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Events
The Office of SIlicon Valley hosts a variety of events including original presentations, lectures and local Meetup groups.
Boosting your revenue with Google Website Optimizer with Joomla!
Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 6:30 PM
Price: $5.00
Google website optimizer is a free tool which lets you test changes to your site to quickly find out what changes will improve your conversion rates (sales) the best.
Mike’s gonna need all the time so we will start at 6:30 and network at the end if there’s time. Clean up is at 8:45 and outta there by 9.
More to come soon…
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Migrating or Converting Joomla! Templates from 1.5 to 1.7/2.5
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 6:30 PM
Price: $5.00
Do you have a 1.5 Joomla! template that needs to migrate to 1.7 or even 2.5?
Most published migration documentation recommends us to download the upgraded template from your template provider. But what if your template provider does not support that particular template any longer? Or, what if you have a custom template that did not come from a template provider?
This meetup will show you how easy it is to convert your Joomla 1.5 templates to 1.7/2.5 and show you a few online resources where you can find some information to assist you.
Hello, my name is Kirk Hayes and I have been a Joomla advocate since the 1.0 days long before 1.5 ever existed. Back then I got stuck dealing with Joomla 1.0 websites that did not have support for Joomla 1.5 templates even from reputable template providers. With this new long term release, I want to make sure that we Joomla folks will not be frightened of the migration and be as well equipped as possible. I don’t have all the answers, however I will show you a real conversion step by step that does not require downloading an updated template. We will do the entire template conversion ourselves.
I am going to take one of my current 1.5 websites, convert the template such that it can be installed on a 1.7 installation. Then I am going to show you how I then use tools like Firebug and Chrome to make additional changes to the Template CSS in order to make it look like the old 1.5 website.
Requirements: Joomla 1.5 and enthusiasm
6:30 - 7:00 Arrive & Networking
7:00 - 8:45 Template migration/coversion
8:45 - 9:00 Clean up
This meetup is 2.5 hours in length. The cost is $5.00/person to cover the space cost. A minimum of 10 people are required to rsvp yes and show up by February 10th or the event will be postponed/cancelled.
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Orchard Valley Ceramic Arts Guild
Sunday, September 18, 2011 12:00-3:30pm (PT)
Fall Art in Clay Sales Discussion plus The Art of Selling Art
Why in the world would we move the September meeting to a Sunday? Because we needed more time to present a half day of information focused on selling your artwork! As we do for each September meeting, we’ll first devote time to discuss the annual OVCAG 2011 Art in Clay Sale. Cristina Chang and Jill Getzan will review all key points for our November sale at the Lucie Stern Community Center, including work assignments and charts that map out the rooms and tables. Artists participating in the Sale are asked to attend this discussion.
Then, when everyone is in their sales mood, the second segment will feature “The Art of SellingArt” a mini-workshop delivered by Robert Regis Dvorak, a well-known local painter, writer, instructor, and speaker. Those of you familiar with Robert’s style already know that he presents very lively and interactive programs! Here is a description of his Art of Selling Art workshop:
You can easily learn to sell more, turn more customers into buyers faster, and keep customers longer. Sell anything you want and begin at once. In this fast-paced course on the art of selling, you will learn how to create immediate desire, how to create instant rapport, what to ask, when to listen, what to say, easy closing techniques you can learn in minutes, correct body language and voice tone, and how to magically connect a person to your product or service.
Robert will distill the workshop he’ll do for us from his full-day training, in which he touches on the following: motivation, attitude adjustments, self confidence, prospecting clients, telephone tips, respect and courtesy, vocabulary, qualifying issues, psychological connections, closing, handling money objections, high ticket item sales, and corporate sales.
We are thrilled to have Robert come and present The Art of Selling Art at our extended September General Meeting, and it will be free to OVCAG members! Non-members who wish to attend will be asked to contribute a nominal fee. We’re also planning to host a great potluck with food and beverages to keep everyone contented during the afternoon. Tentative hours will be 12-1 for the Art in Clay Talk, then 1-3:30 for “The Art of Selling Art” workshop. The location and the exact time frame will be publicized when they’re finalized. Everyone is invited! Please make every effort to attend— it will be a fantastic afternoon!
Let's Talk Search Engine Optimization for Joomla - Group Discussion
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 6:15 PM (PT)
Who’s hosting? Jennifer Gress, Mike Pearl
How Much? $5 Per Person
Hello Joomla-ers!
Hope you all had a great summer! Now let’s get back to it, shall we?
This meetup is a Round Table discussion on a great subject - SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
The plan is that everyone shares something related to SEO. We all know something about SEO. And none of us know everything SEO. If you don’t know something, then learn something before the meetup and share that…even the simplest things count - there is no judgement. We will all learn something from each other.
