The inaugural Philly Tech Week, made official by City Council, has come and gone.

All told, my fellow Technically Philly co-founders and PTW co-organizers helped bring together 65 events, from more than 50 groups that attracted more than 3,000 people (we’re still tallying) in the first six day-event that we first suggested in the summer, confirmed in November but did get moving until February.

So, as is my custom, I wanted to gather together what happened, the thoughts from others and my take aways so we can do even better next year.

OUTCOMES

• More than 120 people came to WHYY to see the launch of Open Data Philly. The site, developed by Azavea, is a central hub of many of the city’s data sets.
• Councilman Bill Green unveiled his10-point Open Government Philadelphia initiative.
• IDGA showed off 15(!) local video game studios.
• IDGA showed off 15(!) local video game studios.
• During Switch Philly, five local startups demoed their products, all of which found new investor interest
• At BarCamp NewsInnovation, journalists from all over gathered as hackers made use of the datasets on Open Data Philly including OPA Liberator, a site that allows property records to be looked up by name, a feature previously unavailable on the city’s website.
• Put 5,000 Philly Tech Week print supplements into more than 50 retailers in the city
• Latest from the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster was shared
• An open source development prize was offered
• City Managing Director Rich Negrin pledged the 311 mobile app ‘within the next three months.’

Introducing the One Great Idea panel on April 27, 2011 as part of Philly Tech Week, behind me City Councilman Bill Green, Ben Franklin Technology Partners CEO RoseAnn Rosenthal, flanked by Steve Tang and Greg Osberg. Photo by Yusuf Muhammad/Phrequency.com

MEDIA COVERAGE

• Find the half dozen coverage hits specific to the OpenDataPhilly.org unveiling here, other specific event coverage is below.
• Philly Tech Week on tap for this week — Philly Inc.: Inquirer, on the cover of the Inquirer business section Monday morning
• Philly Tech Week starts today –Daily News feature spread
• A Guide To Philly Tech Week — CBS 3, picking out their favorite events, even though there’s no links for anyone to get more details
• Philly open source prize offers geek treasure — Philly Deals: Inquirer, Joe Distefano highlights local firm Monetate offering $5,000 for top open source offering and announcing during PTW
• Geeks ahoy! Tech week begins in Philly — NewsWorks, WHYY
• The geeks get geared up to go at it for Philly Tech Week — Philadelphia Business Journal, on page four of print edition, subscription required online
• Philly Tech Week: a first ever week long celebration of innovation in Philadelphia is set for April 25-30 — uwishunu, the events blog from GPTMC and tweeted here
• Philly Tech Week and us — Azavea blog
• Philly Tech Week promises a printer-smashing good time — Flying Kite event preview
• Philly Tech Week promises a printer-smashing good time — Flying Kite review
• Be Proud Citizens, Philly Tech Week is coming — Tek Lado, Hispanic tech blog highlights
• YIP Update — Young Involved Philadelphia April newsletter
• Geeks Unite! — Philly Post: Phillymag, quick mention that was followed by a little  joke in another post
• One Great Idea press release — Philadelphia Media Network, I covered this event here and spoke there, as documented in photo above.
• Maiden Media presents Social Media boot camp press release –Maiden Media
• Hive76 wrap up of a week’s worth of events –Hive76

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Popular culture blog Geekadelphia previewed a handful of our more geeky events:

• The Hacktory Presents the Office Space Printer Smash
• Indy Hall Beer Pong
• Augmented Reality @ the Art Museum
• Philly Robotics Expo
• Tech Quizzo @ Grey Lodge

Specific Events:

• Rage against the machine — NewsWorks, WHYY on the Printer Smash, with video above
• Connections, travel and family, with business promise — Inquirer print edition on Switch Philly, our startup showcase event, in addition to a smaller online item here.
• Bloggers, others gather — Inquirer preview on BarCamp NewsInnovation in print local section, in addition to a follow up piece after the event here
• Philly Tech Week signature event — Hiv76, the hackerspace wrote out its name on our Twitterfall wall at WHYY using characters, make it out by clicking above and zooming in.
• Philadelphia City Planning Commission planner Alan Urek previewed his leading a lunchtime event on the Philadelphia2035 plan, as can be watched below at around 9:20 in.

Some of my favorite #phillytechweek tweets:

• @phillytechweek this month and #mw2011 last month i have a new sense of drive and feel rejuvenated mentally. @jimshreds
• Live every week like it’s Philly Tech Week! @JPToto
• Such an impressive array of events happening during @phillytechweek http://bit.ly/eYr YES PHILLY IS A GREAT TECH CITY! @gloriabell
• Despite growing up in Philly I left over a decade ago due to a dead tech community. This week proves Philly Tech is alive and kicking ass. @rit
• #PhillyTechWeek, thanks for intro’ing me to some new peeps & ideas & reuniting me with others! @alexbthegirl
• The anticipation for @phillytechweek almost has me shaking. It might also be the coffee. @alexknowshtml
• App by @atogle + @mertonium helps find street art in Philly; for Philly Tech week using the city’s open data catalog http://bit.ly/ivpSbX @timoreilly
• @TechnicallyPHL great conference this week. Philly needed it! @VaughnKing
• Philly WP Happy Hour was a huge success! Met lots of new attendees interested in our group @williamsba
• When was the last time you and your significant other had a meaningful conversation about the concept of data? Thanks #PhillyTechWeek!!! @joshdubin
• @TechnicallyPHL Thanks so much for the NRT post. I was about to recycle my old laptop, but now I’ll donate!  @errrica
• Woo tech conferences #phillytechweek, #wasted @sarahsolfails
• Reading the tweets and wishing I was at #phillytechweek @mertonium
• Every week should be a @PhillyTechWeek @alexknowshtml
• I’d say #phillytechweek was a huge success, and I can’t wait to see what’s in store for next year. @hoyboy
• Loved meeting so many tech savvy people in one room. @RichNegrin
• When you put bodies together in a room, it doesn’t immediately solve anything, but puts things in motion in a powerful way. @KelaniNichole
• Mad props to the boys at @TechnicallyPHL for making it rain awesome all last week. #phillytechweek @mheadd
• A Gchat from Far McKon: “Great job on tech week. I’m excited as I was when I moved here in ’08,” says Far McKon, who moved from Rochester, N.Y.