
• Michael Cote of Dell, from Austin
• Rob Smith of 3M, from Minnesota
• Maggie Fox of Social Media Group, from Toronto
• Charlie Wood of Spanning cloud apps, from  Austin

Our next events

If you’re around here’s where we’ll be tonight and tomorrow:

• Saturday, March 10th  7-9:00pm  – Speakeasy – Downstairs (412 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX)
• Sunday, March 11th 5:30-7:30pm – Hilton Bar (Finn and Porter)  (500 East 4th Street, Austin, TX)

Extra-credit reading

• Dell Officially Launches Web|Tech vertical — the 100 second overview
• The World of Web and Developers, getting to know it better

Pau for now…

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