SXSW -- basically a new media meet-and-greet networking event. Find work, food, fun, and maybe some money for your projects-to-be.

Larry Lessig (author/lawyer/professor), Steven Levy (author), Jeff Veen (Webmonkey), Bruce Sterling (author, etc.), Cory Doctorow (author/OpenCola/BoingBoing), and numerous others are on the list of speakers.

Here's a promo quote from the web site:

"I was overly impressed with the SXSW conference last year, as in the past I had mostly gone to large conferences with sessions that focused on VPs of companies who were trying to sell their products. At SXSW the sharing of experiences and knowledge by people actually doing the development, design, and/or project management was a blessing."

For the keynote, Doctorow and Sterling will discuss "the death of scarcity."

SXSW Interactive Festival - March 8-12 2002, Austin, TX