[yodasan]

The tech community is there ... it's just hard to see. I've been working out of the Reno Collective for about 6 months now. I'm a software developer that took the plunge from corporate to freelancing and was working out of Starbucks, the library, my home, etc. I have to say that I was about to move to SF for the tech atmosphere before I learned that there is a real tech community here .. it's just sort of dislocated and disconnected in smaller groups. I'm really hoping to see Hack4Reno and other future events bring these groups together and sort of showcase the fact that there is a growing tech community out there.

[AshleyJ]

Yes, it is here! Our bootstrapped startup has been working out of the Reno Collective for 6 months or so as well, and there is a lot of cross-pollination in that space. Eric Jennings, my partner, was at Techstars Winter 2010, so there is talent here, they just telecommute or work for themselves. It's time for us to meet one another. Please hakers and developers, come out of your caves and meet us.

[jrbj]

He's too modest to mention it, but yodasan and colinloretz are two of the 3-member team that created Colorstache, which was one of the five finalists in the Evernote Developer competition.

I'm also a Reno Collective member. I work out of the space writing iOS and Mac apps as an independent developer. Before finding the Collective, I was under the impression that no one was doing any Python, Ruby, or Cocoa (or anything similar) in the area. It was great to find out that there were all these people in Reno quietly working on cool stuff.

[dearmash]

Hey Chris,

I can just imagine you working out of a starbucks ;) I did the opposite & headed out to the bay area. I do miss the Reno community though, small as it was. Unfortunately about the same time I made the decision to move, all of these really good communities started to develop and make themselves known. If you do perchance remember a Harold once upon a time, I'd enjoy the chance to catch up. If you aren't perchance chris, then wrong number, enjoy hack-week-end.

[yodasan]

Hey, Harold! Damn, that's too bad .. it's definitely picking up here. Nice to hear from you. You should head back into town for the hackathon, though. Hit me up on twitter, @yodasan.