Our meetups are a chance to learn about Freebase, hear some great talks about how people are using it, and hang out with other Freebase developers, data contributors, and community members.

Our August meetup will be the first one since our acquisition by Google, and will be held at Google's offices on Spear St in San Francisco, near the Embarcadero. We'll be changing the format somewhat: from 5:30-7pm we'll have technical presentations in Google's space, then we'll adjourn to Gordon Biersch downstairs for a social gathering from 7pm-9pm or thereabouts. There's wifi at Gordon Biersch, so bring your laptops and feel free to geek out over a beer or some food.

Talks for this meetup will include:

Freebase 101 I'll be giving an overview of the various parts of Freebase and how they fit together, from Freebase.com to MQL to our API, Acre, Gridworks, and more. If you've ever felt unsure what it's all about, or just need a recap, this will help you put it in perspective.

Gathering human judgements with RABJ Shailesh Kochhar will give a brief primer on RABJ (Redundant Array of Brains in a Jar), which Freebase uses to gather human judgements and do data QA. If you've ever played one of our "data games" like Genderizer, you're using RABJ. Soon, you'll see even more RABJ in our public data tools.

Open source Acre and Freebase.com We've been working on making the Freebase.com website more open, and in this talk Michael Masouras will be talking about our latest steps in this direction, including open sourcing the Acre platform itself.