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Touch a Joyeur: Upcoming Events

CES (Las Vegas, NV)
January 9, 2008

David Young is heading to Vegas and plans to keep his Wednesday night free for some Joyeur love. If you are interested in throwing back a Manhattan with him, leave a comment here and he will lock something in.

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App Camp 2008 (Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa)
January 15-17, 2008

Jason Hoffman will be in Johannesburg and Cape Town (South Africa) next week to speak at App Camp 2008.

App Camp is hosted by Mentez and our new pals Microsoft, to bring South African developers together to share experiences while learning about social networking applications. There will be topics on best practices in addition to the infrastructure and technology required to develop the best applications.

Spaces are limited, so please make sure you reserve yours now:

• Johannesburg [January 15th]

• Cape Town [January 17th]

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Geek Dinner (Cape Town, South Africa)
January 16, 2008

A big ‘thank you’ to Jacques Marneweck for putting together a geek dinner in Cape Town the night of January 16th.

If you plan on coming, please RSVP on the Facebook page so he can let the restaurant know how many to expect in advance.

Touch a Joyeur: Upcoming Events

RailsConf Europe (Berlin, Germany)
September 17-19, 2007
David Young, Jason Hoffman and Luke Crawford will be roaming the halls, so make sure you grab them and say hello. Jason and Luke are also presenting, so make sure you tune in to their sessions. Note: Luke is filling in for Scott.

Brews in Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
September 17, 2007 (and possibly the 18th and 19th)
Joyent will be hosting a bar night during the RailsConf Europe conference and invite you to join them for a pint (or eight).

TechCrunch 40 (San Francisco, CA)
September 17-18, 2007
Kristie Wells will be hanging out with our partner, Sun, and giving out free Accelerators so make sure you stop by the booth to find out how to get yours.

Intel Developer Forum (San Francisco, CA)
September 18-20, 2007
Ben Rockwood joins our partner Sun, and is ready to tell you why you must embrace OpenSolaris.

Plus de vin S’il vous plait (Paris, France)
September 21, 2007
David Young, Jason Hoffman, Luke Crawford and Dean Allen (yes, THAT Dean Allen) plan to be in the City of Lights for the night.

Taco Tuesdays (San Francisco, CA)
September 25, 2007
Join Jason Hoffman, Kristie Wells and Ben Rockwood for tacos, cervezas and geek talk.

geekSessions (San Francisco, CA)
October 2, 2007
Jason Hoffman has joined the Advisory Board of geekSessions and put together a great panel of experts to discuss “Designing Beyond the Database”.

OpenSolaris Summit (Santa Cruz, CA)
October 13-14, 2007
It’s a given Ben Rockwood will be here and we expect a few more Joyeurs to join along.

Joyeur Meetups: Berlin and Paris

BERLIN, GERMANY (September 17th)

Several of Joyeurs are headed to Berlin for RailsConf Europe so we figured it was a perfect excuse to check out the beer making skills of the folks over at Lindenbräu” at the Potsdamer Platz.

We plan on setting up a few chairs at 7pm and will start buying pints immediately and our generosity should last for a couple of hours me thinks.

If you are planning on joining us, it would help to know it in advance so we have enough chairs – simply check the attending button over on Upcoming and we’ll make sure there is a pitcher with your name on it.

We might make this a nightly thing and go back on the 18th and 19th too, just talk real sweet to Dave and see how hard you have to twist his arm.

PARIS, FRANCE (September 21st)

Dave and Jason also plan to hit the City of Lights for a night, and would like to share their goodwill with you fine folks over a couple bottles of wine and crudités variées.

Seating is limited in the room we reserved, so if you wish to play with these two, please let us know by simply checking the attending button over on Upcoming so we’ll know if we need to knock down a wall or two.

EDITED: I have just learned that Dean Allen WILL be at the Paris event. Let the hug fest begin.

Taco Tuesday Reminder

Taco Tuesday is tonight and I wanted to point out a critical thing that many people seem to overlook.

We pay for the tacos and the drinks.

That means that for you, they are free.

Free Tacos.

Free Beer.

Just like the Connector

EDIT – PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS DATED AUGUST 1ST, BUT TACO TUESDAY WAS ACTUALLY ON TUESDAY, JULY 31ST…SO WE WILL NOT BE AT NICK’S TONIGHT (WEDNESDAY). WE WILL BE BACK ON AUGUST 28TH THOUGH, SO MARK YOUR CALENDARS http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/200478

Upcoming Events: Tacos, Tech and a bit of Beer

We’ve got a few events coming up over the next two months, so check your calendars and plan to join us for some (or all) if you can:

Taco Tuesday

Monday, July 23rd (6:30pm PST) at Nick’s Crispy Taco, San Francisco, CA

This is a special meet up (because you can never have too many tacos) for a handful of Joyeurs coming to town for WordCamp and AjaxWorld.

