Upcoming: waxpancake's friends' events

Nov 15, 2009: THUNDERHEIST (Live!) Free w/RSVP at San Francisco's Premier Indie Night Club

greghaspants — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:15:52 -0700

SUN NOV 15
blasthaus presents
THUNDERHEIST (Live!)
Winter Gloves (Live!)

RSVP required: RSVP@blasthaus.com

330 Ritch / 8PM doors
http://www.blasthaus.com

THUNDERHEIST return to SF fresh off the heels of their new album release and we're happy to bring it to you FREE of charge as one way of saying thanks for all the support this year! Stealing thunder so you move that ass, the duo dubbed Thunderheist unleash serious electro-pop with heavy boom bap party funk. Ribcage rattling bass breaks laced with proper rhyming are flipped with digital booty bass, 80s- inspired electronic pop, and slowed down Southern bounce, all fresh dipped in serious swagger. Dancefloors get loose when Thunderheist reigns. Tunes like 'Jerk It', 'Suenos Dulces' and 'Bubblegum' get bodies bumping. Music blogs light up with repostings the moment they post a new tune. DJs from all over the world drop them in the mix. Press has come knocking fast and furious, based on the smiling, sweaty faces coming out of TH jam. You won't want to miss this!!

Dec 2, 2009: Community Speak Up at YouTube

iameastvillage — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:56:42 -0700

Speaking up can be fun!

It's time for another Community Speak Up! This time around YouTube will be graciously hosting, so please join us in San Bruno for another chance to discuss online community work. Here's an overall description of the Community Speak Up concept:

Community work is full of ups and downs. The concept is hardly new, but the acceptance of Community Management as a field is still growing. Even still, case by case experiences range from community to community, and even less discussed, company to company. Adding to the confusion, the community space is becoming increasingly more crowded with claims of "expertise" from people claiming to be "social media gurus."

Personally, these thoughts prompted regular lunches with others working in the community space. While each individual experience was filled with unique challenges, over the course of time a single need began to resonate: "Where is our support system?"

The definition of "support" varies from person to person. By founding the Community Speak-Up, we aim to gather a group of community-minded folks around the things that should matter: discussions about Community Management as a field, career growth, tips and best practices, problem solving, and most importantly, grounded conversations about what it takes to be a Community Manager.

Our view is that the field of Community Management is continuing to grow, and because experiences vary, there really is a need to gather, discuss, and learn from one another on a more regular basis. We want to help grow this field through unified support, so please consider joining us once a month with a desire to speak up.

Some primer for the first Community Speak Up - cine + octo = boo

About Community Speak Up - Absolute Sovereignty

Community Speak Up! - Quirkyknitgirl

Nov 12, 2009: Data Beez Chip Music + Karmic Koala Ubuntu Linux Release Party at DNA Lounge

Jesse Zbikowski — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:44:23 -0700

Please join us for the official San Francisco release party for Karmic Koala, the latest Ubuntu Linux, together with the Data Beez West Coast Chip Tune Tour. We're hosting an Installfest starting at 7 - bring your laptop, get Linux! At 8 we'll be featuring a lineup of top chip tune musicians from 8BITPEOPLES (NYC) and MP3DEATH (US) including CRASHFASTER, MINUS BABY, STARPAUSE, and TRASH80; plus visuals from PARIS, DANIEL REHN, and JYK as FX6EX6. You'll also be able to interact with the robotic spheres of ORB SWARM, a large-scale kinetic art project running on Linux.

If you'd like to be part of the Installfest, please send an email to KoalaVolunteers@gmail.com or just bring your laptop. Admission is free before 8 for Installfest participants!

Dec 2, 2009: £5 App Meet at Hectors House

adactio — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:26:05 -0700

A meet-up for programmers, web developers and designers to discuss and showcase their "£5 apps" - lightweight software created by one or two people who take a simple idea and run with it.

The discussion will range from technical (what tools/languages were used during development) to business (building communities, spreading the word, costs and rewards).

This years Christmas special £5app will be held at Hector's House and has a music theme (much like the gaming theme of last year's Christmas special (http://fivepoundapp.com/meetup/14/) ).

