Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed your holiday season.
With this New Year comes new and exciting opportunities for innovation in the Saint Louis Technology Community.
In 2009 we saw a renewed interest in continuing education and a wave of enthusiasm for technical innovations like Cloud development. Unfortunately in 09, we also saw the steepest rise in technology unemployment since the dot com bust. Many of our fellow developers and IT pros spent the holidays fearful of eviction notices and disappointing job interviews that seem to go nowhere.
However, this increase in innovative awareness and a supply of brilliant people waiting patiently provides us a unique opportunity to impact long standing change in the Saint Louis Market. With the help of well-known and well-respected community leaders such as yourself, we can initiate a change in the IT landscape that will help many of our peers get back on their feet.
Saint Louis as a community is largely disregarded and overlooked as a technical leader. This is mostly because of a lack of innovative start up activity in the local market. This vital start up activity is seen by many as our nation's only chance for a speedy recovery from the current recession. Yet in our community (unlike peer communities on the East and West coasts) this type of activity is stifled, discouraged, and even frowned upon.
As community leaders, we now have an opportunity and a responsibility to help our brethren and our community by partnering across vendor specific boundaries and the existing clique communities in Saint Louis IT. If we act together and act quickly, we can provide fellow technicians with the opportunity and support necessary to strike out on their own, to get back on their feet, to spur on economic recovery, and to produce much needed innovation in the Saint Louis technology market.
With your help 2010 can be a year filled with technical innovation and technical growth throughout the Saint Louis area. With your help, we can use the Saint Louis Innovation Camp to impact an immediate and long term change upon the Saint Louis technology landscape.
If you are interested in a change in our local market, I ask you to stand and help us in this valiant effort by partnering with MATA Tech (www.matatech.org) to make the Saint Louis Innovation Camp (www.stlinnovationcamp.com) an overwhelming success.
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