About
Austin 3.0 is a website created by Kristine and Joey to give the younger Austin Geek a place to see what is going on in Austin. We hope to create more communication between the various geeky groups around town and help create a greater young Austin geek community. Feel free to drop us a line, we are always looking for stuff to do and people to meet. For more information about us, check out our bios below:
Kristine Gloria-Kristine has been a geek since the earliest days of her first Juno account. Her geek background includes a vivid memory of receiving a Turbo C++ book in seventh grade from her father.She is approaching her sixth year in the live capital music of the world and is a relative newbie to the Austin tech scene. She now dabbles in the following: media/cultural studies, high tech public relations, outdoor adventures, impromptu swims, constantly reading and networking.
Joey Lopez- Joseph Lopez has been in the Austin Tech Scene since 1999 when he arrived as a pimple faced freshmen at UT Austin. He would frequent Smartchip Computers back in the day (Pre-Fry’s era) and many other hardware shops that worked out of warehouses. His geek backgrounds include, but are not limited to: Video Gaming (Super Tecmo Bowl, Need for Speed Series being his tops), Computer Building (personal, biz, overclocking, servers), Film Making, Digital Photography, Anthropology, Opensource Software, Creative Commons, Dressing Bad, Media/Cultural Studies, Hi-Fi, 90’s Teen Soaps (Dawson’s Creek, 90210 to name a few), Alternative Pedagogy.
His Current Ventures Include: Concert Sound (A local high-end audio store), Small Buisness Website Building, Personal Multimedia Production and many more roals with other fellow young austin entrepenures ventures.
Joey’s full-time gig is a being a PhD student in New Media at the University of Texas at Austin with Professor Sandy Stone in the ACTLab where they “Make Stuff!”.
