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September at Hackforge

September 6, 2018

by admin in Events, News

Board Game Night @ Craft Heads Brewing Company
Friday, September 14 @ 7PM onwards Facebook | Meetup

Join us at the awesome Craft Heads Brewing Company for Board Game Night. We bring the games, you bring your strategy and drive to win! Enjoy a delicious craft beer or cup of coffee and feel free to bring your own snacks!

Project Management Professionals Meetup
Monday, September 17 @ 7PM
Facebook | Meetup

After a summer vacation, the Project Management Professionals meetup is back! This group is for all professionals from any industry, and business owners to come together and exchange ideas and good practices ​in Project Management, Agile Product Development and Process Improvement, in a fun and relaxed atmosphere.

Border City Javascript: Lean Coffee
Tuesday, September 18 @ 7PM
Facebook | Meetup

Join the new Border City Javascript group for a Lean Coffee – you’ll brainstorm programming or industry related topics YOU want to talk about, and we’ll shred through them in a rapid, structured discussion. Bring your favourite hot beverage.

Forge Founders: WEtech Founders Group
Wednesday, September 19 @ 5:30pm
Facebook | Meetup

Calling all founders, trailblazers and entrepreneurs, Join us for “Forge Founders” the launch of a new peer2peer group on September 19th from 5:30-8:00PM. Forge Founders will be a bi-monthly networking experience for local founders to connect, learn, and share.

Our first speaker, Darrel Laurendeau, Director of Information Technology for Ground Effects will be leading us with his best practices on creating ways to get your customers excited and engaged in ICT, and tactics to communicate with executives. Light food and refreshments will be served.

Museum Tech Users Group: Cataloguing
Tuesday, September 25 @ 7PM
Facebook | Meetup

This session we’ll be taking a look at ways of using technology to assist with cataloguing. If you have a cataloguing story, please send me an email! We’d love to have you come and tell the group about your process, the successes and roadblocks, and how things are working for you now. This includes projects that didn’t work out the way you’d hoped! Knowing about the challenges others have faced can help us prepare for upcoming projects.

Some ideas include

  • Cataloguing softwares you like/don’t like
  • Data entry challenges
  • Cloud cataloguing using Google Drive or other shared resources
  • Moving from a paper catalogue to a digital one
  • Backing up your catalogues

AWS Users Group: AWS Organizations, Cognito, and Planning the Photo Scavenger Hunt
Thursday, September 27 @ 7PM
Facebook | Meetup

This month, we’ll start talking about how you can work together with different accounts with AWS Organizations, and how we can use Cognito to establish and track users across all the products.  We’ll also continue to look at the design for our Photo Scavenger Hunt.

Border City Javascript: A Recipe for a Javascript Mapping App Soufflé
Friday, September 28 @ 7PM
Facebook | Meetup


Many times when building an app, Javascript will be just one component of a larger solution. The good news is, mixing technologies together to solve a problem is a lot of fun. It’s kind of like baking. Attend this session to learn about how several technologies were whisked together to build windsorcensusmaps.com. We’ll talk about CSS libraries, GIS, mapping libraries, React, NodeJS, and AWS and how they all came together to build a tasteful web app.


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