Category Archives: Calendar

A calendar of interaction design-related events held in the Minnesota. Subscribe to the MNteractive iCal calendar. To add your events or organization to the MNteractive calendar, email garrick.vanburen@gmail.com.

Reminder: UX Meetup, Tuesday, 5-7pm Brits Pub.

Thanks to dydimustk for setting up an Upcoming.org event for Tuesday’s UX meetup on Usability. Rumor has it, Kevin Farner will be bringing some very interesting session recordings.

DJ Edna & Localtone Radio: Minnesota’s New Music dot coms

Last summer, I was following some chatter around some Minnesota-based web projects pointed at making music easier to find and publish online. Just got word this morning that they are both officially up:

DJ Edna - an open-source website framework for musicians, including streaming, store, gallery, all that stuff.
“…allows the artist to bypass traditional distribution […]

MinneDemo - Dec 6, 6:30, O’Gara’s Garage, 164 Snelling

You can stop holding your breath, Dan and Luke have set the date for the next MinneDemo: Dec 6.
Wow, already 16 people on the presenting list (only 6 slots) and 73 people on the RSVP list.
Bring 2 non-perishable food items for the Second Harvest food bank and you’ve got 3 free drink tickets. […]

Twin Cities IA Meetup - Tues Nov 6, 5pm The Local - Social Networks

This month’s topic at for the IA meetup at The Local is social networks with special guests Bruno Borzstein from Curbly.com, Jon Dahl from Slantwise Design - developer of fanchatter.com among others -, and Katie Ware.
Just in time for our conversation, Google announced their Open Social project and the Facebook backlash begins
“I think Facebook is […]

MinneDemo - Oct 11 6:30, O’Gara’s Garage, 164 Snelling

You can stop holding your breath, Dan and Luke have set the date for the next MinneDemo: Oct 11.
I know I’m anxious to see what everyone’s been working on over the summer.
As of this writing, the RSVP list is 62, are you on there yet?

IA Meetup is back…starting next Tuesday, Sept. 4!!

Hello IA Meetup friends –
Garrick and I are pulling together some new dates and times for the Twin Cities IA Meetup group, starting this September. Going forward, we’ll plan for:
* the first Tuesday of the month (starting September 4!)
* 5:00-7:00 p.m.
* at […]

2007 MIMA Summit - Oct 3 - Registration Now Open

Lee Rainie and Jason Fried are keynoting this year and, as of this writing, the rest of the sessions have yet to be published. Registration and a fresh discussion board are at summit.mima.org
Pre-Sept. 14:
Members $145
Non-Members $295
Students $50

An Engadget post discussing the future of Adobe Flash

I found this to be a very interesting read:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/switched-on-apples-brash-flash-clash-rehash/
I find my mac loyalty waning as they become a bigger player in the world of consumer electronics. Has anyone noticed that Best Buy is now an Apple Authorized Reseller? I’m sure that has something to do with CompUSA closing half it’s stores, but I digress.
I […]

To all the Flashbelt Procrastinators

Today’s the last day to register online for the Flashbelt conference that’s going on at the U’s McNamera Center next week.
If you still can’t decide if you want to go, there might be a few passes available for walk up pricing, but that’s $100 more.
This is going to be the best flash conference that Minneapolis […]

Big Taxonomies: June 2007 - Saturday IA Coffee Meetup

It’s bee a little while since we’ve talked a serious information architecture, so, on Saturday, June 16th, at 2pm, we’ll meet at the Dunn Bros on 3rd (by the Depot) and talk taxonomies. With special guest Matt Thompson from the Star Tribune. Matt’s in the process of developing a taxonomy that encompasses all information in […]