We've got quite a busy line-up, so we expect everything to run for a bit longer than usual:

* Seb Lee-Delisle (http://sebleedelisle.com/) – "My life as a wannabe rock star at the birth of the internet music boom"
* Toby Cole (http://www.55th.co.uk/) – "Zero to Theremin in 20 days" – How BuildBrighton built a feature rich, ultrasonic, laser etched MIDI controller in under three weeks
* Tom Hume (http://tomhume.org/) – "You're all an orchestra, get over it" – Bluetooth devices will interact with the audience to create changing ambient music, created by Future Platforms for a Hack Day
* Jim Purbrick (http://jimpurbrick.com/) – A short talk on the Mrmr/LiveAPI guitar mounted iPhone Ableton live interface by the head of Second Life Europe (and later a demo with 100Robots)
* 100Robots (http://www.myspace.com/onehundredrobots) – Jim and Max Williams (http://webcrisps.wordpress.com/) play live and loud for us

Seb has the main talk:

"Before Seb Lee-Delisle was peddling his digital creations, he had an entirely different life. He spent most of his 20s setting up Solar Records and promoting his band Stargirl (later Laine). Investing over £50,000 of their own money, they released their own CDs, made it onto the radio and TV, played in front of 30,000 people, recorded at George Martin’s Air Studios and had full page spreads in the nationals."

"They were at the forefront internet music boom of the late 90s. The future was looking rosy for this group of dynamic 20-somethings. So come and find out what it was like, how the hell they got the £50K, and why their plans didn’t quite reach fruition…"

Beer – several of us who are doing well this year will put up some bar-money (Alan of SensibleDevelopment (http://www.sensibledevelopment.com/) and Ian's ProCasts (http://procasts.co.uk/) so far, several more to come, get in contact if you want to share the love). We may also get mulled wine if we're lucky.

Food – maybe nibbles. Hopefully either cake or cookies too.

Mar 12, 2010: South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival 2010 at Austin Convention Center

uvince — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:09:17 -0700

Nov 20, 2009: Startup Weekend Silicon Valley at Hacker Dojo

arielwaldman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:00:52 -0700

Startup Weekend is a 54 hour startup event that provides networking, resources and incentives for individuals and teams to go from idea to launch. Get connected with local developers, innovators and entrepreneurs. Build Community. Start Companies. No Talk. All Action. Even more info can be found at http://startupweekend.org

This is a weekend long event. It’s ok to come and go during the weekend. On Friday night people pitch their ideas, there can be as few as 25 pitches or as many as 100, we keep on pitching until everyone is done! We do a simple vote of everyone’s favorite 2 or 3 to narrow down the ideas by about 80%. Individuals then gather around each idea to discuss feasibility. For a room of one hundred people we generally see teams between 5-10 people and a total of between 10-15 teams working away on 10-15 new startups.

At after Friday evening people come in early on Saturday and work work work for the rest of the weekend until giving a demo of the newly created startup on Sunday evening. We’ve had teams that were generating revenue on Saturday evening in the past! It’s a great learning experience, great networking, and a lot of fun to roll up your sleeves and get in the trenches launching a new startup! Hope to see you there!

We provide: 7 meals, drinks, t-shirt, software, and hosting! Anyone is invited to come!

Nov 16, 2009: Oakland Local Community Meetup at Tech/Liminal

susanmernit — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:25:40 -0700

Oakland Local is one month old! Come join us at our first community meetup in downtown Oakland--community partners, OL bloggers & reporters, people interested in being involved with OL and anyone else who wants to support us are invited to our first meetup at TechLiminal.
We'll have beer, wine, snacks, schwag--and a chance to meet--and join--the Oakland Local team. If you'd like to do blogging or community reporting for this site, this is a chance to sign up and get hands-on instruction--or just hang out and build community.
Please RSVP here or at Facebook: http://bit.ly/zebJv

Jan 16, 2010: A Prairie Home Companion at War Memorial Opera House

greghaspants — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:52:58 -0700

A live broadcast performance of the weekly NPR radio show "A Prairie Home Companion" with Garrison Keillor... all from the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, CA

Dec 5, 2009: AR DevCamp at Hacker Dojo

Jesse Zbikowski — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:47:13 -0700

The first Augmented Reality Development Camp (AR DevCamp) will be held in the SF Bay Area December 5, 2009. After nearly 20 years in the research labs, Augmented Reality is taking shape as one of the next major waves of Internet innovation, overlaying and infusing the physical world with digital media, information and experiences. We believe AR must be fundamentally open, interoperable, extensible, and accessible to all, so that it can create the kinds of opportunities for expressiveness, communication, business and social good that we enjoy on the web and Internet today. As one step toward this goal of Open AR, we are organizing AR DevCamp 1.0, a full day of technical sessions and hacking opportunities in an open format, unconference style.

