<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, lunch 2.0]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, lunch 2.0]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/lunch20 http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/lunch20 <![CDATA[Live! Geeky! Girls!]]> Unconferences and open bars populate today's Valleywag Calendar. Girls (and boys), get your geek on.

  • She's Geeky, an unconference aimed at bringing together women in technology, begins at noon at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. [She's Geeky]
  • Oracle opens its doors at noon for its turn as host of Lunch 2.0. [Lunch 2.0]
  • The digital media-focused >Play Conference, held on Saturday in Berkeley, will host a preconference tailgate party tonight at the Beale Street Bar in SOMA. [Upcoming]
  • Mobile software startup LimeLife hosts an open bar for attendees of this week's CTIA wireless-industry convention. The invite says that guests are invited to bring friends, so drop on by District wine bar on Townsend and Third sometime between 6:30 and 11 to get your drink on, gratis. [Facebook]

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]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=313332&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Web geeks meet "hotty toddy" SoHoers]]> DEEPEST SOHO, NEW YORK — I'm at the offices of TheLadders, a sort of Monster.com for six-figure-salary types, and this tech consultant won't stop bending my ear. "I just went to a Lunch 2.0 in the Valley last week," he says. TheLadders is throwing a Lunch 2.0 event, a sort of recruiting-fest and schmoozathon that's lurched its way from the Valley to New York City. How'd he like the first Lunch 2.0 in New York? "Oh, you know New York. Everyone's all hotty toddy." No, I don't know. A hot toddy, last I checked, is a mixed drink served hot. It's not an attitude. You want an attitude? Tell a bunch of New Yorkers they're hoity toity.

You're in the Alley not the Valley, now.

TheLadders.com put on a free spread because they're looking for new hires. A pair from HR told me the company's grown its headcount 110 percent in 2007 and looks to grow at least another 85 percent in 2008. And somehow it's going to find desk space for all those people in SoHo? Don't worry, I'm sure those yuppies didn't really need those lofts.

So Hotty. So Toddy.

And what are all those bodies going to be doing? One product manager, a new hire himself, told me the company is considering adding social networking features. Here's a suggestion: Save some of the budget for fancier food. Come on. If you can print napkins with your logo on them, you can spring for something more than Chinese eggrolls.

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Tonight: LeWeb3 host and blogueur Loic Le Meur and blogger-cartoonist Hugh MacLoud host a dinner at Foreign Cinema in San Francisco's Mission District. Warning: The event may already be overbooked. [Eventbrite]

  • Tuesday: Pictured above: Moonalice, the band comprised of Elevation Capital partner Roger McNamee and former Saturday Night Live band leader GE Smith, performs a free lunchtime show in Union Square. [Moonalice]
  • Friendster and Socializr founder Jonathan Abrams leads the GeekSessions at the City Club of San Francisco. [Upcoming]

  • Wednesday: Lunch 2.0 hosts a happy hour at Facebook's offices in downtown Palo Alto. [Facebook]
  • Former MarketWatch columnist Bambi Francisco is among the all-women presenters at this month's San Francisco New Tech Meetup. [Eventbrite]
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