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About Eleanor Kruszewski: I'm known variously as Eleanor or Elle. My last name is like that coach from Duke - kru-shef-ski. I watch emerging tech and enterprise software for NEC's Tokyo HQ. I'm based in Menlo Park, CA.

Disclaimer: I've done big corps, startups and b-skool, so I overstate and oversimplify as much as anyone else. These opinions are my own, not my company's.

Events calendar - mostly local for Bay Area

Here's my tally of interesting events. I'm putting this up now, but I'll go through and add markers to show ones I attended or am planning on attending. I'll also link to posts I've made on the topic.

15-Feb-2005 - Tuesday

  • BMA Product Marketing/Management Breakfast Roundtable Jeff Clavier will speak on "From idea to funded company" @ Scott's in Palo Alto from 7:30-9am.

8-Feb-2005 - Tuesday

  • EBIG RSS and Podcasting SIG Steve Gillmor

7-Feb-2005 - Monday

26-Jan-2005 - Wednesday

25-Jan-2005 - Tuesday

21-Jan-2005 - Friday

  • Future Salon does identity Who am I? with Paul Madsen (Liberty Alliance) and Fen Labalme (Identity Commons) @ SAP from 6-9pm. SAP is hosting food this time, no group dinner before.

20-Jan-2005 - Thursday

19-Jan-2005 - Wednesday

  • Entrepreneurial Thought Leader sessions Ken Denman (iPass) at Stanford from 4:30-5:30pm with local dinner after.
  • Malcolm Gladwell Book Signing for Spark @ Books Inc., Mountain View - 7:30pm. Geek dinner before/after? Vote here.

18-Jan-2005 - Tuesday

13-Jan-2005 - Thursday

12-Jan-2005 - Wednesday

11-Jan-2005 - Tuesday

  • MacWorld

10-Jan-2005 - Monday

6-Jan-2005 - Thursday

5-Jan-2005 - Wednesday

4-Jan-2005 - Tuesday

  • EBIG RSS & Podcasting SIG @ University of Phoenix in Walnut Creek from 6:30-9pm. Elisa Camahort presents on The Value of the Corporate Blogger.

30-Dec-2004 - Thursday

  • Geek Dinner @ Chaat Cafe (3rd and Folsom) in SF from 6-9pm.

    Afterparty @ chez Matt Mulligawny (aka PhotoMatt or Mr. Wordpress).

16-Dec-2004 - Thursday

7-Dec-2004 - Tuesday

  • EBIG RSS & Podcasting SIG @ University of Phoenix in Walnut Creek from 6:30-9pm. Charles Smith of Pheedo presents on The Legal Aspects of Blogging.

6-Dec-2004 - Monday

  • MobileMonday @ 21st Ammendment (near 2nd and Townsend) in SF 6:30-9:30pm.

2-Dec-2004 - Thursday

  • VCTaskforce SVASE SDForum

19-Nov-2004 - Friday

18-Nov-2004 - Thursday

17-Nov-2004 - Wednesday

16-Nov-2004 - Tuesday

15-Nov-2004 - Monday

  • SDForum Founders' Forum Brown Bag lunch with Steve Blank.
  • Churchill Club event around Wine.

13-Nov-2004 - Saturday

10-Nov-2004 - Wednesday

  • WorkIt.com (Tech event and networking site) 5th anniversary mixer

9-Nov-2004 - Tuesday

  • Churchill Club Top 10 Tech Trends with panel of John Doerr, Partner, KPCB; Esther Dyson, Editor At Large, CNET; Roger McNamee, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Silver Lake Partners & Integral Capital Partners; Joe Schoendorf, Partner, Accel Partners. Moderated by Tony Perkins, Creator & Editor-in-Chief, AlwaysOn.

6-Nov-2004 - Saturday

  • Bloggercon3conference at Stanford."Vendorcon" cocktail party.

5-Nov-2004 - Friday

  • Pre-Bloggercon3 dinner at Ming's in Palo Alto

4-Nov-2004 - Thursday

  • IDC Enterprise Forum: Evaluating the Capabilities and Implementation Options of On-Demand Computing.

3-Nov-2004 - Wednesday

26-Oct-2004 - Tuesday

17-Oct-2004 - Sunday through 22-Oct-2004 - Friday

  • Gartner Symposium

13-Oct-2004 - Wednesday

  • Microcontent dinner, hosted by Mark Canter.

12-Oct-2004 - Tuesday

  • SDForum's Emerging Technologies Special Interest Group (SIG) on Music and MetaData.

30-Sep-2004 - Thursday through 3-Oct-2004 Sunday:

  • xGnomedex conference at Lake Tahoe.

25-Sep-2004 - Saturday

  • Bay Area Mobility Forum monthly meeting with an overview of the

23-Sep-2004 - Thursday

22-Sep-2004 - Wednesday

  • SDForum Open Source SIG monthly meeting - Facts and Fallacies of Open Source Licensing with Larry Rosen, counsel for OSI (chief licensing gatekeeper for open source) and Steve Mutkowski, corporate counsel for Microsoft.

21-Sep-2004 - Tuesday