Usability

June 16-21, 2008

• Usability Week 2008 – Usability Week 2008 takes you beyond the typical conference experience, offering a 3-day usability camp, a 3-day intensive session on interaction design, and several specialized, day-long tutorials that get both broad and deep on core usability topics. Come for as few or as many days as you want.

June 16-18, 2008

• Supernova 2008 – Supernova 2008 will explore a range of developments related to the shift to a network-based world.

June 16, 2008

• The San Francisco Java Meetup Group – Meet other local Java professionals to talk about code, architecture, innovation, and share ideas about real-world problems. Our meetings are technically focused and often include expert speakers on Java related topics. We welcome both beginners and gurus, both developers and managers, both geeks and professionals. We typically meet on the 1st Monday of each month and our meetings are FREE and OPEN to the public.

June 17, 2008

• Cloud Computing: Creating Value for Web 2.0 Apps – On June 17th, Mosso co-founder Jonathan Bryce and a panel of industry experts, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists will discuss the issues of cloud computing with Web 2.0 and more. Come hear what the Rainmakers of Cloud Computing predict.
• Freebase User Group Meeting – Freebase is a free database of the world’s knowledge, licensed under Creative Commons and providing an API to enable mashups, applications, and all kinds of other uses. The Freebase User Group meets every second month at Freebase HQ (the Metaweb offices) on Howard St, near Montgomery BART. Come along for an evening of fascinating talks and eye-opening demos from members of the Freebase community and staff.
• The East Bay Ruby Meetup Group – This will be an overview of the new features of Rails 2.0 and 2.1 for you Railers who have been sitting in the 1.X world. It will go over the newer features in the 2.0 switch, migration issues, etc, as well as the major features of the brand new 2.1 release and some of the things going into trunk now.
• The San Francisco Game Development Meetup Group – This is a group for anyone currently working or interested in Game Development. We primarily discuss current games and technology, market trends and issues facing the industry.
• Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks Group – This Meetup group is about sharing, teaching, learning, and networking around current and future web-based geospatial and social networking technology.
• Silicon Valley Geek Dinner - The next Geek Dinner will be at Gordon Biersch in Palo Alto. For this dinner, Karen Ziv, a Senior Developer in Palo Alto, will be starting off the conversation with a quick overview of making your site scalable (non-language specific), just general techniques (e.g. caching, query optimization), when to build it in and when not to bother, etc. Don’t miss it!

June 18, 2008

• Community Technology & Digital Opportunity – Meetup with other organizations in the Bay Area working in community technology. Each month we will tour a different organization and learn about their technology programs and what they are doing to provide digital opportunities for their community. We will share ideas, innovative curriculum and resources. Most importantly, we will begin to build networks to facilitate partnerships.
• Hadoop User Group Meeting - User group meeting to discuss topics related to Hadoop, including Pig, Mahout, Zookeeper, Hbase.
• Online Community Unconference – The Online Community Unconference is a gathering of online community practitioners – managers, developers, business people, tool providers, investors – to discuss experience and strategies in the development and growth of online communities. Those involved in online community development (and social software in general) share many common challenges: community management, tools, marketing, business models, legal issues. As we have found with our past events, the best source of information on all of these challenges is other knowledgeable practitioners.
• The Bay Area Engineering Managers Support Group – Share the adventures and challenges of managing engineers. Each session will start with a short presentation on a topic of interest to technical managers. After that comes a facilitated discussion where participants can share challenges that they are facing and get feedback, ideas, and support from the group. The event is free and food will be provided! Come out, join the discussion, and become a better manager.

June 19, 2008

• BayLISA June General Meeting: Hadoop at Yahoo!- One way to put it is that there are many user groups, but we are the sysadmins group. BayLISA includes system and network administrators across a range of skill levels. BayLISA meets to discuss topics of interest to administrators and managers. The meetings are free and open to the public. BayLISA grew out of an after-hours discussion among attendees of the USENIX LISA IV conference. The idea was to provide a forum for Sysadmin professionals in the San Francisco Bay area to get together and exchange ideas, hear speakers address topics of interest and most importantly, socialize.
• Facebook & OpenSocial App Development – Meet other local people interested in a discussion about the technology, marketing, advertising, and social impacts of Google’s OpenSocial and Facebook F8 platform.
• SF Beta: The San Francisco Web 2.0 Mixer – SF Beta gives the San Francisco Web 2.0 community a monthly opportunity to meet, mix, and socialize in a relaxed and informal setting.
• SVASE Digital Media: Building A Business With Social Networks – The lively panel discussion will explore how you can take advantage of one of the most compelling trends in online marketing topic to provide answers to many questions.

June 20, 2008

• Startup Drinks: San Francisco II - Startup Drinks is about drinking in a friendly environment with other startup enthusiasts. Drinking will commence at 6pm on the roof-deck of Medjool, which has stunning views and an amazing vibe. The Medjool roof-deck is first come first serve, and fills up quickly on a Friday – so don’t be tardy!