Parisoma Innovation Loft

Funders Network on Trade and Globalization (FNTG) will present its brand new online application to visualize the ecosystem around issue areas (water, environment, trade, etc.).

Mark Randazzo, FNTG Coordinator, will give a little talk about the upcoming challenges on global issues, policies and social movements.

Fresh refreshment will be served, free event.

About FNTG:

FNTG acts as an open space for funders who regardless of their specific areas of grantmaking seek to understand how global issues, policies and organizing impact efforts to achieve long-term social change. Over the years FNTG has networked extensively within the funder community and among NGOs, social movements and other civil society actors across a wide array of issues, at local, national and international levels.

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Sneak into the 3rd session of our local French expert’s wine course. Let Raphael take you through various famed wine regions, while you pick up tips on tasting, production, cultural significance, vocabulary and more. The course includes a tasting of 3 to 4 wines.

Tonight’s region: wines from Burgundy (France)

The most famous wines produced in Burgundy are red wines made from Pinot Noir grapes or white wines made from Chardonnay grapes. More importantly, Burgundy is the most terroir-oriented region in France; immense attention is paid to the area of origin, and in which of the region’s 400 types of soil a wine’s grapes are grown. This focus is reflected on the wine’s labels where appellations are most prominent and producer’s names often appear at the bottom in much smaller text. Come and join us to learn even more and taste some great examples from the region.

When? Thursday, November 12th from 6.30 to 7.30pm
Where? PariSoMa, 1436 Howard (&10th) San Francisco
How much? $30 ($35 at the door) Buy tickets here.
How many? 15 people maximum

PariSoma and the French-American Chamber of Commerce of SF invites you to Web, Wine, and Wisdom @PariSoma.  Enjoy a variety of tasty French Wines while getting the latest updates and news from two sought after start-ups from the Silicon Valley Twillio and Digitrad.

November 10th 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Sip on two delicious wines from the western coast of France and try some french artisan cheeses as well! Featured wines of the night are:

• Chateau La Mouliniere, Bordeaux Rose 2008

• Chateau Le Barrail 2004

Telecommunication innovator Jeff Lawson, CEO & Founder of Twillio, paired with VP of communications Vincent Largilliere at Digitrad will make for an exciting evening.  Join us for a good wine and even better wisdom.

WWW is a networking event made for tech lovers, entrepreneurs, developers, inventors and and anyone who is curious about new tech applications and who loves wine.

$20 advance $25 door

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October 29, 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. On that day, a small unknown laboratory at UCLA unleashed a force that has since spread to every corner of the globe, revolutionizing communications forever. Just two days before the actual anniversary, we will be looking back at the early days of the ARPANET and will explore what its future holds over the next 40 years.

For this first edition October 27 at 7:00 pm, we have the privilege of featuring Katie Hafner and Brewster Kahle and the show will be broadcast live on SF APPEAL.

“Tech Atlas SF” is a monthly LIVE WEB TV SHOW of 1hour. Passionate people come and debate around how the World Wide Web is changing our lives.

The show is organized by Cyrus Farivar & Danny O’Brien and is hosted by PariSoMa Coworking Space.

RSVP by email ONLY at office@parisoma.com (15 seats only) with your name and activity.

We’re also looking for sponsors.  Emails us at office@parisoma.com to find out more.

More about the panelists:

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We talked about it last time we met, we’re doing it this time: a hack-a-thon XMPP meetup.

Not much to say, besides the fact that this meetup will mainly be dedicated to hacking with XMPP: installing servers, building bots, playing with XMPP APIs…anything XMPP!

Please submit your ideas if you’d like people to help you :)

RSVP here.

Find out more about the San Francisco/Bay Area Drupal User Group.

Creative Commons (CC), KALW, and Chicago Public Radio’s Sound Opinions are pleased to present Chicago Tribune music critic and author Greg Kot in conversation with music journalist David Downs. Kot’s new book, Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music, explores the changing face of the music industry. Downs and Kot will discuss the book, as well as how digital sharing and participatory culture are shaping how music is created and consumed. Audience questions and discussion will follow the conversation.

Light refreshments will be provided, and since we rely on the generosity of our community to keep us afloat, we’ll be accepting donations for CC at the door.

CC Salons are informal events focused on building a community of artists, developers, and creators of all kinds around Creative Commons licenses, standards, and technology. Whether you’re familiar with Creative Commons or are brand new to the concepts behind it, we hope you can join us at the salon!

RSVP here.

Check out the program of the speakers here : http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/schedule.html

Check the videos here: http://www.parisoma.com/2009/10/video-podcast-of-arse-elektronika-2009 (more…)

Blogging 101 With Wordpress is an intensive and interactive ‘hands-on’ workshop that will cover all aspects of blogging. You will learn how to conceive setup, customize, grow, monitor, market, and monetize your blog. At the end of the workshop, you will set up your blog with The Blog Doctor helping you. You will also have the opportunity to schedule 2 hours of 1-on-1 help from The Blog Doctor FREE (a $100 value by itself).

Who should attend?

Independant Professionals (Doctors, Lawyers, Artists, Writers, etc.), Small Business Owners (Store owners, Contractors, Tax Consultants, etc.), Students, Suburban Moms, Grandparents, and pretty much everyone else! Because now more than ever, blogs are radically changing the way we find jobs, get new business, share our opinion or simply recieve advice and help from the biggest community in the world, the internet.

About The Blog Doctor

Shiva, The Blog Doctor, has been writing computer software since he was 11 years old. He has been closely following the blogging phenomena since the early days of the year 2000 and has a deep understanding of the many aspects of blogging. Shiva offers affordable blog help at http://theblogdoctor.org. He also writes at “Daily Rounds“, a blog dedicated to helping bloggers succeed.

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As the countercultural Burning Man event enters its third decade, author Katherine K. Chen joins us to share lessons in her book learned from the organization behind Burning Man’s transformation from a small beach bonfire with 20 friends and family into a week-long city of almost 50,000 “Burners” in the Nevada Black Rock Desert. Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization Behind the Burning Man Event examines how a small group transformed themselves into an unconventional corporation with a ten-million-dollar budget and two thousand volunteers.

Join local burners and those in town for the weekend’s Decompression event, for a presentation about how Burning Man really works, in the words of the people doing the work, from senior staff to spontaneous volunteers. Be part of the conversation and share your experiences

Doors at 7:30, presentation at 8:15, conversation by 8:45, wrapping up around 9:30-10. Special thanks to PariSoma, for hosting and making refreshments available. A donation of $5 for PariSoMa at the door would be greatly appreciated.  Note: venue is not wheelchair accessible.

Name your own price tickets here.

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