October at Hackforge
October 11, 2018
Project Management Professionals Meetup: City of Windsor Municipal Energy Management
Monday, October 15 @ 7PM Facebook | Meetup
Cole Nadalin is a Certified Energy Manager, Engineering Technologist, and Project Management Professional employed by the City of Windsor to identify opportunities that reduce the municipality’s energy costs.
Targeting electricity, natural gas, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction, Cole develops projects and processes that lessen utility expenses and free capital for critical programs like infrastructure renewal, economic development, and community outreach.
Cole will speak to the many current and planned energy initiatives being conducted by the City of Windsor, how projects are developed and executed, and their positive impact for Windsorites.
Windsor Essex Google Developers Group: Flutter Study Jam
Wednesday, October 17 @ 6:30pm Facebook | Meetup
Flutter is Google’s mobile app SDK for crafting high-quality native interfaces on iOS and Android in record time. Flutter works with existing code, is used by developers and organizations around the world, and is free and open source. Want to get started on building Flutter apps? Join us for our Flutter Study Jam!
Together we’ll work through Flutter Udacity Course prepared by Google instructors. You will be able to get hands-on experience with Flutter and build a Flutter app while learning the fundamentals..
Bring a laptop! The course will run on all of the latest versions of the popular browsers. For the best experience, the laptop should have Flutter installed on it prior to starting the study jam to save time. Windows/Linux/Mac would all be fine.
Check out : https://flutter.io/get-started/install/
Board Game Night at Craft Heads Brewing Company
Friday, October 19 @ 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!
AWS Users Group: Say NO to Datacenters
Introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud and Infrastructure as Code
Tuesday, October 23 @ 7PM Facebook | Meetup
Because friends don’t let friends build data centers, we are building a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on AWS: your own private software defined data center built through automated and repeatable process known as Infrastructure as Code.
Best part – no coding experience required just fundamental networking knowledge.
AWS UG members are full-stack engineers and developers who practice at intersection of DevSecOps and can go from networking to infosec and from blue green code deployments to application infrastructure in less than no time. Come join us to explore fun cloud topics together.
Intro to Software Defined Radio [POSTPONED]
How to Track Airplanes with ADB-S Decoder
Thursday, October 25 @ 7PM Facebook | Meetup
In this talk we will be covering the basics of Software Defined Radio (SDR), the hardware used and examples of some of the many projects one may want to explore. We will look at how to setup PiAware (ADS-B & MLAT receiver) to track airplanes and other examples of SDR projects.
Border City Javascript: RxJS & Ansible
Friday, October 26 @ 7PM Facebook | Meetup
Ansible is a Python-based tool for automatically deploying your application on demand. RxJS is a JavaScript implementation of ReactiveX, a functional programming paradigm useful for managing asynchronous work. Randy and Jeff will talk about these tools briefly and show examples of their use, so you can decide whether to explore them further.
Intro to Arduino Workshop
Thursday, November 1 @ 6PM Facebook | Meetup
Please join us at Hackforge to learn about Arduino boards! We’ll cover how to code them and the different features available on the boards. Participants can come with pre-existing projects to look for help or we can help the community get interested in a new project. If you have an Arduino, please bring it! Also, please bring laptops if you would like to experiment with code.
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