Parisoma Innovation Loft

PariSoMa will be hosting this meetup on May 21, at 6:30.

RSVP here

Now that gas is lower than $4/gallon again, does that mean that we’ve avoided peak oil? Does peak oil mean we don’t have to worry about climate change? Are people who get ready for peak oil crazy — or do they know something that you don’t?

In this first Post Peak Living Meetup, André will present “Peak Oil or Climate Change: Which Should You Prepare for First?” He will answer the questions above and much more. It is an in-depth version of the presentation he gives businesses and will be followed by a full hour of Q&A. Bring your questions about what we face and get them answered.

You should attend if:

* you don’t know about or are unsure of what peak oil is
* you know what peak oil is but really want to get into the details and impact
* you don’t know how peak oil will affect climate change
* you don’t know how to prepare

You should not attend if:
* you are positive that current oil production is going to remain high, or
* at least high enough until we have a breakthrough in

About the Presenter
André Angelantoni is the co-founder and President of PostPeakLiving.com. He is also the primary curriculum designer for The UnCrash Course, a comprehensive, six-week online course that prepares people for the impact of peak oil, the financial crisis and climate change. He has spoken on the topic of peak oil and preparing for it to over a thousand people in businesses (Sun, eBay, venture capital companies), environmental groups, citizen groups and local government.

He also is the creator of the Preparing for a Post Peak Life video and is the primary author of The Guide to Post Peak Living.

For more (and to view the video and read the Guide), see:
http://www.PostPeakLiving.com

Space is limited; to ensure a spot, please pay for your ticket in advance.

Ticket Info: $5

PariSoMa coworker Ellen Oh of Kearney Street Workshop is putting together this exhibition, and it looks great!

Present Tense Biennial: Chinese Character
May 1 – August 23, 2009

Thirty-one contemporary artists from the Bay Area and beyond interrogate the phenomenon that is modern Chinese culture in the Chinese Culture Center’s (CCC) Present Tense Biennial: Chinese Character exhibition. Presented in collaboration with Kearny Street Workshop (KSW) and guest curated by Kevin B. Chen, program director for Intersection for the Arts, the exhibition features a wide array of media including photography, video, painting, animation, sculpture and installation art displayed at both the Center’s downtown San Francisco gallery and in a number of satellite storefront windows throughout Chinatown. The exhibition, which is free to the public, is on view May 2 – August 23, 2009 and opens with a free public reception on Saturday May 2, 2009 at 1 pm.

Gallery Hours: Tuesdays – Saturdays 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Sundays 12 – 4 p.m.
Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny St., 3rd Floor (inside the Hilton Hotel).

Admission to the gallery is free and maps to storefront installation locations are available at the gallery and online.
For more information visit presenttense.us or call 415-986-1822.

Join us for the very first MultiTouch Party this friday between 6 and 11 pm @Parisoma

This will be a great way to connect with the Interactive Displays attendees.

Upcoming link

A demo of this amazing Water Screen will be performed :

Multitouch Sketches from jimi hertz on Vimeo.

The local SF Drupal community is really coming together nicely.  We had 57 local Drupal user come together, which is awesome.   Its really about the community and when we get big groups we know the community is strong .

Our Topics this month were:

1.  Ubercart and how Row Eleven Wines implemented their solution – Omar and Alex from ISL presented.
2. FaceBook and how to use the face book modules – this was given by dave cohen the author of the Facebook Modules set.

You can always keep up on the latest Drupal user group at:

http://groups.drupal.org/bay-area

http://www.meetup.com/SFDUG-San-Francisco-Drupal-Users-group

Upcoming Link

PariSoMa is excited to host Rusty Hodge, the founder, General Manager and Program Director of SomaFM at our next Musi2k on April 23 from 6-8. Rusty is also the music director for Groove Salad, Secret Agent, Drone Zone, Space Station Soma, Illinois Street Lounge and contributes to Cliqhop.

He got started in radio during high school by operating a neighborhood micropower station, and later started producing daily programs and making them accessible over a telephone hotline. Rusty got involved with computers when, while managing his college radio station in the early ’80s, he developed software on an Apple II for handling station playlists. His professional experience includes work at radio stations in the Los Angeles area (KWOW and KWIZ), developing software for broadcasters, multimedia, and founding Hodge Interactive to put radio and TV stations on the web. It was only natural that eventually he would start his own internet radio station.

Rusty has been collecting records since the mid ’70s, bought his first ambient record in the ’80s, and latched onto electronic ambient music right away when it started first appearing in the early ’90s. Many of the records in his collection are now out of print and extremely hard to find. With the launch of SomaFM in 2000, Rusty’s dream of his own station became a reality.