phillytechweek.com." />
 
email
print
font size
options
 

Tech Week Picks

Reservations are required for many events; for more information, visit phillytechweek.com.

Email Shaun Brady

OpenDataPhilly.org Unveiling: City Hall's notoriously sunshine-averse proceedings could probably use a local WikiLeaks. Software firm Azavea has assembled the next-best thing, an integrated database centralizing info from local government agencies, nonprofit organizations and academic institutions. Mon., April 25, noon, free, WHYY, Sixth and Race streets.

Junto: Rethinking Shelter: No one's quite figured out how to live completely in the virtual world (when you're done flying around Second Life, there's still a very real pile of laundry and take-out containers stinking up the joint), but technology is providing new ways to deal with housing in the real world. Add some new mash-up words to your vocabulary with this discussion of cohousing and technomads. Mon., April 25, 6 p.m., free, P'unk Ave., 1168 E. Passyunk Ave.

Office Space Printer Smash: Tech Week is full of fascinating discussions and cutting-edge information, but at the end of the day it's still fun to smash shit. So whether you share the name of an overwrought adult contemporary pop star or not, show up and take out some of your day-job aggressions. Tue., April 26, 6 p.m., free, Nonprofit Technology Resources, 1524 Brandywine St.

The Future of Music: True, our grandkids are going to roll their eyes when we wax nostalgic about "record stores," but they'll still be listening to something, somehow, that we can yell at them to turn down. Tech-friendly musician RJD2 and two.one.five mag publisher Tayyib Smith make their predictions about what form that may take. Wed., April 27, 6:30 p.m., free, Arts Bank, 601 S. Broad St.

Chip Music Showcase: Kids growing up with a dozen stations on their Grand Theft Auto radio dial don't know what it was like to have the minimal soundtracks of old 8-bit games stuck in your head as a side effect of endless hours of princess rescuing. 8static and Third Generation present a line-up of musicians who turn those limitations into an art form, spinning nerd-rock epics from gutted and reconfigured Game Boys. Thu., April 28, 7:30 p.m., $5-$8, PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St.

Green Tech Showcase: Planting a tree is so analog. Celebrate Arbor Day the new-fashioned way as five local groups show off the latest in eco-friendly innovations. Fri., April 29, noon, free, WHYY, Sixth and Race streets.