Lunch 2.0

Seems like many (internet) years since we’ve last hit us our favorite lizard up for some food as conversation? (pix and vid). Can you believe back then we were talking about the Firefox 2.0 beta?

Hosts: Mozilla
Address: Building K, 1981 Landings Drive, Mountain View
Date: Tuesday December 4, 2007 noon-1:30pm
RSVP on Upcoming.org

Swing by the home-office on Dec. 4th to find out what they’ve been been working on for the next versions of Firefox. You’ll get a chance to meet with Mozilla Engineers, sample some of Mountain View’s finest pizza, and listen to their administrative overhead (Vice President of Engineering) discuss the future of Mozilla (Mobile, Off-Line Apps, JavaScript 2).

First 100 people get all the free pizza and software they can handle.

Upcoming Events

• Friday, November 30 – Meebo, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Tuesday, December 4 – THIS EVENT, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Thursday, December 6 – F5 Seattle
• Friday, December 7 – edelight GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
• Friday, December 7 – The Whole 9, Culver City, Los Angeles
• Friday, December 7 – Loopt, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Wednesday, December 12 – TBA, FiDi, San Francisco
• Wednesday, December 19 – TBA, San Mateo, CA
• Friday, January 11 – TBA, Netherlands
• Friday, January 11 – TBA, SoMa, San Francisco
• Wednesday, January 16 TBA, Silicon Valley
• Friday, January 18 – TBA, Waterfront, Seattle
• Wednesday, February 2 – TBA, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley

Hi Everyone, just a quick reminder that we’ll be having Lunch 2.0 @ Meebo tomorrow and that afterwards, they’ll be having a dev camp focused on their new platform! See you all there

Host: TheWhole9.com (Which happens to work out of a beautiful art gallery!)

When: Friday, December, 7 12:05 – 2:00 PM

Where: Culver City, CA

RSVP:  RSVP Here

TheWhole9.com is a social networking site for creative professionals and artists. They operate out of a beautiful art gallery in Culver City. That means, in addition to the usual connections and conversations, we’ll get to have lunch (and wine) in wonderful surroundings.

If you’re in LA, check this event out. If not, please pass the word on to a friend in the area.

Oh, and we’re trying something new. Because the guest lists for the LA Lunch 2.0 events are getting huge, we’re trying to help this one stay smaller by focusing on guests who are bloggers and designers. (What do you think of that idea? Please email me: andrew[at]awarner[dot]com)

Upcoming Events

• Friday, November 30 – Meebo, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Tuesday, December 4 – TBA, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Thursday, December 6 – F5 Seattle
• Friday, December 7 – edelight GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
• Friday, December 7 – THIS EVENT!, Culver City, Los Angeles
• Friday, December 7 – Loopt, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Wednesday, December 12 – TBA, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley
• Wednesday, December 19 – TBA, San Mateo, CA
• Wednesday, January 16 TBA, Silicon Valley
• Friday, January 18 – TBA, Waterfront, Seattle

Meebo is hosting us for a lunch 2.0 during their dev camp this Friday Here’s the info:

Hosts: Meebo
Location: 215 Castro St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Date: Friday, November 30, 2007, 12:00PM-1:30PM

RSVP on their Facebook event!

Here’s some info from Meebo:

This Friday, meebo will open its doors for the first official meebo Dev Camp for developers and potential partners. At 12:00 PM, the company will host a Lunch 2.0 for all comers at meebo’s Mountain View office, located at 215 Castro Street, 3rd floor. When lunch concludes, those interested in the meebo Platform can stick around and work directly with meebo developers to begin creating synchronous applications – or put finishing touches on ones already in progress.

Additionally, meebo will offer virtual office hours to connect remote developers with the meebo team via video and audio calls. Interested? Email meeboplatform@meebo.com for more information. Developers of all kinds can learn more and register their application at meebo.com/platform. Applications are built on common open Web standards such as JavaScript and Flash.

Last week, meebo announced that more than 20 games are available to their users through the recently-launched meebo Platform. Since the October 30th Platform launch, more than 200 developers have registered applications for the meebo Platform and are working to make meebo the live interaction destination on the Web. Future categories of applications will include shopping, productivity and work applications, music and video entertainment.
Come for the food, stay for coding fun all night!

Upcoming Events

• Friday, November 30 – THIS EVENT!, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Tuesday, December 4 – TBA, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Thursday, December 6 – F5 Seattle
• Firday, December 7 – edelight GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
• Friday, December 7 – Loopt, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Wednesday, December 12 – TBA, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley
• Wednesday, December 19 – TBA, San Mateo, CA
• Wednesday, January 16 TBA, Silicon Valley
• Friday, January 18 – TBA, Waterfront, Seattle

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Oota 2.0 in news

BANGALORE Nov 24, 2007

Liaison over lunch
Friday September 21 2007 09:30 IST
VASUMITA S

Window2India: Sports News

Techies from the City got together over free lunch called Oota 2.0, a concept imported from Silicon Valley.

AS the techie community in Bangalore grows bigger and bigger, new ideas keep emerging to integrate the community further and get them talking. One such concept imported right from Silicon Valley is the Oota 2.0 launched recently by Opson Inc, a global career network site for techies.

The concept was evolved to get techies from different tech companies to come together and share their views at an informal gathering — over free lunch of course.

‘‘The concept first evolved in Silicon Valley, which has a large base of IT companies. It began there as an informal get-together for techies to eat and chat about the latest in the market,’’ says Rana Singh, CEO Opson Inc. He adds that it started as a prank in Silicon Valley with ‘geeks’ getting into a friend’s company to chow down other people’s food, but soon, the idea caught on and a loose-knit community started looking for free lunch and social interaction.

‘‘The concept in Silicon Valley is called Lunch 2.0 and is so popular that we have 9 chapters in the USA and chapters in Germany and Israel, so the concept has become extremely popular,’’ says Rana.

The first free lunch, sponsored by Opson Inc to celebrate its launch in Bangalore, was hosted recently, where a large group of techies gathered to interact, feast and make contacts. ‘‘It is a winwin situation from all sides,’’ says Rana.

‘‘The host company usually times the lunch in such a manner that they can showcase some new product, they are about to launch. This way, they get instant feedback from the industry. For the employees, it is an easy way to know the latest technology entering the industry, to make contacts, and to look out for job opportunities. Other employers, who gather at such meetings, get to scout for prospective employees, and share ideas.’’

The response so far has been encouraging, according to Rana and he is hoping that the concept will catch on. ‘‘We have taken the initiative by sponsoring the first lunch. Hopefully, other companies will take it forward so that it can become a regular affair,’’ he says.

‘‘Since the advantages are immense and many parent companies are already hosting these lunches in Silicon Valley as part of lunch 2.0, we expect good response for the concept in Bangalore,’’ he says.