Nov 20, 2009: Real-Time CrunchUp SF at InterContinental Hotel

greghaspants — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:42:15 -0700

One of the benefits of covering new technology and startups on a daily basis is that you can see trends as they begin to swell and repeat themselves. One shift we’ve been keeping a very close eye on is the rise of realtime streams, and how they are fundamentally altering the way we communicate and interact with one another.

We are not the only ones who think this is a big deal. Back in July, TechCrunch editors Erick Schonfeld and Steve Gillmor organized a Realtime Stream CrunchUp. It was the first major realtime conference (there are a bunch of them now), and the response was overwhelming. It attracted 650 people and ended up as a launchpad for about 20 new realtime products, from Seesmic’s Web client to Pubsubhubbub (PuSH) to Brizzly (read more here).

A lot has happened since then: Facebook bought FriendFeed, Twitter raised $100 million, Google Wave launched in private beta. So Steve and I thought it would be a good time for another Realtime CrunchUp. The next one will be an all-day-event on November 20 in San Francisco.

Confimed speakers include:

* Dick Costolo, COO Twitter
* Marc Benioff, CEO and founder Salesforce
* Paul Buchheit, founder FriendFeed
* Lili Cheng, GM of FUSE Labs, Microsoft
* Ron Conway, angel investor

Real-Time Start-Ups:

If you want to launch a realtime product at the CrunchUp or have an eye-opening demo, please contact us at realtime [at] techcrunch [dot] com. We have just a few spots left.

Hope you can join us.

Sponsors:

The CrunchUp also gives us a great sponsorship platform for start-ups and brands to reach both conference and stream participants. Please contact Jeannie Logozzo or Heather Harde to learn more about sponsorship packages and custom opportunities.

Details:

Friday, November 20

Real-Time Stream CrunchUp San Francisco

Intercontinental Hotel, 888 Howard Street, Third Floor Grand Ballroom, San Francisco

9:00am - 5:30pm: Main Agenda

5:30 - 7:30 pm: Closing Reception

Nov 12, 2009: Refresh Portland November: Nick Finck on The Mobile User Experience at Jive Software

nickf — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:50:41 -0700

Join Refresh Portland for our last session of 2009 on mobile user experience design! This time, we have Nick Finck, Principal and Director of User Experience at Blue Flavor, coming from Seattle.

This presentation will look at how the mobile context has evolved over the years and where it is headed. We’ll explore the differences between the web and the mobile web, why these differences are important, what the key user experience principals are for the mobile web …oh yeah, and there will be plenty of examples for you to sink your teeth into. Nick will give you the information you need to design an optimal user experience for the mobile web as well as what decisions you will need to make along the way.

November is mobile web month! Be sure to check our friends at Portland Web Innovators for the marketing side of the story on November 4, where Elia Freedman will talk about A Look Back, A Look Forward:

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4770329/

Nov 24, 2009: Vancouver iPhone Forum at BCIT Downtown Campus

nep — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:42:14 -0700

The Vancouver iPhone Forum will bring local business leaders, educators, designers, and developers together to share knowledge, personal experience, and best practice for doing business on Apple's Touch Platform. The aim is to grow awareness of the opportunities this
revolutionary platform offers and to foster mobile innovation in the Canadian market.

There will be two parallel paths of concurrent sessions:

Technical sessions target developers and designers that seek a deeper understanding of how to design and develop
optimized websites and native apps for Apple's Touch Platform.

Business sessions target those that seek to leverage the business potential of Apple's Touch platform.

Nov 21, 2009: The 3rd Annual Vancouver TechFest at BCIT Campus

nep — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:42:10 -0700

What is a TechFest?

There are a few mandates which the TechFest must follow...

1. By and For the Community

TechFest's are about the community at large. They are meant to be a place for developers AND IT Professionals to come and learn from their peers. Topics are always based on community interest and never determined by anyone other than the community.

2. Always Free

TechFest's are always free for attendees.

3. Community Developed Material

The success of the TechFest's is that they are based on community content. All content that is delivered is original. All presentation content must be provided (including any code and your slide decks). If you have content you don’t want to share or provide to attendees then the TechFest is not the place for you.

4. No Fluff

TechFest's are about getting to the nitty gritty. Refer to rule #1 if you have any questions on this.

5. Community Ownership

The most important element of the TechFest is always the community. All are welcome to attend and speak and do so without expectation of payment or any other compensation other than their participation in the community.

6. Never occur during work hours

We need to understand that many times people can’t leave work for a day or two to attend training or even seminars. The beauty of the TechFest is that they always occur on weekends.

Why not a Code Camp? What's the difference?

