Alex is asking for input on how to bridge the high-tech creative communities here in Austin. We’ve got several growing, active tech circles, Refresh Austin, Austin on Rails, Geek Austin, and more, and the question is where do we go from here?
A couple of coworking initiatives (LaunchPad, Conjunctured) are growing here in Central Texas, which I think will mesh well with our various Web and creative groups like Refresh Austin, which in turn play a large part in sharing knowledge and connecting members of the professional creative and Web communities. That said, we’re a disparate community, which can be both good (an abundance of creativity and different perceptions and solutions of challenges) and bad (harder to spread the word and unify), and often times the individuals, whether they work for themselves or sit amongst hundreds in large enterprises aren’t able to rely on each other to augment their strengths.
If you have any ideas and/or thoughts, please give Alex’s post a visit and leave a comment.
