This month we will be featuring guest speaker Zach Briggs (@theotherzach) of Test Double in Columbus, OH. He’ll be talking about how the only person who will bring you up in the ranks, is you!
Second possible guest speaker is in the works…stay tuned!!
There will be food and beer and schwag!! More details to come!
Additionally, if anyone knows a company or organization looking to help out with food for meetups, let PJ (@aspleenic) know!!
Let’s hope spring is springing soon!
On that note, we’ll have:
Long Nguyen (@longnguyen11288) will give us a talk on “Lessons Learned from Rock Climbing”
Conor Reedy (@somethingconcon) will dazzle us with “CSS: Can’t Style !&@$”
There will be schwag and information…what more can you ask for? Food and beer of course!!
Parking: You can park in the Buffalo News lot on Scott St, just tell the guard you’re there to visit z80 labs.
Mike from the PHP group and all around great guy has invited us to a mini-conf-meetup-social event!! All WNYRuby Members are welcome!!
http://nextplex.com/buffalo-ny/calendar/events/4935-tech-drink-up-user-group-mini-conference
(Also, our own Nick Quaranto (@qrush), Nick Dirienzo (@nickdirienzo), and PJ Hagerty (@aspleenic) will be giving lightning talks)
Tech Drink-Up & User Group Mini-Conference
FREE | Open Bar | User Groups | Lightning Talks | Tech Meetup
InfoTech Niagara is excited to welcome Buffalo Tech ‘Drink Up’ and User Group Mini-Conference to the 2013 BETA Trade Show. On March 27, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., join Buffalo User Groups for a free networking event and mini-conference in lightning-talk style.
There will be an OPEN BAR with snacks during the talks.
Please be sure to register for the free BETA Trade Show and RSVP:
http://www.infotechniagara.org/2013-trade-show-registration
Also, after the talks, you may also attend the BETA awards dinner for a reduced ticket price of $50 instead of $85!
Register using as “Single Ticket – Non ITN Member” and use Coupon Code: “BETAUG”
http://www.thebetas.com/
http://www.infotechniagara.org/event/100127/the-2013-beta-awards
The March meetup will be a preview of things to come!!
Nick Quranto will be giving a talk on Rubymotion (which will also be given at #Inspect ).
Bill Chapman will be talking about developers/development in prep for presenting at Mountain West Ruby Conference.
We will have pizza and beer and Ruby!! What more could you want!!
I’m really excited to announce that we’re going to have our first OpenHack night, tomorrow (10/9) at CoworkBuffalo (http://coworkbuffalo.com/) at 7pm! This is modeled after hackfests at BostonRB (http://bostonrb.org/), which were a big success and led to lots of great code and fun community projects out of Boston.
Here’s how OpenHack will work:
1) You can hack on anything! Doesn’t matter the language, framework, if it’s public/open-source, personal, etc. (This is under the WNYRuby banner mostly since we’re already paying for Meetup, but we’ll get it on Nextplex and more!)
2) You don’t have to have an idea to hack on! You’re more than welcome to come just to pair with someone.
3) We’ll start off with a quick round of introductions (every night!), to say who you are, what you’re working on, and if you’d like help with your idea.
4) The organizers will order food, so you don’t have to worry about dinner. We’d love to have some sponsors for this as well from local development shops, and we’ll give a shoutout to you.
5) BYOB is very encouraged! Spot is downstairs as well, for any caffeine drinkers.
6) We’ll call it a night around 9. Focus usually wanes by this point, for obvious reasons! Maybe if there’s interest head to a bar for more discussion.
I’m really excited to announce that we’re going to have our first OpenHack night, tomorrow (10/9) at CoworkBuffalo (http://coworkbuffalo.com/) at 7pm! This is modeled after hackfests at BostonRB (http://bostonrb.org/), which were a big success and led to lots of great code and fun community projects out of Boston.
Here’s how OpenHack will work:
1) You can hack on anything! Doesn’t matter the language, framework, if it’s public/open-source, personal, etc. (This is under the WNYRuby banner mostly since we’re already paying for Meetup, but we’ll get it on Nextplex and more!)
2) You don’t have to have an idea to hack on! You’re more than welcome to come just to pair with someone.
3) We’ll start off with a quick round of introductions (every night!), to say who you are, what you’re working on, and if you’d like help with your idea.
