Vancouver iPhone Developer Meetup – Wednesday, May/20 @ Guinness Tower Presentation Theatre – Free, Everyone Welcome

Steve Wart writes on the Vancouver Ajax/Web 2.0/Mobile Web forum:

We have booked a room for our May meeting, thanks to the support of the good folks at Wavefront.

The meeting will take place on 20 May 2009 between 18:30 and 20:00 in the Guinness Tower Presentation Theatre (1055 Hastings Street)

We will have presentations on the following topics:

Ed Povozan: Cocos2d – a framework for building 2d games
Aaron Hilton: OpenGL ES – the low-level API for graphics on the iPhone and other devices

We plan to allocate about 20 minutes for each session with about 10 minutes for Q&A.

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Vancouver iPhone Developer Meetup – Thursday, Apr/16 @ WorkSpace – Free, Everyone Welcome

Steve Wart writes on the Vancouver Ajax/Web 2.0/Mobile Web forum:

Just a quick note to let you know that we have booked a room for an April meeting. The location is Workspace at 400 – 21 Water Street and a projector will be available. We will meet on Thursday 16th April between 18:30 and 20:00 (6:30 pm and 8:00pm).

Andrei Iancu will be giving a presentation on Unit Testing in Objective-C, and he will also be prepared to talk about KVO/KVC compliance. A couple of other topics have been suggested and hopefully we can make time for those.

Open Webus Vancouverus 2009 Inviteth U 2 Submitteth Talk – June 11-12, 2009 @ Canada Place

Jeff Griffiths writes:

I’m helping organize this year’s Open Web Vancouver conference this June 11th and 12th. We haven’t opened registration yet, but we are accepting submissions for talks.

• Open Web Vancouver Event Site

Vancouver’s Freebase (Wikipedia-style Semantic Web Database) Talk w/ Jim Pick – Wed. March/4 @ UBC Downtown 7pm – Free, Everyone Welcome

VanDev organizer Guy Lancaster invites you:

We have a room booking and in March we have Jim Pick giving a presentation on Vancouver Base, Vancouver’s Freebase effort.

About the Presentation:

Freebase is a freely licensed social database, containing structured data about more than four million topics. Freebase allows groups to come together to gather and present information about the subjects they’re passionate about, from racing cars to dog breeds to local politics. With a RESTful API and a hosted server-side Javascript app development platform called Acre, developers can use Freebase’s structured data to build data-rich mashups and web 2.0 apps.

The Vancouver Base is a collection of topics within Freebase, containing a wide range of ‘hyperlocal’ information, specifically about Vancouver, BC, Canada. The data is being collectively built using a Wikipedia-style community process, licensed into the Creative Commons, and forms one of the earliest, most cohesive collections of data about a single city on the growing Semantic Web.

Jim will show some examples of data-rich apps and mashups built with Freebase, Acre, and open data from the Vancouver Base.

• VanDev: Vancouver’s Software Developers Network Meetup Sign-Up Page (Free, Everyone Welcome)

1st Vancouver Freebase (Free Semantic Web Database) Meetup, Sun. Feb/22 @ Irish Heather 12-3ish

Kirrily Robert (aka Skud) from Freebase invites you:

Join us for some lunch and a beer or two to chat about Freebase, the free database of structured data on topics ranging from earthquakes to venture capital.

We’ve arranged this meetup for the weekend of Northern Voice, which we’ll also be attending. If you’re interested in learning more about Freebase, or following up on discussions from Northern Voice, come to the Irish Heather at noon on Sunday 22nd February.

There’ll be free wifi available, and Freebase staff and experts on hand to show off some cool Freebase features and applications, and to answer all your questions.

• Vancouver Freebase Meetup Sign-Up Page (Free, Everyone Welcome)
• Vancouver Freebase
• RDF Vancouver

Vancouver iPhone Developer Meetup – Wed., Feb/18 @ The NetworkHub – Free, Everyone Welcome

Steve Wart writes on the Vancouver Ajax/Web 2.0/Mobile Web forum:

I’d just like to remind everyone that we are confirmed to meet at Network Hub for Wednesday 18 February between 7pm and 8:30pm.

So far 24 people have said they’ll attend. It’s a big space, fairly casual. There will be room for everyone but maybe not enough chairs, so come early

Open Web Vancouver 2009 – 1st Event Planning Meetup Dec/11 @ Gene Cafe @ 7:30 – Come One, Come All

Jeff Griffiths invites you and writes:

We’re going to meet up at Gene Cafe at the wedge of Main and Kingsway this Thursday (Dec 11) to start planning next year’s conference. If you are at all interested in helping, in any capacity, feel free to drop by.

• Open Web Vancouver Event Site
• Open Web Vancouver Twitter Updates

2nd RDF Vancouver/Semantic Web User Group Meeting – Wed, Nov/26 @ WorkSpace

Jim Pick posts on the event listing:

This is the second monthly meeting of the RDF Vancouver Semantic Web User Group. It is intended to be an informal event for learning about the latest Semantic Web technologies, and networking with other users/developers in the community.

It will be held at WorkSpace, from 7:00pm on Wednesday, November 26th.

Proposed program (90 minutes):

• Dorian Taylor is going to start with a short talk for newcomers explaining what the Semantic Web is
• Gerald Bauer is going to talk about Microformats
• Jim Pick is going to talk about Freebase, Acre and the new Vancouver “base”

After the presentations, some of us might head over to the Irish Heather for a beer or two.

1st RDF Vancouver/Semantic Web User Group Meeting – Wed, Oct/29 @ WorkSpace

Jim Pick posts on the event listing:

This is the inaugural meeting of the RDF Vancouver Semantic Web User Group. It is intended to be an informal event for learning about the latest Semantic Web technologies, and networking with other users/developers in the community.

It will be held at WorkSpace, from 7:00pm on Wednesday, October 29th.

As this is our first event, we need speakers! Please get in touch with Jim Pick if you’d like to present.

Vancouver’s 1st iPhone Developer Meetup – Thu, Oct/16 @ BCIT Downtown

Steve Wart writes on the Vancouver Ajax/Web 2.0/Mobile Web forum:

I’ve booked room 353 at BCIT at 555 Seymour Street for the iPhone meetup on
Thursday, October 16th from 18:30 until 20:00.

We can talk for 60-90 minutes. About what depends on what people are interested in. There is no agenda, and it’s the first meeting so it will be informal.