Kansas City User Groups: April 2016

May 5th: KC Elixir Users Group - Courier: an Elixir Mail Delivery System

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Thursday, May 5, 2016

7:00 PM

Brightergy

1712 Main St, Kansas City, MO (map)

Brian Cardarella of DockYard will be presenting at RailsConf and has graciously offered to present at a KC Elixir MeetUp.

Thursday, May 5 is right in the middle of RailsConf, and follows our "first Thursday" schedule, so... BOOM! We have a MeetUp.

Brian would like to talk about Courier, an Elixir library for mail delivery on which he's been working. (If a majority of our attendees would *rather* hear about "Rails to Phoenix", we can convince him, but he was concerned that would be more Ruby-y than Elixir-y.)

I'm kicking several ideas for venue:

• Brightergy has offered to host us again

• Sprint Accelerator (I think they have an excellent setup for MeetUps)

• Kauffman Foundation Conference center (also a good venue for MeetUps, near Country Club Plaza, which I think could be a nice attraction for any out-of-towners who might attend)

If anyone has any input on venue, please let me know.

May 5th: Kansas City Moble .Net Developers Group Meeting

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Thursday, May 5, 2016

6:30 PM

Wirestream

521 Walnut, Kansas City, MO (map)

Wirestream is directly south of Planters; park in the Planters lot on the other side of Walnut street for free parking after 6pm.

Join the KCMobNetDevGru for a Cinco de Mayo Android presentation! We will cover some of the basic anatomy of a Xamarin Android application, app fundamentals, and architecture basics. Additionally, we'll cover some more advanced topics such as navigation page construction and more. We'll walk through a demo of a simple Xamarin.Android app.

Speaker: Yair Segal (Founder, Peach Software)

Space provided by: Wirestream https://www.wirestream.com/

Sponsor: Adaptive Solutions Group
Remember to thank Jessica Lopez and Adaptive Solutions for sponsoring our meetup!

Book sponsor: Packt Publishing: http://www.packtpub.com/

Packt is making discount codes available to the meetup attendees and one person will win an ebook of their choice!

Parking: free parking after 6pm in the Planters parking lot (west side of Walnut)

May 5th: Hammerspace - "Made Locally With Love" Arts & Crafts Sale & Open House

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Thursday, May 5, 2016

6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Hammerspace

440 E 63rd St , Kansas City, MO (map)

1/2 block east of Oak St. on 63rd St.

Join us for the "Made Locally With Love" Arts & Crafts sale and Open House at HammerSpace Community Workshop. The talented maker-members of HammerSpace will have their locally handmade creations on display and for sale just in time for Mother's Day! While you're here for the sale, be sure to get a tour of the well-stocked HammerSpace workshop and workspaces, available to members of HammerSpace for only $50/month (no deposit required).

This is a free, family friendly event, open to the public, so tell your friends!

Items for sale include (but are not limited to): Laser cut, silk-screened storage boxes, planters, and beverage carriers, beautiful handmade handbags, original art and art prints, jewelry and other metal art, gamer themed accessories, 3D printed items, vinyl decals, and much, much more!

(If you are a member of HammerSpace who would like to participate in this event, please let us know so we can make room for your items. It is free for members to participate in this event as long as your items for sale are handmade locally in KC.)

May 4th: Kansas City's PHP User Group

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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Stowers Institute

1000 E 50th St, Kansas City, MO (map)

39.036270 -94.574936

Please join us for a preview of the PHP 7 talk that Joseph Maxwell will be giving at php[tek] next month in St. Louis.

Light refreshments will be provided. Join us to meet new people, discuss PHP, and learn something new.

Our Evening Meeting Format

We love Web Development and all things PHP. Our meetings are often a little free-formed, but we shoot for this schedule:

6:00pm - Mingling / Meet and Greet

6:15pm - Lightning Talk: Last Month in PHP

6:30pm - Talk: Writing Better Code with the New PHP 7

PHP 7 is an exciting release in the world of PHP. In addition to major performance enhancements, PHP 7 provides many features that make writing code faster and protect from pesky software defects. These include the spaceship operator, the null coalesce operator, and an all-new order of execution. I will discuss pre-PHP 7 code and teach you how to take advantage of PHP 7. I will also share information on breaking changes to help you avoid headaches down the road.

Your topic here? Contact us to speak!

All Developers Welcome!

We understand Web Developers often come from all backgrounds, and many work in more languages than PHP. Whether you're curious and just starting out, dabble in PHP on the weekends, write custom PHP on a daily basis, work in a framework like Symfony, Zend Framework, Silex, Slim, Laravel, CakePHP or customize CMS products like WordPress, Drupal or Joomla; our goal is that you will find something new, useful and thought provoking.

Interested in giving a presentation to the group, or demoing something you're working on? Contact one of the organizers through Meetup or talk after a monthly meeting to sign up!

May 4th: Kansas City Spring User Group Meeting

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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

5:30 PM

Garmin International

1200 E 151st Street, Olathe, KS (map)

See invite for detailed instructions

Technology Solutions Partners

Abstract

Extending on a number of recent talks on newer options for REST services this will cover Spring Rest Docs. A newer option for to produce documentation of your REST services that requires last management and overhead, over coming some of the limitations of options like Swagger, API Blueprint, or Apiary.

