When: Thursday, March 19,2009…
5:30 to 7:30 PM
5:30 to 6:00 PM Networking and munchies
6:00 to 7:30 PM Program
Where: Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, Mass. Living Room B, 1st floor, McAllum Building (the old brick building just left of the Main Entrance of the Hospital)
Cost: NO CHARGE, by special arrangement with Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Refreshments: Munchies provided
Information Systems at Cooley Dickinson Hospital and Hidden Tech will be presenting a primer on the emerging trends in healthcare technology including the most in demand skills and how to do business with hospitals and clinicians in the Pioneer Valley. Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s Chief Information Officer, Wayne Freeberg, and his colleagues will lead an interactive discussion with the Hidden-Tech community on the ins and outs and do’s and don’ts of doing business in the healthcare arena.
Learn who gets on preferred vendor lists and how, where to look for RFPs, what skills are most in demand and why. Understand how trends in electronic medical record-keeping and Web-based applications spell opportunity for technology professionals with the right skill sets.
We have a meeting coming up this week (Thursday the 12th). 
We’re also going to be meeting in a different place and we’ll be trying out an entirely new format!
Location
We’ll be meeting up at the Snowtide office where Chas works. They have access to a good sized meeting room and Chas has been kind enough to volunteer it. It’s located in the Potpourri Plaza in Northampton, across the street from the Stop and Shop.
Food
Chas will be ordering up a party platter from D’Aneglo’s! I was very pleased last time we ate this and I am looking forward to it. There will be a box at the door, please donate some money to cover the snacks. We’ll be taking any money above and beyond the cost of the platter and putting it towards food for the next meeting.
Format
We’re going to be trying out a new format: the unconference! We’d like you to think about a topic that you would be interested in talking about and then posting it to our “Suggested Topic” wiki page (thank you, Doug). Any topic you might be interested in talking about is great and don’t worry about having a formal presentation; if you can talk about the topic for five minutes, you’re all set. You’ll talk about your topic and then let people ask questions and start talking to each other. Think of it as a way to get a conversation started. I think this is going to be a lot of fun.
Schedule
Our proposed schedule is…
- 6:00 - 7:00 — room & food setup
- 7:00 - 7:30 — time to eat and mingle — maybe a quick intro to the “process” we’re going to try
- 7:30 - 8:15 — first time slot for defined topics
- 8:15 - 9:00 — second time slot for defined topics
- 9:00 - 10:00 — time to mingle and chatter some more + cleanup (help appreciated here as well)
This is going to be a lot fun! See you there.
We have a meeting scheduled for this week on Thursday (February 26th). We’ll be meeting up at Panera Bread in Hadley at 7:00pm, we’ll be gathering towards the back.
Also, Addison Wesley has sent us some books on Python. I’ll be bringing them to the meeting and putting them up for grabs.
See you there!
That’s right, we have a meeting scheduled this week on Thursday, January 29th. We’ll be meeting up in our usual spot, Panera Bread, and gathering toward the back. We meet up at 7:00pm.
It’s that time of the month again, we’re meeting up this Thursday at Panera Bread in Hadley at 7:00pm. We’ll be gathering towards the back, there tends to be more room.
See you there!
We have postponed this week’s meeting until next week as this week is Thanksgiving. We’ll be meeting on Thursday December 4th at Panera Bread in Hadley at 7:00pm.
Enjoy Thanksgiving!
I wanted to remind everyone that we have a meeting coming up this week on Thursday, October 30th. We’ll be meeting up at our usual location, Panera Bread in Hadley. Last week the back room was pretty full by 7:00, we also had a much larger turnout than usual. Check for us in both places. 
We don’t usually have a formal agenda, but we should talk about some alternate meeting places this week. I’m planning on scouting out the Barnes and Noble next door to see how busy they get. If anyone else has a location in mind, give it a scout out and mention it at the meeting.
See you on Thursday!
I am excited to report that it is a meeting week this week! We’ll be meeting up at our usual meeting place, Panera Bread in Hadley at our usual meeting time, 7:00pm. Stop by and join us for some tech chat and some coffee.
We have another meeting coming up, this Thursday (August 21). We’ll be meeting up at our usual haunt, Panera Bread in Hadley and we’ll be gathering towards the back of the restaurant. Come join us for some coffee, a snack, and some pleasant chatting about all things development.
We have a meeting scheduled this week! I’m especially excited as I have missed the last two. We’ll be meeting up at Panera Bread in Hadley this Thursday, August 7th. We usually sit towards the back, there tend to be more seats over there.
See you Thursday!
– Miles
