7:00 – 9:00p.m. Tuesday, June 8th
Buffalo Billiards, 6th and Brazos

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What Didn’t Work the First Time Around

Presented by Matt Genovese

Matt, the founder of door64.com, a community of 7000+ Central Texas technology professionals shares his experience and lessons learned building communities.

Scalable CSS Solutions

Presented by Ryan Joy

Are you finding it difficult to scale your CSS as you add features to your web application? Do you want to empower more people to be able to construct web pages on your growing content team? I’m going to walk through a way of breaking down the problems most websites and web application run into when needing to scale production, as well as various solutions to add much needed modularization and predictability to your markup and CSS. We’ll take a look at SASS and some of its implementations, OOCSS, rolling your own pre-processing, and other concepts to balance semantics with extensibility.

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7:00 – 9:00p.m. Tuesday, May 11th
Buffalo Billiards, 6th and Brazos

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No You May Not Pick My Brain: Drawing the Line Between Free and Paid

Presented by Sheila Scarborough

Sheila, (one of our most popular presenters) returns to help you navigate requests for free consultations from friends, associates and strangers.

Legal Issues for Early Stage Startups

Presented by Brian Spross

Legal Issues for Early Stage Startups provides highlights of some of the major stumbling blocks and issues for early stage startups. Issues include when to incorporate and types of entities, types of intellectual property protection, and use of third party consultants.

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7:00 – 9:00p.m. Tuesday, April 13th
Buffalo Billiards, 6th and Brazos

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Old-School Business with New-School Tools

Presented by Tim Walker

All the technology in the world doesn’t change human needs. In this talk, business analyst & social-media pro Tim Walker will combine a little history, a little management theory, and a lot of common-sense business experience to help you rethink how to deliver maximum value to your users.

Webkit Transition: The Good, The Bad, and The Awesome

Presented by Dave Rupert

CSS3 is upon us. Modern browsers are advancing and gaining the ability to replicate with a few lines of CSS what used to be only possible in Flash and Javascript. We’ll take a look at Webkit’s brand new CSS Transition property and learn how to use it and, more importantly, how to use it wisely.

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We’re moving across the street to Texas Coworking as Buffalo Billiards has another event scheduled on Tuesday.

If you’re interested in presenting, you need to e-mail me by noon on Tuesday so I know how many people will want to speak. After the meeting, we’ll head downstairs to B.D. Riley’s pub for networking.

Given the proximity of this meeting to SXSW, we’re going to try something different. Anyone who has a panel at SXSW 2010 will be welcome to present a shortened version of their presentation. This allows the presenters a chance to run through their work in front of an audience and gain feedback as well as ensure that people who can’t make it to SXSW can learn from their. Even if you are going to SXSW this year, I highly recommend you join. Odds are good that you’ll be double-booked for many time slots, so why not get a taste for the panels that are of interest prior to the big event?

This is also a great time to meet other Austin Refreshers before the big event.

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Bonus! Don’t forget about the Refresh Lunch the Friday of SXSWi.

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Contact Alex if you would like to do a short version of your SXSW panel at the March meeting.

In our second meeting of the year we are diving into the business side with a panel discussing how you can get funding for your project or be acquired and then we’ll shift over to a presentation on Object-Oriented CSS and CSS frameworks. Both presentations are lined up to be informative and fun. Hope you can join us!

Event Details

7:00 – 9:00p.m. Tuesday, February 9th
Buffalo Billiards, 6th and Brazos

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How to Get Funded or Get Acquired

A Panel with:

• Jason Cohen, founder of SmartBear Software
• Pat Condon, founder of Rackspace Hosting
• Jim Curry, VP of Corporate Development, Rackspace Hosting
• Josh Baer, founder of OtherInbox

If you build apps, you should hopefully expect to get paid for them. If you’d rather focus on building than selling, this panel will help you learn the ins and outs of either getting funded or getting acquired by someone who can worry about the money part. Get perspectives from those who have found funding, funded, or acquired startups to help you wrap your brain around how to make your hard work pay off.

Scalable CSS Solutions

Presented by Ryan Joy

Are you finding it difficult to scale your CSS as you add features to your web application? Do you want to empower more people to be able to construct web pages on your growing content team? I’m going to walk through a way of breaking down the problems most websites and web application run into when needing to scale production, as well as various solutions to add much needed modularization and predictability to your markup and CSS. We’ll take a look at SASS and some of its implementations, OOCSS, rolling your own pre-processing, and other concepts to balance semantics with extensibility.

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Event Details

7:00 – 9:00p.m. Tuesday, January 12th
Buffalo Billiards, 6th and Brazos
Texas Coworking 200 E. 6th Street (3rd Floor of the Hannig Row Building)

IMPORTANT UPDATE The location has changed to Texas Coworking, which is across the street from Buffalo Billiards and directly above B.D. Riley’s Pub.

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weLost™: A Case Study/Discussion of a Hybrid iPhone/Web/REST App

Presented by Andrew W. Donoho

Our team released weLost™, our iPhone app, and its accompanying social weight loss network to the iTunes App Store in late December 2009. This hybrid app is both a native code and web application. I’ll be describing the high level choices we made in creating the app and social network.

What’s in Store for Refresh Austin in 2010

Presented by Alex Jones

We’re a dynamic group that has built a solid foundation that allows us to help each other improve on many levels, which is the only way we can truly judge our success. While our membership has grown significantly and attendance has steadily increased over the last few years, we’re not going to rest. Just like you, Refresh Austin is constantly improving and 2010 is shaping up to be a pivotal year. I’ll review the plans that we have for the next year and we’ll open up the majority of the time for discussion for what you would like to see out of the group.

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It’s time for the Second Annual Refresh Austin / Austin on Rails party and this time the fine folks of WordPress Austin will join us as co-hosts. Even better, the first 100 people to join us at the party will get a free drink thanks to our neighbor Rackspace (they’re right down the road in San Antonio).

There’s a lot of overlap between our groups, so this is a great opportunity to catch up with friends you may not have seen in a while as well as meet new people as passionate about the Web and technology as we are.

This is a great chance to reflect on what we’ve accomplished in 2009 and to hatch plans for the year to come.

Food Drive

To give back to the Austin community, please bring at least one non-perishable food item to the Austin on Rails/Refresh Austin/Wordpress Austin Holiday party. Cash donations for CAFB will also be accepted.

While not required, it would be helpful if you could RSVP on Facebook so we know how many people are coming.

Event Details

7:00 – 10:00p.m. Tuesday, December 8th
Buffalo Billiards, 6th and Brazos
We’ll be upstairs at Buffalo Billiards (top of the stairs, take a right) and we’ll have a bartender, so it should be more convenient to snag a tasty beverage. That said, as we don’t raise money, you’ll have to cover your own tab (beyond the first free drink from Rackspace if you’re one of the first 100).

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