You could go read the event notes
You could stay in touch with people on facebook
You could follow up on Twitter for announcements: “Freelancecamp”
Write a blog post about your experience and link back here so people can read them.
You could implement what you learned!!

The Santa Cruz New Tech MeetUp – spearheaded by tech-enthusiast Doug Erickson, stems from the idea of harnessing the true potential, knowledge and skills of Santa Cruz tech professionals who either work or have had extensive industry experience in Silicon Valley. The SCNT MeetUp strives to create this community of technologists in order to expand strategic community thinking regarding quality of life and prosperity of the city of Santa Cruz. Through persistence and dedication, what started out as a meeting of just 39 attendees at the police department’s community room, is now a vibrant association of 720 members.

It is with great pleasure that we would like to announce the Santa Cruz New Tech MeetUp as one of our most generous and proud sponsors.

Want to get involved? Join us for one hour on the first Wednesday of every month.

A few days back, Jeremy Neuner, Owner of Nextspace Coworking and Innovation, posted a review of the emerging tech scene in Santa Cruz. He named the first Freelance Camp as a significant player in the evolution of our growing and thriving local community.

Now you may think, emerging?!?, that’s silly. Santa Cruz is just 30 minutes out, a hop over the hill, from Silicon Valley. Borland, Plantronics, Netflix, Seagate and more were born there. All true. And yet, over the last decade the cohesion of the local community had evaporated. We had become just another bedroom community for the hordes of people commuting to google or trying to convince the investors on Sand Hill to cough up another few million.

That began to change a year and a half ago. We started geek dinners, which led to jellies, which led to freelance camp and a coworking space, which launched some hopping start-ups (for example: 12 Seconds, User Voice) and catalyzed a once disparate community of freelancers.

Feel like your town is isolated? Frustrated there isn’t enough action and clients? Get some people together and it will change things. I promise it will blow your mind.

Help the economy. Help yourself. Help your friend. Run your own freelance camp.