Lunch 2.0

Head on down to SOMA and join us for a fantastic lunch 2.0 @ SF Station with food, cake, beer, and a raffle!

Tonight I learn that it is important to keep good brain health from PBS TV program on Magnificent Mind At Any Age: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life. One prescription is to learn a new language. This will improve your brain and sharpen your mind. Searching on Google is better for your brain than reading. Constantly checking your inbox email and blackberry email are NOT good for your brain, lowering your IQ.

How would this relate to our Holiday Family Hackathon?
Silicon Valley Web Builder is always open mind when it comes to learning new language, new API and new platform. Many of you developers may know Facebook (FBML, FQL, FJS) well. Now you would have the chance to exercise your mind, learning another new language on Bebo (SNML, SNQL, SNJS).

These are the kind of stories that inspire me.
It all started when 10-year-old Aryan Taheri attended a California Clean Tech Open event with his dad, Sam. The older Taheri planned to enter the competition, geared to help entrepreneurs who dream of starting their own environmentally friendly company. When Taheri found out there is no age limit on entering competition, he recruited his 5th grade classmates to build the prototype and their parents for advise.

Another startup, which was literally founded by a 5th grader, just raised $16.8 million in a series B round on virtual goods. PlaySpan was founded two years ago by Arjun Mehta, then in the 5th grade, and his father Karl Mehta, who is the CEO.

Family Hackathon
Many questioned my plan in getting kids involved in hackathon. Very often, we couldn’t even get adults to hack much during hackathon. Many thought I must be insane not limiting the age for learning JavaScript, Python, and APIs. I self-taught myself how to code at this young age. I thought why I would limit the age of learning. Bill Gates wouldn’t make it so far if his parents limit him to learn by age. I discovered another important clues. Almost close to half came to our last Hackathon for kids event are girls. This is the chance to inspire young girls to explore coding, considering engineering and science. This motivate me to invest in Family Hackathon, for the future of Silicon Valley.

New Location
The new location is TEN’s Santa Clara Innovation Center with wifi support that you can comfortable to work on your project or participating our hand-on session. We are very lucky to have Engineers from Bebo, Sun and SVWB to help new and advance developers.

You will receive the latest SDK, sample applications, and codes.

Sun/Bebo is going to offer sponsored web host account to every participating guest. Kickstart your application immediately. Bebo will announce Developer Challenge Contest.

Offerpal is going to give a whitepaper for every participating guest and a raffle prize of 2,000 installs (roughly $600 in value).

Bess
Founder of Silicon Valley Web Builder

Social Network Holiday Family Hackathon
Register: http://familyhackathon08.eventbrite.com/
Admission: FREE

Lunch & Raffle Prizes: Sponsored by Offerpal
Facility: Sponsored by TEN
Media and Giveaways: Bebo/AOL

Date: 12/6/08 Sat
Time: 12:00pm-6:00pm
Location: TEN’s Santa Clara Innovation Center
Address: 2953 Bunker Hill Lane, Ste 400, Santa Clara, CA 95054

Tired of the same three lunch time options? Well grab your co-worker and come eat lunch with the cool kids at SF Station and help celebrate our 12th birthday Lunch 2.0 style!!

For those of you that don’t know SF Station, we are San Francisco Bay Area’s definitive online city guide to Arts & Culture, Entertainment, Food, Shopping, and Urban Living. We invite you to come and hang out in our office, eat some lunch, tour our website, win free stuff, and have some Friday Fun!!

Hosts: SF Station
Where: 1475 Folsom St Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94103
When: Friday, December 5th, 12noon - 2pm
RSVP ON UPCOMING!

We will have Beer available to wash down your lunch, birthday cake for dessert, raffle prizes, and of course, the Bright & Smiling faces of the SF Station Crew!!

Pizza Provided by Dino’s Pizza
Birthday cake provided by Cake Coquette
Beer provided by Phuket

Raffle prizes provided by the following:
Grand Prize: $2500 of advertising with SF Station & San Francisco.com
4 dinners to Supperclub San Francisco
2 tickets to Storytime Festival Dec 20th
2 tickets to SFMOMA
1 $50 Gift Certificate to MoMo’s

Time for lunch 2.0 on a holiday celebration. This is a last minute social gathering as a few kind supporters decide to sponsor us over Thanksgiving week. We’ll have less than a week to plan out the details. This is a social networking event with wifi and informal hand-on sessions. Perfect to make new friends, meet hackers, and learn new tricks!

Due to the rush, we’ll have to announce details once you sign up. Lot of surprises!

Don’t forget to register! This will help our sponsors to estimate food and drink.

