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JustShareIt Launch Week

 

Hi SBS-ers your private car sharing circle is finally set up and ready to use and share - here are the details . . .

Feeling like your car, scooter, boat isn’t getting much use?
Wish you had easy access to quick or fun transportation, provided to you by a local SF startup?
SBS alums and now SBS partners Just Share It are finally here to solve all your transportation dilemmas!

Most people with a vehicle are willing to share it, most of the time, but not with most people. The Sandbox Suites private network is designed to enable owners to better trust borrowers and to convince borrowers to take great care of owners’ cars. It also makes the Sandbox Community a little tighter, so you can discover folks in the network who you might not have otherwise met.This week is Just Share It is officially rolling out the red carpet at EACH location and signing you all up for the SANDBOX SUITES PRIVATE CAR SHARING experience. Feel free to stop by Union Square (Wednesday), and Berkeley (Thursday) to ask any and all of your questions to Jesse, JustShareIt’s Community Manager.

Key-exchange can be a hassle sometimes, and JSI’s “RideLink” soothes any issues related to access or vehicle protection. Vehicle owners have the opportunity to get JustShareIt’s in-vehicle access and tracking hardware (RideLink), installation included.Being in the SBS community puts you in a community of like minded individuals - you are all here to add value to the world in some way. Sharing your vehicle with your peers can save them time and money and put some extra cash in your pocket each month.

You’ve probably got some questions, and each Sandbox Welcome Desk host has a list of FAQs to answer those.For additional questions and for the private offer codes please send an email to [email protected] for a more thorough response.

Follow the Link Below to Sign up:
http://www.justshareit.com/jsi/ext/showsignup.do

Happy 2013!

Happy New Year to all of you who participate in and support our coworking community. We received so much support during the expansion of our Union Square space this year. We are so blessed to have a community of members as awesome as you! Thank you for making Sandbox Suites all that it has become in 2012. Looking forward to a eventful and prosperous 2013 for all of you!

Best Wishes,
The Sandbox Suites Team;
Roman, Dominick, Shadi, Kiki, Erik, Joey, Melissa

Intel Ultracode Hits The ‘Suites

 

Join us for the first Intel code&tell meetup at Sandbox Suites South Park! Come with your programming appetite and bring your hacks. We’ll have a few short code demonstrations, raffle and of course pizza and beer; if you are up to plug your computer and give a technical demo to the rest of the group let us know - we have a few more spots left.

*Update - we’ve filled all demo spots for our December meetup, however we’re already planning our January event so there’ll be more opportunities to present.

Raffle prizes:

1 high speed high capacity Intel SSD http://amzn.to/SnmRRw

1 mid capacity Intel SSD http://amzn.to/TkUId4

2 Perceptual Computing cameras

3 Intel swag bundles

Tentative Agenda:

7PM | Opening

7:30PM | Code Demos:

1. Bob Duffy will be doing a quick demo of his HTML5 vector based game and show how he added device touch, tilt and rotation input controls via WinRT APIs.

2. Gilles de Bordeaux will demo his new windows 8 app and show the power of the standard Windows 8 templates in Visual Studio 2012.

3. Raimo Tuisku will give a presentation, demo and architectural description of a real-time ball in a maze game Velomazecontrolled with an accelerometer API of modern HTML5 browsers

4. Eugene Chuvyrov will demonstrate the power of sharing and searching contracts in Windows 8 applications. Little talk, just code in both JavaScript and C# showing how easy it is to implement these powerful and valuable features of Windows 8 apps.

5. Giorgio Zamparelli will be demoing his Android app Famenu(work in progress) and talk about the open source frameworks he used to put it together

6. Gayathri will demo a photo app showcasing pinch, zoom and swipe gestures. Ambient light sensor, orientation sensor and accelerometer. She will also talk about a good UI design for touch interfaces. *We will also get to see a Perceptual Computing demoby Gayathri at the Ultrabooks sandbox during the break.


8:30PM | Pizza break and time to play with the new Ultrabooks!

