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Conference for Brainy Pervs

Saturday, October 2, 2010 – 12:00 noon
Arse Elektronika is the ever-more-popular Monochrom conference that explores the intersection of sex and technology, and this year’s looks like the most intriguing and engaging yet.

Arse Elektronika features lectures, workshops, machines, performances and films. Registration will be taken at the door.

12:00 noon – Designing Spaces for Sex: Expanding the Intimate Possibilities of the Built Environment
Ella Saitta

1 PM - Sex, Spaces, Feminism
Ben Dagan

2 PM – Blowing Your Load: The Office Shooting Spree as Sexual Metaphor
Philip Freeman

3 PM – “Don’t Ingest”: Interspecies Romance in the Mass Effect Series
Adam Flynn

(Break)

4:30 PM – The Interlinking Structure of Porn Sites – How Dreams, Desires and Dongs interconnect on the World Wide Web
Svenja Schroeder

5:30 PM – Casino, Automobile, Public Square: The Problems of Virtual Space
Mae Saslaw

6:30 PM – People’s Pornography: Sex and Synchronization on the Chinese Internet
Katrien Jacobs

7:30 PM – On The Importance Of Having Sex With Monsters
Annalee Newitz

8:30 PM – Making Spaces for Sex: From Rituals to Parties to Playa
Hosted by Carol Queen

Monday, September 27, 6:00pm
In the first in our series of French classes at pariSoma, Nicolas Mainguy will take you through the song Hexagone by Mainguy. Learn more about the course at the Facebook page.

Contact us to reserve your spot for tonight’s lesson!

pariSoma is excited to announce weekly lessons for those of you wanting to learn or polish up your French language skills!

Taught by Nicolas Mainguy, a recent transplant from France, the classes will focus on how to “Make your French Sing” by teaching through popular songs. Not only will you learn the language, but you’ll also get a full-circle view of the history and biography behind these classic songs.

Learn more at the facebook page!

October 25th, 9am – 6pm
Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco
It is inevitable that any small business or startup will encounter failures: in idea development, in teamwork, in hiring, in design, in scaling, in countless unpredictable ways. Yet conference after conference features speakers only telling you what they did right – something that can be near-impossible to emulate. At FailCon, join over 400 founders, investors, executives, developers, service provides, and press as we share tips and tools to avoid, prepare for, and recover from the most common startup mistakes. The pariSoma community can claim 10% off at http://failcon2010.eventbrite.com with the code “10parisoma”.

FailCon continues to attract some of the top names in the industry, who come to share stories of failure, what they learned, and how they recovered. Some of our 2010 speakers include:

A complete list of speakers and topics can be found at http://failcon2010.com. We truly hope you can join us for this incredible event.

Meet the newest addition to the pariSoma team, Stephanie! Stephanie recently graduated from UCSB where she studied Business Economics and French. During her four years at UCSB Stephanie studied abroad in Paris and fell in love with the country! Previously, she has worked in PR and Marketing and will continue to do so as an intern here at pariSoma. She is excited to learn more about coworking and hopes to help build the bridge between Paris and San Francisco. When she is not blogging, facebooking, twittering, and researching, Stephanie enjoys playing tennis, camping, snowboarding and especially traveling. However, you won’t be seeing much of Stephanie this next year – she’ll be living in Lille, France teaching middle school and interning remotely for pariSoma.

pariSoma is thrilled to be hosting another TEDxSoMa on September 24 – next Friday!

This event is themed “Openness & Privacy” and we’ve got some fantastic speakers lined up. Already announced are David Evan Harris, Tiffany Shlain, Jeff Hull, Feranando Mastrangelo, and Quinn Norton. We’ve also got some other great people in the wings, that we’ll be announcing as the day draws near!

Register now to make sure that you don’t miss this great event. If you can’t get a ticket (or can’t make it) then be sure to check out the livestream. More info about the livestream to come.

Meet this week’s coworker of the week, Jay!
Originally from Southern California, Jay now lives further north in the city of San Francisco. Since college he’s spent time working and traveling. Now he’s (incredibly) figured out a way to work independently, travel, while trying to figure out what he want to be when he grows up.

We don’t see a ton of Jay around because he’s travelling all the time and skilled in the fields of Shuriken, evasion, and furtiveness. He’s a tough one to pin down, though he’s made himself a regular at the pariSoma Beer Connect, sometimes coming straight from the airport to partake.

Jay’s favorite quotation comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.”

Check out our coworkers of the week to learn more about our members!

Monday, September 20, 12:00pm-5:00pm
Antone Johnson, founder of Bottom Line Law Group, will host “Ask The Startup Lawyer” office hours again at pariSoma on Monday, September 20 from 12:00 to 5:00.

A veteran business and intellectual property lawyer, Antone has served as an attorney and executive for technology and media companies at all stages of growth, from incorporation and seed funding through venture capital financing rounds, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions. As the former head of worldwide legal affairs for eHarmony, and one of the original lawyers at MySpace, he is particularly well versed in legal and business issues related to social media, Web 2.0, digital media, e-commerce, online advertising and marketing. pariSoma startups and San Francisco community members are welcome to sign up for free consultations.

This event always fills up quickly, so reserve your spot now!

As you can probably tell, pariSoma is getting involved in events that aren’t just in our space. One of those is the Startup Fair in Mountain View at Hacker Dojo. Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to register for this great event, so don’t miss it!

We’d like to invite you to Startup Fair at Hacker Dojo! It’s an event for entrepreneurs and early-stage startup companies to demo their products to angel investors and other entrepreneurs for valuable feedback, customer development, and possible investment opportunities. You must have a demo-able product by two-weeks before the event date. If you have existing users/customers, it would be a big plus. While we’d like to see all entrepreneurs, time and space are limited. So, please fill out the following simple form and we will contact you soon. Companies that plan to release a new product or announce a new release at the event will qualify for premium press coverage. Please inquire for details.

Sign up here for a chance to demo!