Boston based startup will describe their work on an open source, relational database named the Akiban Server. The goal of this technology is to unify the robust modeling and declarative nature of SQL with the object mapping capabilities of a document store, in a scalable architecture.  The core technology implements a new logical construct called table-groups that use relationships and usage information to mirror application objects. Table-groups inform the physical construct that interleaves related table data, effectively pre-computing most joins. Thissignificantly improves query performance for operational workloads and allows developers to access relational data as objects.

Speaker Bio:
Ori Herrnstadt is the founder and CTO of Akiban. He has been involved in developing large scale operational database systems since his days in the Israeli Military. After experiencing similar problems of large-scale operational systems in healthcare, ERP, CRM and modern web applications, he began developing the Orthogonal Architecture. In 2009, he founded Akiban Technologies to accelerate the development of this technology.

We’ll also be providing pizza and drinks for attendees, as well as Akiban swag (USB drives, coffee mugs, t-shirts..etc). Our meetup groups are always a lot of fun with lively conversation throughout, we hope to see you there!

Event Date: April 10, 2012

Location: Citizen Space SOMA

RSVP for this event here: http://www.meetup.com/codespace/

Last night over 70 people gathered to hear a panel moderated by Charles Hudson, a Venture Partner with SoftTech VC, talk about their experience bootstrapping, learning the importance of accountability, deciding what were the important metrics of success, and how to survive when things don’t go as well as hoped.

Christine Herron, Director with Intel Capital, Trevor Cornwell, the founder and CEO of appbackr inc., Danae Ringelmann, co-founder of IndieGoGo, and George Revutsky, the founder and CEO of MyNextCustomer all spoke eloquently about their experience.

We learned that mom can be the best angel investor when you need to get through that little hump, but be sure your arrangement has clear terms. We learned about risk, and the importance of maintaining strong relationships both personally and professionally.

Check out the photos on our facebook page, and look out for our next FailChat in the coming months!!

@CitizenSpace Holiday Party 2k11

All year long, Citizen Space has been a treasure trove of awesome new ideas, innovations, and has been the new home of a ton of super cool, creative endeavors.  Although we’re all-casual for the whole year, the workspace has seen many all-day and all-nighters, and let’s face it: in such a collaborative space, work becomes fun and fun becomes work and before you know it, you’re always working!

So, to give thanks to all of our members, various event sponsors, community partners, and all of our Citizen Spacer’s from the Bay Area (and afar) for a year’s worth of hard work, innovation, and collaboration with Citizen Space…..We’re throwin’ a party!

On Wednesday, December 21, 2011, we’re hosting the @CitizenSpace Holiday Party 2k11 at our SoMa, SF location.  Come unwind and network with some of the awesome people that all, in some way or another, are a part of of the Citizen Space #coworking network!  There’s going to be some drinks, snacks, games, tweets….and dessert.  Although we will have some things supplied, please do feel free to show us your best holiday treat cooking- you won’t hear us complaining!

The party will take place from 7:00pm to 10:00pm.  We are located at the intersection of 2nd Street & Harrison, building #425.  You will enter through the loading dock.  

Hope to see you all there!  Let Matt know if you have any questions: matt@citizenspace.us.

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PS- Matt’s even going to bake a batch of festive vegan holiday cookies.  Will it be….dark chocolate chip?  Half-baked brownies?  Or maybe even Macadamian Nut? Tweet your ideas to @CitizenSpace, and I’ll make the best one.

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Citizen Space is the world’s first coworking space, located at 425 2nd Street in the SoMa district of San Francisco.  The idea of Citizen Space is to take the best elements of a coffee shop (social, energetic, creative) and the best elements of a workspace (productive, functional), and combine them to give indie workers the chance to have their own, affordable office space.  Citizen Space was built on the coworking philosophy.  Our residents (past and present) range from: software engineers, web developers, social media consultants/strategists, graphic designers, product designers, public relations specialists, and sustainable web hosting entrepreneurs.  Check us out today! 

We love what we do — and it shows! Citizen Events is the new division of Citizen Space which creates and runs “fun and educational experiences for people” across the world. From events like Route to India cooking classes & Wine Tastings to Photography classes on weekends to Entrepreneurial events, your job is to dream up amazingly fun and educational experiences for fun smart people to do near their city. Each city has 1 full-time Experience Manager who creates the events and manages a part-time staff of Experience Coordinators to ensure that our events and classes are incredible.

