A few weekend ago, I attended BarCamp Charlotte 7, an un-conference designed to connect startups, technologists, artists, and communities together. I had a great time and even pitched a topic. Here’s a snippet of the report (previously posted at Blog.AntoineRJWright):

…As mentioned by one of the people attending, this is quite similar to what goes into creating infographics, graphics, and data visualization. And it wasn’t like those topics weren’t on my mind (re: the lunch convo), but I was more interested in taking down some of the mental barriers many who have tablets or some creative ability to taking that skill of drawing and making it valuable beyond self-sketching. A few neat tools were talked about in addition to those I mentioned – YMUL sounds very interesting (mentioned by Luis) and speaks directly to the non-graphically-gifted-but-excellent-coding developer. I enjoyed the interaction and feedback from the talk – and was extra wigged out when I realized that reps from three of the companies sponsoring the event attended my talk (yikes, was my hat on straight)…

Read the rest of BarCamp Charlotte (7): Pitches, Convos, and a Sketchnote at Blog.AntoineRJWright

If you have similar events happening in your area that might be worth adding to the #mobmin Event Calendar, let us know so what we can add.