This week in Nerdery: Wine; WordPress and game dev groups; charitable walkers (and runners for Governor next week)
Tuesday, Sept. 21: Tonight’s the night for our Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Wine and Cheese Fundraiser, so RSVP or just crash the party. Every other Tuesday is also Game Night, so our board-game clubbers may be a bit tipsy from mingling with this evening’s wine-and-cheese crowd, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 22: For the first time, The Nerdery welcomes The Twin Cities chapter of The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) at 6 p.m. Baylor Wetzel, AI developer at Shikigami Games, will talk about PaperDoll Fashion Reaction, including unexpected difficulties he experienced making a simple clothing system, and how this project evolved from an Operation Flashpoint-based military training system for the Marines. Peter Eckert will also discuss the development of Warp the Form‘s latest iPhone game: Zogger! Please RSVP. Also, The Nerdery has its own upstart game development club – they’ll likely be listening in on the IGDA chatter.
Thursday, Sept 23: The MSP WordPress user group meetup 6:30-9 p.m., with discussion on BuddyPress basics, moving WordPress, and running WordPress locally on your computer. Please RSVP.
Any day now: Twins clinch division, set rotation for glorious postseason run.
Sunday, Sept 26: Light the Night Walk, Target Field, our team’s page below (please keep sending money – we’ll tell you when it’s enough): http://pages.lightthenight.org/mn/TwinCiti10/httpnerderycom
Next week: Gubernatorial candidate Tom Horner (Independent) will drop by The Nerdery on Monday, Sept. 27 from 8:30-9:30 a.m. to chat about the use of social media in campaigns and government, as well as interactive technology as a positive economic force in Minnesota. Agency partners, clients, friends of The Nerdery and passersby are welcome to join us. Please note that The Nerdery is about as political as a football, and that we will make no endorsement (not that anyone’s seeking our endorsement). This is more of a listening tour for which we don’t have to leave The Nerdery. Other candidates seeking to split the nerd vote are just as welcome to drop on by.
