Lunch 2.0

With everyone complaining that “all the Lunch 2.0’s nowadays are in SF,” it’s a tad ironic that we don’t have any of them posted. Until now…

Adobe is hosting us for lunch at the old Macromedia offices in downtown SF

Have you ever tried to find a computer without something Adobe installed (Flash, Reader, Photoshop, and so on)?  It’s not so easy.  Here’s your chance to get the inside look at how Adobe encourages Rich Internet Application innovation and check out some of the companies developing on the Adobe platform.  Take a look at AIR, the new way to use web technologies (Ajax/Flash/Flex) to develop desktop applications.

Location: Adobe San Francisco
Address: 601 Townsend (corner of 7th Street), San Francisco, California
Date: Friday, September 14th, 2007, 4-6PM. Yes, it’s the afternoon, but it’s a Friday! (Don’t worry there will be food.)
RSVP on Upcoming

Submit anything cool you’ve built using any part of the Adobe environment (Flash, Flex, AIR) and you may just get featured during the event.  The best Ajax application deployed on AIR wins a prize. Adobe’s not saying what it is, but it’s going to be good.  Email your submission to lunch20@adobe.com by 11:50pm on /12/2007 to be considered (email address opens 9/7/2007).

Adobe Labs (http://labs.adobe.com)
Adobe Developer Center (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/)

Other upcoming Lunch 2.0s:

• Thursday, September 6- Minekey, Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley.
• Friday, September 7- ThisNext, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
• Friday, September 7- Opson, Bangalore, India
• Wednesday, September 12- Cardomain.com, Seattle
• Friday, September 14- Adobe, SOMA, San Francisco. THIS EVENT!
• Friday, September 19- RockYou, San Mateo, Silicon Valley.
• Friday, September 21- TBA, Financial District, San Francisco
• Friday, September 21- Adobe, Seattle
• Wednesday, September 26- TBA, San Francisco
• Tuesday, October 9- TBA, Burlingame, San Francisco
• Friday, October 12- TBA, Seattle
• Friday, October 19- TBA, Redwood City, Silicon Valley

Well I guess the appearance of LunchGeeks in the Journal reminded Don that it’s been a while…

LunchGeeks is holding their August meetup tomorrow (Thursday)!

Here are the deets:

Location: La Fiesta
Address: 240 Villa Street, Mountain View, CA
Date: Thursday August 30, 2007, 1PM
RSVP on Upcoming

Ahh, one thing I really miss about Mountain View… Good Mexican eats.

So if you are feeling a bit nostalgic for the Lunch 2.0 of yore (geeks talking dirt over food without the watchful eye of VC or media) without the stomach-tensing fear of sneaking into places uninvited, then show up!

What are we going to do with all those pictures tagged “lunch20” on flickr and Zooomr? Create slide shows of course! RockYou has invited us over to rock some food in a few weeks. There’s limited space so RSVP soon!

Location: RockYou
Address: 2 West 5th Avenue, Suite 300, San Mateo, CA 94402
Date: Wednesday, September 19th, 12:00PM – 2:00PM
RSVP on upcoming

Hope to see you all there!

Other upcoming Lunch 2.0s

• Thursday, September 6- Minekey, Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley.
• Friday, September 7- ThisNext, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
• Friday, September 7- Opson, Bangalore, India
• Wednesday, September 12- Cardomain.com, Seattle
• Friday, September 14- TBA, SOMA, San Francisco
• Friday, September 19- RockYou, San Mateo, Silicon Valley. THIS EVENT!
• Friday, September 21- TBA, Financial District, San Francisco
• Friday, September 21- Adobe, Seattle
• Wednesday, September 26- TBA, San Francisco
• Tuesday, October 9- TBA, Burlingame, San Francisco
• Friday, October 12- TBA, Seattle
• Friday, October 19- TBA, Redwood City, Silicon Valley

A few weeks ago, amid the usual throngs of Lunch 2.0 attendees, I bumped into Anjali Athavaley, who reports for The Wall Street Journal. She asked a lot of good questions, then disappeared back into the crowd. I saw her again at several more Lunch 2.0 events, and now I know what she was up to: today the Journal wrote a thorough and positive article on the Lunch 2.0 phenomenon entitled “The Power Lunch, Cafeteria-Style.” There’s a color teaser on the top-right of page A1, and a large color spread on the front page of the Personal Journal section on D1. It’s also available online. Needless to say, we’re honored and thrilled.

Athavaley examines the Lunch 2.0 phenomenon through the lens of traditional journalism and explains it well for people outside the valley. When you’re in the middle of something like this, it’s easy to take it for granted and think of it as natural, but an article like this–which for many will be the first time they hear about Lunch 2.0–provides some perspective on how fortunate we are to live in such a passionate and open community.

[Edit: The part Joseph misses is where Kay Luo of LinkedIn and I talked Anjali’s ear off for months trying to convince her to do a story of this crazy idea. (I think I’m on her blocklist now.) Or the stealth work Mark did in trying to get AOL in Mountain View and Powerset in SF to host back to back.