Some of what we will go over are basic to advanced SEO techniques in Joomla including:
* Keywords and keyword phrasing
* Internal links and quality inbound links
* Content creation “best practices”
* Indexing with all the major search engines
* Joomla Tools & How-To’s
* How to get great ranking using Joomla with the default tools or 3rd party components
* And more…bring more to the table!
If for some unimaginable reason we run out of SEO topics to discuss, we will go over some basic Joomla security best practices and/or configure JomSocial for the group website.
Charge for this meetup is $5/person to cover the beautiful meeting space. The $5 can be paid in cash at the door or via check made payable to SofTech (our parent non-profit). A minimum of 15 people need to rsvp and attend by the 19th or the meetup will be postponed/cancelled.
Looking forward to seeing you all soon!
6:15 - 6:30 Networking
6:30 - 8:45 SEO Round Table
8:45 - 9:00 Clean up/Networking
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AppMobi - Future of Gaming with HTML5 and Mobile
http://www.meetup.com/MobileCloud/events/26697051/
Thursday, August 4, 2011, 6:30 PM
Topic: HTML5 and Mobile are the Future of Gaming.
In this session, two of appMobi’s lead engineers, Andrew Smith and Tyler Smith, will go under the hood to provide coding samples, mobile optimization techniques, and u sing the ImpactJS HTML5 game engine, they will show how fast an HTML5 game can go from concept to reality to mobile deployment. This process includes basic collision detection, UI optimization, level editing , integrating with HTML5 socialPlay framework, and how to optimize your debugging cycles.
Agenda:
6:30 - 7:00 - Meet, network, eat and drink (Pizza, snacks and drinks sponsored by appMobi)
7:00 - 7:15 - Speaker Introductions
7:15 - 8:30 - HTML5 mobile game development presentation
8:30 - Q&A and Door Prize Giveaways
Migrating to Joomla 1.6: Learn the Power of Joomla's Best Release Ever!
Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 6:00 PM
http://www.meetup.com/webdesign-461/events/23974381/
Price: $5.00/per person
Schedule:
6:00 - 6:30 Networking
6:30 - 9:00 Migration
9:00 - 9:15 Clean up
Joomla 1.6 has been out now a while, and 1.7 is coming this month (believe it or not). So come find out why this version can give Joomla users, designers and developers all they need in a CMS.
You might be asking: Now what do I do? When is it time to migrate to 1.6? How do I migrate? What steps do I need to take to migrate? Is it worth it to migrate?
The answers to all these questions will be answered at the meetup - and much more.
Specific segments include
* Moving content, images, users and categories from 1.5 to 1.6
* Template conversion/migration and other options
* New components/modules/plugins and some old ones that have been rewritten for 1.6
* Tips and tricks: what are the best aspects to the new Joomla 1.6 and how to get the most out of the new system
* Assessing what you still “need” and don’t “need” in Joomla 1.6
As a bonus, we will also be looking at one attendee’s site and migrating it to 1.6. When you RSVP, a question will be asked for you to give the URL of one website you’d like considered. The leadership team will review and choose one site. That chosen site will be migrated (at least partially - and a plan in place to follow to its completion) to Joomla 1.6 at the meetup.
We look forward to seeing YOU at the meetup and hope you’re having a great summer!
How to use Joomla! 1.6's new Access Control Lists (ACLs) to build powerful sites
Updated: Wednesday June 29th 6:30pm
http://www.meetup.com/webdesign-461/events/21314501/
Who’s hosting? Jennifer Gress, Mike Pearl
Price: $5.00 per person(refund policy)
How to find us: Easy to find - park in the parking lot prior the main entrance through the side door - don’t let the basketball run away!
6:30 - 8:30 Users/Groups/ACLs 8:30 - 8:50 Networking 8:50 - 9:00 Clean up
Cost is $5.00 at the door.
Mike Pearl will demonstrate several real-world applications for Joomla’s ACLs. He’ll also explain how ACLs work, how to effectively use them, and take a glimpse inside Joomla extension code to see how extensions will apply to ACLs. Topics will include:
- How and when to use ACLs
- How to create Groups and Viewing Access Levels
- Using nested groups to select content on the front end
- Using nested groups to grant and limit access on the back end.
This meetup has something for the beginner, intermediate and advanced Joomla folks!
See you at the meetup!
5 HOUR BIZ PLAN BLUEPRINT WORKSHOP
Friday June 10th 9am-5pm and Friday June 17th 9am-5pm
Hosted By: Skyhawk Biz Coaching and Consulting
Is Your Business Running You?
* Does time management seem impossible?
* Are you spread too thin?
