I am glad to see someone from that area represented in HT, as an RPI Alumni and with family in Troy, I have been watching the TechValley effort to see how we might hook up, for those that haven't guessed, it can been seen at: http://www.techvalley.org/ For those interested, I have posted a summary by State (and Country) of those in the HT membership, the short form is mainly MA (as one might expect) plus CT, MA, VT, NH with groups in ND and CA for 23 state (well 22 and Ontario) and 9 countries. Clearly there are two senses of out-reach for HT, the 'local' activities and direct contract of those within 2 hours driving distance and the wider audience of Hidden Workers in the whole world. There are many discussions in the virtual world about how the work environment can change and evolve, one of the oldest I know of is at: http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/Research/FW/ For local events, our most effective ones have be either pure networking, which tend to be more very local, or very topic specific, like ValleyWood. SO what do other think about making the group more useful to all ?? Rich, Webmaster etc etc etc W. Cody Anderson wrote: >I also would think that PV residents would be interested in securing work in >the Albany/Pittsfield/Great Barrington areas. There is a huge (and >successful) campaign touting "Tech Valley" (up and down the Hudson River) as >the place to be for tech businesses of all sorts. In fact, many large and >small nano/biotech companies are moving to the area. Western Mass >Hidden-Techies (Techers?) are poised to benefit...why shouldn't the rest of >the organization? > >HT's strength is in its numbers, and we can't be so myopic as to believe >that these "islands" of professionals (READ: potential Hidden-Tech Chapters) >can't network with each other and, through partnership, be competitive in >the larger regional marketplace. > > > +------------+--------------+ | state | count | +------------+--------------+ | AZ | 3 | | CA | 8 | | CT | 20 | | FL | 2 | | IL | 1 | | IN | 1 | | MA | 611 | | MD | 3 | | MN | 2 | | ND | 8 | | NE | 1 | | NH | 5 | | NJ | 3 | | NV | 1 | | NY | 7 | | OH | 1 | | ON | 3 | | PA | 2 | | RI | 2 | | TX | 2 | | VT | 6 | | WI | 2 | | WV | 1 | +------------+--------------+ | Contry | count | +------------+--------------+ | Germany | 1 | | Mexico | 1 | | Myanmar | 1 | | Rominia | 1 | | Burkina Faso | 1 | | Scotland | 1 | | Shanghai | 1 | | Singapore | 1 | | Ukraine | 1 | +------------+--------------+ -- Rich Roth CEO On-the-net Bringing you complex online systems since the net was young http://www.tnrglobal.com - http://www.on-the-net.com/rr/