Bio

Brian has been the design architect for Livevox Inc client services group for the past three years. He specializes in large scale systems that have to maintain real time performance and has been in software development for over 15 years. Ten of which have been doing contract consulting for a variety of clients covering fiance, insurance, unity grid management, healthcare, shipping, and telecommunications.

Location Details

Garmin's address is 1200 E 151st, Olathe, KS 66062

For your convenience, navigate to point B on this map of Garmin's campus.

• When you reach 151st and Ridgeview you can find our location by finding the tallest building at Garmin (image).

• You will be able to enter through the left most door until 6:25 pm when the doors will be locked (image).

• Please park anywhere in the north east lot (just East of the new parking garage). Please ensure you park in valid parking spaces and not in the disabled parking stalls.

All guests to Garmin need to register (with Frank) upon entering the North Lobby. The doors will need to be locked at 6:55 so Frank can attend the meeting, therefore if you are late you will need to contact Frank directly via meetup.

Schedule

• 5:30 - 6:30pm - Social Hour with food provided by Technology Solutions Partners

• 6:30pm - Presentation

• Afterwards anyone who is interested is invited to join us at Austin’s Bar and Grill located at 2103 E 151st St, Olathe, KS 66062 for an informal social. Drinks and appetizers will be sponsored by Technology Solutions Partners For directions, click here.

May 26th: Kansas City Skype for Business (Lync) Users Group - Spring 2016 Meeting

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Thursday, May 26, 2016

2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Microsoft Corp

10801 Mastin Blvd Suite 620 84 Corporate, Overland Park, KS (map)

Please use our new registration page at the SkypeUG site as we are moving away from MeetUp.

http://www.skypeug.com/events/kansas-city-spring-2016/

The Kansas City Skype (Lync) Users Group will be conducting their next meeting May 26th, 2016 – running from 2:00PM to 5:00PM.

We will be having a session on CCA/Cloud Connector presented by AudioCodes.

We will also have one of our open sessions, so please bring questions, comments, and other things to discuss!

Food, beverages and additional door prizes courtesy of the Skype4B/Lync Users Group and our sponsors

May 20th: Startup Crawl KC - 2016

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Startup Crawl KC offers area residents a one-night tour of the metro's many budding companies.

The Crawl Agenda for May 20th
4pm - Location Doors Open
4:30pm - First Buses leave to start crawl loop
9pm - Buses start last loop to get back to your car
10pm - Location close doors for the night

After Party Details Coming Soon

The goal of this event is to make the startup arena, even more, accessible to local hopefuls, new arrivals and the community in general. Everyone curious about startups is welcome. Past crawls have included over 100 various startups and have allowed community members to meet the founders and teams and be inspired to get involved. It's a great opportunity for homegrown entrepreneurs to tell their stories, extend hospitality and connect with new faces.

http://www.startupcrawlkc.com/

May 3rd: KC Video Game Developers Meeting

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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

7:00 PM

Tannin Wine Bar & Kitchen

1526 Walnut Street, Kansas City, MO (map)

Open to anyone in the area who is interested in developing video games. In order to have a little structure, we'll try to do a couple things each week:

Introduce new members. What have you worked on, game related or not? What do you want to work on next?

Discuss this week's conversation starter. Some article, video or game that we can dig into a little.

Members can present any games they're working on, for feedback or just to brag.

Of course, it's all very informal. The main goal is interesting conversation(s) about our passion.

Looking forward to it!

April 28th: Agile KC User Group Meeting

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This month's Agile KC meeting will be held at 6:30 PM on Thursday April 28, 2016 at Centriq Training. This will be a sponsored event.

To register and to get a map please visit www.agilekc.org.

Meeting Topic:

UX and Agile - Making it Hum

Meeting Learning

More and more User Experience (UX) is becoming a key differentiation and a critical component of solutions. The market is fickle and the usability of a solution is just as important as the content and capabilities. As an example consider how Yahoo is undergoing significant changes to its UX while Amazon is refining their model.

Meeting Description

This month’s Agile KC session brings in Jenny Tarwater and Chrys Sullivan to discuss the intersection of Agile and UX. Plan on joining us to learn more about:

The Agile Mind-set: the focus on value, experimentation and collaboration
Scrum in 5 minutes: A primer to baseline our talks
Top 5 reasons UX fails in Agile and tips for overcoming
Leveraging "Sprint 0" and "UX Runway" strategies to overcome timeline and resource crunches
Best practices for getting more accurate time estimates from designers
Lean UX strategies for quick, effective user validation during cycles
Strategies for forming a team with UX impact

Speakers Bio ’s

Chrys Sullivan - Founder/CEO of Useagility, a user experience firm located in Kansas City, serving the Silicon Prairie and beyond. I believe that usable, intuitive product design translates directly to financial success for technology companies. I’m obsessed with product strategy, user experience strategy and UI designs that achieve business results.

