Past Events

Past Events

2015

• Software Guild: Lightning Talks, October 28, 2015
• Freelancer Toolkit: Self-Employed Self-Care / ‘Ask a Freelancer’, October 27, 2015
• Hackforge Movie Night: The Thing (1982), October 22, 2015
• Rebooting Windsor: Freelancer Panel, October 21, 2015
• Monthly Game Night: Horror Themed Board Games, October 14, 2015
• Software Guild: The Junior Developer’s Survival Guide, September 30, 2015
• Open Data Windsor Essex Portal Launch – Speaker: Alex B. Hill, September 29, 2015
• Hackforge Movie Fundraiser: Spaceballs (1987), September 8, 2015
• Software Guild: Top Secret, August 26, 2015
• Test Driving Your Code Workshop (For better software and sanity), August 22, 2015
• StartUp Windsor Monthly Meetup, August 18, 2015
• Hackforge Fundraiser Movie Night: Hackers (1995), August 17, 2015
• Annual General Meeting, August 12, 2015
• Product Development Talk: How The Sausage Is Made, July 28, 2015
• Software Guild: Programming in the Wild, July 22, 2015
• Hackforge Fundraiser Movie Night: Tron (1982), July 13, 2015
• Software Craftsman Guild: Beyond Code, June 24, 2015
• Rebooting Windsor: Windsor180 / Hackforge Tech Panel, June 18, 2015
• DIY Security System Workshop, June 11, 2015
• Hackforge Swap Trade at the New Space, June 6, 2015
• Return of the Software Guild: Cat Gifs and JavaScript, May 20, 2015
• Hacking Health Cross Border Hackathon, May 1-3, 2015
• Maptime: Telling Stories with Web Mapping, April 23, 2015
• Science of Electronics Creating Sound: Workshop + Showcase, April 11, 2015
• Round Two of Computer Girls Begins, March 30, 2015
• Press Play: Hackforge’s Student Data-Journalism Hackathon, February 15 & 22, 2015
• “Introducing Computer Girls: IT Classes for Women,” January 29, 2015
• “Ford City Neighbourhood Renewal: Hackforge DIY PC Build,” January 24, 2015
• Hackforge 3D Printing at Remington Park Library, January 17, 2015

2014

• “Art in Tech / Tech in Art Open House“, December 29, 2014
• “Explore Crowd-Sourcing with Maptime Windsor-Essex,” December 18, 2014
• “C’Mon Get Mappy for Global GIS Day with Hackforge,” November 19, 2014
• “Hackforge 3D Printing at the Tech Show,” November 4, 2014
• “Tech Talk: The Steam Engine Revolution,” October 30, 2014
• “Dreamers, Coders, Designers Wanted: HackWE 3.0,” October 17 & 26, 2014
• “Tech Talk: Interactive Fiction w/ Undum for JavaScript Beginners (Doug Sartori),” October 2, 2014
• “Hackforge Weekend at W.A.V.E.S!,” September 27, 2014
• “SpokePOV Workshop Gets Ready to Light Up w.a.v.e.s” September 20, 2014
• “Octopus Attack at Nerd Nite!,” September 18, 2014
• “Tech Talk: BioArt Residency / Technology as an Artist’s Aid (Chelsea Greenwell)“, September 18, 2014
• “The Meta Tech Talk Brainstorm,” September 4, 2014
• “Hackforge 3D Printing Demo at Devonshire Mall on Friday,” August 22, 2014
• “Tech Talk: Introduction to Max/MSP (Paul Anderson),” August 21, 2014
• “Hackforge/Open Data Windsor-Essex Takes Part in All Candidates Night,” August 21 & 27, 2014
• “Second robot sumo event of the summer set for Saturday,” The Windsor Star, August 7, 2014
• “Tech Talk: High Availability MySQL on a Low Budget (Terry Johnson),” August 7, 2014
• “OpenDataWindsorEssex – Next Steps Meeting,” July 29 2014
• “Tech Talk: The Magic Eye Colour Organ Project,” July 24 2014
• “Sumo wrestling robots coming to Forest Glade library”, The Windsor Star, July 21, 2014
• “Free 3D printing demo this Saturday”, The Windsor Star, July 18, 2014
• “Tech Talk: The Slide Rule – Grandfather of the Pocket Calculator (Paul Anderson),” July 10, 2014
• “3D printing makings its way into the mainstream”, The Windsor Star, April 27, 2014
• “Catch the w.a.v.e.s. of Windsor’s latest art festival”, The Urbanite, April 20th, 2014
• Tech Talk: Introduction to REST APIs, April 17, 2014
• Tech Talk: Introduction to Domain Names and DNS, April 3rd, 2014
• Tech Talk: Event Sourcing, March 20th, 2014
• Open Data Day, February 22nd, 2014
• Tech Talk: Pathfinding AI Basics, February 6th, 2014
• Tech Talk: Demo of C64 PIC CHIP MIDI interface / software, January 16, 2014
• Tech Talk: Introduction to Amazon Web Services Part II – Provisioning Virtual Machines, January 9, 2014
  

