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WHAT: Semantic Garage is an event that lets new semantic companies show off their products.    The unifying themes are a bootstrapped philosophy, simple demoable (or locally demoable) products, and an open philosophy for your data and code.

WHO: The event will bring together people working on semantic projects with people in other spaces (media, advertising, science, etc.) to see where ideas and products can solve people’s problems.

IDEA: The idea of Semantic garage is to encourage entrepreneurs and developers to  build a network of business practices, open services (APIs) and open code to lower the barrier for planning and developing semantic companies.  It also is a network of peers who help each other plan, scale, fund, and monetize semantic start up companies.  This meetup it in the spirit of DIY attitude of the statup community.  It’s members taking on the jargon laid myth of complexity surrounding the semantic web and break it open for all to benefit.

The first Semantic Garage Meetup will have three demos, plenty of conversation, and diverse crowd.

The presenting companies are:

RadarMail is the result of a $40M DARPA investment in R&D for email productivity.  It connects email to other software by pushing task-relevant information found in text into productivity tools such as spreadhseets, todo lists and CRM systems.  Variations of the basic product target particular work roles, providing a user experienced designed for a person’s particular tasks, tools and data.  Here, we demonstrate RMcore, the role-neutral version of the product.

Michael Freed – Founder

Factual is an energetic team of folks from Google, Yahoo, Idealab, LinkedIn and various other places that are focused on providing open access to structured data.  We’ve built a platform that empowers the world to share and collaborate on open data, as well as develop applications that leverage it.  We believe there is potential for a wave of innovation as developers are freed from having to concentrate on data collection and maintenance, and publishers have access to accountable, high-quality data.

Bill Michels – VP Developer Platform

MyBantu is a Smart Personal Manager, and a new way of getting your needs done ! and its Free to the consumer !

MyBantu helps you to just Get Done with your Needs like a real person. Interacting with myBantu is really effortless. State your need – it could be, a good Lunch place nearby, book movie tickets, connect with a friend, a reminder to do a grocery etc.,  – myBantu works like a real person, gets you the relevant recommendations from web and your friends and not only that – finally gets it done once you make a decision.

Bharath Yadla – Product Marketing & Strategy

SFDUG is hosted by John Faber monthly as a way to discuss Drupal and Drupal technology with other people who use Drupal.  Monthly, we showcase sites which are using Drupal to help us all see real world applications of Drupal.  Our Tech Sessions cover all areas of Drupal technology and are very informative.

Come on down and join our vibrant community of Drupal enthusiasts!

February brings us another set of cutting edge Drupal presentations brought to to us by three local Drupal community members, Kieran Lal, Esten Sesto, and Peter Harrington. We are really lucky to have a bunch of great Drupal talent in our area. This month I am adding another showcase site to the roster, because its so cool we have to check it out. So two cool Drupal case studies to start with.

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

Because we love new Web apps and because we enjoy discovering new wines, it seemed natural to mix it all into one event.

Brought to you by the San Francisco French-American Chamber of Commerce, come and discover two Web presentations of the following startups:

- BRANDFOLIUM - BrandFolium is a company established in 2008 focused on online Social Media solutions to build relevant and engaged marketing relationships between users and brands/advertisers/publishers.

- FOOTBALISTIC - Footbalistic is the first football (soccer in the US) website of its kind to deliver professional-quality statistics and analytics of the beautiful game.

The site has been introduced in November 2009 with coverage of the following leagues: English Premier League, French Ligue 1, Italian Serie A, German Bundesliga 1, and Spanish Primera Division.

With more than 25,000 pages today, the Footbalistic database is being updated constantly, and coverage of additional leagues and competitions is in the works. Our objective is to deliver complete worldwide coverage and we won’t stop until we get there.

The team behind Footbalistic is comprised of football enthusiasts with a true passion and understanding of the game. In other words, Footbalistic is built by fans for fans. If you’re reading this page, it means that Team Footbalistic is working countless hours for you.

Footbalistic strives to become the number one resource for football fans and professionals around the world.

Wine tastings will be orchestrated by professional experts. Buy tickets here.

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TEDxSoMa coming to pariSoma and the world, LIVE on January 22nd!

Tomorrow afternoon, the inaugural TEDxSoMa event will be held at the offices of pariSoma in San Francisco and virtually around the world.

The event, called “Interactivity in Different Realms”, will feature an incredible variety of speakers, including Heather Fleming, the CEO of Catapult Design, Kevin Danaher from Global Exchange, Phil Libin from Evernote, and Howard Roffman from Lucas Licensing.

TEDxSoMa carries on in the tradition of TED and independently run TED events with the aim of fostering education innovation and exploration, creating an interactive experience, and inspiring collaboration and community.

Those who are unable to be there in person can participate virtually, by following it on Twitter @TEDxSoMa, watching it on http://www.justin.tv, listening on Stitcher Radio, and monitoring the live blog. Following the event, videos will be made available through the TEDx YouTube channel.

We also invite you all to sign up for AgoRoom and watch video, Tweet, update Facebook, and have private chats with other viewers. Viewers in the audience will be watching the interactivity on AgoRoom as well!

