Parisoma Innovation Loft

This will be a hands-on ontology modeling session with Dean Allemang. Dean will demonstrate the use of TopBraid Composer, an ontology editor from TopQuadrant.

Dean Allemang from TopQuadrant will give a tour of TopBraid Composer, our popular ontology engineering environment. The presentation will be focused on the Free Edition of TopBraid Composer, and its use for some common ontology engineering tasks, e.g., Reading RDFa, managing vocabularies in SKOS, querying data with SPARQL, and utilizing SPIN, a SPARQL-based inference mechanism.

Bio

Dean Allemang, Chief Scientist of TopQuadrant, has more than 15 years experience in research, deployment and development of knowledge-based systems. He is the co-author (with Jim Hendler) of “Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL”.

Schedule

• 10 am – Social hour and Installfest (part 1)
• 11 am – Presentation and Discussion
• 1 pm – Social hour and Installfest (part 2)

RSVP here.

The San Francisco Drupal community is pleased to announce that registration is now open for DrupalCon San Francisco to be held at the world famous Moscone Center on April 19th to 21st, 2010. Tickets are $195, and may increase in price. Register early to guarantee your place at the Drupal community’s premier event.

Go here to buy your tickets.

DrupalCon San Francisco will feature three full days of sessions from the best and brightest in the Drupal community and around Silicon Valley. In addition, the weekend before the conference, we will be hosting a Core Developer Summit (4/17), a Drupal Sprint and BOF Day (4/18), and professional Drupal training (4/18). The traditional Code Sprint will happen the day after the conference (4/22). More details about the conference events and logistics can be found at http://sf2010.drupal.org.

San Francisco is a world class city full of wonderful cuisine and culture. As home to Silicon Valley, it is one of the most technologically vibrant areas in the world. There are a lot of interesting things going on here and it is our pleasure to share our city with you and to invite everyone to attend DrupalCon San Francisco next April 19th to 21st, 2010.

To register for our next workshop Dec. 4-6 at the early bird rate and save $500 go to http://sanfran4.eventbrite.com/.

Satisfaction Guaranteed:

If, before the end of the first day of the course, you are not satisfied and notify the instructor you wish to withdraw, you will receive a full refund of all course fees paid. All training material must remain with the instructor at the time of withdrawal.

Read about the iPhone Boot Camp’s iPhone Mansion in San Francisco at the WWWDC in ars technica.

The Intensive 3-Day iPhone Boot Camp includes the course book with over 200 pages of slides, sample code and exercises, Workshops are limited in size and are hand-on with exercises and plenty of time for Q & A with the instructor.

These are the comments on the last San Francisco iPhone Boot Camp with Inedible Software founders Eddie Marks and James Anthony:

Gus Ayesh
“This was intense, wonderful, thought provoking and rich indeed. We covered technology, development, and marketing. The instructors are phenomenal. Thank you guys.”

Jan Rupp
“I thought that the workshop was great. I learned as much asIi expected and more. The trainers where excellent. Overall a great experience.”

The 3 day intensive 10am-6pm covers the fundamentals and advanced feature of iPhone development, enough training that you should be able to develop your own iPhone application. The workshop features hands on exercises under the supervision of the instructor and teaching assistants. Syllabus

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Tech Atlas SF TV SHOW: Open Government 2.0!

In the ever increasing open source and open platform world, open government is quickly becoming a necessity. With massive amounts of data and information available, governments need help digesting to help set policy, become sustainable, provide efficient services, build community, and more.  Tech Atlas SF is happy to bring together forward thinking minds on how best to capitalize on the principal of Open Government 2.0.

For our second edition, we have the privilege of featuring Ron Vinson, deputy director of the San Francisco Department of Telecommunications and Information Systems for the City of San Francisco, and Eric Kansa, from UC Berkeley’s Information School. The show will be broadcast live on SF APPEAL.

Tech Atlas SF is a monthly live, one-hour online TV show. Passionate people discuss how globally relevant issues on the Internet are changing our lives.

The show is moderated and organized by Cyrus Farivar and is hosted by PariSoMa Coworking Space.

RSVP as soon as possible by email at office@parisoma.com with your name.

We’re also looking for sponsors.

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One of our wonderful tenants, Superfeedr has just received seed funding!  See there blog post below:

That’s true. We’ve finalized our seed investment round. It took us a little more time than expected, but we’re very happy to join Betawork’s and Mark Cuban’s portfolios. Both of them have shown a genuine interest and vision in what appears to be the real-time web. We’re also pretty excited to announce that both Andrew Anker and David Recordon have joined our advisory board.

If you’re following, even remotely, the world of start-up or the one of basketball, you can’t ignore Mark Cuban’s name. Mark founded Broadcast.com a few years ago and sold it to Yahoo!. I am thrilled to have him on board. There aren’t many experienced entrepreneurs our there who have invested in start-ups like Mark did. He knows how to grow a business and we will learn a lot from him.

Betaworks is probably the most active investor in the real-time web. Their portfolio includes names like Twitter, Tumblr, Bit.ly, Tweetdeck, Twitterfeed as well as many others. They’ve proven quite successful at building a network of loosely joined pieces where all members interacts together. I am very excited to be on stage later today at Betaday to chat with Iain and Tony about the death of the web page.

We’re very happy and proud about this seed round, and I want to thank personally Mark, John, Andy, Tony, Andrew and David for their trust.