* Do you need to increase sales and profits?
* Do employees seem “un-manageable”?
* Are you overwhelmed, isolated or stressed?
* Does marketing make you cringe?
Don’t worry - you don’t have to struggle anymore!
Welcome to the world of Skyhawk Coaching and Consulting. I’m business coach and consultant Lynn Hawkins. I used to struggle with my company too, and had more than my fill of the insanity that often comes along with entrepreneurship. I knew there had to be a better way, and focused on developing an easy and effective approach to professional and personal success.
Since then, my coaching and consulting services have helped so many professionals make more money, increase sales and profits, master time management, achieve their goals and balance their lives. You can have all of this too.
As a business coach and mentor who is dedicated to having profound success with clients, assisting them in building their businesses, Lynn knows that one of the ways that’s done is by strategizing with clients and formulating a sound, strong and “fundable” business plan. Everything starts with visioning and then constructing a blueprint to accomplish that vision, laying out the details in a business plan that meets clients needs and focuses on their goals. Lynn says “A biz plan is almost like the biz owner’s Bible!”
The business plan isn’t something that should be shelved after spending the time, energy, and money to produce it. So, if you want to produce a business plan, need a business plan, or you want to update your existing business plan, attending the 5 Hour Biz Plan Blueprint(TM) Workshop will allow you to finish the day with a viable, and workable business plan. In 5 hours of concentrated work, you will walk away with a complete business plan that you can actually add to your application for loan or grant funding.
Take this workshop in June for:
Only $197 ... and you can bring a friend!
The workshop will happen again in July and going forward, but the cost will increase. LOCK IN THIS SPECIAL PRICE NOW! or get an even bigger Special Price, if spots are still available.
INTERIM SCHEDULE
9:00am - 9:30am Registration
9:30am - 12:00pm AM Session
12:00pm - 1:15pm Lunch
1:15pm - 4:30pm PM Session
Register here NOW for June 10th! or for the June 17th event!
AppMobi HTML5 Mobile App Development
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Thursday June 16th 6:30pm
Who’s hosting? Reed Sutton
HTML5 is generating significant buzz in the mobile development world for its cross platform capabilities. Come learn more about this brave new world of mobile app development with Dave Balmer as he introduces you to JO, an open source cross platform HTML5 mobile app framework. As always there will be great content, lots of food, drinks and networking.
Agenda
6:30 - 7:00PM - Pizza, drinks, networking
7:00 - 7:45 PM - JO, the HTML5 mobile app development framework will be presented by creator Dave Balmer
7:45 - 8:30 PM - Q&A, Door prizes, and more networking to round out the evening.
About Dave Balmer:
As a Senior Software Engineer with HP webOS Developer Relations, Dave is a JavaScript guru currently focused on mobile app development.
Balmer is the creator of several proprietary JavaScript application frameworks, and most recently an open source, cross-platform HTML5 mobile framework called “Jo” (http://joapp.com/).
In his spare time, Dave designs and develops games (http://gobico.com), makes music, and writes.
About JO: http://joapp.com/
* A Pretty UI Widget Framework With a side of DOM, event and data stuff
* Open Source Under a friendly OpenBSD License
* Cross Platform webOS, iOS, Android, Symbian, Safari, Chrome, Dashboard Widgets (wait, what?)
* Light and Efficient Minified & gzipped JavaScript is just over 12K with no dependancies
Joomla 1.6 Overview
Wednesday, May 18th
6:30 PM - 8:45 PM (PT)
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Who’s hosting? Jennifer Gress, Mike Pearl
We’ll be covering changes and differences between 1.5 and 1.6. Then, time permitting we’ll cover information on groups and ACL’s.
When you RSVP yes, meetup will ask a couple of questions. Please tell us the aspects of 1.6 you’d like to have covered in the meetup as well as your skill level with Joomla; beginner, intermediate or advanced. Based on this information, we will attempt to cover those aspects of 1.6. If we have a split group of beginner & advanced, we may split the group and I will do the beginner/overview and Mike lead an advanced group on the more complex aspects of users/groups/ACL.
6:30 - 7:00 Networking
7:00 - 8:45 1.6
AppMobi Meetup, How to manage your mobile API's with Mashery
May 3rd, 2011
6:30-8:30 PM
http://www.meetup.com/appMobi-Bay-Area-Developers/events/17378588/
About Mashery:
Mashery helps 95,000 web and mobile app developers access the juicy goodness from dozens of APIs with a single sign-on. Mashery is the leading provider of API management and strategy services. Some of the platforms that Mashery manages include: Netflix, Best Buy, Etsy, Klout, Rdio, USA Today, The New York Times, Cheezburger, GoGrid, Rotten Tomatoes, Hotwire and WeatherBug. Check out http://developer.mashery.com to start building apps today.
