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Generating a commit log for San Francisco’s official list of trees
San Francisco has a neat open data portal (as do an increasingly large number of cities these days). For a few years my favourite file on there has been Street Tree List, a list of all 190,000 trees in the city maintained by the Department of Public Works.
[... 1051 words]Late night dining near Great American Music Hall
Tommy’s Joynt is a couple of blocks away and is a San Francisco institution—great comfort food, inexpensive, crammed with personality and open late.
[... 40 words]San Francisco Recommendations: comics, fashion, food, and more
I’m not a huge comics person, but that said I strongly recommend a trip to Isotope Comics in Hayes Valley on a weekday. Go on a weekday when the owner is running the store. He is incredibly charismatic and positively vibrates with enthusiasm about comics. He also has an incredible collection of toilet seats lining the upper wall of the store, each one illustrated by a famous comic book artist. Make sure to ask him about them.
[... 122 words]What are good event venues to have a 100 person weekend hackathon in San Francisco?
As a general rule, tech companies in San Francisco are very supportive of hackathons and keen to host events. Eventbrite have hosted this kind of event in their office in the past, and I’m certain there are a bunch of other companies with decent spaces that would be worth approaching. Does the hackathon have a specific topic? I suggest approaching companies related to that topic as a starting point.
[... 90 words]For a 2-day developer conference in SF, which two days of the week are best?
It depends on the topic and the audience.
[... 111 words]Is it worth it for an aspiring web developer in NYC to attend the San Francisco Startup Jobs Fair in November? What I mean is what are my chances that a company would be interested in me, allowing that my code skills are up to snuff, if I don’t live ...
Not being in SF already is no problem at all—demand for talented developers is crazy high, so provided you are a great developer the fact you would need to relocate won’t be a barrier.
[... 142 words]Events (leisure): What are the best places in San Francisco for organizing a small meetup?
If it’s a technical event, there are dozens of tech companies with excellent facilities who might be convinced to host the event for free.
[... 45 words]What are the best tech community event sites in San Francisco?
We have a large and growing community-maintained list of mostly-tech events in San Francisco here:
[... 85 words]What Social Media events or conferences are taking place in November 2011 in San Francisco or New York?
There don’t seem to be many “social media” events happening in November—September and October are peak season.
[... 120 words]What tech conferences are upcoming in San Francisco?
We have a pretty good list here: http://lanyrd.com/places/san-fra...
[... 23 words]Are any major tech conferences held in San Francisco in August or early September?
Dreamforce (the Salesforce/Cloud computing conference) is pretty huge—30th August to 2nd September: http://www.salesforce.com/dreamf...
[... 48 words]Which Bay Area startups are going to SXSW 2011?
http://lanyrd.com/ will be there—both myself and Nat.
[... 25 words]Where can I find a calendar of upcoming tech events in the San Francisco / Bay area?
Take a look at http://lanyrd.com/places/san-fra...
[... 29 words]Where is a good list of social media events in the San Francisco Bay Area for 2011?
Take a look at http://lanyrd.com/places/san-fra...
[... 29 words]What UX/UI conferences in the SF Bay area are worth attending?
BayCHI is excellent from what I’ve heard: http://www.baychi.org/
[... 50 words]What are the best websites for finding out about events in San Francisco in advance, i.e., before they take place?
PlanCast is your best bet for general events, but if you’re interested in conferences we have a growing list on http://lanyrd.com/places/san-fra...
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