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Node Summit 2012 - San Francisco - January 24th and 25th www.NodeSummit.com - Node Summit is a two-day conference at the Mission Bay Conference center in San Francisco - January 24-25, 2012. Node Summit will bring together business leaders and technology experts to discuss Node.js’ transformative role in the future of computing. The event will...

Lotusphere 2012 is the premier event for the enterprise collaboration community, it's all about helping you achieve better business results through collaborative software and solutions. Save the date for the premier event for the Lotus community worldwide - developers, administrators , IT and business professionals looking for collaborative...

Hey San Francisco! gdgt live is returning home. Join us at 7pm on Thursday, December 1st at The Metreon for the gdgt live party and meetup! This is event is free and open to the public. You don't want to miss this, especially since we'll have free gdgt t-shirts and cellphone cases for the first few hundred people who show up, plus a bunch...

Live Special Edition of CloudU - Small Teams, Big Impact: Powering Revolutionary Ideas on the Cloud Hosted by Robert Scoble, Featuring Eric Ries

Celebrating small teams who are having a huge impact on the world, we're having a series of events all day long (the real fun starts at 4 p.m. with a kickoff of our San Francisco speaker series).

Invite needed, but we'll try to accomodate anyone who clicks that they are attending here.

CloudBeat 2011 will be different than existing cloud conferences. Using a customer-centric approach (rather than vendor-centric), the event will hone in on 12 case studies, where we’ll dissect the most disruptive examples across all layers of the cloud.

These customer case studies will highlight the core components of the cloud revolution:
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Informal meeting targeted at newcomers to Ruby. Bring questions. Answer questions. Hack.

We'll try a different format this time: as you arrive, you can write a topic of interest on the whiteboard. We'll talk a little bit about what the topics are, then split up into small groups to take advantage of the way our office space is laid...

Registration is now open! The third annual Hadoop World will bring together the largest gathering of Hadoop practitioners, developers, business executives, industry luminaries and innovative companies in the Hadoop ecosystem. Hadoop World is the place to get the most comprehensive education, knowledge sharing, training and networking with experts...

The Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit is scheduled for Oct 14-16 2011. The PNWDS is a Drupal training conference extending to northern California, Oregon, Washington and BC. Last year the conference was hosted in Vancouver BC and this year it's in Portland. If you're interested in attending, please follow the conference updates that'll...

WhereCampPDX is an annual unconference for anyone interested in geography and technology.   Schedule: Friday 10/7 - Opening Party Saturday 10/8 - Unconference Sessions and evening hackathon Sunday 10/9 - Games and excursions

Are you achieving maximum value out of salesforce.com? The Cloud has not only changed the business model and implementation cycle for projects, it has changed the approach companies need to manage these applications post go-live. Yet 80% of customers do not have an effective strategy to manage change and innovate ongoing. See how leading companies...

When VMworld, now in its eight year, hits town, what happens in Vegas won't stay in Vegas-it will help transform IT organizations across the country and around the world. More than 300 in-depth sessions and labs, a packed agenda of meetings and special events, and hundreds of exhibits will showcase the latest advances in virtualization and...

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’re going to find out when we conduct our second Ignite event at OSCON.

A participant-driven event where attendees discuss, debate and explore topics near & dear to the hearts of community leaders (hashtag: #cls11)

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Rather than posting content on many third-party silos of data, we should all begin owning our own data that we're creating when we create it. Publish short status updates first on your own domain, and then syndicate to Twitter. Publish photos on your own domain, then syndicate...

  Open Source Bridge is a conference for developers working with open source technologies and for people interested in learning the open source way. Open Source Bridge is not a typical technical conference It’s entirely volunteer-run, by developers, for developers. Session tracks are technology agnostic; the conference content is based...

WebVisions is a nationally recognized conference that explores the future of Web design, technology, user experience and business strategy from May 25 - 27, 2011 at the Oregon Convention Center.

Attend workshops with the experts, chill out in the WebVisions lounge, and network, share ideas and be inspired by an all-star lineup of speakers.

Glue is the only conference devoted solely to solving the web application integration problem-set. People that should attend Glue include the architects, developers, administrators and integrators that have moved past the initial step of seeing the web as a platform, and are facing the real-world challenges of what "stove-piped" web...