 

9PM | More Code Demos:

1. Bruno Terkaly will present two projects: an Azure back-end webservice that made calls into Google maps to retrieve geo-location information. The second project is a Windows 8 application that calls into the Azure cloud service, passing in GPS coordinates.When the cloud service received the coordinates, it used Google maps to give more details about the location to the Windows 8 application.

2. Chris Skaggs (Soma Games) will demo their Wind Up Footballgame using all the bells and whistles of the Ultrabook. He could speak to anyone wanting to use Unity as tool for development on Win 8 and the Ultrabook.

3. Giacomo Balli will be demoing his Coin Toss Extreme game; built entirely in HTML5 he’ll go through all aspects of it and share code snippets.

4. James Edwards will be showing a practical use for variadic templates with a safe printf example. Also touches on type traits.

 

9:45PM | Raffle and Giveaways


10PM | Closing

 

Feel free to use #ultracode on twitter.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

Event, Events, Events!

With the Holiday season upon us Sandbox Suites and our partners are getting in gear for some exciting upcoming events. We are hosting a wide array of events from startup sales workshops to the first of a series of Ultracode events sponsored by Intel. We are also giving back to the community this coming month - Sandbox is proud to announce we are joining forces with the SF and Marin county food bank to give back to this wonderful community. Funders and Founders is back at Sandbox Suites with a lawyer/investor panel and their International Founders and Startup immigration Q&A.

We look forward to seeing you all there - Here’s a breakdown of whats coming up. Remember - all events are open to the public and free for SBS Members. You can also click on the image above to be directed to our calendar.

 

Intel Ultracode Meet & Greet + Demo’s
Wednesday December 5th 2012 - Sandbox Suites (South Park)
http://www.meetup.com/Ultracode-Intel/events/89096262/

Startup Sales Meetup
Monday December 10th, 2012 - Sandbox Suites (South Park)
http://www.meetup.com/Startup-Sales-Circle-SF-Silicon-Valley/

Sandbox Suites Food Drive Begins
Monday December 10th - Friday December 14th - Sandbox Suites - (All Locations)
http://holidaydrive.sffoodbank.org/team/3176950187

International Founders and Startup Immigration Program
Wednesday December 12th 2012 - Sandbox Suites (South Park)
http://meetup.fundersandfounders.com/events/58791252/?eventId=58791252&action=detail

Happy Hour Q&A with JustShareIt (SBS members only)
Thursday December 13th - Sandbox Suites (South Park)
http://goo.gl/RZ9uo

Sandbox Suites Holiday Happy Hour (Open to Public)
Thursday December 20th - Sandbox Suites (ALL LOCATIONS!)
Join us at of of our four locations for cocktails and mingling.

Flurry TechHub SF - Hosting Monthly Developer meetups at SBS!


Sandbox has partnered with Flurry TechHub to bring the SBS some valuable tech centric events.
Flurry TechHub is a free-to-attend event that brings together high-caliber developers, founders, entrepreneurs and investors in the technology community. Group Meetups include both technical and market-oriented sessions and meet on a monthly basis. Their primary objective is to educate the market and help expand and inspire the developer base in creating and monetizing mobile applications. Flurry TechHub Meetups are held across the world’s top tech centers including San Francisco, New York, and London.

Meet the smartest, most innovative tech entrepreneurs in your community. Build relationships and share ideas in a relaxed setting over free drinks, free food and free knowledge.

Flurry TechHub’s first SBS hosted event will be TOMORROW evening Tuesday August 28th at 6pm at our South Park space. Tomorrow evening’s meetup will focus on “making some killer android apps!” Details below. Please RSVP on eventbrite.

Making money on Android can be hard. Many developers devote countless hours to building, testing, and marketing their apps only to fall short. In this meetup, we’ll go over everything you need to know to get started including tips, tricks and benchmarks to reach optimal performance. We’ll look at continuous integration and automated android builds, and testing of android devices out in the wild. We’ve pulled together a panel of developer experts from across the app industry to describe their testing Dos and Don’ts.

 

Join us: Tuesday, August 28 at Sandbox Suites for pizza, beer, networking and hear some success stories from developers who dedicate their time and efforts towards making some killer android apps.
Moderator: Bisera Ferrero, Sr. Solutions Architect @ Flurry
Panelists:
  • Nicholas Talarico, Founder & CEO of 12Gigs
  • David Zhang, Lead Developer, SideCar

SBS is Expanding!!!