Well, a Code Camp is strictly focused on the Developer where our TechFest is all about Technology, any technology. We feel that IT Professionals, as well as Developers, should be given the chance to present their wares! Also, do not come to this event and expect all the presentations to focus just on Microsoft technologies. We strive to balance the content.

Nov 19, 2009: Mentor Mixer with Paul Kedrosky at Steamworks Brewing Co.

nep — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:41:58 -0700

As a part of our International Mentorship Series, we are thrilled to welcome Dr. Paul Kedrosky to Vancouver for our next Mentor Mixer during Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Dr. Kedrosky is an investor, writer, and entrepreneur. He is a sought-after speaker; an analyst for CNBC television; a columnist for TheStreet/RealMoney; and the editor of Infectious Greed, one of the best known business blogs. Currently, Dr. Kedrosky is a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, where he is focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and the future of risk capital.

Dr. Kedrosky will be flying in from La Jolla, CA to share his views on entrepreneurship and investing in early stage companies. The evening with be heavily Q&A oriented with plenty of time for networking, so please bring your questions and your business cards.

This mentor mixer will take place at the familiar Uber Lounge in Steamworks, below Bootup Labs HQ. We’ll open the doors at 6pm and Dr. Kedrosky will start his talk around 6:30pm.

Ticket price includes first drink and light snacks.

Nov 16, 2009: IveyBC Entrepreneurship Forum at Royal Bank Reception Suite

nep — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:41:54 -0700

Looking for funding for your business venture? Looking for exciting investment opportunities in emerging businesses?
On Monday, November 16, the BC chapter of the Ivey Alumni Association and the Pierre L. Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship (Ivey) present the Ivey Entrepreneurship Forum at RBC. The day will include presentations by companies seeking funding as well as a discussion
panel and presentations from experienced investors. The day concludes with a reception and provides outstanding networking
opportunities with investors and companies alike.
Companies will be given an opportunity to present their proposition, financing requirements and one key business opportunity/
challenge facing them, in a collegial setting. Our expert panel, the audience and other investing companies will discuss each company
following Ivey Business School’s case approach to entrepreneurship and cross-enterprise leadership to provide valuable feedback to
management of these emerging companies.

Call for Applications
Looking for investors for your business venture? We encourage applications from companies that meet the following criteria:
Privately held corporation with connection to BC preferred.

Company must be in market for Angel or Venture stage round of financing in range of CAD$250,000 to CAD$5 million.

Connection to Ivey Business School is preferred (e.g. management team, board of directors, shareholders, etc.) but not essential.
Growth stage company.

Sectors indigenous to BC preferred, including software, telecom/wireless, digital media, software gaming, cleantech, biotech, mining,resource sector, etc.

 Revenue stage companies preferred.

 Strong management team.

Apply today to present your business at the Ivey BC Entrepreneurship Forum on
November 16. The application form may be found at www.iveynetwork.ca/bc, and
completed applications should be submitted to mlongo.mba2001@ivey.ca by Tuesday,
October 13, 2009. There is no fee for presenting companies.
Registering as an Attendee
Interested in attending as an investor, entrepreneur or interested party, but not ready to
present? Visit www.iveynetwork.ca/bc for more information and to register online.
Event Details
Date and Time:
Monday, November 16, 2009, 1 to 6 pm
Royal Bank Reception Suite
36th Floor, 1055 W Georgia Street, Vancouver BC
Both alumni and non-alumni are invited to register:
$45 plus GST for IveyBC Supporting Members
$50 plus GST for Ivey alumni
$60 plus GST for non-alumni
Final speaker line-up and agenda to be finalized at a later date. Please stay tuned to the
chapter’s website at www.iveynetwork.ca/bc.

Nov 12, 2009: Fusion Venture Forum '09 at UBC Robson Square

nep — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:41:51 -0700

8-9am Registration & breakfast

9.00-9.05am Welcome to Fusion’09 – The official kick-off, introduction of presenting Entrepreneurs & Investors and judges

9.05-9.45am Keynote Speaker – STEWART BUTTERFIELD, Co-Founder of Flickr

9.45-11am 5 pitches (Games)
Panel includes: Bill Maris – Managing Partner, Google Ventures
Jeff Clavier – Founder, Managing Partner, Softtech VC
Howard Donaldson – VP Studio Operations, Disney Interactive Studios, Walt Disney Company
Tom Frisina – Electronic Arts Talent Development Executive, Past VP/GM, EA Partners Partnering Studio

11-11.15am Networking Break

11.15-12.30pm 5 pitches (Mobile)
Panel includes: Tim Chang – Principal, Norwest Venture Partners
James Maynard – President, Wavefront
Kalle Radage – BDC Venture Capital
Hong-Yee Wong –CEO, IUGO Mobile Entertainment

12.30pm-1.30pm Networking lunch & VIP Guest Speaker STEVE WANDLER -Founder, YourTechOnline.com, BC’s own home grown Success Story!

