Grab Bag
Pittsburgh Comedy Festival
I co-founded the Pittsburgh Comedy Festival, and over the years served as its Executive Director, Community Programming Director, Education Director and Board President.
Talks
Brian delivering a Keynote at Pittsburgh Podcamp, 2013.
Poem Book
For thirty plus years, my grandma wrote delightful poems for our family and her friends to celebrate life occasions large and small: birthdays, anniversaries, divorces, oral surgeries, etc.
For two years, my family worked tirelessly to organize and catalog the scraps of paper she composed them on, digitize them, and compile them with photos from those years.
The result is history of our family in verse. It is available here from CreateSpace for $19.
My gram was interviewed about the book on Cleveland's NPR station, WCPN. Listen to the interview!
Pittsburgh Geek Out Day
For a few years, I co-facilitated a bi-monthly half-day open spaces software conference called Pittsburgh Geek Out Day. We have now been happily absorbed by Pittsburgh Code & Supply.
After Java Posse Roundup in 2011, a few Pittsburgh attendees were inspired by the open spaces concept and decided to start holding regular events with the brilliant technologists in Pittsburgh! We've been rocking them ever since.
End of the World App
I built a mobile "app" (website targeted for smart phones) to be used during performances of an improv show that I conceived of and directed called The End of the World Show. I will write more about it some day here. But here's the code: https://github.com/brianmgray/endoftheworld-app.