4) The organizers will order food, so you don’t have to worry about dinner. We’d love to have some sponsors for this as well from local development shops, and we’ll give a shoutout to you.
5) BYOB is very encouraged! Spot is downstairs as well, for any caffeine drinkers.
6) We’ll call it a night around 9. Focus usually wanes by this point, for obvious reasons! Maybe if there’s interest head to a bar for more discussion.
New faces and new ideas abound for our February meetup. Heading back to Engine Yard Buffalo on this one, and entertaining out of town guests as well!
From AS+ we’ll have Dave Kleinschmidt (@zobar2) presenting on Chef.
All the way from Pittsburgh, Carol Nichols (@carols10cents) and Jake Goulding (@jakegoulding) will present “DON’T PANIC: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Debugging”!
Food will be provided by Frank Kumro and Atomic Learning (@atomic_learning) with beer from Engine Yard as always! Schwag possibilities abound, and not just the same old t-shirts (thought we have those too).
We will be giving away a copy of the LeanDog Agile Discussion Guide – version 3.0!
“Agile is a set of values and principles, therefore “going Agile” can mean many different things. LeanDog has created our own discussion guide outlining 30+ of the best practices for managers, developers, testers and product owners. You’ll find indispensable tools and tips from Scrum, Lean, eXtreme Programming and Organizational Development—all designed to streamline your culture and increase your effectiveness.”
Must be present to win!
An exciting night will be had by all!!
I’m really excited to announce that we’re going to have our first OpenHack night, tomorrow (10/9) at CoworkBuffalo (http://coworkbuffalo.com/) at 7pm! This is modeled after hackfests at BostonRB (http://bostonrb.org/), which were a big success and led to lots of great code and fun community projects out of Boston.
Here’s how OpenHack will work:
1) You can hack on anything! Doesn’t matter the language, framework, if it’s public/open-source, personal, etc. (This is under the WNYRuby banner mostly since we’re already paying for Meetup, but we’ll get it on Nextplex and more!)
2) You don’t have to have an idea to hack on! You’re more than welcome to come just to pair with someone.
3) We’ll start off with a quick round of introductions (every night!), to say who you are, what you’re working on, and if you’d like help with your idea.
4) The organizers will order food, so you don’t have to worry about dinner. We’d love to have some sponsors for this as well from local development shops, and we’ll give a shoutout to you.
5) BYOB is very encouraged! Spot is downstairs as well, for any caffeine drinkers.
6) We’ll call it a night around 9. Focus usually wanes by this point, for obvious reasons! Maybe if there’s interest head to a bar for more discussion.
Here’s how OpenHack works:
1) You can hack on anything! Doesn’t matter the language, framework, if it’s public/open-source, personal, etc. (This is under the WNYRuby banner mostly since we’re already paying for Meetup, but we’ll get it on Nextplex and more!)
2) You don’t have to have an idea to hack on! You’re more than welcome to come just to pair with someone.
3) We’ll start off with a quick round of introductions (every night!), to say who you are, what you’re working on, and if you’d like help with your idea.
4) The organizers will order food, so you don’t have to worry about dinner. We’d love to have some sponsors for this as well from local development shops, and we’ll give a shoutout to you.
5) BYOB is very encouraged! Spot is downstairs as well, for any caffeine drinkers.
6) We’ll call it a night around 9. Focus usually wanes by this point, for obvious reasons! Maybe if there’s interest head to a bar for more discussion.
Here’s how OpenHack works:
1) You can hack on anything! Doesn’t matter the language, framework, if it’s public/open-source, personal, etc. (This is under the WNYRuby banner mostly since we’re already paying for Meetup, but we’ll get it on Nextplex and more!)
2) You don’t have to have an idea to hack on! You’re more than welcome to come just to pair with someone.
3) We’ll start off with a quick round of introductions (every night!), to say who you are, what you’re working on, and if you’d like help with your idea.
4) The organizers will order food, so you don’t have to worry about dinner. We’d love to have some sponsors for this as well from local development shops, and we’ll give a shoutout to you.
5) BYOB is very encouraged! Spot is downstairs as well, for any caffeine drinkers.
6) We’ll call it a night around 9. Focus usually wanes by this point, for obvious reasons! Maybe if there’s interest head to a bar for more discussion.
