I don't know the answer to the interest Q, but Reno has a pretty descent hacker community out there and I believe it has the potential to grow quite a bit. For

I don't know the answer to the interest Q, but Reno has a pretty descent hacker community out there and I believe it has the potential to grow quite a bit. For rather obvious reasons most Reno hackers either telecommute or work for themselves, so the tricky part is making the Reno hacker community increasingly aware that it actually exists ;) Hopefully this event will do a lot for that.