Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of Seattle 2.0 and its archival content. For more background, see this post.
By Danielle Morrill
Last night I got an email from Marcelo, telling me he had two presents for me. There has been a lot of discussion at Seattle 2.0 about around how we can make the events calendar more maintainable, and the introduction of the Seattle Tech Calendar by Roy Leban was a healthy catalyst for re-thinking how important this is to our readers.
New Features
1. You can now add events to the Seattle 2.0 events calendar
2. Recurring events can now be specified (they used to be manually added for each week, for those of you wondering why Hops and Chops kept disappearing from the calendar)
Why Don’t We List Every Tech Event in Seattle?
A lot of thought goes into what content we put on Seattle 2.0, and what we selectively leave out. Our goal is not to be the Seattle tech source (try TechFlash) or social media source (try Social Media Club Seattle). It’s to be the tech startup and entrepreneurship destination, which is why we come up as the first result when you search Google for “seattle startup” (just checked and we’re 6th on Bing, hrmm).
Guidelines for Events We Will List
We only list events that:
- Are targeted at Technology Startups in Washington;
- The venue is located on Seattle or the Eastside;
- Are a valuable use of an entrepreneur’s time;
- Are available to anyone, either for free or for a price.
We don’t list:
- Pure technology events (“Learning CSS”, “Ruby on Rails Meetup”, “Developing on Google Apps”, etc.)
- Social Media events like Tweetups, bloggers gathering, etc. (unless they are startup relevant)
- Events that are more than 20 miles from Seattle. Boundaries are Tacoma (South), Bremerton (West), Redmond (East), and Everett (North).
- Events not valuable to technology startups or technology entrepreneurs;
- Invitation-only events (unless it’s “to entrepreneurs only”)
We understand some of these criteria are subjective, so feel free to contact us asking if it’s ok or not to add an event.
THANK YOU MARCELO – for adding these features!
THANK YOU EVERYONE ELSE – for sticking around and putting up with our less-than-optimal calendar!
