My family I moved to Dallas June 2008, shortly after that I set out to find the Dallas Technology community. So I Google’d and asked and Google’d and asked and I could not find ‘THE’ place where all the technology community lived. Then one day I found CoHabitat.
CoHabitat is a co-working space for hackers, programmers, and genuinely smart people to work and share office space. Its become more than that for me. It’s a place to get inspired, find help, share ideas, and draw a fresh beer from the keg-aerator now and then. There are people who are building companies, programming software applications, writing blogs, and creating digital art. The kind of people I relate too. Quickly after arriving I thought CoHabitat the center of the Dallas technology community. CoHabitat may be the center of the Technology community in Dallas but here are a few other sparks in Cities near by:
- Richardson Co-Working space named Company|Dallas
- Ft. Worth has a thriving community you can read about on LaunchDFW.com
- West Dallas has a group built around The Infomart
So I asked myself, “how can I create more sparks to help fuel the Dallas Tech community, write and create sustainable events!”
- Write in my personal Blog ccwalters.com
- Event that celebrates Geek Culture called IgniteDallas
- Build a company in 54 hours at Dallas Startup Weekend
- Write a weekly blog for The Startup Digest Dallas
I’m just getting started, but I am not doing it alone. It takes many dedicated people to keep an ecosystem like Dallas feed with sustainable events and engaging content. Some of those people are:
- Mike D Merrill (@mikedmerrill)
- Danica Mathes (@danicamathes)
- Joey Pomerenke (@joeypomerenke)
- Chris Z Bond (@czbond)
- Blake Burris (@blakestar)
What sparks have you started? Would you be interested in helping keep our sparks lit?
CW
