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Monday, May 17th, 3:30 – 5PM Join Tech Liminal and award-winning web designer Jeff Jouppi for 90 minutes of discussion about web design. We will take a look at some of the world’s leading web sites and examine how and why they work (or don’t), from a design and user experience perspective. This event has [...]

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Saturday, May 15th, 2 – 6PM Join your friends at Tech Liminal for an afternoon of board gaming. We’ve got: – Settlers of Catan – Caracasone – Power Grid – Ticket to Ride (US, Europe, Germany) – Agricola – Race for the Galaxy – Scrabble – Boggle – Njet And more. If you’d like, Bring [...]

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About 25 WordPress users, programmers, designers, and enthusiasts came to Tech Liminal for the monthly East Bay WordPresss Meetup. The main topic of the day is custom theming, but we also spent some time discussing backup and security issues, especially in light of the recent “pharma hack” (read more about this at Chris Pearson’s site). [...]

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Monday, April 12th 6 – 7 PM Tech Talk and Geek Speak: Translating Expertise for Others Do people wonder what language you speak when describing your work as developing parallel monitors for Ruby on Rails applications across load-balanced servers? Join linguist Miriam R. L. Petruck, Ph.D., of The Perfect Word for an interactive workshop to [...]

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Tonight’s workshop included someone who is new at Digital Photography. We filled him in on a few of the basics, which was a good review for the rest of the group. How do you organize your photos? Not unlike the shoeboxes of yore, the “My Pictures” folder is insufficiently robust to keep your photos organized [...]

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Tuesday, Feb 2, 7:30 PM – 9 PM The Oakland meetup for Makers of all stripes and experience levels. We do a mini-project that combines crafting and electronics, discuss ongoing projects for members, and enjoy speakers from local Maker organizations. This fun-for-all-ages event starts at 7:30pm. Children under 14 need to be accompanied by an [...]

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This is a workshop that I’ve given a few times. You can read along, but much of what you see here is useful as a conversation starter. Please feel free to contact Tech Liminal if you’d like your own version of this Social Networking workshop.

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At the MakeSF meet-up at Tech Liminal this evening we made Bristle Bots (http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/bristlebot) and raced them. This was a lot of fun, and very silly. We explored the properties of different toothbrush head shapes, shaving the bristles down and weighting the motors in an attempt to get them to stand up.

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Friday, January 22, 9 AM – 3 PM In this one-day class, you’ll learn the basics of web video marketing for your business or cause. Video Marketing expert Pam Strayer will lead you through an experience that will leave you excited and inspired. No need to learn how to shoot or edit – you’ll learn [...]

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