... h2. Meetup/Mashup
Dear CommunityONE & JavaONE Attendees:
On May 4 from 12-5pm, we are hosting a Meetup/Mashup at the Moscone Center to help local nonprofits harness the web to make their organizations more effective.
This event will give you an opportunity to direct your talent and programming skills to nonprofits focused on making positive social change, to see how others are using to technology to enact positive social change, and an opportunity meet some passionate people working to make the communities where we live and work a better place. You can help them do this by using your Java technology expertise, and we want you to join us\!
We are working with [NetSquared|http://www.netsquared.org] \- a nonprofit based in SF - to put this event on in support of their ongoing [Mashup Challenge|http://www.netsquared.org/mashup], and we are inviting students from local universities, attendees from CommunityONE and JavaONE, to join us in supporting these groups. Attendees of CommunityONE and JavaONE include developers from Sun Microsystems, Inc. as well as many other leading technology providers from around the globe.
h4. How Will You Be Helping?
By joining this event you will be working with non-profit organizations on a range of challenges including:
* Refining some of their ideas about how the data they are using could be rendered in mashups; and
* In some cases, building mashups using a variety of APIs, products, or coming up with creative technical solutions to particular problems they are facing.
We invite your best thinking and technical expertise on Sunday May 4 to join this unique opportunity to help make positive social change.
h4. How Do You Register?
If you want to help make a difference and are interested in attending this event, *please email:* meetup.mashup@sun.com.
In this email, please provide the following information:
1. Name:
2. Technology expertise:
3. Employer/Nonprofit or/School
4. Interests (for developers: Cause that you are passionate about; for non profits: technology challenge(s) you hope to address)
5. Developers, please indicate if you are interested in being a discussion leader at the event
Confirmation of participation as well as logistics will be sent out by Tuesday, April 29th.
Space is limited: so please sign up today\! |