As a part-time Experience manager you are responsible for the execution of our events from concept to execution. Whether you are handling talent booking, location scouting, customer registration, giving a welcome speech, or initiating a dance party, you are engaging with our customers and making sure that everyone is having a great time. Experience Managers should be smart, dynamic, friendly, and full of life — they are the heartbeat of our new division!

Passion combined with healthy doses of contagious energy, smarts and fun — then sprinkle in a sense of humor — that’s us! Basically, we’re the ones you take home to meet Mom.

What does an Experience Manager do?

• Books locations, talent, sources experience partners, works with our re-seller network to book dates, publishes events and classes to our sites
• Acts as the “face” of Citizen Space throughout the course of the event: engages with everyone while still maintaining full control of the event, from logistics to safety
• Pays attention to every detail and ensures that each event is run seamlessly
• Ensure that our customers are having fun and enjoying the event
• Manages event coordinators for each experience assuring quality control of experiences and classes

Qualifications:

• Four-year Bachelor’s degree
• Dynamic, engaging and exciting personality
• A great sense of humor
• Consistently fun with a strong work ethic
• Preferably 2+ years of professional experience
• Demonstrated social leadership in various facets of life
• Ability to be “on” for a full day or weekend
• Flexibility – you have to be willing to run a Hackathon event one weekend and a cooking class the next week, followed by a beer tasting the week after

This position can quickly become full time for the right candidate!

Send resumes to manager@citizenspace.us (please do not call)

As the holidays quickly approach, so does the season for generosity.  In the spirit of giving back to the community, Citizen Space has launched a food drive to benefit San Francisco Food Bank, a community non-profit dedicated to feeding the hungry.

Citizen Space is launching a food drive to benefit San Francisco Food Bank

Hunger manifests itself as a consistent lack of enough food to meet nutritional requirements. It can mean fewer meals each day and poor-quality food that is calorie-rich but nutrient-poor.

In San Francisco, 197,000 people struggle each day to feed themselves and their families. In Marin, just over 40,000 people – or 16% of the population – face the threat of hunger on a given day.

Citizen Space will be collecting canned food goods at our SF  & San Jose locations from now through the end of the year.  To reward all for participating in the food drive, we are offering 50% off of or regular drop-in rate for every person who donates five or more canned food items for the drive!

Citizen Space is also reaching out to other coworking establishments in San Francisco to build an all-star community of donors, with hopes of feeding more hungry people this holiday season.  Interested in contributing? E-mail Matt to join our team!

Giving back to the community with a round of  #coworking, on us: doesn’t get much better! Check out our team’s page today: http://holidaydrive.sffoodbank.org/team/8045388066

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Citizen Space is the world’s first coworking space located at 425 2nd Street, in the SoMa district of San Francisco.  The idea of Citizen Space is to take the best elements of a coffee shop (social, energetic, creative) and the best elements of a workspace (productive, functional) and combine them to give indie workers the chance to have their own, affordable space. Citizen Space was built on coworking philosophy. Our residents (past and present) range from: software engineers, web developers, social media consultants/strategists, graphic designers, product designers, public relations specialists, and sustainable web hosting entrepreneurs.

Hello Citizen Space Friends,

This Sunday (Nov. 20th) @StartupMonthly  is hosting it’s ICE BREAKER 3.0 in San Francisco!

As prelude to the Idea Accelerator workshop series, Ice Breaker is a full-day workshop focused on introducing you to your future co-founders and finding additional resources for  your exciting team. It’s an opportunity to meet a ton of great people and ideas, all through different interactive games and fun activities!

Join us on 11/20 for Ice Breaker 3 @ Citizen Space, SF

Ask yourself: Do you want to accelerate your idea? Meet a co-founder? Define a Business Model? Prototype your Minimal Viable Product and see if it can generate money? Do you want to be ready to apply to incubator or be ready to raise seed money?

The Startup Monthly Idea Accelerator program will help you achieve these goals in just 5 weeks!

The Ice Breaker is separate from the Idea Accelerator Program which is a 6 week (Due to the holidays) program that uses Lean Startup methodology and Customer Development to define a Business Model, prototype rapid MVP, test the market and show traction. You will be able to show your program results at our Final Demo event to a panel of investors and advisors that will give you suggestions on the next steps (Seed Investment, Incubator, etc)

This event is where you will build your team and recruit the missing resources, so it is critical that you take the time to get to know the members during the challenges and activities. Team is the most important factor in your next venture!