1.30pm-2.45pm 5 pitches (Web2.0/Social Media)
Panel includes: Jeff Clavier – Founder, Managing Partner, Softtech VC
Steve Wandler –Founder, YourTechOnline.com/ OSTEC Board member
Danny Robinson –Founder, Managing Director of Bootup Labs

2.45pm-3pm Networking Break

3pm-4.15pm 5 pitches (New Platforms/Applications)
Panel includes: Tim Chang – Principal, Norwest Venture Partners
Owen Matthews – Executive VP, Wesley Clover & Vice Chairman, Counterpath Corporation Board
Tanner Philp – CFO & Partner, Lions Capital/BC Advantage Fund
Boris Wertz – Founder & CEO, W Media Ventures

4.15-5.00pm STATE OF THE NATION: VCs/Angels discuss current investor climate and the future of Digital Media industry.
Panel includes: Bill Maris – Google Ventures
Jeff Clavier – SoftTech VC
Tim Chang – Norwest Venture Partners
Neil Martin – British Sky Broadcasting
V. Paul Lee – VanEdge Capital Partners Limited
Moderator- Peter Severinson

5-5.30pm “BEST IN SHOW” Award announced and Thanks to all!

5.30-7pm Time to Mix & Mingle! - Networking reception for all conference attendees256

Nov 14, 2009: Buraka Som Sistema at Elbo Room

greghaspants — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:28:46 -0700

Dec 4, 2009: microformats workshop — San Francisco at Citizen Space

tantek — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:23:21 -0700

Taught by industry leader Tantek Çelik, the workshop will cover just about everything you need to know to get started with microformats.

In half a day you will learn how to add key well-established microformats to your website to benefit your users, help your website’s findability in search engines, and provide a standards based API for web developers.

You will also receive a copy of Emily Lewis' freshly published book (tech-edited by Tantek Çelik) Microformats Made Simple.

Dec 4, 2009: HTML5 workshop — San Francisco at Citizen Space

tantek — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:23:13 -0700

In the past few years, HTML5 has gone from a WHATWG project to the official W3C draft revision to HTML and has captured the attention of web designers and developers world-wide.

Taught by industry leader and W3C invited expert Tantek Çelik, this introductory workshop will cover everything you need to know to get started with HTML5.

Nov 18, 2009: microformats workshop — New York City at Rose Tech Ventures Incubator

tantek — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:18:23 -0700

Taught by industry leader Tantek Çelik, the workshop will cover just about everything you need to know to get started with microformats.

You will also receive a copy of Emily Lewis' freshly published book (tech-edited by Tantek Çelik) Microformats Made Simple.

Nov 18, 2009: HTML5 workshop — New York City at Rose Tech Ventures Incubator

tantek — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:16:45 -0700

In the past few years, HTML5 has gone from a WHATWG project to the official W3C draft revision to HTML and has captured the attention of web designers and developers world-wide.

Taught by industry leader and W3C invited expert Tantek Çelik, this introductory workshop will cover everything you need to know to get started with HTML5.

Apr 27, 2010: The Next Web Conference 2010 at Westergasfabriek

tantek — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:39:59 -0700

The Next Web is about the vision for the future of the web. We've great speakers who'll share their vision with you. This conference has become one of the best networking events in Europe. Join us.

Mar 30, 2010: Where 2.0 at San Jose Marriott

tantek — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:39:50 -0700

Now in its sixth year, the Where 2.0 Conference is where the grassroots and leading edge developers building location-aware technology intersect with the businesses and entrepreneurs seeking out location apps, platforms, and hardware to gain a competitive edge. In the O'Reilly conference tradition, Where 2.0 presents leading trends rather than chasing them.

At Where 2.0, you'll find source mapping tools, reality mining, open standards for data and location web services, and sensors for obtaining location data. We'll learn how the established geo industry is reacting to the first businesses making money from their grassroots geospatial projects. There's no better place to meet the people behind the mashups, the people behind the platforms, and the people looking ahead to the future of geospatial. Join us at Where 2.0 to debate and discuss what's viable now, and what's lurking just below the radar.

May 19, 2010: Google I/O 2010 at Moscone Center

tantek — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:39:33 -0700

Google's largest developer event returns to San Francisco in 2010. Google I/O brings together thousands of developers for two days of highly technical content, focused on pushing the boundaries of web applications through open web technologies and Google developer products like App Engine, Google Web Toolkit, Android, Chrome, APIs, and more.

