Shelly Roche
Founderess of Wordchuck; Ruby on Rails engineer.

Women 2.0 Startup Weekend will take place November 18 – 20, 2011 at The Hatchery in San Francisco, CA.

Both men and women are invited to get your ticket for Women 2.0 Startup Weekend now - developers and designer tickets left!

More info: http://www.women2.org/women2-startup-weekend-2011-san-francisco-announcement/

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GROW2011 is a unique 3-day conference that brings together 500 leading founders, influencers, decision-makers and investors from the Canadian business and technology community and Silicon Valley. More than ever before, companies must learn fast and stay relevant. We live in a world where a new competitor can leap-frog market leaders in a single...

Join us, the Foodspotting team, at a hometown Eat-up with The Rib Whip!

Our friends at The Rib Whip will be closing off their Ritch Street lot to dedicate this private party to all our Foodspotters and friends that evening. We'll even have a special Foodspotting discount!

Excited that we'll get to gather over delicious BBQ and beer....

You know what we say: a happy Friday is a Cereal Bar Friday!

Join us for cereal, friends and mingling to kick off your Fourth of July Weekend. We have a good selection here but bring your favourite to share.

And for those of you who aren't familiar with the format, just feel free to swing by anytime between 9am and 11am.

Hope to see you...

It's time for Cereal Bar again - where friends, family, Foodspotters come to Foodspotting HQ to mix and mingle over some delicious cereal, and a granola tasting session from San Franola Granola.

There are many things to celebrate this time around:
1) Our Co-founder and CMO Soraya Darabi is in town and it's her first Cereal Bar!
2) We...

For more information on the Startup Lessons Learned conference, please visit http://www.sllconf.com

Startup Lessons Learned 2011 is the sequel to last year's inaugural event, which brought together nearly 400 entrepreneurs and executives interested in building and supporting lean startups. The goal for this event is to give practitioners and...

Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets - primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people - to build applications and develop a...

Travelled all the way from Canada For the Where 2.0 conference? Panicking because you are going to miss the Canucks game?

Meet at the bar in the lobby of the Hyatt at 5pm and mingle with fellow Canadians.

The Data 2.0 Conference connects over 50 speakers, company and startup demos and 500+ participants around in the new data economy. From Google Fusion Tables and SimpleGeo, to Socrata and Rapleaf, Data 2.0 organizes the top data innovators.

Register here: http://data2con.com/register/
Get 25% off by registering before March 25.
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Come join us for our first Cereal Bar since we've moved into a new office! In the spirit of "Gettin Down on Friday"... come dressed as your favorite meme and get an "I *spot* Food" T-shirt! Fun to be had by all!

Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco is back for another great year of sessions, speakers, and networking opportunities.

Registration is now open! Use discount code websf11fb20 to save 20% on all conference passes or code websf11fbe for a free Expo Hall Only pass.

Can entrepreneurs turn water problems into opportunities?

Meet 10 water startups with promising energy-saving innovations. Join Imagine H2O as we celebrate the winners & finalists from our Water-Energy Nexus Prize for startups.

Imagine H2O hosts an annual business plan competition for water startups from around the world. The leading...

A night of exceptional beverages, hot jamz, and fierce competition. Together, we shall raise our pint glasses and plastic cups in revelry to celebrate a great year in web design.

This year, the BeerCamp competition will take form in a flip cup tournament.

The second annual Tech Cocktail SXSW will kick off the third annual SXSW Accelerator program and showcase 30+ early stage startups for an evening of conversation. The event is aimed at better connecting, educating and amplifying the SXSW Interactive community.

Join us for an evening of fun mingling with other technology enthusiasts, innovators,...

We're gathering Austin's best food trucks together for an afternoon of BBQ, tacos, meat pies and more.

Download Foodspotting for Secret Menu items and to participate in a photo scavenger hunt - win prizes!

Featuring the following Food Truck stars:
- Along Came a Slider
- Boomerang's Pies
- Chi'Lantro
- Clem's Hot Diggity...

The Mashable SXSWi House 2011 will break the mold of the traditional SXSWi events schedule. Working with SXSWi and our partner sponsors, we will create a two-day platform that will include private events, VIP networking hours and large open parties. From Sunday, March 13th to Monday, March 14th, Mashable will be hosting a combination of private...

Come get some poolside food and drinks (including Veev cocktails) at the Klout #Krib for SxSW. The UserVoice Challenge Cab will be shuttling as many people to the event as possible for free – AND giving out nifty prizes. If you can’t get in the challenge cab, we’ll also have a limo for additional transport.

UPDATE: We're excited to...

Let's start SXSW right with a yearly tradition - predrinks at the Driskill hotel bar.

Every year at SXSW we start off the weekend with a couple relaxing drinks in the historic Driskill hotel bar. If you've never been there's no time like the present to get in on this tradition. Stay as long as you want, there are no rules. Its just...

South by Southwest (SXSW) is a combination of film, interactive and music festivals & conferences that take place every March in Austin, Texas.

Five days of presentations, networking events, and more showcasing the best new emerging technology, digital works, video games, and innovative ideas.

SXSW Interactive badges are available starting at 11am on Thursday, March 10th. You’ll have the badge but official events don’t start until the next day so... now what?

Why not stop by for a quick beer, game, snack or just say hi at one of the many downtown tech companies from 4pm to 10pm?

You’ll be in good company, because 150...

Announcing our 3rd Data 2.0 SF Meetup at the new pariSoma startup incubator space in SF!

The March 10th meetup will include 2 speakers including the CTO of UrbanMapping John Marshall and Gigaom writer Brett Sheppard as well as 2 startup demos from PlantSense.com as well as a midVentures in-house data project.
This will be the last meetup before...

Zed Shaw will turn the tables on our usual Perl centric meetings by giving us a few lessons in learning Python the hard way. Zed is a well known software developer who is noted for developing the Ruby webserver <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongrel_(web_server)">Mongrel</a>, the successor <a...