• Meeting: Silicon Valley GTUG
• Date: June 4, 2008
• Cost: Always FREE to all!
• Topic: Google Gears: Teaching the Open Web New Tricks
• Speaker: Brad Neuberg

Although this is a free event, we are requesting that people register in advance and we will be limiting attendance to a maximum of 200 attendees.

Gears is an open source plug-in that teaches current web browsers new tricks. Gears is a clever way to raise the bar cross-browser and cross-platform, today, running inside of Firefox and Internet Explorer on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. No more waiting years for features to show up across all browsers and platforms. APIs include: A real embedded relational database (SQLite) for web sites; client-side full text search; threads for JavaScript; offline web applications; secure and fast cross-domain mashups; desktop shortcuts; mobile devices; and more. Come and learn how to use Gears from Brad Neuberg (Dojo Offline, Dojo Storage, Really Simply History, Hyperscope, coworking), Developer Advocate at Google and member of the Gears team.

• 6:00-6:15pm Arrive & mingle -- Food & drinks provided by Google
  
• 6:15-6:45pm Google Technology Demos by our members
  
• 6:50-7:00pm General Announcements
  
• 7:00-8:00pm Gears Presentation by Brad Neuberg
  

During the networking hour, we invite our members that develop applications using Google Technology to do brief demos of 5 minutes or less. Please contact Van Riper to indicate your interest to demo your stuff. Time permitting, we will include as many demos as possible before the main event. Demos of web applications that use Google Gears will be given precedence for this particular meeting.

Brad Neuberg is an open source geek and developer advocate for Google. He currently works with the Gears team, a browser plugin that teaches current web browsers new tricks; created Dojo Offline and Dojo Storage, libraries that enable applications to go offline easily and store large amounts of data on the client-side; created the Really Simple History library, a well-known framework that makes it easy to bookmark and work with the browser history for Ajax applications; worked with Douglas Engelbart on the HyperScope project, grafting new hypertext abilities onto the contemporary web; and invented coworking, an international grassroots movement to found a new kind of workspace for independents. Brad lives in San Francisco with his cat, George.

Google, Inc. (GooglePlex Map)
Tunis Conference Room, Bldg. 43
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

Please enter from the north side of the building, in the middle of the Google campus. Also, parking will be much easier to find in the lots south of Bldg. 44 across the street from the main complex.

We would like to thank Google for providing the venue and the refreshments for this meeting.