Social Network Holiday Family Hackathon
12/6/08 Sat 12pm-6pm
Sun Microsystems Auditorium
4030 George Sellon Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054

Social Network Holiday Family Hackathon
Register: http://familyhackathon08.eventbrite.com/
Admission: FREE

Lunch: Offerpal
Facility: Sun Microsystems
Support: Bebo/AOL
Host: Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB)

Save The Web Save The World.

A fully implantable artificial heart designed to overcome the worldwide shortage of transplant donors will be ready for clinical trial by 2011. How does it relate to the geeks in Silicon Valley?

HTML5 specification is sitting on the completion date of year 2022. This is a deadline projected based on the past including IE5 idle for 5 good years. Many internet founders and contributors will be in retirement age between 60-80 by year of 2022. If medical experts rush to overcome the complexity of placing a fully implantable artificial heart inside a human body, almost a “miracle” dream, is HTML5 specification harder to do than artificial heart, or putting a man on the moon?

Al Gore told the public at Web 2.0 Summit how the web can solve climate crisis. He was giving hints to our President-Elect’s advisors who gathered some intelligences from Silicon Valley. Clean technology alone is not a comprehensive policy. I think moving quicker to HTML5 will help save the world sooner than later. Ideally HTML5 will help making other client-side and server-side technology run more efficiently and save more energy. This is a simple way to put it. More talents are needed to save the web.

This led to the effort to Hackathon 4 Kids session. Many jobs are created by teenagers and young adults by internet companies and Web 2.0 startups. With economic crisis, our CA state is cutting educational program, colleges and universities are exploring ways to limit student enrollment. Fewer students will become engineers or developers. It is important that our web community step up to implement quick solutions for this future shortage. Getting kids to start coding young. Getting parents involved in encourage them to learn coding young.

It is never too young to learn coding. I self-taught myself coding in elementary school when I received my first computer, before age of 10. I wouldn’t hold back any kids who want to learn coding on age. I am hoping attending kids will find their next buddy and future partners. Our future economy in Silicon Valley may be shaped by these young age friendship of entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Paul Allen from Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg and Adam D’Angelo from Facebook.

Hackathon 4 Kids
Register: http://hackathon4kids.eventbrite.com
Admission: FREE
Participating Kids: FREE geek toy (Until supplies last)

Speakers:
Doug Ricket, Map Engineer from Google
Marzia Niccolai, App Engine Engineer from Google

Date: 11/9/08 Sun
Time: 1:15pm-4:15pm
Location: Foothill College Campus
Address: 12345 El Monte Road Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Parking: Parking Lot 5
Website: http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com
Toy Giveaways: Sponsored by Rockyou http://www.rockyou.com

This is a message to our President-Elect:

Dear Mr. President,

If the web save your election win, the web is here to save the world. Our Silicon Valley Web Builder group is organized from members that guard the web community in early internet days. This is my wish that our national CTO will interact and work with web community like ours so our government can act quickly to improve our economy.

The short term economic boost from the web is not coming from Web 3.0. Web must go beyond social networking craze. Consider Lifeline Network over social networking platform. Let’s consider putting Government APIs allowing developers to build more useful utilities and tools, little by little, giving chances for web to save lives and assist the aging population in their retirement years in difficult times. Consider policies that assist young adults and startup founders to start business and create jobs. Help us to accelerate web advancement by getting our words out to business leaders.

Help us to save the web. May we keep the dreams living in America.

Bess
SVWB Founder

THE POWER OF ONE DREAM
IF ONE DREAM CAN CHANGE
A ROOM
THEN IT CAN CHANGE
A COMMUNITY
IF IT CAN CHANGE A COMMUNITY
THEN IT CAN CHANGE
A BROWSER
IF IT CAN CHANGE A BROWSER
THEN IT CAN CHANGE
A WEB STANDARD
IF IT CAN CHANGE A WEB STANDARD
THEN IT CAN SAVE
THE WORLD

Note: This part is written the night before Presidential Election.

“Save The Web Save The World”
拯救網頁保存世界

We are happy to announce the next Lunch 2.0 to take place on Nov 14, 12pm-3pm at the Tudou office. This time we will have special guests joining us from the www.china20.asia tour. Many thanks to our host Tudou for providing the space & catering!!

Program:

1. Introduction to Tudou
2. Quick intro on the Chinese Internet market by Web2Asia
3. 5 Chinese start-ups get 5min each to pitch their ventures to the crowd followed by 5min Q&A
4. Open discussion

Please note that seats are limited (Tudous office has become very crowded recently) and we only have 15 more invitations to give away. If you want to join as an attendee please RSVP to Calvin at chen@qifang.cn

If you cant make it to the Lunch 2.0 there is another public event with the www.china20.asia tour on Nov 13, 9pm at M1NT Club (RSVP here: http://shanghai20.eventbrite.com). A similar event will be held in Beijing on Nov 10 and you can RSVP here http://beijing20.eventbrite.com

Additionally we are still looking for 2 more companies to present. Priority will be on local startups with focus on the Chinese market. Please send your material to Calvin at chen@qifang.cn if you want to apply. Presentation can be done in Chinese - we will have an interpreter available.

