Hacker Dojo is a place for technologists to meet, geek out, learn and create.
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- Founded:
- May 2009
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- Python Web Contractor Meeting ...
Hacker Dojo, Savanna, First floor
Wednesday, January 13 at 7:00pm
Hacker Dojo Come to Hacker Dojo's Holiday Party Sat. December 19th at 9pm! Don't forget to dress up!
Location:Hacker Dojo
Time:9:00PM Saturday, December 19th
Hacker Dojo Learn the basics of XHTML and CSS in the most awesome environment in the Bay Area - Hacker Dojo! Bring a laptop and a deep love of Web Standards :D
Time:1:00PM Wednesday, November 11th
Location:Hacker Dojo, 140B
Hacker Dojo And here's our HackerSpaces page on the Dojo.
hackerspaces.org
Hacker Dojo has incorporated and has approximately 85 members and 5 commercial sponsors - including both Microsoft and Google. The space opened on September 1, 2009 and is open to all members and their guests. ...
Hacker Dojo As an FYI, our Wikipedia article on the Dojo.
en.wikipedia.org
Hacker Dojo is a 8180 square foot community center and hackerspace in Mountain View, California, formed out of the membership of the regular SuperHappyDevHouse hacker meetups and also inspired by nearby ...
Hacker Dojo Come to HackerDojo to watch WarGames!
Time:8:00PM Saturday, October 17th
Location:Hacker Dojo, 2nd Floor Deck
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Bust out your costumes, we're doing Halloween in style! Excellently cheesy decorations, candy, Rocky Horror Picture Show - the whole shebang!
We're trying a few new things this time - Bring Your Own Cup! In efforts to be "green" and save on trash, bring your own mug or cup for drinks, and refill it throughout the night....
This party is open to Hacker Dojo members and their friends only - if you're a member, request an invite here and we'll cross check it against our roll.
After you're on the list, send an email to casey at hackerdojo.com with the names of up to *5* awesome people who you'd like to invite to this party, and we'll check them off at the door when they arrive.
Alcohol is BYOB like the Grand Opening, and we have some folks pitching in for a keg!
Celebrate this Week-Before-Night-of-the-Dead with all of your friends at Hacker Dojo!
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If you’re feeling insecure about your professional prospects, you’re in good company. The world has changed, your cheese has moved (*), and it’s high time to face facts: most high-tech technical communicators have become commodities, purveyors of expensive and increasingly unvalued services.
Globalization, a shrinking e...conomy, impatient customers, and increasingly lean, “do-more-with-less” companies are now the norm. Especially in high tech, product quality deteriorates but users seem to care only about initial cost. Meanwhile, technical communicators have become passive and disengaged from their audience, their compensation rates are trending downward, job security has become a joke, and true professional advancement is rare. Job satisfaction is the exception rather than the rule.
My view is that high-tech technical communicators’ best option is to apply their skills to other industries and focus on helping customers generate profits. I have some specific answers to the ‘where from here’ question, but the list is far from complete and I hope to catalyze (with insights, anecdotes, hope and, yes, fear) a productive discussion about how to respond to the marketplace’s challenges.
(*) Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard, Sept 1998.
Time:6:00PM Thursday, September 24th
Location:Hacker Dojo, Savanna, First floor
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Lost between all the Cloud Storage providers? Don't understand their differences?
Come join us in this session led by Adrian Cole, founder of jclouds.org, in which he introduces key/value storage concepts (and several leading options including Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud Files, Microsoft Azure Blob Service, Cloud Layer, ...and Nirvanix), and compares them on the pricing and code/api level.
Adrian will also speak about his project, jclouds, which acts as an abstraction layer over the above services.
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, September 30th
Location:Hacker Dojo, 2nd Floor Deck
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Running a business can be costly especially when daily operations require usage of commercial software.
Learn what Open Source is and how you can save your company money by replacing high cost non-flexible software solutions with low to no-cost alternatives.
Time:9:00AM Saturday, October 10th
Location:Hacker Dojo, Sun Room & Green Room, 2nd Floor
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How can Social Media help get the word out about your small business? Whether you are a stay-at-home mom trying to start a small online shop or an established brick-and-mortar business, learning to promote your business through social media is a guaranteed way to spread the word. Stay on top of what clients and potenti...al clients are saying about your industry or your business.
We will also discuss how to post without jeopardizing your professional reputation.
Laptops are recommended so you can follow along.
This EVENT has been cancelled due to low/no response. It will be rescheduled for end of October/beginning of November.
Time:9:00AM Saturday, September 26th
Location:Hacker Dojo, Sun Room & Green Room, 2nd Floor
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Hacker Dojo wants YOU to come celebrate our first month of operation in style!
There will be a dj (or two!), great people and tasty edibles for your enjoyment.
Although we didn't plan it this way, in honor of Sept. 19th/ International Talk Like a Pirate Day:
Hacker Dojo is desirin' fer YE t' come celebrate our first moon... 'o' operation in style!
Thar be a dj (or two!), great swabbies an' tasty edibles fer yer enjoyment.
Arrrgh, avast, ahoy matey and all that!
Come celebrate our first month of operation!!
Time:7:30PM Saturday, September 19th
Location:Hacker Dojo
Hacker Dojo Come to the Hacker Dojo to talk about Zope, Python, and all sorts of related things!
For those interested in Zope, Python, Plone, Django, Repoze, and Grok
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, September 16th
Location:Hacker Dojo, Sun Room & Green Room, 2nd Floor
