This is an open letter to the Fairfield County professional community. I have issued similar communique to some of the local dot-com powerhouses. I hope you will all aid me in directing this to the appropriate parties.

 
I am a web architect by trade, a startup and tech enthusiast at heart, and also a recent transplant to Connecticut.

Due to several factors, including but not limited to gross absence of local technology entrepreneurship from any media coverage, I simply was not aware that there was any semblance of community, nor that there were any web-tech companies in the area for my first 6 months here. It took some effort, but I did discover several things:

• community in Stamford, Norwalk and Westport, albeit fragmented
• a monthly "Tech Meetup" in Stamford modeled after New York Tech Meetup that serves as a platform for local (and NYC based) startups to demo their products to 50+ people from a variety of backgrounds
• an "Innovation Center" for entrepreneurship in the works to be hosted in the Stamford Town Hall.

However, there is still yet much to be done in order to do for Fairfield County what has happened for technology in New York City, Boston and Chicago as of late. Fostering such community would be absolutely beneficial all around in regards to job creation, talent recruitment and general press and media coverage.

I invite you to join in the community development

• by visiting builtinfairfieldcounty.org and joining the discussion
• as a sponsor of the tech meetup in form of venue or simple association
• as participants in the local technology meetups (JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Hackers, etc) in form of presenters from your engineering staff
• by permitting access to your company's founders for profiling on builtinfairfieldcounty.org
• and by connecting us with known technology companies and entrepreneurs in the area

If you have any other suggestions or comments, any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Zishan Ahmad
Founder
builtinfairfieldcounty.org