See you there!

BTW: This is our Shanghai Lunch 2.0 Facebookgroup - join us to stay up to date on future events http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13224258265

Think tech support is bad everywhere? Think again. FixYa is an online community that would help you solve the most difficult breakdown of your gadgets, Satisfaction Guaranteed. Check them out at www.fixya.com. The company will also be hosting their first Lunch 2.0 and we want to welcome them to the phenomenon! Come join us and Fixya!

From fixing cars, to cameras, to iPhones, FixYa’s community of 9M techies, tinkerers and hobbyists are powering a global DIY/repair revolution…and we’re growing at a rate of 10% per month.On Nov 21, meet our talented team, pitch your skills to our hiring managers and finally, FIX YA self a plate.
SAVE THE DATE - Fri. Nov. 21. 2008, from noon-2pm

WHERE – FIXYA [http://fixya.com]
107 South B Street, Suite 220, San Mateo, Calif.
[Half a block from the San Mateo Caltrain station next to Main Street parking garage]

RSVP: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1317609/?ps=7

Reclaim | Refurbish | Repair
FIXYA

I am not the “cheer leader”. I am not “special”. Yet, I think like a superhero dreaming of saving the web, saving the world. Of course I am still a geek like Chunk.

Our discussion event is on the darkest Halloween week ever in history. I checked my favorite FengShui Master Manual. It stated that the most critical period is from Oct 8, 2008 to Nov 7, 2008. Stay calm. Just wait until we pass this darkest period.

Another geek hero, Michael Carter is our last addition to our discussion panel. Michael left Kaazing recently so he focused his energy in W3C HTML5 specifications. He is sad about HTML5.

Michael Carter as the WebSocket leader, with his dangerous styled rock band hair, carries similar charm like the Rails Creator, David Heinemeier Hansson. He wowed the roomful audience with his brilliant presentation when I first invited him to speak at our 1st iPhone Startup Camp. Michael is also a world renowned rollerblade free styler and speed demon.

Another surprise came. Our panlist Dion Almaer is leaving Google to devote himself to the Browser maker Mozilla. Our fever on browser is starting to rub off on our panelist. Dion is accomplished classic and jazz pianist.

At our last historic discussion “Browser Wars: Episode II – Attack of the DOMs”, I selected the theme song “We’re All In This Together”, from the movie “High School Musicals”. Majority of the attending geeks couldn’t get the meaning of the song lyrics because the song is way too young for their ages.

This time I am going with the song “4 Minutes” by Madonna as our theme song, replacing “4 Minutes” with “HTML4”. Question is how we can save the web with existing HTML4. If our Wall Street and bank system are broken like this credit crisis, our government work with the world leaders to improve the market system immediately. Our web is heading to a dead space where everything is a hack. W3C is still sitting on the same agenda 2022 for HTML5 specification. It is absolutely unacceptable. Not acceptable for the fact that the innovation is depending very much on the web.

This is the song I hope W3C will listen and act on it. Give us better tools to innovate in Silicon Valley. Save the web save the world.

“Time is waiting
We only got HTML 4 to save the world
No hesitating
We only got HTML 4, HTML 4
…
(Tick tock tick tock tick tock)
Yeah, uh huh
(Tick tock tick tock tick tock)
I only got HTML 4
To save the world”

“Save The Web Save The World”
拯救網頁保存世界

Bess
SVWB Founder

10/29/2008 Wed 6:30-10:00pm
The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML5, the Comet, and the WebSocket
Location: Google, Mountain View Campus
Address: Tunis Tech Talk Building 43, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
Registration URL: http://webstandard.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

Note: Google will be providing dinner and drink for the evening. Please register in advance to save your seat. Arrive early before 6:30pm for check-in, networking and book autograph. We’ll be giving out close to thousand dollar worth of latest developer books, thank to sponsors O’Reilly, Apress, Manning and Pragmatic. Halloween costume is allowed. Prizes will be giving out to best dressed geeks based on the movie “Matrix”.

