Exit Event

What kind of work are you looking for? You mentioned that you were looking for a Vibrant / growing tech community. I think you need to check out both Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina. Both are really great areas to live, work, and play. They offer great communities with lots of small and growing companies. Both places are up and coming as well, so you have the ability to shape it's future in a bigger way than somewhere already established. Links to take a closer look. http://triangletechtalk.com/ http://www.exitevent.com/ http://www.americanunderground.com http://www.hubraleigh.com/ http://www.rtp.org/ Feel free to email me at my username @ gmail.com if you'd like to talk further.

Maybe in 17 years or so, there will be an Arduino / rPi / Beaglebone explosion of entry into CS programs? Look at things like this cool program put on by the Durham County (NC) Public Libary this summer: http://durhamcountylibrary.org/2013/06/teen-tech-camp-2013/ http://exitevent.com/teen-tech-camp-hosts-future-developers-1389.asp http://www.slj.com/2013/08/technology/powerful-partnerships-pi-and-pyt… Kids learned to program in Python, on a Raspberry Pi, and each of them left at the end of the day with their Pi, and accompanying monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc. Some of these kids were underprivileged kids who had no computer access before, so the event was a pretty big deal for some of these kids. From what I heard, a few parents teared up at the end when they found out their kids got to take all their stuff home with them. More programs of this nature, and more access to Arduino, rPi and the like, is one of the things I hang my hope for the future generations on. Aside: I'm proud to say that our other co-founder here at Fogbeam Labs, snkahn, was one of the co-conspirators who helped pull that together.