OSCON

Wednesday, July 25th – Friday, July 27th at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR

Jason Hoffman, Ben Rockwood and Luke Crawford will be on hand to chat about Connector, Slingshot and building the infrastructure of your dreams. We are sharing a booth with Sun, so keep your eyes out for us in the Exhibit Hall. We are also working on a meet up while up there, more details to follow.

Taco Tuesday

Tuesday, July 31st (6:30pm PST) at Nick’s Crispy Taco, San Francisco, CA

Our monthly meet up for mouth watering tacos while we chat us up some techie topics. Make sure you ask for your taco Nick’s way.

Vancouver Meet Up

Tuesday, July 31st (7pm PST) at Chill Winston in Gastown, Vancouver, BC

Join Mark Mayo as he hosts the first Joyent Vancouver Taco Tuesday (though I am not sure Winston’s offer tacos. They do offer beer though).

Sun and Joyent Present: Hack Days

Wednesday, August 8th (3pm PST to 7:30pm PST) at Axis Cafe in San Francisco, CA.

We are launching a new series with our buddies over at Sun with the first one centered around development with JRuby, Glassfish and Joyent Accelerators. More details coming next week, just wanted to put this on your calendar.

RailsConf Berlin 2007

Monday, September 17th – Wednesday, September 19th at the Maritim pro Arte Hotel in Berlin, Germany

Jason Hoffman and Scott Barron are are headed to Germany to present the following sessions:

• Jason Hoffman: Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up in Europe (3 hour tutorial). Date and time TBD.

• Scott Barron: Creating hybrid Web and desktop applications with Rails and Slingshot (45 minute session). Date and time TBD.

Dave Young, will also be on hand and there is rumor there will be a few bar crawls while the fellas are over there. More details to follow shortly.

The Annual or Whatever WWDC-related Joyent Midnight Cheesestick and Beer Run

Whenever Gruber is out for WWDC, we’ve ended up eating fried cheese and drinking beer.

Then he finds himself recommending it to others.

I then find myself taking others out for fried cheese and beer.

This is Allan Odgaard of Textmate.

You’ll notice he’s downright giddy.

This is Sebastian.

Sebastian has never eaten fried cheese.

Even though he’s smiling, he’s very sad inside.

Very sad.

So, never to let a customer stay sad, I’m making the cheese and beer run official.

Please join me and others this Wednesday at 11:59pm (so you’ll realize that it’s nearly midnight on “Wednesday”, and no one will be confused and show up a day early or late) at

Harry’s Bar
2020 Fillmore Street
(between California St & Pine St)
San Francisco, CA 94115
(Yelp for the bar, and Upcoming for the event)

Joyent at RailsConf 2007

The Joyent team will be in Portland Wednesday, May 16th through Sunday, May 20th for RailsConf and we have planned a few social activities to break up all this silly tech stuff:

Wednesday, May 16th at 7pm
Geek Dinner at the Lucky Lab Brew Pub at
915 SE Hawthorne Blvd. In true geek dinner fashion it is ‘buy your own’, but we hope that won’t stop you from throwing back a pint or two with us.

APPy Hour in the Presidential Suite at the Doubletree Hotel from 3:30pm – 5:30pm daily (Thursday, May 17th – Saturday, May 19th)
Just another excuse to have a beer, shoot the breeze and give you a place to show off the APP you just built that you are super proud of. We will have a few giveaways here, including the opportunity to win a free year on a (L) Accelerator – sweeeet! We will also be podcasting the ps pipe grep from the Suite and might have a surprise visitor now and then so be sure to come on by and say howdy.

Of course, this is a developers conference, so if you would like to mix in a little techie stuff as well – a couple of our boys are hosting sessions you might find a bit interesting:

Thursday, May 17th from 8:30am – 12:00pm
Jason Hoffman is leading a session called Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up. This event has SOLD OUT, so I am hoping you have already have your ticket for this session.

Thursday, May 17th from 8:30pm – 9:30pm
Scott Barron will hold a BOF for people interested in DTrace and Ruby/Rails to discuss the hows, the whys and will provide a few demos. More info. This event is free, though Scott wouldn’t mind you buying him a beer or two to show how much you love him.

Our good friends over at Sun have reserved a spot for Joyent in Sun booth on the pavilion floor – so if you can’t get to the Doubletree Suite, look for us there.