Discussion
Moderator & Presenter:
Kevin Nilson, Principal Software Architect at E*Trade Financial
Speakers:
Alex Rusell, President of the Dojo Foundation & Project Lead for The Dojo Toolkit
Dion Almaer, Open Web Advocate at Google and co-founder of Ajaxian.com and “Audible Ajax” podcast.
Michael Carter
Founder at Orbited Project & Official Contributor for W3C HTML5
John Fallows, CTO and co-founder at Kaazing
Ted Goddard,Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and ICEfaces.org

Agenda
6:30 - 7:00 Networking
7:00 - 7:15 Introduce Comet, Introduce Panel Topic, Introduce Panel
Members (Kevin Nilson)
7:15 - 8:15 Panel Discussion (Full Panel)
8:15 - 8:30 Q/A (Full Panel, moderated by Kevin Nilson)
8:30 - 8:45 Break / Network / Signage / Raffle
8:45 - 9:30 Technical Comet Presentation: Overview of Polling, Long Polling, and Streaming, followed by Details Bayuex using Cometd (Kevin Nilson)

Hackathon 4 Kids
Register: http://hackathon4kids.eventbrite.com
Admission: FREE
Participating Kids: FREE geek toy (Until supplies last)

Speakers:
Doug Ricket, Map Engineer from Google
Marzia Niccolai, App Engine Engineer from Google

Date: 11/9/08 Sun
Time: 1:15pm-4:15pm
Location: Foothill College Campus
Address: 12345 El Monte Road Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Parking: Parking Lot 5
Website: http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com
Toy Giveaways: Sponsored by Rockyou

“I am not the cheerleader” in Hero. I am not “special”. But, I do think the web can save the world.

“Save The Web Save The World”

I am just a “geek” like Chuck. I like to spill out beans on technology that I am passionate about especially with free lunch offers. I find the NBC production crews do follow me here. Lately I receive email requests from advertisers who express interests to advertise on my blog posts here. Those highly paid SEM hackers are spamming my posts with casino and insurance links. The music industry insiders think I am a celebrity from the geek world, not because I am related to Britney Spears.

Like the cheerleader in Hero, I have been hiding out to avoid brutal attacks online. Thanks to Tim O’Reilly and Robert Scoble to step out to support the minority gender group. I feel a little bit safer to start a blog. I am letting the kitty out of the bag. I am officially releasing our official blog here. This is where we will gather the world experts, rock-star developers and smart geeks to explain and discuss very cutting edge and cool information, that is beyond our monthly meetings.

Stock market sank when I announced our “Browser Wars Episode II: Attack of the DOM”. Stock market sank when Google announced the release of browser Google Chrome. It is the lack of confidence that is eroding our American Dreams. Our next special meeting is on a very dark Halloween week, Oct 29 Wed. My plan is not to give chances for the traders to short our stock market.

Our Halloween special event “The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML5, the Comet, and the WebSocket” is not directly related to browsers. Our event theme title is based on my favorite novels, The Chronicles of Narnia, where time travel is possible and the good fight against the evil.

Comet, nicknamed “Reverse Ajax”, allow low-latency (less delay). Ajax Push, Full Duplex Ajax, and Streaming Ajax are the design patterns for Comet. WebSocket standard (TCP/IP Connection) is part of the HTML 5 that is going to be ready to implement for browsers while the entire HTML 5 release is in 2022.

WebSocket standard is designed to increase the efficiency of networking for browser applications and to remove the limitations of the HTTP request-response communication model. Use it wisely to replace Ajax-based infrastructure will lower your scalability cost significantly. Too much Ajax can be expensive on bandwidth cost.

While our government officials are busy fixing Wall Street, we will be planning our discussion on the existing and next Web Standard. Can our next Web Standard get more support from AJAX library and platforms? Can our next Web Standard scheduled to be implemented by Browsers? Can the ECMA Technical Committee put aside the voices and sing in harmony on the next JavaScript standard? Can W3C hurry up in drafting standard?

While the social security, banking, real estate, and financial markets are in serious troubles with no easy quick fixes, web has the best chance to change the world.

“Save The Web Save The World”
拯救網頁保存世界

Bess
SVWB Founder

10/29/2008 Wed 6:300-10:00pm
The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML5, the Comet, and the WebSocket
Moderator & Presenter:
Kevin Nilson, Principal Software Architect at E*Trade Financial
Speakers:
Alex Rusell,President of the Dojo Foundation & Project Lead for The Dojo Toolkit
Dion Almaer, Open Web Advocate at Google and co-founder of Ajaxian.com and “Audible Ajax” podcast.
John Fallows, CTO and co-founder at Kaazing
Ted Goddard, Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and ICEfaces.org
Registration URL: http://webstandard.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

Note: Received 150 registrations. We are planning to receive 200-300 attendees. For those who are traveling to US to attend please register immediately.

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I’m Andrew Warner, I want to start Lunch 2.0 in OC, but I don’t live there. I have a location and a date (Friday, Oct 24) for the first event, but I need some local support to get this of the ground.

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Email me: mail-at-awarner.com

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