Houston NetSquared's July meetup was a very moving discussion with local hero Reggie Bibbs about his experiences educating the world about Neurofibromatosis (www.texasnf.org/).

Reggie has recently launched a massive campaign entitled 'Just Ask' - making regular public appearances and using the social web to document his experiences. Check out Reggie's Web site (www.reggiebibbs.com), his Blog (www.reggiebibbs.wordpress.com) and his Flickr stream (www.flickr.com/photos/reggiebibbs) to learn all about this truly exceptional man.

One of the best Houston Net2 meetups yet! Thanks Reggie :)

The Houston NetSquared gang is incredibly happy to have Reggie Bibbs (http://www.reggiebibbs.com) and the Texas Neurofibromatosis Foundation (http://www.texasnf.org) will be joining Houston NetSquared for our June Meetup.

Reggie will discuss his work promoting awareness of Neurofibromatosis and growing a strong support community through Web, viral and public service projects. Online technology has shaped his global communication efforts in a huge way - let's discuss the good and the bad of running a grassroots campaign online!

Hello! We are Katie and Ed from the Houston NetSquared group.

We are really excited about attending the Net2 Conference this year, especially as we are Project Champions for Kabissa 2.0 and Open Source Open Standards Video.

These two projects are right up our alley as they are all about growing and helping communities, Web 2.0 and open source. We can't wait to dive right in!

A late recap on June's Houston NetSquared meetup (sorry guys!):

We enjoyed a laidback evening, sans speaker or formal presentation, that included a meet and greet session of local technology and non profit advocates, as well as a review of recent technology events.

Some topics discussed:

• Barcamp Houston event - what happened, who attended, next steps, how similar non-conferences benefit non profit technology interests

• Consolidated Houston technology calendar and Web site plans
• Various content management systems
• Accessibility for not only the disabled, but non-English speakers and the elderly 

The May Houston Netsquared meetup was a nice laidback evening of technology discussion and a little red wine. 

This month's discussion focused on online tools (like Digg, Alexa and Feedburner), programming languages (Django, Ruby on Rails), the importance of blogging and the increasing overlap of online social spheres.