Are we a TechNation?

I've been following the goings on over at TechNation with interest, and just commented on an article by Malcolm Lambert about Climate Ready. He is going to share the experience he has getting a tech-focussed startup through the process and (hopefully) snag some of the early funding in the program.

I am a member of the Open Coffee group for Sydney, but my diary has not yet allowed me to get to a session in the city - but I'll be there soon.

There is a real need for two things: a series of these types of gatherings to allow various slices and sectors of the innovation/entrepreneur/researcher communitites to get together informally and without an agenda (I shudder at the memories of the forced and noticeably desperate First Tuesday events run in the early part of the century); and publicity for them, so that interested parties get to know what's going on.

So, that was my contribution to point two :)