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The Bootstrap Web Subgroup (aka Web 2.0 Subgroup) is for founders of bootstrap businesses who have an interest in web technology. You don't have to have a web company per se - we all use the web as part of our business. Participation in our monthly meetings and ongoing online conversations is a great way to get and remain knowledgeable about best practices and new technologies. Subgroup leader is Jon Lebkowsky, jonl ~at~ socialwebstrategies dot com.

Membership in the Bootstrap Web Subgroup is free, and joining is easy: Yahoo Group for the Web Subgroup

Next Meeting

Tuesday, October 21, 6:30pm at Conjunctured, 1309 E. 7th Street, Austin.

Subject: building effective communities.

Bootstrap Austin will soon launch a new Community Subgroup for bootstrappers who are interested in building contexts for effective communities. We say it that way because you can't really build a community - rather, you create a context or platform, and community emerges. However communities can be more or less effective depending on how they're organized as they emerge, and it's the concepts and practices that support effective community-building that we'll focus on.

Bijoy and I have done some conceptual work in the interest of creating a workshop on effective community-building. Our thinking is organized in documents posted at the Bootstrap Community Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/bootstrap-community

There's also some info posted on the wiki at http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Community_Subgroup

At the Bootstrap Web meeting, I'll talk briefly about the history of web-based communities, then Bijoy and I will lead a discussion about how you can build effective online communities for your business. The discussion will draw quite a bit on our Bootstrap Community work.

Previous Meetings

• September 2008: Mike Chapman on Twitter
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  • Images
• August 2008: Mark Phillip: "200s, 304s, Expires Headers, HTTP Compression, and You"
  • Audio
  • Images
  • Slides
• July 2008: Jon Lebkowsky, "How to Talk to Your Web Developer"
  • Audio
• June 2008: Bryan Bilbrey on Scrum development. Sorry, no media from that event.
• May 2008: Edward Cruz, Molecular Thinking talks about Ruby on Rails.
  • Audio
  • Photos
  • Slides as pdfs:
    • Bootstrapping Rails
    • Rails and MVC
• April 2008: Conjunctured featuring Dusty Reagan, John Erik Metcalf, Cesar Torres, and David Walker.
  • Audio
  • Images
• March 2008: Brian Massey
  • Audio
  • Slides
  • Images
• February 2008: Rob Campanell from Blastro
  • Audio
  • Images
• January 2008: Lynn Pausic on Usability vs Usefulness
  • Images
  • Slides
  • Lynn's company is Expero
• October 2007: Jim Eustace on Adobe Flex
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• September 2007: Bill Leake and Bill Anderson on Findability
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• August 2007: Andrew Alleman on Domain Names
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• July 2007: Chris Justice on Joomla
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• June 2007 (postoned from May): Social Networks
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• November 2006: Tom Brown, Open ID
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• October 2006: Miles Sims and Kyle Johnson, Ecommerce
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• September 2006: Bill Leake, Search Marketing
• August 2006: Web 2.0, part 2
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Fearless Leader

• Jon Lebkowsky of Social Web Strategies

Resources

• Open Source Posse
• Austin Ruby Yahoo Group
• Agile Users Group
• Data Center Power Reduction
• EFF-Austin
• CMS Matrix - Compare content management systems.
• Joomla!

Charter/Mission

Mission

The Web subgroup will

• Discuss and understand the state and future of web technology,
• explore the nature, character, and scope of web-based business opportunities,
• serve as a web technology resource for the Bootstrap Network,
• develop an understanding of current and potential web business models, and
• facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing among group members.

Projects

• Net neutrality discussion
• Regional Web Companies

Industry Subgroups: Art, Coaching, Education, Energy, Fashion, Film, Food, Gaming, Health, Music, Nonprofit, Publishing, Software, Sports, Theatre, Vehicles, Web