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CTO Breakfast on Thursday

We'll be having the monthly CTO Breakfast this Thursday at 8am. As usual, we'll meet in the Food Court at Canyon Park Technology Center (Building L of the former Word Perfect Campus). Come prepared to talk to the group about one or two interesting technologies you've seen in the last little while. We want to know what made you say "wow!" lately. The next three CTO Breakfast's will be: March 30 (Thursday) April 28 (Friday) May 19 (Friday) Mark your calendar's now! Remember, you don't have to be a CTO to come. Just someone interested in technology and its
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CTO Breakfast Report

Today's CTO Breakfast was a lot of fun. There were about 30 people there. I was afraid that with the day change we'd have fewer people, but not so. Any more and we'll have to get a bigger room. We talked about a lot of interesting things. Here are some pointers to some things people brought up or mentioned: Ross Livingston couldn't come, but sent me a note about a company in North Dakota that's exploring the use of weather balloons to provide cell coverage. The idea is to launch the balloons on the west end of ND and
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CTO Breakfast Report

This morning's CTO breakfast was a lot of fun. We're getting a very good turn out and the discussion is excellent. The tenor of the discussion is different than at other technical meetings because the group has a fair number of CTOs, past CTOs, Director of Engineering types. That said, it's not exclusively that--there are plenty of young, fresh perspectives as well. It's a great mix that leads to good discussion. We started off with a question about recruiting good technical talent and that led to a 50 minute discussion about hiring, managing, and, when necessary, letting go of
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CTO Breakfast for November and December

This Friday is the CTO breakfast for November and December. We'll meet in the conference room near the food court at Canyon Park Technology Center (Building L). See the CTO Breakfast page for more information and directions. Also on that page are dates for future meetings, so mark your calendar. Our next meeting will be on January 26, 2006. Come prepared with a few new things you've seen over the last month that other's might enjoy.
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