And now : back to work! (not that we didn’t work a lot lately :D)

Last SFDUG of the year and we have a an awesome lineup of really cool Drupal Topics.

For the Showcase site – Jon Luini from Chime Interactive is going to show off the brand new Ben Harper website, which has some really cool features, like a custom built ajax framework and great integration with Facebook using Dave Cohens Drupal / Facebook module. Dave Cohen will present with Jon to show off the integration of Facebook in a live site. Ben Harpers Facebook page has 844,432 fans. This will be a great presentation of a high end web site integrated with Facebook along with many other super cutting edge technologies.

The tech Session will focus on a topic which many of you may have faced or wondered about which is How to make Drupal talk to a Flex application. This month Somnath Banerjee from Advanced Software Systems is going to give a general overview and techniques he uses to integrate Drupal data into Flex applications. This is a hot way of using Drupal as the database for content and Flex as the graphical front end to the site.

We will also discuss San Francisco Drupalcon and how you can sponsor the event and buy tickets.

Looking forward to this event, GREAT topics to end the 2009!!

As always if you know people who are using Drupal but who have not been the San Francisco Drupal Users Group please do pass this invitation along to them.

RSVP here.

UnPresenting : Giving talks that are more fun, require less preparation and leave your audience feeling awesome.

Join web veteran, comedian and conversational ninja Heather Gold who keynotes at Google, Web 2expo for a hands-on workshop limited to 16 participants.

You’ll learn the conversational mechanics that let you create quick intimacy and avoid boredom. Go from talking AT or TO a large group of people to talking WITH them. You already know how to have a great conversation with one person. Learn to read the room and transform your presentations into conversations. Sign up now.

Who should come:

• Anyone who gives presentations or runs meetings and wants to energize and engage everyone in the room.
• Designers, UX people, toolmakers and entrepreneurs who want to learn how to create space for authentic connection between people.
• Community, social media and marketing people who start, host and continue to energize conversations.

What they say about Heather:

“brilliant” “One of our favorite comedians” – boingboing.net
“Heather’s a black belt in engaging audiences in a meaningful and authentic way.” – Jerry Michalski, advisor Co-Tweet

Also, catch Heather keynoting tomorrow, November 18, at web2.0 expo talking about How to Tummel: Conversational Mechanics at 6pm PST.

Follow her on Twitter: @heathr

Without faberNovel, PariSoMa would not be possible. Our sponsor makes this great coworking and event space possible.  We would like to provide you a little insight into who faberNovel is and what they do.  Please see this great 1-minute video that describes faberNovel in a nutshell.

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Get ready for the next SemWeb Installfest!  This month’s Installfest will be divided into two parts:

Installation and Chatter (12 Noon – 2 pm)

We’ll attempt to walk folks through the installation of assorted Semantic Web tools, including: AllegroGraph, Eclipse, Java, Jena, Joseki, Pellet, Protege 4, and Semantic MediaWiki.

If you’ve been wanting to get one or more of these tools set up on your laptop, this would be a good time and place to give it a try. Attendees are also encouraged to meet and chatter with each other.

Presentations and Discussion (2 pm – 4 pm)

Andraz Tori (Zemanta) will present Zemanta’s (text to semantic data) API and demonstrate some applications (eg, Linked Galaxy), then lead a discussion on how Zemanta’s capabilities can be used.

Mike Hinchey (Franz) will present “Using Clojure with AllegroGraph”. Attendees who have installed AllegroGraph will be able to work through the Clojure examples.

Other presentations are possible (please consider volunteering!). Any remaining time will be used in group discussions (topics TBD…).

RSVP here.

Join us for PariSoMa’s next art exhibit opening!  We are thrilled to host “Zeitgeist of Narcissism”, a one-woman show of photographs by Seema Hamid.

Seema Hamid is a German photographer known for her out-of-the-ordinary visions in edgy fashion shoots.

Born and raised in Frankfurt, Germany she studied Art & Design in California. Inspired by her father, she began shooting photos at age 12, and has recently established herself as a fashion photographer. She has produced a large body of digitally manipulated photographs that create a sophisticated interplay between beauty and eccentricity. Her work is infused with impromptu poses and explored concepts of narcissism, elegance and vogue with a psychological edge.

We will have music, sangria, and delicious oeur d’oeuvres. Don’t miss what will be an extraordinary night!

RSVP here.

Second to last San Francisco Drupal Users Group meeting for 2009 and we have two great presentations for you as well as information about the upcoming San Francisco Drupalcon and how you can get involved. Most specifically we want your company to be a sponsor of DrupalconSF, we will talk about how you can make this happen.

For our Drupal Case Study this month we are going to look at a recently completed XeroxPARC project http://www.ccnx.org. We will hear about why Drupal was used and how drupal actually made this project come together.

For the technical discussion we have Jen Lampton from Chapter Three coming by to do a presentation on the Total Control Admin Dashboard which Jen has written and contributed back to the community (http://drupal.org/project/total_control). This amazing module is a must have for anyone who manages a lot of content and wants to give their client a sane interface for doing so.

Please come down, this is going to be a great SFDUG meetup!!!

RSVP here.

faberNovel’s first iPhone App, RATP Premium, has just become the top paid app in France!!!

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If you would like to find out more about RATP Premium, please go to the Apps homepage.  It is now available on the iPhone through the iTunes App Store.

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