So, what are you waiting for?  Come join us this Sunday, November 20th, at Citizen Space in SoMa!   Please RSVP for this event!  More info below:

Meetup:  http://www.meetup.com/StartupMonthly/events/35747692/

For Mobile Ticketing (Mogotix), RSVP here: http://www.mogotix.com/events/5301

Early Bird – $30 until Nov 14th 11:30pm (finished)

Regular Price – $60 online and at the door (only cash)

See ya this weekend @CitizenSpace!

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Citizen Space is the world’s first coworking space located at 425 2nd Street, in the SoMa district of San Francisco.  The idea of Citizen Space is to take the best elements of a coffee shop (social, energetic, creative) and the best elements of a workspace (productive, functional) and combine them to give indie workers the chance to have their own, affordable space. Citizen Space was built on coworking philosophy. Our residents (past and present) range from: software engineers, web developers, social media consultants/strategists, graphic designers, product designers, public relations specialists, and sustainable web hosting entrepreneurs.

Monday October 17, 2011

An evening to discuss coworking, collaboration, and innovation in Silicon Valley. Come learn about the principles of the coworking movement that have sparked and inspired over 600 collborative spaces to open globally in the last 6 years.

Koken-Kai headed by Dr. Kenichi Ohmae, one of the most prestigious management consultants. Koken-Kai is a study group consisted of company owners and business executives in Japan. Dr. Ohmae and the members have strong interest in learning why Silicon Valley and neighboring areas continually create innovation.

Event Schedule:
6:00- 6:30 Networking, Appetizers, and Drinks
6:30-8:00 Panel Discussion
8:00-8:30 Questions from the crowd for panelist
8:30-9:00 Networking, Appetizers, and Drinks

Panel moderated by: Jaymes Hines

Panel Speakers:
Dr. Kenichi Ohmae, Koken-Kai
Toby Morning, CEO, Citizen Spaces
Raines Cohen, Coworking Coach
Brandon Hill, CEO, BTrax

Citizen Space is a coworking space. What that means is Citizen Space isn’t just another ‘rent a desk’ type of place. The spaces (and the idea of coworking) are built on the following values:

Collaboration: One of the great benefits of working in a coworking space is that you will meet all sorts of people with all sorts of knowledge.

Openness: We believe in transparency and openness. In a world where people are free, but ideas are not, only a few benefit. When ideas are free, everyone benefits. Therefore, we encourage open spaces and discussions. Sorry, no NDAs allowed.

Community: We thrive on connections and mutual support here. It is important that everyone give into as well as benefit from the strong (international) community coworking has become.

Accessibility: In order to be fully open, we must make the effort to be accessible to all. This means that we endeavor to create both a financially and a physically accessible space. We are committed to this principle and welcome feedback on how we can make it even more accessible

Get tickets now!

With Lulzsec, Anonymous, A-Team and others battling it out in cyberspace, don’t be the next company announcing a data breach through the press. The Gazzang presentation will cover:

Methods for protecting databases

Mike Frank and Gazzang will share many specifics regarding MySQL, but will also share our knowledge of other open-source databases such as PostgreSQL, Drizzle, and even NoSQL databases Cassandra and MongoDB.

ABOUT GAZZANG

Gazzang makes cloud computing enterprise-ready. Our Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions help organizations address the inherent risk associated with open source software tools, beginning with data encryption of databases and ultimately migrating all the way up the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). With customers in financial services, healthcare, higher education and technology, we know what it takes to deliver secure, compliant business services in today’s uncertain cloud environments. Gazzang is backed by Austin Ventures, with offices in Houston and Austin, Texas. For more info,visit www.gazzang.com

REGISTER FOR THE AUGUST 18 EVENT IN SAN JOSE HERE:
http://www.meetup.com/svlamp/events/26486541/

REGISTER FOR THE AUGUST 19 EVENT IN SAN FRANCISCO HERE:
http://www.meetup.com/startupaddiction/events/26652281/

iPAD CONTEST

As part of our pre-event promotion, we will be giving away an iPAD to one member of your group. They need not be present to win and simply have to click on the URL below to register.

http://gazzang.com/lead-gen-forms/swap-your-data-for-a-chance-to-win-an-ipad-2