We expect to sell out next week at the latest. You can buy mesh tickets here and meshU tickets here.

Thanks a lot to Mark and to Rob Manne and the other folks at Edelman.

For more details, check out the video below. You can find the “rules” here.

We’re excited about the keynotes, panels and workshops that are divided into four streams: society, media, marketing and business. Like the past two meshes (Editor’s note: Is that a real word?), we encourage every session to be interactive with lots of Q&A, discussions and conversations.

You’ll also notice that the schedule has plenty of slots between sessions to network, do demos, relax, blog, etc.

The schedule for meshU, a one-day event featuring hands-on workshops about the tools used to build online applications/service, is also available.

Tickets for mesh can be purchased here, while meshU tickets are available here.

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One of them is selecting the six companies/entrepeneurs for 15 Minutes of Fame, who will each get the opportunity to give a five-minute presentation in front of more than 400 people.

So, here’s one last call for 15MOF submissions. Get ‘em in by the end of the week by filling out a short online application.

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The quick reminder is that we’re having a mesh meetup at the Irish
Embassy tonight (April 21) starting at about 7:30, so swing on by if
you’re in town and get some pre-mesh socializing in — the snacks are
on us.

The update about meshU is that we’re releasing a batch of 25
discount-priced ($30) student tickets for the day-long workshop event (more
info at the meshU site), so if you’re studying Web
design or development or programming or anything along those lines –
or know someone who is — be sure to book a ticket soon, because they
will probably go quickly.

To be honest, offering student tickets was something we meant to do
from the beginning, but it kind of slipped through the cracks during
all the planning of mesh and meshU — thanks to a number of our
friends and fans for calling us on it. We think it’s a great way of
giving back to the community, and helping the young Web developers and
designers of tomorrow.

mesh on!

John is a Mozilla Evangelist and the lead developer of jQuery. Here is what Justin at FreshBooks has to say about jQuery:

jQuery is hugely important for a number of reasons.

First, by abstracting over heinous cross-browser compatibility issues, developers are encouraged to build rich web applications without being afraid that their slick designs will turn into a flaming ball of terrible at the most inopportune of times.

Second, while jQuery isn’t unique in this regard, I think it’s safe to say that it sets the Javascript Rockstar bar particularly low by providing an API that enables users to accomplish a lot with very little code.

Third, it actually makes it _easier_ to do The Right Thing than to do the “quick-and-dirty-get-it-done-as-fast-as-humanly-possible” way that leads to unmaintainable and unreadable code that you would never publicly admit to writing.

In case I did not mention it, Justin is a bit of a jQuery booster, but he is also our resident software philosopher and I respect his opinion immensely.

Anyway, back to John. He is coming to give a workshop for designers called, “Building Interactive Prototypes with jQuery” – that may sound like it’s for developers, but it’s not – its for designers. Here’s the full description:

The prototyping process is a delicate dance of writing the smallest amount of code needed to create a compelling demo. This challenge is compounded by the fact that designers typically have to wait on their development teams for, seemingly simple, results. Why not circumvent the whole process by writing your own interactive JavaScript code using a JavaScript library, jQuery, that understands how unobtrusive, CSS-based, design works.

This will be a hands-on demonstration, so please bring your laptop.

Please remember to tell all the web developers, designers and project managers you know about meshU. It occurs to me that entrepreneurs and/or anyone building a web application will want to be there too. Tickets are $239, which is positively a steal for this kind of content. Hope you can make it.

I’m excited about everything we have coming up, but meshU is really starting to take shape and it’ll be a blast. Nice words from John about the lineup: “I am planning on doing something really special for the presentation because, to be honest, I am totally intimidated by the other speakers.” Join us! Tickets are on sale here.

Garrett co-founded StumbleUpon in 2001 with several university friends while he was finishing his degree in software engineering at the University of Calgary. He and a couple of the other members of the StumbleUpon team later moved to San Francisco after getting venture financing, and last year the company was acquired by eBay for $75-million. Garrett is still responsible for StumbleUpon’s product design and strategy, and the service has more than 3.5M members.

mesh on!

Needless to say, we’re excited! So, let’s get together for some pre-mesh conversation, food and a few adult beverages on April 21 at The Irish Embassy. (Update: why not drop by the Facebook page and let us know whether you’re coming)

Here are the details:

When: Monday, April 21

Where: The Irish Embassy Pub & Grill, 49 Yonge Street (Click here for the Google Map.)

Time: 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Tickets are going fast for mesh and meshU. You can purchase your mesh tickets here, and your meshU tickets here.

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