Lunch 2.0

I am not the “cheer leader”. I am not “special”. Yet, I think like a superhero dreaming of saving the web, saving the world. Of course I am still a geek like Chunk.

Our discussion event is on the darkest Halloween week ever in history. I checked my favorite FengShui Master Manual. It stated that the most critical period is from Oct 8, 2008 to Nov 7, 2008. Stay calm. Just wait until we pass this darkest period.

Another geek hero, Michael Carter is our last addition to our discussion panel. Michael left Kaazing recently so he focused his energy in W3C HTML5 specifications. He is sad about HTML5.

Michael Carter as the WebSocket leader, with his dangerous styled rock band hair, carries similar charm like the Rails Creator, David Heinemeier Hansson. He wowed the roomful audience with his brilliant presentation when I first invited him to speak at our 1st iPhone Startup Camp. Michael is also a world renowned rollerblade free styler and speed demon.

Another surprise came. Our panlist Dion Almaer is leaving Google to devote himself to the Browser maker Mozilla. Our fever on browser is starting to rub off on our panelist. Dion is accomplished classic and jazz pianist.

At our last historic discussion “Browser Wars: Episode II – Attack of the DOMs”, I selected the theme song “We’re All In This Together”, from the movie “High School Musicals”. Majority of the attending geeks couldn’t get the meaning of the song lyrics because the song is way too young for their ages.

This time I am going with the song “4 Minutes” by Madonna as our theme song, replacing “4 Minutes” with “HTML4”. Question is how we can save the web with existing HTML4. If our Wall Street and bank system are broken like this credit crisis, our government work with the world leaders to improve the market system immediately. Our web is heading to a dead space where everything is a hack. W3C is still sitting on the same agenda 2022 for HTML5 specification. It is absolutely unacceptable. Not acceptable for the fact that the innovation is depending very much on the web.

This is the song I hope W3C will listen and act on it. Give us better tools to innovate in Silicon Valley. Save the web save the world.

“Time is waiting
We only got HTML 4 to save the world
No hesitating
We only got HTML 4, HTML 4
…
(Tick tock tick tock tick tock)
Yeah, uh huh
(Tick tock tick tock tick tock)
I only got HTML 4
To save the world”

“Save The Web Save The World”
拯救網頁保存世界

Bess
SVWB Founder

10/29/2008 Wed 6:30-10:00pm
The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML5, the Comet, and the WebSocket
Location: Google, Mountain View Campus
Address: Tunis Tech Talk Building 43, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
Registration URL: http://webstandard.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

Note: Google will be providing dinner and drink for the evening. Please register in advance to save your seat. Arrive early before 6:30pm for check-in, networking and book autograph. We’ll be giving out close to thousand dollar worth of latest developer books, thank to sponsors O’Reilly, Apress, Manning and Pragmatic. Halloween costume is allowed. Prizes will be giving out to best dressed geeks based on the movie “Matrix”.

Discussion
Moderator & Presenter:
Kevin Nilson, Principal Software Architect at E*Trade Financial
Speakers:
Alex Rusell, President of the Dojo Foundation & Project Lead for The Dojo Toolkit
Dion Almaer, Open Web Advocate at Google and co-founder of Ajaxian.com and “Audible Ajax” podcast.
Michael Carter
Founder at Orbited Project & Official Contributor for W3C HTML5
John Fallows, CTO and co-founder at Kaazing
Ted Goddard,Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and ICEfaces.org

Agenda
6:30 – 7:00 Networking
7:00 – 7:15 Introduce Comet, Introduce Panel Topic, Introduce Panel
Members (Kevin Nilson)
7:15 – 8:15 Panel Discussion (Full Panel)
8:15 – 8:30 Q/A (Full Panel, moderated by Kevin Nilson)
8:30 – 8:45 Break / Network / Signage / Raffle
8:45 – 9:30 Technical Comet Presentation: Overview of Polling, Long Polling, and Streaming, followed by Details Bayuex using Cometd (Kevin Nilson)

Hackathon 4 Kids
Register: http://hackathon4kids.eventbrite.com
Admission: FREE
Participating Kids: FREE geek toy (Until supplies last)

Speakers:
Doug Ricket, Map Engineer from Google
Marzia Niccolai, App Engine Engineer from Google

Date: 11/9/08 Sun
Time: 1:15pm-4:15pm
Location: Foothill College Campus
Address: 12345 El Monte Road Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Parking: Parking Lot 5
Website: http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com
Toy Giveaways: Sponsored by Rockyou

Google is going to be hosting the first Lunch 2.0 in Chicago ever! This free lunch thing is spreading like wildfire.

Hosts: Google Chicago
Address: 20 W. Kinzie St., Chicago, IL 60610
Date: Friday, November 9, 2007, 12:00pm-1:30pm

RSVP will be by email only so send your first and last name to the following address to sign up: chi-lunch-2.0@google.com

Help spread the word by inviting others. If you’re not in Chicago, but know people who are, please send them this post.

[Terry: If you want to help feed-whore this event, this is the facebook event and this is it on Upcoming. Thanks!]

UPDATE: This event has reached capacity! Thanks to all who RSVP’d and see you on Friday!

Also, other upcoming Lunch 2.0s:

• Wednesday, October 31 – AdMob, San Mateo, Silicon Valley
  
• Friday, November 2 – Shopzilla, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
• Monday, November 5 – Web 2.0 Expo, Berlin, Germany
• Tuesday, November 6 – LinkedIn Q&A with FSJ, Mountain View, CA
• Wednesday, November 7 – Goowy, San Diego
• Friday, November 9 – Google Chicago, Chicago, IL THIS EVENT
• Friday, November 9 – Google Seattle, Kirkland, Seattle
• Friday, November 9 – Zazzle, Redwood City, CA
• Tuesday, November 27 – TBA, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Friday, December 7 – TBA, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Wednesday, December 12 – TBA, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley
• Friday, January 18 – TBA, Waterfront, Seattle

Just got back from Lunch 2.0 at the Googolplex and it was quite tasty. We went to the relatively new Pacific Cafe and had us some good sushi, noodles, and thai ice tea. Take a look at some pictures I snapped.

It’s been a while since I’ve been to Google and my have they grown. The main cafeteria is packed! Really nice weather today though, can’t really complain

And of course, the spoils…

Location: Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
Date: Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
Call Mark at 425.830.7588 when you get there

You’ll need to arrange a Google buddy to get you in (for those that don’t have Google buddies, find one! They’ve got thousands of employees, it can’t be that hard ). We’re heading over there at 11:45 – we hear parking is not so good nowadays.

Hope to see ya there!