Windsor-Essex AWS User Group Meetup: AWS Certifications Tips and Tricks Wednesday, March 24 @ 7pm Linkedin | Facebook | Meetup
Our topic is Certifications Tips and Tricks presented by Rick Triana, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS.
We’ll kick off the meetup with a brief meet and greet session followed by Rick’s presentation on this hot topic. We have some awesome virtual gifts to pass out to our attendees from AWS credits for your certification labs to an awesome e-book on one of the hottest AWS services.
Border City Data: Using DeckGL and Observable to Build Powerful Maps Quickly Sunday, March 28 @ 2pm Facebook | Meetup
Attend this session to learn how to use Uber open source project, DeckGL to visualize geographic data using Javascript. We’ll also be using Observable javascript notebooks to run the demo. Notebooks are a powerful way to display data, it’s visualization, and the code to generate them all in one environment. Observable has a large community of people building visualizations you can learn from.
Border City JavaScript March Meetup Monday, March 29 @ 7pm Facebook | Meetup
Join us in this virtual chat to meet fellow JavaScript developers from the Windsor-Essex area for a freeform discussion.
We’ll kick off with a handful of Lightning Talks to get our thoughts churning.
Randy will talk about controlling application flow with state.
Shawn will talk about using jQuery in 2021.
Meghan will tell us about volunteering with Canada Learning Code and Black Girls Code.
Jeff will talk about killing your darlings in a programming project.
After ours brains warm up, we’ll have an open discussion with the whole group about the state of the JavaScript ecosystem today.
At 7:00 pm on March 12, 2019, Windsor Hackforge will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at 1501 Howard Ave Unit 101, Windsor, ON.
At this meeting, all members deemed to be in good standing (up to date with member dues) as of March 1st, 2019 are welcome to attend.
This meeting will cover the current state of Hackforge, our plans for the coming year, as well as presenting our Interest Groups. If you want to work with Hackforge to bring something new to the community, come ready to proposal your ideas!
The meeting agenda, and any other required materials, will be distributed to members at least 48 hours prior to the AGM.
Hackforge’s main mission is to provide a place where creative minds can come together to share ideas, learn together, find support and make friends.
Hackforge is thrilled to announce we are opening our doors at The Accelerator, Windsor’s entrepreneurial ecosystem with co-working space specifically designed to help accelerate the growth of start-ups and emerging businesses, featuring on-site training and mentoring programs in a truly collaborative environment.
Our partnership with the Accelerator will allow us access to a hot desk and access to their 3000 sq. ft event space. In return, we will extend our outstanding programming to their community of entrepreneurs and business owners.
Please join us on Thursday, February 7 for a launch event to see our new space, network with other Accelerator members and the technology community. Refreshments will be served.
When: Thursday, February 7 6PM – 8PM Where: The Accelerator, 1501 Howard Avenue, Windsor, ON N8X 3T5 Parking: The parking lot is first-come-first-serve. There is also free street parking available.
I’d like to start off by thanking everyone who made 2018 such a great year for Hackforge including our members, organizers, volunteers and Board of Directors. We successfully ran over 100 events this year and were involved with numerous other initiatives in the city.
In November of 2017, Hackforge received a Libro Credit Union Prosperity Grant to run the TechBoost program, a pilot project designed to bring digital literacy to the small business community of Windsor-Essex and fulfill our mission to grow the tech capabilities of our region by creating connections and learning together. We focused heavily on this project in 2018 and by partnering with the Windsor-Essex Small Business Centre, the local BIAs and Chambers of Commerce, we delivered the program to over 300 participants in Windsor, Lakeshore, LaSalle, and Amherstburg, who surveyed at a 97% satisfaction rate.
Moving to a New Space
For those who have been around since Hackforge’s early days, you’ll be well aware that the organization has grown and adapted to many changes over the years but no matter what location we call home, our goal stays the same: to provide a place where creative minds can come together to share ideas, learn together, find support and make friends.
With that said, we are thrilled to announce that Hackforge will be moving to The Accelerator at 1501 Howard Ave in February. The Accelerator is an entrepreneurial ecosystem with 55,000 sq. ft of co-working space designed to help accelerate the growth of start-ups and emerging businesses in Windsor-Essex. Our partnership with the Accelerator will allow us access to a hot desk and access to their 3000 sq. ft event space. In return, we will extend our outstanding programming to their community of entrepreneurs and business owners.
We will continue to provide you with updates and as always, if you have any questions, comments, concerns or feedback, you can always email info@hackf.org.
Moving Sale
In preparation for the move, one of the things we must do is reduce the physical equipment and “stuff” we have accumulated over the years. On Saturday January 19 from 10am-2pm, we will be holding a Moving Sale at Hackforge (255 Ouellette Ave). We will be selling a variety of things including computer parts, electronics, books, video games, consoles, and furniture. Picture it as the Garage Sale of your Dreams! We will have many items selling as Name your Price and Pay What You Can. The proceeds from this sale will go directly back into the operating expenses of Hackforge and any remaining items will be donated to Computers for Kids, other organizations and charities in Windsor-Essex and the rest will be responsibly recycled.
If you have any personal belongings residing at Hackforge or if you would like to take back an item that was previously donated, please contact me directly at rebecca@hackf.org and we can make arrangements for you to pick it up or direct its donation. If you have any concerns at all about this process, please communicate them to me.
Payment Types Available: Cash, Credit (Day of Sale), Paypal
Check out our Facebook page over the next week for an album of photos of some of the items going up for sale!
If you are interested in volunteering to help us out with this sale, please contact me. We especially need help determining the value of some of the computer parts and electronics we own.
Goodbye from Rebecca
Finally, as the TechBoost Program has concluded, so has my time on staff with Hackforge. It was such a privilege to work with this organization and I will continue to be involved in the organization through this next chapter.
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!
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.
