Mark your calendar now for our annual holiday party at Deuce on the 13th of December. Last year was a huge success and we’re expecting an even better turnout this go ‘round. Please pre-register if you’re thinking about coming so we make sure we have enough food: http://www.panma.org/reg.html ‘Twas December 13th and inside of Deuce […]

It’s no secret that the geek crowd and the gamer crowd have some serious overlap. That’s why it’s important that you all know about this friday’s XBox Party at Independents Hall! Not that there haven’t been unofficial tourneys on the in-office Wii, but this time, Microsoft has stepped up and will be providing 4 gaming […]

Hey all you geeks out there, on Thursday, November 15th PANMA will be conducting the first Web Tools Shootout at the Holiday Inn, 13th and Walnut. You can register for this event here. We are hoping that this event will lead to an ongoing string of events to help the community get familiar with the […]

I’d like to pass along some info on an upcoming event that may be of interest to the more programmer-oriented geeks among us. The event is Open Source Frameworks, scheduled for October 25 at the Science Center in University City. We’ll be discussing and presenting CodeIgniter, CakePHP, the Zend Framework, and symfony — four popular […]

** NEXT MAKE:PHILLY MEETING ** MakePhilly is thrilled and honored to welcome Slavko Milekic, M.D., PhD as our guest speaker for our September meeting. Dr. Slavko will present on future applications of eye tracking technologies as a means of communication with digital devices (computers, cell phones, PDAs and the like). History and mechanism of eye-tracking […]

Sorry to piggyback on Bart and have two entries today, but I finally have an idea of how I can continue to help advance the community we connected at at BlogPhiladelphia and I want to share it with our community. As I think we’ve all made clear in our blogs, vlogs, podcasts, flickr, facebook, etc., […]

It’s been a couple weeks since I signed up for an account here so I guess it’s about time I post something. An introduction is probably in order. I’m a long time reader (sometimes poster) of the PANMA mailing list, but other than that I haven’t been involved in the Philly tech/design/etc community at all. […]

I saw this mentioned on Tara Hunt’s HorsePigCow: SocialNetworkDevCamp will focus on API and Widget development from Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, Linked In and others. The camp will also start the process of identifying open APIs and data structures which would facilitate the creation of open standards for social networking. It’ll be taking place Richmond, CA, […]

Members of this list might be interested in this upcoming event, either to attend or to sponsor or to speak at one of the sessions: The National Association of Government Webmasters (http://www.nagw.org) will hold its fifth Annuonference in September in Valley Forge. NAGW is an organization for webmasters of government entities at the county level […]