2013

• “‘The Maker Movement’ Thriving in Windsor”, The Windsor Star, December 2, 2013
• Tech Talk: Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS), November 28, 2013
• HackWE Code Jam, St. Clair College: TD Student Success Centre, Hosted by Daedas, October 19-20, 2013
• Tech Talk: Working with Energy Data, October 17, 2013
• Windsor Essex Open Data Meeting, October 2, 2013
• Hackforge Summer Games, August 17 -31, 2013
• Tech Talk: Intro to Android Development, July 25, 2013
• FIRST Robotics Canada: Membership Discussion, July 18, 2013
• Open Data Windsor-Essex brainstorming session, July 18, 2013
• Tech Talk / Pub Night : Intro to Web Development, July 11, 2013
• Tech Talk / Pub Night V: Intro to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Environment, June 13, 2013
• Grand Opening and Membership Gala Open House, May 30, 2013
• Girl Develop It presentation and Women in Technology Round Table, May 30, 2013
• Tech Talk : Slide Rules, May 16, 2013
• Lighting Talk: Capacitors and Open Data, GO Open Data (Waterloo, Ontario), May 11, 2013
• Tech Talk / Pub Night IV : elements of electronics, April 25, 2013
• Games Night, April 16, 2013
• WordPress and Web Marketing, WPL Writers group, April 9, 2013
• Tech Talk / Pub Night III : automotive manufacturing, April 4th, 2013
• Tech Talks / Pub Night II : machining and metallurgy, March 21, 2013
• Marquee Build Night, March 13, 2013
• Tech Talks / Pub Night I: library tech, March 4, 2013
• General Meeting: Budget Approval and Project Proposals, February 23, 2013
• HackWE code jam, January 19, 2013

Press Coverage

• “Windsor hackathon meshes journalism and computer science,” The Windsor Star, February 22, 2015
• “Encourager les filles à se tourner vers une carrière techno,” Radio-Canada: Matins sans frontières, February 18, 2015
• “Computer Girls,” CBC: Windsor Morning, February 10, 2015
• “Hackforge Shows Off Cool Art,” CTV Windsor, December 29, 2014
• “Two Saint Clair Students Win Top Prize at HackWE Hackathon,” St. Clair College, October 28 2014
• “Hackers Compete to Create Apps”, The Lance, Travis Fauteux, October 23, 2014
• “Windsor Hackathon Aims to Make Scientific Data More Accessible”, Metro News, Luke Simcoe, October 10, 2014
• “3D Printing Making Its Way Into The Mainstream”, Windsor Star, Ellen van Wageningen, April 27, 2014
  
• “Catch the w.a.v.e.s. of Windsor’s latest art festival”, The Urbanite, April 20th, 2014
• “The Maker Movement’ thriving in Windsor”, Windsor Star, Rob Whent, December 2, 2013.
• “Newcomer duo wins HackWE challenge”, Windsor Star, Joel Boyce, October 20, 2013.
• “Makerspaces: The Future of Innovation”, Profit Magazine, John Lorinc, September 30, 2013 .
• ‘Computer “Hacker” Summer Games’, The Early Shift, CBC Radio One, Windsor, Tony Doucette, August 19, 2013.
•  Windsor ShakeUp, CJAM 99.1 FM, Windsor, Paul Chislett, August 2, 2013.
• ‘HackForge seeks to enhance technical community through community collaboration’, OurWindsor.ca, Jonathon Liedtke, July 15, 2013.
• “Hackerspaces go viral as community-operated workshops spread across Canada”, Canadian Press, Geordon Omand, July 12, 2013.
• “Hackforge unveiled in Windsor library”, Metro News, Luke Simcoe, May 28, 2013.
• “Plugging in to plug the brain drain”, The Lance, Darryl Gallinger, January 12, 2013.
• “Garbage zombies and open data dominate Windsor’s first hackathon”, Metro News, Luke Simcoe, January 22, 2013.
• ‘Hackerspace slated for Windsor library”, Metro News, Luke Simcoe, Oct. 27, 2012