It is reas­sur­ing to know that the salon did not die in 18th cen­tury France, gath­er­ing togeth­er in RL to con­verse, spar, eat, con­nect and dis­play our intel­lec­tu­al charms has not gone out of style.  Recently we have had Pecha Kucha, Ignite and more Bar­Camps than you could throw a pack of PostIt notes at.  Today the open source inclined have been play­ing with their toys at Soft­ware Free­dom Day and this week is full of occa­sions to be witty and pretty and geek (slash nerd).

This week brings Nerdnite#2, anoth­er Tues­day night din­ner and Web­stock will be bring us mini-mar­vels and the big unveil of the speak­ers for 2011.

All of these events are non-geek friendly (plenty of room for fraghags), all you need is an eclect­ic men­tal diet and a love of cre­ativ­ity and innov­a­tion, so don’t be shy.  Nerd­nite looks to be tak­ing eclect­ic to a whole new level with geoen­gin­eer­ing, stor­ies, witch­craft, and food on the menu at Bettys Bar this Monday.  It seems the case that people self-identi­fy as geek but get twitchy when ref­ered to as “nerds”, well per­haps this word is going to be reclaimed as well if this Nerd­nite thing catches on.

Besides, geek appears to be con­tested term, this week we have had @BR3NDA toot­ing about priv­ilege and com­puters:

 

 Look for­ward to see­ing some of you in the over-lap­ping private and pub­lic spheres this week.