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The New York Web Standards Meetup will meet 17 March 2010 at reBar at 7:00 pm for "CSS3 and the Death of the Background Image, or Yet Another Talk on Progressive Enhancement (aka Death to IE6/7/Sometimes 8)."

The immense CSS3 proposal (which has been on the W3C's table for years) is now seeing a significant number of draft modules being implemented in browsers and most of these modules are explicitly geared toward reducing our time in Photoshop. In this comprehensive how-to, Marco Carag (TheKnot.com) will run through all the new properties you've been reading about and anticipating, including @font-face, rgba, gradients, drop-shadows, transforms and animation. Using both focused proof-of-concept pages and actual production examples from The Knot and other websites across the web, attendees will see the impact of CSS3 on the average front-end workflow and understand how it improves or affects your users' experience across all browsers.

Please contact theMechanism if you'd like to present at a future New York Web Standards meetup.

Standards.Next comes to New York and would like to invite all interested Web developers and designers to attend and participate in a free event focused on CSS3.

Talks will range from a focus on CSS3 features related to color, typography and media; to discussions of Open Web concepts, current case studies and demos, as well as brainstorming sessions to openly work with and solve shared challenges within our industry.

Speakers include:

• Molly E. Holzschlag, who will speak on CSS3 color including HSLa and RGBa
• Andy Budd will speak on backgrounds and borders and other cool CSS3 design stuff
• Håkon Wium Lie, who will present on Web typography
• Pete LePage on HTML5 features in IE

Slides, commentary and tracked Tweets will be available at the Standards.Next website at http://www.standards-next.org. Hash tag: #standardsnext

The New York Web Standards Meetup will meet tomorrow (24 September 2009) at theMechanism at 7:00 pm.

Mike Taylor (Tunecore.com) and Jeffrey Barke (theMechanism) will continue last month's presentation on HTML5 by covering Web Forms 2.0 and the canvas, audio and video elements.

The canvas element can be used to draw graphics using JavaScript, while the audio and video elements permit native embedding of those media elements in the browser. Web Forms 2.0 provides, among other things, strongly-typed input fields, new attributes for defining constraints and new DOM interfaces

Please note—This meetup is currently full and the waiting list is quite long. If you know you won't be able to make it, please update your RSVP.

Please contact theMechanism if you'd like to present at a future New York Web Standards meetup.

The Internet Society's New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) welcomes David Bollier to speak at NYU on 18 May 2009.

David will talk about the themes of his new book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (New Press). Viral Spiral is the first comprehensive history of the "free culture" movement and "sharing economy" that is empowering ordinary people, disrupting markets and changing politics and culture. Bollier will talk about the rise of free and open source software, Creative Commons licenses, the new forms of non-market creativity (Wikipedia, blogs, remix music, videos) as well as fascinating innovations in open science, open education and "open business models."

Monday, 18 May 2009. 7pm
Courant Institute
251 Mercer Street (Warren Weaver Hall). Room 109
The public is welcome (photo id required).

The New York Web Standards Meetup Group will meet this Thursday (16 April 2009) at theMechanism at 7:00 pm.

Christy Gurga (theMechanism) will present different perspectives on formatting type online and demonstrate methods you can use right away. While only basic CSS knowledge is required, Christy will cover advanced techniques that are applicable for front-end developers of any level.

You'll learn how to establish the CSS foundation for your type using relative font sizes and ems, implement text replacement practices for specially formatted headers and polish your typography with extra detail.

16 April 2009 . 7:00 pm
theMechanism
440 9th Avenue 8th Floor
New York, NY 10001 [map]

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Please note—This meetup is currently full and the waiting list is quite long. If you know you won't be able to make it, please update your RSVP.

Please contact theMechanism if you'd like to present at a future New York Web Standards meetup.

Please note—The NY Web Standards Meetup: Advanced Google Maps API has been rescheduled from 19 February 2009 to 26 February 2009.

The New York Web Standards Meetup Group will meet next Thursday (26 February 2009) at theMechanism at 7:00 pm.

After a brief intro to/review of the Google Maps API, Jeffrey Barke (theMechanism) will cover some advanced Google Maps API topics, including server- and client-side clustering, creating custom base maps and some GIS-like functions.

Attendees should have some experience with JavaScript and familiarity with the Google Maps API.

26 February 2009 . 7:00 pm
theMechanism
440 9th Avenue 8th Floor
New York, NY 10001 [map]

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Please contact theMechanism if you'd like to present at a future New York Web Standards meetup.

From NYC Resistor:

Russ Nelson is going to be in town and he's organized an OpenStreetMap mapping party!

Hey, want to come out and make NYC a better place to live whilst having fun at the same time? OpenStreetMap is a community-generated open source map of everything you think is interesting. "If you want it mapped right, you've got to map it yourself." Don't have the skills? Well, that's what a mapping party is for! We'll have GPS receivers to loan out, we'll give you some instruction and turn you loose on an unsuspecting city. You gather interesting positional data, come back and we'll show you how to place that on the map. Give it an hour or so and it shows up on the map that everyone can see. The parties are Saturday, 14 February, and Sunday, 15 February, 11 am to 4 pm, both at Radiance Tea House south of Central Park South. Details here on the OpenStreetMap wiki.

The New York Web Standards Meetup Group will meet this Thursday (22 January 2009) at theMechanism at 7:00 pm.

Geir Magnusson (10gen) will talk about 10gen's MongoDB, an object-oriented DBMS. It is neither a relational database nor even "table oriented" like Amazon SimpleDB or Google's BigTable.

22 January 2009 . 7:00 pm
theMechanism
440 9th Avenue 8th Floor
New York, NY 10001 [map]

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Please contact theMechanism if you'd like to present at a future New York Web Standards meetup.

The New York Web Standards Meetup Group will meet this Thursday (4 December 2008) at theMechanism at 7:00 pm.

Scott Trudeau (Apartment Therapy Media) will demo using Subversion, MAMP/XAMPP, TortoiseSVN and SvnX and show some tricks for managing dev/staging/production versions.

4 December 2008 . 7:00 pm
theMechanism
440 9th Avenue 8th Floor
New York, NY 10001 [map]

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Please contact theMechanism if you'd like to present at the March or April 2009 meetup.

ISOC-NY is a co-sponsor of Evan Korth's Computers & Society speaker series at NYU this fall. The next talk is this Sunday and it will feature Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford University. His topic is "Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy."

The content industry has convinced industry in general that extremism in copyright regulation is good for business and economic growth. That's false. In this talk, Professor Lessig describes the creative and profitable future that culture and industry could realize, if only we gave up IP extremism.

9 November 2008 . 6:00 pm
Warren Weaver Hall NYU . Rm 109
251 Mercer Street
New York, NY 10012 [map]

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