SuperHappyDevHouse

A growing circle of Bay Area "hackers" – the wunderkinds who fancy creation over computer cracking – will talk tech, swap blue-sky ideas and maybe even come up with "the next big thing" during a decidedly geek party known as SuperHappyDevHouse.

On February 19, The Tech Museum becomes innovation central, hosting hundreds of programmers, designers and just about anyone else at the ultimate unconference that is fast catching on around the world as ground zero for technology's next great creation. After all, it was against a similar nerd backdrop in the mid-70s that the germs of ideas were planted for today's tech titans Apple Computer and Microsoft. Today the informal gatherings are popping up in Boston, Phoenix, Miami, Zurich, Switzerland, Cologne, Germany, and Mexico - and they attract throngs of techies.