So I guess you don’t really have any excuse to not stop by and say hi – somewhere. :)

It is the last Tuesday of the month.

Know what that means?

It is Taco Wings Tuesday time!

Several of us are attending the MySQL Conference & Expo today, so it was suggested we do our little meetup down there to catch up with some old friends and meet new peeps in town (thanks for the idea Niall).

We will be squatting in the bar area at Faultline Brewing Co which is located at 1235 Oakmead Parkway in Sunnyvale (about 2 miles from the Santa Clara Convention Center) and we’ll start popping to tops off our beers around 7pm (there is a MYSQL reception that runs until 730pm). We plan to hang out until around 9pm – buying beers and wings for anyone who wishes to join us so if you are in the area, stop by and say hi.

If you aren’t able to make it tonight, we hope to see you back in San Francisco next month at Nick’s.

Discount passes to Under The Radar: "Why Office 2.0 Matters"

Jason and I are headed to Mountain View on Friday, March 23rd, to represent Joyent as members of the Graduate Circle for the “Why Office 2.0 Matters” conference held by the folks over at DealMaker Media (AKA: Under The Radar).

Mr. Hoffman will have the stage for a little bit to tout our upcoming Slingshot product, and I will make sure to hog tie him down to a table if anyone is interested in coming by for a quick demo to see what all the fuss is about (product releases in late April – more news coming tomorrow/Thursday).

There are discount passes available to Joyeurs (sign up as a Blogger) that offers $70 off the non-member advance registration, or $170 off the walk-in price. Click here for the discount.

We will be podcasting and shooting video as well, so we hope to have a couple of nuggets to share with everyone here shortly.

Jason is at SXSW in Austin, and this is where I'll be

Please feel free to seek me out (you can also direct message me on twitter here).

Saturday

Saturday, March 10th, 6pm
Wordpress meetup party at Bourbon Rocks on 6th

Saturday, March 10th, 10pm-2am
Buzzfeed/Ze Frank at Molotov

Sunday

Sunday, March 11th, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Why We Should Ignore Users
Room 18ABCD

Sunday, March 11th, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Making Your Short Attention-Span Pay Big Dividends
Room 19AB

Sunday, March 11th, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
I Can’t Believe You Sent That: E-mail Disasters, Large and Small and How to Avoid Them
Room 19AB

Sunday, March 11th, 3:30 pm – 3:55 pm
Spam of All Kinds: Dealing with Online Abuse
Room 8ABC

Sunday, March 11th, 4:05 pm – 4:30 pm
Ten Ways to Run a Startup Like Genghis Khan
Room 18ABCD

Sunday, March 11th, 4:05 pm – 4:30 pm
ValleySpeak for the Rest of Us: Developing Apps Outside InternetVille
Room 9AB

Sunday, March 11th, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
“I’m Good, Really!”: Self-Marketing for the Freelance Web Geek
Room 19AB

Sunday, March 11th, 6pm+
Web Awards
CHOW/Consumating/Webshots party

Monday

Monday, March 12th, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Barenaked App: The Figures Behind the Top Web Apps
Room Ballroom F

Monday, March 12th, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Scaling Your Community
Room 18ABCD

Monday, March 12th, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Dan Rather Keynote Interview
Room Hilton / Grand Ballroom

Monday, March 12th, 3:30 pm – 3:55 pm
Rails and AJAX: Building Enterprise-Class Web Applications
Room Ballroom F

Monday, March 12th, 4:05 pm – 4:30 pm
Virtual Teaming: Collaborating Across Time and Space
Room 10AB

Monday, March 12th, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
WOW with Joi and Justin
Room 9C

Monday, March 12th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Austin on Rails Happy Hour
Buffalo Billiards at 201 E. 6th

Tuesday

Tuesday, March 13th, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Customer Service is the New Marketing
Room Ballroom F

Tuesday, March 13th, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
After Bust 2.0: Ten Years Later, Where Will We Be?
Room 19AB

Tuesday, March 13th, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Will Wright Keynote Speech
Room Hilton / Grand Ballroom

The Imago Effect: Avatar Psychology
Room 12AB
Tuesday, March 13th, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Tuesday, March 13th, 4:05 pm – 4:30 pm
Five Tips to Make Your Lame Podcast Listenable
Room 9AB

Tuesday, March 13th, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
The Global Microbrand: Are Blogs, Suits and Wine the New Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll?
Room 10AB

I’ll be around Wednesday, and I’m heading out Thursday morning.

As a reminder, I look like this (went to Geeks with Guns too, was fun to have a sig sauer P229 .40 cal in hand again).