Ignite Sebastopol June 10, 2009

Ignite Sebastopol is happening Wednesday, June 10 at the Hopmonk Tavern, from 6:00-10:00 pm. What *is* Ignite? It's a free, fast-paced, high-energy evening of a dozen or so "speed presentations" given by people like you to their hometown crowd. Ignite presenters get 5 minutes to talk about their passion, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds, whether they're ready or not. It has a geek culture bent, though folks have talked about everything from "The Best Way to Buy a Car" to "Hacking Chocolate" to "19th Century Pneumatic Tubes" to "Cyborg Anthropology."

Ignite was started by O'Reilly Media's Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis, in Seattle in 2006. Since then, it's spread around the world, to cities including Helsinki, Paris, Budapest, New York, Portand, Pheonix, and Boston. It's about time we had one in O'Reilly's home town.