Ignite Phoenix

Ignite Phoenix is about passion.  It’s about showing and sharing that passion, presenting a creative vision to the audience.  Passion is found in people of all fields and pursuits.  Technologist, people who spend their work and/or free time with technology are passionate too.

But techie passion is, by some standards, a bit wierd.

Techies (a.k.a. geeks) like blue LEDs and enjoy bits that flip.  Techies like a graph that flows right to the answer and food that doesn’t get fingers sticky, so one can eat and keep typing.  Techies use “fringe” software like Linux and OpenBSD.  Techies love a manual that describes how to use a new peripheral in 200 pages or more and foreign comic books.  Techies know how to use things like GPG, jailbreaks, IRC, podcasts and Twitter.

And they can talk about these things for hours, if allowed.

Ignite Phoenix is made for techies to present the “coolness” of their passion.  To show a welcoming and open audience the excitement of technology.  Show the problems you’ve solved or the benefit technology brings to your life.  Demonstrate the power of LEDs or the security of ssh.  Hold the floor and the listeners enthralled with the power of scripting or soldering or automation or all three!

But, do it in five minutes with all the energy you have!  And watch the power of technology spread like fire around the room.  And watch your circle of contacts grow!

If you are a technologist with passion, the Phoenix creative community wants to hear from you, and feel your passion! Get some ideas from past Ignite Boston events which tend to be on the techie side.  Then, Submit you presentation idea before October 10th.  Share your five minutes of tech power on October 29th!

Man we are just gobbling up airtime on GangPlank Podcasts like Paulson and Wolfowitz are taking taxpayer money. Once again we have infiltrated and exposed the unwashed masses with some more truth syrum delivered known as Ignite Phoenix. We might just have to start up our own Podcast and call it something really clever like Ignite Phoenix, the Podcast.

Had to break it to Evo pretty hard that we are looking to get some fresh faces up there this time around. Poor guy took it hard but in the end it looks like he saw the way and accepted it like a man.

As a reminder I want to let everyone know who submitted for Ignite Phoenix #1 and did not get a chance to speak that we want you to submit again. Please come back, we love you.

For my part I have to say that it was a really fun time and naturally I knocked it out of the park. Mountain Biking and Krav Maga?!? That stuff is just plain awesome!!! Heck yeah!

Its been a highly productive day here at Ignite Phoenix Headquarters: Laundry done and ironed, kitchen cleaned, and multiple blog posts abound. One nice aspect of the iPhone is that it is also an iPod and one great thing about the iPod are Podcasts. I was blasting away to Zencast’s piece on Thinking while getting all of the kinks out of my shirts and as the monk was talking about letting our thoughts help us learn more about our thoughts. Naturally this got me thinking about Ignite Phoenix and all of the people who are thinking about submitting their presentations but are caught in not submitting. Am I making sense here? Probably not.

Recently I was talking with someone about submitting a presentation on an aspect of their life that I think is fascinating and whenever it gets brought up in a group everyone wants to know more. Sounds like a perfect example of an Ignite Phoenix presentation, right? Well Mr.Uncertainty has grabbed this individuals confidence and given it a few hammer throws to the face, because they are worried that it just won’t make sense to anyone.

This is a common issue I come across when talking with people about submitting a presentation. They are worried that since their topic is so personal that people either wont get it or that they will think its unimportant or both. This is just plain silly thinking and must be conquored or else society as we know it will fail!

Here is the straight stuff folks: You are a very interesting person but you have been put in this role where its best not to draw too much attention to yourself for whatever reason. Stop It! Stop IT NOW!

Head over to the Ignite Submission page and let us know what it on your mind. If we need some clarification we will ask you for it first. If you are unclear on exactly what you are going to talk about that is fine, you have a few weeks to get it sorted out. Besides we might not even pick you and then you will have spent all that silly worrying over nothing anyway (how’s that for a confidence builder Tony Robbins, huh?).