Hello world! There is more than Berlin in Germany :)
But I'm disappointed there isn't more of a tech scene here. Stuttgart does have a lot of great schools, but this is an engineering town, not an IT city. Industry here revolves around Damiler and Porsche. The students are all in mechanical engineering, it seems. I'm thrilled to read something about this area, but I have to say, I'm awfully puzzled at the same time.
I'd be very interested in more interesting things to work on, but as it is, its mostly big business IT with lots of Java and XML.
The last time I'd looked up Stuttgart's hackerspaces on hackerspaces.org, the pages looked dead.
if you are around you should go and take a look.
look at the latest trend of startups that have hardware as part of their product and the internet of things movement, that will require different skills and there's a lot of that in stuttgart :)
With the volume of engineers in this part of Germany I would have imagined the IT/Software scene would have been even somewhat existent.
P.S. Cool to find someone else from stgt
Thanks for sharing this Momo.