Early registration for Google I/O will open in January 2010.

Feb 9, 2010: Macworld Expo San Francisco 2010 at Moscone Center

tantek — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:39:07 -0700

The 25th annual gathering of Mac Users.

Yay, it now includes a Saturday!

And no special codes required for free registration. Warning: prepare to be spammed.

Feb 6, 2010: Teens in Tech Conference 2.0 at Google San Francisco

tantek — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:38:56 -0700

The Teens in Tech Conference 2.0 is tentatively slated for February 6, 2010 at Google's offices in San Francisco, Calif.

Dec 7, 2009: SF MusicTech Summit #5 at Hotel Kabuki

tantek — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:36:33 -0700

SF MusicTech brings together the best and brightest developers in the Music/Technology space, along with the musicians, entrepreneurial business people, press, investors, service providers, and organizations who work with them at this exciting convergence of culture and commerce. We'll discuss the evolving music/business/technology ecosystem in a proactive environment, conducive to deal making, and connect with friends and business partners old and new.

With 600+ attendees, 20 sponsors, and 75 speakers from the converging fields of music, technology, and entertainment, our last SF MusicTech Summit was a huge success, and we expect a similarly awesome turn out this time, too!

We've already confirmed a number of industry visionaries for this event, including

* Anthony Batt; Founder of BuzzNet
* Gabe Beneviste; Founder and CEO of Sonic Living
* Christopher Buttner; Founder of PRthatRocks
* Tom Conrad; CTO of Pandora
* Ethan Diamond; Founder of BandCamp
* Duncan Freeman; Founder of BandMetrics
* Ian Hogarth; CEO of SongKick
* Steve Jang; Advisor
* Meliza Solan; Producer for Vator.tv
* Gordon Taylor; Web Applications Programmer at the SF Opera
* Anthony Volodkin; Founder of Hype Machine
* and more being announced daily!

Ticket prices rise regularly, so be sure to purchase now!

Nov 17, 2009: Microsoft PDC 09 at Los Angeles Convention Center

tantek — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:35:35 -0700

The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is the definitive developer event focused on the technical strategy of the Microsoft developer platform. Attendees come from around the world to learn about the future of Microsoft developer technology directly from the people who make it happen. If you’re a developer, architect or technology leader involved in making strategic technology decisions, the PDC is for you

Nov 16, 2009: Web 2.0 Expo New York at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center

tantek — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:35:19 -0700

Web 2.0 Expo is for the builders of the next generation web: designers, developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, business strategists, and venture capitalists, people who have experiences to share and a passion for learning - the hot new thing, lessons from failures, innovations and inspirations, and the practical applications of all of the above.

Nov 16, 2009: Design for Laser Cutting at Victoria and Albert Museum

blackbeltjones01 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:58:09 -0700

Monday 16 & Tuesday 17 November
Digital Studio, Sackler Centre
10.30-17.00

Digitally design seasonal decorations or jewellery to be laser-cut from perspex, wood, or felt. Explore two-dimensional design and the use of natural and artificial materials, then use Inkscape, a free open-source vector drawing programme, to create a design. Your design will be uploaded to the Ponoko website (www.ponoko.com ) for production in Ponoko's studios. You will receive your laser-cut pieces to assemble and finish at home by post three weeks after the course. Suitable for those with intermediate or advanced computer skills.

£150, no concessions
(includes materials)
To book call +44 (0)20 7942 2211

Nov 18, 2009: Skillswap Goes Wayfinding at Lighthouse

adactio — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:10:25 -0700

Talk 1
Legible London: When is a wayfinding system the answer to a city's economic future?
Patricia Brown & Kasper de Graaf

This talk will focus on the capital's nascent wayfinding system, looking at the strategic rationale for a unified tool to support walking in the capital and an update on the development of the system so far. Read more about the Legible London project.

Talk 2
The future of wayfinding
Cennydd Bowles

We've got pretty good at helping people find their way through today's digital world. Information architecture, taking cues from physical architecture, has built a toolkit of wayfinding aids including menus, breadcrumbs, signage. But things are about to get a lot more interesting.

The boundaries between the abstract digital world and the real physical world are becoming blurred. GPS has made the A-Z map redundant. RFID chips will soon enable a world of "spimes", where our environment can tell us all about itself and how we should interact with it. Geolocation offers an immersive augmented reality where data combines with space in revolutionary ways. Our landmarks are now both physical and digital. One day, a church spire; the next, a WiFi cloud. Our old wayfinding methods will soon be as outdated as the sextant.

