Tonight was the Dev Utah January Geek Dinner.
There was a good turn out and it was fun to see some of hte people who
came. This time there was a basic catered dinner, and then the
fun began. Overall … a big turn-out of geeks. There were
a few people that I wanted to track down to ask questions about Asterisk … I’m about to set-up my first Asterisk server.

During dinner, I talked with Russell Page of Politis Communications. One of his clients is Handheld Entertainment
… a company making extremely low cost handheld video devices.
They actually sounded pretty cool. The devices start at $99 and
are sold at Walmart. They really need some marketing folks …
their web site is pretty lame.

The first presentation was by Nathan Nelson of Nelson Legal. He
started off by talking about various business issues with getting a
company going. What legal entities exist, what types of steps to
take to create them, etc. Pretty brief … good information for
the new entrepreneur.

Dave McKenzie then presented about Software Patents. He works at Kunzler & Associates
and they focus on Intellectual Patent Law. He covered the
standard stuff about patents, why and how you might want to file them.

SoftwareFor.org gave a brief
presentation of their Software for Starving Students. It’s
actually a very cool CD that they have put together of a wide range of
free software.

I’m going to post for now … I’ll post again when I get home if there
was more stuff in the “after event”. There are a few people that
I want to catch up with …