To learn more about TED, please visit http://www.ted.com.

Join us for a panel discussion about CC from an international perspective, featuring CC staffers CEO Joichi Ito, Arab World Media & Development Manager Donatella della Ratta, and International Project Manager Michelle Thorne, who will be joined by David Sasaki, Outreach Director for Global Voices. This will be a great chance to learn about the scope of CC and its importance to regions and people across the globe. It’s also a great opportunity to meet CC staff and other free culture friends and enthusiasts from the Bay Area in an informal setting.

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We will have iPhone App developers who have successfully received funding come and discuss the do’s and don’ts of how to find a VC or angel invest in your app.  Hear from the creators of Cabulous, Fluther, Tapulous, and Smule talk about what helped them get funded and grow.

The meeting will be chaired by iPhone Boot Camp trainers Eddie Marks and James Anthony, co-founders of Inedible Software – Inedible Software has produced some of the most popular apps in the app store, including Air Guitar, Shotgun Free, Shotgun Pro, POW and Song Sift. Shotgun Free was the #2 free app for over two weeks and has been on the Top 100 free list for over 6 of the last 9 months. They have also create a number of apps on contract, including an app to promote the Magnolia Pictures’s movie Mutant Chronicles and an app for the indoor mapping company Micello.

Developers and the hosts will also be discussing what we hope to be some very exciting Apple announcement on the 27th: the iTablet and the new SDK 4.0.

RSVP here.

Jena Semantic Web Programming with Taylor Cowan, Sanjiva Nath & Jeremy Carroll

In this Semantic Web Programming session we have a good mix of hands-on coding and a selection of programming related presentations.

Agenda:

12.00pm kick-off, introduction
12.30pm presentations
3.30pm Lunch break
4.00pm Coding projects discussions
4.30pm Coding
6.00pm Round up -project presentations
7.00pm closing
8.00pm dinner off-site

Introduction to Jena – Jeremy Carroll TopQuadrant
- Jena and Semantic Web Standards
- The Model API
- Overview of the Graph API + Inference

Java Application Development – Taylor Cowan
- JenaBean
- JenaBean fluent interface pattern
- jpa4jena and annotated SPARQL named queries

GeoSparql and Geospatial Relationship Processing – Marco Neumann
- Standards
- Geospatial Relationship Types RCC8
- spatial indexing and access methods

Architecture review for integrated product development with Jena – Sanjiva Nath
- Integration as a Web service
- UI

Graph SPI, and why you might want to implement your own graphs – Jeremy Carroll TopQuadrant
- The Graph SPI is useful for advanced application developers, who can add additional middleware type function

“For me, every now and again, during those critical first few moments when an artist takes the stage to ply his trade and bare his soul, the lighting is perfect, the angles align and the essence is captured. This has been my consuming passion and greatest reward since I began my career as a photojournalist.”

- Jérôme Brunet

Back in Black is a collection of photographs spanning the last ten years of music photography by award winning photographer Jérôme Brunet, featuring musical luminaries such as B.B. King, James Brown, Eric Clapton, Santana, Tom Waits and U2, as well as contemporary stars like Ben Harper and John Mayer. The exhibition will also include photographs from the 2009 S.F. Outside Lands Music & Arts festival.

About Jérôme:

A freelance photojournalist Jérôme Brunet was born in southern France and raised in Ontario, Canada. After obtaining his O.S.S.D. majoring in visual arts, he started his post secondary education in Paris, France, at the E.F.E.T. School of Photography, graduating in 1997. Jérôme Brunet’s award winning photography has been published internationally through such diverse publications as Rolling Stone, Billboard, American Photo, Guitar Player, Financial Times, Forbes and The New York Times. His client list includes Fender Musical Instruments, Gibson Guitars, The Discovery Channel, Nikon Imaging and is currently featured on the official websites of musicians Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana and James Brown. Jérôme Brunet passion for music started at the age of four, studying classical music as a cellists for eight years before moving on to the guitar which he continues to this day. Jérôme Brunet is currently working and residing in the Bay Area of San Francisco and is represented internationally by the Zuma Press photo agency.

You can find out more about Jérôme and his photography here.

Happy New Year!!

2010 is going to be great year for the San Francisco Drupal Users Group!!

First of all there has been a major upgrade to the Parisoma facility. We have reconfigured the space, painted and best of all we have gotten a professional AV system with killer projector, very large screen sound system, and more so be sure to come on down and check it out.

Drupalcon is coming to San Francisco April 19th to 21st we will go over what we are looking for and how you can help make this the best Drupalcon to date.

We have two great presentations to start the year off right.

For our Case Study af83, inc. will show a site http://www.coldcases…. we built at the end of last year which really harnesses the power of Drupal and Drupal publishing. We will look at how we used panels, views and arguments to create a dynamic editorial site.

The tech session this month will be presented by Mike McCaffery from Architecture for Humanity who will be talking about the Features module and how its used to increase your development productivity and reduce redundancy.

So, updated space, better AV, cold beer, and two great presentations what could be better?

Come on down and join us!

PS: if you have friends who you think would be interested in Drupal please forward this meetup to them so they can attend.