Even now, people are beginning to use new technology to annotate and enrich their surroundings. Location-driven technology is most powerful in the hands of local users, and it is our responsibility as designers to ensure that these systems are accessible, collaborative and safe.

Given this quantum leap, we need new approaches to wayfinding, information scent and navigation. This session will explore how we can we use information architecture to shape the chaos. How can we design systems for both the digital and physical world that allow users to orientate themselves, understand the choices available, and feel at home?

Participants will take away a new understanding of the exciting challenges ahead of us, including the role of mobile devices, the ubiquitous information age, and the privacy implications of our new location-critical lives.

How do I get a ticket?
Registration will be open from 11am on Wednesday 4th November via Eventbrite and thanks to Madgex will be absolutely free.

In the meantime, feel free to register your interest here on Upcoming and follow Skillswap on Twitter.

Nov 12, 2009: Disaster Relief Codejam - Random Hacks of Kindness at Hacker Dojo

kidsallright — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:23:26 -0700

Random Hacks of Kindness is an initiative that brings together disaster relief experts and software engineers to work on identifying key challenges to disaster relief, and developing solutions to these critical issues. This Codejam is the first of a series of Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) events that will bring the best and brightest together for a "give camp" to solve real world-problems related to Crisis/Disaster Relief.

Dec 4, 2009: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco with Rick Prelinger at Herbst Theater

greghaspants — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:15:03 -0700

The Long Now Foundation's monthly series Seminars About Long-term Thinking
http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/

Rick Prelinger, a guerrilla archivist who collects the uncollected and makes it accessible, presents the fourth of his annual Lost Landscapes of San Francisco screenings. You'll see an eclectic montage of rediscovered and rarely-seen film clips showing life, landscapes, labor and leisure in a vanished San Francisco as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers.

How we remember and record the past reveals much about how we address the future. Prelinger will preface the screening with a brief talk on how historical memory is shifting away from mass culture towards individual expression, and what consequences will arise from the emerging massive matrix of personal records.

The purpose of the Seminars About Long-term Thinking is to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.

Long Now Members can reserve 2 complimentary seats.
https://secure.longnow.org/members/

Join us for a reception with no-host bar following the Seminar in the main Lobby of the Herbst Theater.

Dec 5, 2009: Warp20 (London) at The Coronet

greghaspants — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:52:00 -0700

Warp20 visits its final city London on Saturday 5th December (following events in Paris, New York, Sheffield, Tokyo and Berlin) with an all-night live and club event at London’s Coronet. NYC heroes Battles headline, premiering brand new material in the UK for the first time.

Broadcast play a rare live show, performing as a duo combining electronics and vocals for a live soundtrack to the Ghost Box film Winter Sun Wavelengths, plus pieces from the mini-album Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age and songs from the forthcoming album proper. Warp legends Plaid unveil a specially-prepared live ‘classics’ show featuring their best-loved material tweaked and mixed for the dancefloor.

Many more artists for Warp20 (London) are to be announced, including the rest of the Coronet line-up plus Warp Films events and more.

Each (London) ticket purchase includes a CD copy of 2010, a full-format collectable album of tracks from Warp artists for the new year, including Rustie, The Hundred In The Hands, Hudson Mohawke, Flying Lotus, Nice Nice, Bibio, Gonjasufi and more.

Saturday 5th December
The Coronet
Battles (UK debut of new material)
Broadcast
Plaid (Live 'Classics' Show)
+ much more to be announced

Apr 11, 2010: 2nd Annual Streamy Awards at TBD

greghaspants — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:42:38 -0700

The Streamys were created to recognize and honor outstanding achievement for shows produced originally for broadband distribution, and recognizes both the shows themselves and the people who make them possible, through awards in 24 categories covering the arts and sciences of making web television. The winners of the Streamy Awards will be celebrated at a live ceremony, in Los Angeles, on April 11, 2010.

Information on ticketing will be available soon.

Nov 14, 2009: Kinetic Steam Works Rollout at Kinetic Steam Works

Jesse Zbikowski — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:25:00 -0700

Come experience tons & tons of steam powered contrivances! Join us in celebration of our new STEAM HQ and our new Non-Profit status! Fun for the whole family!

Bring your pumpkins, have a steam stirred margarita!

