The past few months have been incredibly busy,  a large part of that was finishing off work for 2009 and starting to prepare things for 2010.  After spending a year floating around doing a few side projects here and there I really wanted to start 2010 in the right way.

Since coming to Charlotte several years ago I have tried several paths to connecting with the tech scene in the city,  restarting the Charlotte Java User Group and then helping organize two Barcamps. I’m met up with some great people in the city – but I still have felt like I haven’t really met the start-up elements,  those individuals who are driven to creating new technology companies and working in environments which foster innovation.

After the last Barcamp I was chatting with some of the guys from CLTBlog and Area15 and we started talking about doing a set of podcasts to explore that side of Charlotte and hopefully bring more of these activities to the surface.  After that there was the usual lull of getting back to daily work and filtering out enough time – then I decided to get together with Justin from CLTBlog and the Netphase guys and very quickly (within a few days) we had our first podcast at Area15.   One of the big hits was meeting up with Josh from Charlotte 2.0 – he is a man on a mission to help bring more start-ups to Charlotte and I’m sure I’m going to be listening and helping him with it all I can.

Charlotte 2.0.1 from Justin Ruckman on Vimeo.

We are working to produce another podcast in mid January.  Hopefully it will establish the conversation – something that needs to start if we are going to build some new tech start-ups here in Charlotte.  It all makes me feel much more excited about 2010 – and I’m looking forward to sharing more about what I’m going to be doing too!