In other news… for those of you just reading this in the Journal, it’s not to late to go to http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/241856/ in the East Bay today, or future Lunch 2.0’s in Santa Monica, Bangalore India, Silicon Valley, Seattle, the SF peninsula, and San Francisco (two announcements forthcoming). We hope you are inspired to start a Lunch 2.0 Area Network (LAN) in your area: Lunch 2.0 is an open idea in the spirit of having fun over food, not an organization… and we’d love for you to eat our lunch!—Terry]

Hi all, just a quick reminder that we’re having our first East Bay Lunch 2.0 @ spigit tomorrow!

Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB) is hosting this Delicious meeting with free food & drink.

Delicious 2.0: Building Candy-like App with Adobe AIR in HTML/AJAX OR Flex
Speaker: Mike Downey, Group Manager of Platform Evangelism at Adobe 

Date & Time: 8/29/2007 Wed 6:30pm-9:30pm
Location: Hurricane Electric
Address: 48233 Warm Springs Blvd, Fremont CA 94539
Registration: http://faceoff.eventbrite.com before 8/29 3pm

Visit website for more info http://www.svwebbuilder.com

AI, who hosted the last Microsoft Lunch 2.0 informs us that they will be hosting a BarCamp for Silverlight event.

Location: Microsoft San Francisco
Address: The Landmark at 1 Market Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, 94105
Date: Tuesday, September 14 to Wednesday, September 15
RSVP on the BarCamp wiki

He promises free food and possibly a late-night nerd party somewhere in the FiDi.

Nerds and free food? Oh, we are so there!

Minekey plus Plug and Play Tech Center will host Lunch 2.0 at on September 6. What is Minekey?
Minekey adds a cool little widget on your blog or social network that recommends stories, then improves the recommendations based on user clickstreams. Think of it as a Stumbleupon without having to push that button.

RSVP here with a comment below or Upcoming if you will attend so that Plug and Play can get an accurate headcount.

Date Thursday September 6th – 12 noon to 1:30pm.
Location Plug and Play Tech Center – 440 N Wolfe Rd., Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Capacity No limit. We can handle 500 plus comfortably between our patio and game room.
RSVP comment below or on Upcoming.

Upcoming Lunch 2.0s

• Monday, August 27- Gimahhot GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
• Wednesday, August 29- spigit, Pleasanton, East Bay
• Thursday, September 6- Minekey, Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley. THIS EVENT!
• Friday, September 7- ThisNext, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
• Friday, September 7- Opson, Bangalore, India
• Wednesday, September 12- Cardomain.com, Seattle
• Wednesday, September 12- TBA, Financial District, San Francisco
• Friday, September 14- TBA, SOMA, San Francisco
• Friday, September 21- Adobe, Seattle
• Wednesday, September 26- TBA, San Francisco
• Friday, October 12- TBA, Seattle
• Friday, October 19- TBA, Redwood City, Silicon Valley

See you in San Francisco tomorrow (Friday).

C|Lunch at C|NET. (Liquid Hot) Magma conference room which is as soon as you walk in the door before you get to security so we can spillover into the courtyard!

[Update: If for some reason you can't make it to CNET today, check out the live video stream up right now, and during the event.]

(Also, Andrew Warner tells us that 85 people have RSVP’d for the inaugural L.A. Lunch 2.0 at ThisNext on 9/7—that’s shaping up to be an amazing launch!)

Upcoming Lunch 2.0s

• Friday, August 24- CNET, SOMA, San Francisco
• Monday, August 27- Gimahhot GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
• Wednesday, August 29- spigit, Pleasanton, East Bay
• Wednesday, September 5- TBA, Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley
• Friday, September 7- Opson, Bangalore, India
• Friday, September 7- ThisNext, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
• Wednesday, September 12- Cardomain.com, Seattle
• Wednesday, September 12- TBA, Financial District, San Francisco
• Friday, September 14- TBA, SOMA, San Francisco
• Friday, September 21- Adobe, Seattle
• Wednesday, September 26- TBA, San Francisco
• Friday, October 12- TBA, Seattle
• Friday, October 19- TBA, Redwood City, Silicon Valley

See you in Redwood City tomorrow (Wednesday).

Lunch Long and Prosper.

(Also, I forgot to note that Timo Heuer posted the next Lunch 2.0 in Germany will be an outdoor grill, sponsored by Gimahhot GmbH next Monday!)

Upcoming Lunch 2.0s

• Wednesday, August 22- Spock, Redwood City, Silicon Valley (THIS EVENT)
• Friday, August 24- CNET, SOMA, San Francisco
• Monday, August 27- Gimahhot GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
• Wednesday, August 29- spigit, Pleasanton, East Bay
• Friday, September 7- Opson, Bangalore, India
• Friday, September 7- ThisNext, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
• Wednesday, September 12- Cardomain.com, Seattle
• Wednesday, September 12- TBA, Financial District, San Francisco
• Friday, September 21- Adobe, Seattle
• Friday, October 12- TBA, Seattle