Featuring:

"Pappy" The might 15ton Steam Tractor from 1917

"Hortense" the hot rod of Steam Traction Engines circa 1920

The bone-crushing "Dingus"

The Double Decker Sky Box

Wicked water cannon

***and introducing: The Gory Pumpkin Guillotine!***

Nov 17, 2009: More Accessible User Interfaces with ARIA at Skills Matter Limited

arielwaldman — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:41:24 -0700

We've changed the date for this month's YDN Tuesday talk, as we have Todd Kloots coming in from the US to talk about ARIA.

ARIA is a W3C specification that can be used to dramatically improve the accessibility of DHTML widgets and rich interaction patterns (like drag and drop). This talk provides practical tips and design patterns for using ARIA to create accessible user interfaces that work across all of the various combinations of browsers and assistive technology that support ARIA.
Additionally, this talk will focus on the tools and methodologies developers need to test ARIA in order to ensure the best possible user experience.

Please register for this free event at SkillsMatter's website:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/os-mobile-server/more-accessible-user-interfaces-with-aria
Follow us on twitter to see what else YDN is up to: http://twitter.com/ydn

Bio

Todd Kloots is a frontend engineer based in San Francisco. With ten years of industry experience, Todd has spent the past seven years at Yahoo! working on products such as Yahoo! Mail, and most-recently, the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library.

Through his role at Yahoo! Todd evangelises the use of web standards, is an advocate for accessibility, and a frequent contributor to the YUI Blog. When he's not writing code, Todd can be found working on his other passion: hunting down the perfect cup of espresso in cafes in San Francisco.

Mar 13, 2010: Mobile Social SXSW at Brush Square Park

allaboutgeorge — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:39:40 -0700

Bike Hugger is back for another year at SXSW with more Bike Culture than ever:

* Urban Ride
* BBQ
* After Party

Nov 19, 2009: East Bay Fotovision SlideSlam at 291 Gallery, San Francisco

allaboutgeorge — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:33:28 -0700

Photographers & Photojournalists!

Fotovision SlideSlam: Next Slideslam will be November 19th

Every Third Thursday of the Month 7-9pm

SlideSlam is a FREE monthly event providing aspiring and professional photographers the chance to present their work. SlideSlam is open to all Fotovision members as well as the general public. We aim to be an interactive community so we welcome your ideas on presenters, format, potential sponsors, and future themes!

Starter food and drinks are provided, but we encourage you to bring something potluck-style. No alcohol for any students under 21.

Projects selected for the SlideSlam will be reviewed by Scott McKiernan, founder of ZUMA Press photo agency, for potential publication and international media distribution. A free 11x14 printing at Pictopia's professional photo lab will also be raffled off each month.

SlideSlam Format
Selected participants have 5 min. to introduce themselves and present 20 images or multimedia work. No more than six people will present at each event. The audience has a chance to ask questions and/or provide feedback for 5 min. after each presentation

Submission Deadline
November 17th, 12 noon

Submission Guidelines
Email 20 images centered on a single theme (both ongoing and finished projects accepted)
File format: JPG under 5mb per image (roughly 8”x10” dimension, but can be full-frame or panoramic)
NO masking or borders, backgrounds, or other artistic effects are allowed
Download, complete and save TITLE slide as firstname_lastname_0.jpg
Name all images as firstname_lastname_number.jpg (Example: john_smith_1.jpg)
Email title slide and images to slideslam@fotovision.org (NO zipped or compressed folders)

Multimedia Submission Guidelines
There is a 5 min. maximum runtime
Send an email with your name, project title and a link to your online piece to slideslam@fotovision.org

Everything Else
You MUST be present at SlideSlam for your work to be displayed.
Fotovision may limit presentations based on number of submissions and time.
Projects may not be re-submitted more than once a year, unless 50% of the images are new (i.e., a work in progress that is later finished)
Selected photographers will be notified by Fotovision.

SlideSlam Night
There is 10 minutes total for selected participants to present images, speak about the project and answer audience questions.
Fotovision may limit number of slideshows based on number of submissions.
Visitors to the SF Bay Area are also welcome to present.

Become a sponsor and get your tax writeoff, too:
If you or a business you know can donate food, wine or drinks please contact us at slideslam@fotovision.org

Location:
Gallery 291, San Francisco
291 Geary Street, Floor 5
San Francisco, CA 94102

Please note:
Due to the location of this event, please arrive on time in order to assure access past the front door into building. Thanks and see you there!

Every Third Thursday of the Month 7-9pm

Cost: Free!

Nov 21, 2009: West Coast, Left Coast: Kronos Quartet, Terry Riley, Matmos, Mike Einziger at Walt Disney Concert Hall

allaboutgeorge — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:13:38 -0700