TechVibes has put together a great list of events and resources in the Seattle area.

Frequent Events (Every week or month):

• Venture Breakfasts (NWEN): A monthly breakfast with a featured speaker talking about start-up related issues.
• Saturday House: Seattle Saturday House is a weekly gathering of several people who meet and do … whatever they want! People work on projects, people talk about ideas, people conspire and hatch plans, and people play games with each other. Every Saturday at Giraffe Labs in Pioneer Square.
• Seattle Lunch 2.0: Learn about cool local Companies and technologies over your lunch hour - Various locations and times.
• nPost: nPost networking events for tech start-ups, Demos and getting to meet members of the local start-up community. In addition to larger networking events, nPost hosts regular pub crawls and supports a startup tech job board as well.
• Seattle Start-up Drinks: A simple concept: start-up culture in cities around the world gathers around a bar to have a pint and discuss what they are working on, what they need help with and what they can do for each other. Occurs the Last Friday of every month at various locations.
• Seattle Tech Start-ups (STS): A group of entrepreneurs in the Seattle area who give and seek advice on running technology start-ups. We meet about once or twice a month. This is targeted at founders of, employees of, or those folks interested in joining local technology companies. Be ready to talk shop, get into technical arcana, and discuss the nitty-gritties of running/working at/launching a tech start-up. Occurs first or second week of the month at The Douglas Forum at the Executive Education Center, University of Washington.
• Six Hour Start-up: A group of hackers/designers/entrepreneurs meeting to try and build and lunch a start-up in less than six hours. Second Weekend of every month at various locations.
• Open Coffee at Louisa’s Coffee: Early stage entrepreneur and investor networking in Seattle. Occurs Every Tuesday Morning at 8:30am at 2379 Eastlake Ave E in Seattle.

Infrequent Events: (Every few months, it is best to find out about when these events occur from sites like MeetAtThePig or Seattle 2.0, or Gary’s Guide)

• Barcamp: An ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment.
• Ignite Seattle: Ignite Seattle is a geek event that combines on-site geekery, sharing, and innovation (and drinking)
• Mindcamp: Seattle Mind Camp is an unconference that is held annually in Seattle.
• Think Tanks (NWEN): Evening Knowledge Exchanges that are recognized as the go to forums for new ideas.
• Workshops (NWEN): Graduate School level workshops on various topics such as VC Financing, Human Resource, Bootstrapping, IP Protection and more.

This posting was done by Nathan Kaiser, who runs nPost, which features startup tech jobs and is an NWEN Board member.

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