How about a Silicon Beach Confluence Site? It could function in a couple of ways. We can post blogs to promote our new releases, successes, etc (I think these could be public facing, yeh, good for Google juice!), keep all of the community-created knowledge in the same spot, and then I assume you could do something like create a private workspace for each company, for those firms who don't want to go to trouble of setting up their own wiki/doco site/etc.?
And we make use of great Australian technology along the way and for the Atlassian guys, promote them within the community at the same time - not that they really need it! :-) . phil On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Trindaz <[email protected]> wrote: > The community needs frequent, consistent updates from startups around > Sydney about how they're developing. I see the SB mailing list as a > great place to ask questions, but I'd love some kind of section at > siliconbeach.org that has something like a Sydney version of > TechCrunch, or an aggregate of blogs from all our local startups. > Anything that I can check often (I'd be on it daily) to read about how > we are all progressing. I loved what you said one time Elias about > startups in Silicon Valley talking about creating billion dollar > companies. We don't have anywhere near enough of that kind of > audacious ambition in our community currently (IMHO anyway). > > And here's an idea just thinking outloud - You could register your > startup at Siliconbeach.org and the more you participated (posting > articles, news, replying to others, etc.) you'd get points (ala > StackOverflow.com) - maybe this would spur on more engagement between > Sydney Startups? > > Plus basic content about what it means to run a startup and why it's a > totally acceptable alternative to going straight into full time > employment after uni would be helpful. Our unis are still full of > students who simply aren't aware that successful startups exist and > that it's really not so hard to get in there and try something. > There's probably already some initiatives that are addressing this > that I'm not already aware of. There was certainly nothing like it at > MQ when I was finishing there in 2009. The number of times sentences > in the COMP labs ended in '... so you can get a job' was sickening! > > --Trindaz on Fedang #Sydney-needs-more-startup > > On Oct 30, 9:26 am, Elias Bizannes <[email protected]> wrote: > > I managed to negotiate the purchase of the premium domain name > > "siliconbeach.org". This adds to the existing > > siliconbeachaustralia.org domain that kick-started this community. > > > > Why? Well when this opportunity appeared this week, I thought it was > > important to protect the community brand, given how we've grown since > > those first beers at the Shelbourne in May 2008. > > > > That said and like I asked 2+ years ago: we have a domain -- now what? > > What can we do with it that will build the community? > > > > Elias Bizanneshttp://eliasbizannes.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. > > Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF > > No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<silicon-beach-australia%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en > -- Phil Sim Chief Executive Officer, MediaConnect Australia Pty Ltd www.mediaconnect.com.au [email protected] Ph: +61 2 9894 6277 Fax: +61 2 8246 6383 Mobile: 0413889940 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
