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Problem: if you are LGBT and work in tech, there's a good chance you live in a place where offline options for meeting people are limited. Solution: www.popupgaybar.com, a location aware email list that makes it easy to…

I thought it would be interesting to crowd source the answers to this question since there's a good variety of companies represented here. What phone system or hosted phone/communication system are you using at your…

This article explores the idea of denominating financial instruments (aka money) in terms of energy, and how tech/financial services entrepreneurs could develop this type of system (i.e. something like Bitcoin but…

I first met Aaron at an O'Reilly meetup nearly ten years ago. He was just a kid then, but even then stood out. The tragedy of his suicide is that it could have been prevented. To this end, I am jump starting a community…

Hello. Many of you are dealing with or will deal with headaches related to making your app or service accessible in multiple languages. I've been working with open source translation tools for years, and have launched…