Agenda:
6:30 - 7:00 - Pizza, Beer & Networking (provided by Mashery)
7:00 - 7:15 - Overview of appMobi cloud services (StatMobi, Live Updates, pushMobi, 1 Touch payment)
7:15 - 8:00 - Neil Mansilla, Developer Evangelist @ Mashery and all around great guy will be presenting on the topic of API integration and management in mobile app development. He is also bringing some great schwag to give away.
Immediately after presentations there will be Q&A , Networking and Door Prize Drawings .
AppMobi iPhone, iPad & Android Developers Meetup
March 2nd, 2011
6-8 PM
http://www.meetup.com/appMobi-Bay-Area-Developers/events/16534768/
From the organizers:
Our next Meetup is here. Please bring your friends and colleagues as we will meet in Sunnyvale on Wednesday March 2nd @ 6:00pm for free Pizza, soda and beer. Awesome door prizes and a great networking environment.
Eat and Drink while we recap our game changing announcement from Mobile World Congress. This first of its kind technology will change the way mobile applications are Developed, Discovered and Distributed. The MobiUs Mobile web browser. Also we are pleased that Bill Scott, EVP @ GetJar will be here to discuss scale and monetization for app developers. GetJar is the world’s second largest app store with over 1 billion downloads to date, second only to the Apple App Store.
Agenda
6:00 – 6:30 Check in, networking, beer, soda and pizza
:30 Announcement of the MobiUs Browser with Q&A
MobiUs mobile Web browser technology from appMobi levels the playing field between native apps, WebApps and mobile websites, and creates powerful alternative distribution channels that puts the Web on equal footing with app stores.
MobiUs™ – the first-of-its-kind mobile Web browser technology that allows developers to create Web applications – or WebApps – that exceed the functionality possible with native apps, putting the entire World Wide Web on equal footing with app stores as the distribution channel for discovering, downloading and interacting with mobile apps.
7:00 Guest Speaker Bill Scott VP of Business Development, Get Jar
Bill Scott EVP @ GetJar
Bill will discuss GetJar’s new Cost Per User pricing model, which charges only after a user has downloaded and launched the app, and new high scale android network model. The main point is delivering scale and quality for developers so as to acquire a massive user base quickly. That is key to monetization.
Additional speaker to be confirmed.
Immediately after presentations there will be Q&A , Networking and Door Prize Drawings .
Women Entrepreneurs of The Bay Area (WEBA) - Dr. Megan Wagner
Tuesday, March 15th
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (PT)
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Meetup Description:
Women Entrepreneurs of the Bay Area, also known as WEBA.
WEBA is a community of women movers and shakers who have a desire to connect with other outstanding and inspiring women leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area.
WEBA welcomes you! Whether you are just starting out as an entrepreneur or a seasoned professional—all are welcome at the Women Entrepreneurs of the Bay Area Meetup Group. Solopreneurs, professionals, coaches, consultants, speakers, and practitioners or any woman seeking a strong, like-minded group for networking and support are welcome!
WEBA will meet monthly to share skills and knowledge for successful entrepreneurship. This group is based on building relationships. You’ll also have the opportunity to showcase you and your business, and go way beyond networking in this group of amazing women.
WEBA guarantees your business will grow as you actively participate in brainstorming sessions and accelerated networking sessions.
WEBA’s featured speakers will discuss professional growth, personal and spiritual growth, living in gratitude, state of economy, business challenges, dreams and goals.
WEBA is the place to be for those individuals who have always wanted more out of Life! No dues to ‘join’ this group.
“A life is measured by the roads we travel and the people we share it with. This is how we grow. This is how we add light to the world.” ~ Adele Basheer
Joomla-Shopping Carts &1.6 Released/Updates/Discussion
Tuesday, January 25th
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (PT)
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Our first meetup will cover eCommerce, Joomla! Shopping Carts and specifically VirtueMart. This is a subject many have asked for, and this is a good time to cover this complex issue. With such a choice of options out there…what do you use? VirtueMart? Zen Cart? Tienda? Or what about all that PayPal code?
We will also touch on the much anticipated release of Joomla! 1.6. Specifically differences from 1.5 & components.
New Space: We are happy to announce that the Office of Silicon Valley has offered their co-working space for our use! We will test it out and hope to have meetups in the East Bay and North Bay soon!
6:30 - 7:00 - Networking
7:00 - 8:00 - Shopping Carts
8:00 - 8:30 - 1.6
Come. Learn. Share. Give. Take.
Learn to make appMobi Apps and games using JS and JS frameworks
Tuesday, January 18th
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (PT)
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