March 2022 at Hackforge

March 3, 2022

Hackforge Virtual Watch Party: Ip Man
Friday, March 4th @ 8PM Discord

Starring Donnie Yen, 2008’s IP Man follows a group of people trying to survive in an occupied city during the Japanese invasion of China. Log in to Teleparty to join us for a watch-along of this martial arts masterpiece.

Join our discord server and download Teleparty to take part. Please note that all participants are required to have their own streaming subscription service.

Optimizing Mental Wellness for Entrepreneurs & Small Business Owners
Wednesday, March 9 @ 6pm Linkedin | Facebook | Meetup | Register

The Canadian Mental Health Association is joining us this month for a workshop devoted to mental wellness. Freelancers, entrepreneurs, and small business owners have unique work experiences that can result in their own mental health concerns.

To help us learn how to properly address them, Carrie Davis will be joining us to look at:

unique stressors of entrepreneurs
mental fitness and wellbeing of Canadas entrepreneurs
impact of loneliness and isolation
managing stress and mental health
local resources

This free, one-hour event is open to everyone.

Windsor-Essex Cyclist Town Hall
Thursday, March 10 @ 6pm Linkedin | Facebook | Meetup | Register

Last month Hackforge launched C3Tech, a joint initiative with The City of Windsor Bicycle Committee, CWATS, and Parallel 42 Systems. Over the remainder of 2022 we will be working with the community to build an app that provides bicycle riders with the information that will make cycling in Windsor and Essex County a safer and more viable form of transportation and leisure.

In order to build an app that serves the needs of the community, we need to hear from the community! To give everyone a chance to share their thoughts and opinions, we’re running a virtual Town Hall Forum and everyone is invited. The event is free to attend, but advance registration is required.

If you’re unable to make it on March 9th, you can still make sure your voice is heard by completing our cyclist survey or emailing lauren@hackf.org.

AWS U.G. Meetup – Re:Invent Recap! with Randall Hunt
Tuesday, March 15 @ 6pm Linkedin | Facebook | Meetup

On March 15th Randall Hunt, VP of Cloud Strategy & Solutions at Caylent, will deliver a fast, technical, and opinionated recap of re:Invent.

Randall has presented at over 1,000 AWS events and led technology and software teams at Meta (formerly Facebook), AWS, SpaceX, MongoDB, and NASA.

Join us for this fun and exciting event. The best part about attending UG events is the networking with other IT professionals
Get ideas how to solve current challenges; meet other geeks; perhaps team up with them on current or future projects.

6:00 PM EST Meet and greet
6:30 PM EST re:Invent Recap by Randall Hunt

Join us on Chime for this free event: https://chime.aws/2072654353

BCJS: C3Tech Code Deep-Dive
Monday, March 21 @ 6pm Linkedin | Facebook | Meetup | Register

Get into the details of OpenStreetMap, CyclOSM, and BRouter with Randy and Chris!
In preparation for our spring hackathon, this informal, exploratory session will take a look at the code that drives WindsorEssexCycling.ca. Developers and non-developers of all experience levels are invited to attend, with questions and comments encouraged!