If you’ve seen all four of our spaces - or at least checked out the pictures online you may understand this depiction of our newest SBS baby - “The New space is something like if South Park and Union Square had a love child!”

There is a wonderful downtown/city vibe with beautiful paintings and decor, and a SOMA-like creative space with bright colors and a wonderful outdoor garden. And lets not forget the best part - we are only a few steps below our 567 Sutter St location! We are very proud and delighted to announce this exciting expansion - there has been a lot of interest in private desks and private offices so this new space is geared towards those needs.

Here are some photo’s while we were fixing the place up!

A quick breakdown of the space and the prices:

20 Private Desks Regularly $495 but we are offering a special discount for $445
4 three-person offices $1485/mo
1 six-person private garden office $3959/mo
1 seven-person office $2950/mo
2 three-person conference rooms
1 six-person conference room
4 coworking spots (only open to Frequent Flyer members)

 

Here is the finished product! - What do you think?

Whats next for SBS? You tell us - we are always looking for feedback and want to know where and how you like your space. For now we’d love for you to come check out the new digs and keep an eye out for a grand opening party! =)

 

AlertMe moving on up!

We are always sad to see any of our members leave us, but in all honesty thats what we strive for in our business model. Why you ask? Well because that just means we are doing our job in helping our members grow, acheive their goals and move on to bigger and better things!

So although we are sad to see AlertMe go - we are excited for them in their new venture across the US!

David Bercovich - AlertMe’s North America VP talks to us in an interview (also linked below) about what the future holds for him and his team. He also tells us how Sandbox Suites helped him and the experiences he had coworking here with us!

Wishing him and his team the best of luck! -The SBS Team!

AlertMe Graduate Interview

 

Earth Day 2012 and FREE Coworking!

Earth day is almost here - and being in the center of the green movement, this day gets a lot of people in the bay area pumped up! But one day, isn’t enough - we at Sandbox Suites are on a mission to make everyday earth day.

 

Coworking at sandbox is TOTALLY green. If you’ve stopped by our offices you have seen our reusable cups, our natural lighting, our recycle bins, our use of hand dryers and all the typical steps taken to be ‘green’, however you may not have noticed how green our members and staff are.

 

Many of our Sandboxers bike or take public transportation to work! Many members shut off and unplug their computers when they are out of the office for a while. Sandboxers shop local; most of our supply’s come from local suppliers. We are supporting the people, environment and economy around us. We think that choosing local businesses for office supplies, catering, web hosting, marketing, legal advice, or happy hour is the single most important way to go green . Keeping it in local, reduces carbon emissions from shipping, allows you to choose sustainable materials, and builds good karma! (Hint: a lot of these business owners sit right next to you! Why wouldn’t you tap into those resources?!!!) Here is a great list if 12 ways to go green at work, not that you guys need any help!

 

So here’s the BEST part . . .

To thank you all for supporting us and in hopes that you will continue to be green we are offering EVERYONE a FREE DAY of coworking. Just come on in and mention ‘Earth Day’ for your free day. In addition - anyone who shows us that they used public transportation or wishes us a Happy Earth Day will be entered in a raffle for an Earth Day basket with tons of goodies!

 

Chomp gets a bite of Apple

Former Sandbox members Chomp - an App Search Engine was acquired today by Apple for what looks to be around $50m.

Chomp, based in San Francisco, and at Sandbox Suites from October 2009 till last February - is the developer of a search engine that helps users find mobile apps based on their functions, and not just their name, according to their site. Chomp, Inc. is the only company to enable app search based on what an app actually does. One billion apps are being downloaded every month, and iTunes is up to 550,000 unique apps. A smart buy for apple and a right step for Chomp, we’re looking forward to seeing what the future holds for this team of awesome Aussies!

Chomp CEO Ben Keighran and CTO and co-founder Cathy Edwards are already working at Apple. Keighran joins iTunes Marketing and Edwards is now a Senior iTunes Engineer.

We’d like to send out our congratulations to our former sandboxers and wish them the best of luck at Apple and in all their future endeavors.