Jenny Tarwater - Founder/Chief Agilist of Blueshift Innovation, which provides agile coaching, training and facilitation. Jenny Tarwater is a 20-year veteran of Technical Project and Program Management with a disciplined approach of cultivating success and growth in people, process and products. Jenny’s mission as a kinetic leader, partner and consummate student is to lead others to surpass goals, contribute positive impressions in collaborative environments and explore undiscovered opportunities and solutions through continuous learning. Jenny’s endless motivation drives her involvement in cultivating the “small company start up culture” in companies large and small.

May 3rd: Hammerspace Tech Tuesdays

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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

6:00 PM

Hammerspace

440 E 63rd St , Kansas City, MO (map)

This is a meet-up night for HammerSpace members that focuses on programming, soldering, Arduino or Raspberry Pi builds, Linux projects, robotics, 3D printers, and anything else tech related. Bring in your project to work on or just to show off to other tech-minded members.

We do not have any group learning activities planned at the moment, but we might have some for future Tech Tuesday nights after we figure out what people are interested in doing. These meet-ups are free for members of Hammerspace unless we have an organized group activity you want to participate in (such as soldering a provided electronics kit, etc)

We hope these meet-up nights bring our more tech-minded members together to network, socialize, and collaborate with each other, much like our art-minded members do during our Art Jam nights.

May 18th: KCVR - Virtual Reality - Meeting at Think Big Partners

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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Think Big Partners

1712 Main St, Kansas City, MO (map)

We're on the second floor of Think Big Partners. If the door is locked, text or call Steve at 248-563-2193

Hello friends! We'll be returning to Think Big Partners for our next KCVR Meetup will be Wednesday, May 18th. This is an open event geared toward enthusiasts, developers, hobbyists, and anyone who just wants to learn about virtual reality.

Think Big Partners is a business incubator and startup accelerator that provides an environment where new business owners can focus exclusively on getting their businesses off the ground with the resources necessary to achieve their goals. We're very fortunate to be able to have our event here and we're confident that you'll enjoy being here as well. More info about Think Big Partners is at http://thinkbigpartners.com.

We'll talk about VR related news, what hardware and software is on the horizon, upcoming events, and local opportunities. We'll also have demos available for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Leap Motion, and Gear VR. Since virtual reality isn't exclusively a gaming technology, we will accommodate non-gamers by having demos available for industry applications.

Feel free to bring any work that you may have created! We love to check out new experiences and see what else is out there.

Contact Steve or Drew if you have any questions. Follow us on Facebook for VR related news and updates.

See you then!

Steve & Drew

May 2nd: Kansas City Code for America Brigade

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Monday, May 2, 2016

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Sprint Accelerator

210 W. 19th Terr., Kansas City, MO, Kansas City, MO (map)

http://codeforkc.org/

Interested in helping the Kansas City area? Great! Whether or not you know how to code, you can help by joining us to work on civic hacking to create a better Kansas City and surrounding cities. Bring projects, ideas, designs, laptops, data, and friends.

Meeting Format

6:00 - Social / Introductions 6:10 - New Member Orientation 6:20 - Project Pitches

See if there are any updates on projects
See if anyone has a new project they would like to work on Pitch existing projects to work on

6:30 - Work on projects (7:00 ~ Pizza arrives -- first Mondays only) 7:45 - Wrap up - get project updates

Location: Community Room on the South side of the building.

Please RSVP so that we know how many snacks & drinks to bring.

Civic Heroes of all types welcome! This event is for coders and non-coders alike -- as long as you're interested in making government more transparent and building interesting things for our city, you're more than welcome!

Bring a laptop: If you intend on getting some hands-on hacking done (it’s ok if you can’t but it definitely helps to have one).

On first Mondays, there will be pizza! We'll be getting some 'za from Sizzle Pie, so there will be a vegetarian option.

If you have something you'd like to work on or are excited about, please let us know via the meetup or at the hack night itself. We are growing our initiative and the energy comes from the community.

Code for Kansas City has a Code of Conduct! Please always be respectful and help us keep our events welcoming, positive, productive environments for everyone.

Connect with Us:

• Join our Code for KC email list.

• Follow us on Twitter @CodeforKC

• Join us on Slack: slackinvite.me/to/codeforkc

Got questions? Email our Brigade Captain, Paul Barham: [email protected].

Code For Kansas City presenters and participants are held to this anti-harassment policy.

May 6th: Code N00bs Learning Ruby? Meet some other beginners!

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Friday, May 6, 2016

6:00 PM

300 Delaware Street, Kansas City, MO

Are you learning to code? Come on out to get social, get some advice, get some support, and have some fun at this casual RailsConf after-party. :-D

^ Attendance at RailsConf not required!

This Meetup will take place a short walk from the Kansas Convention Center after the last keynote and there will be some snacks and drinks, courtesy of Flatiron School.

RailsConf | KC speaker Jess Rudder (engineer @ Flatiron School) will be hosting! She's excited to meet everyone, answer questions about learning to code (and learning to code online!), and even get technical if anyone wants to find out more about her RailsConf talk, "Will It Inject? A Look at SQL Injection and ActiveRecord."

May 3rd: KCDesignCore - Adobe Character Animator with Dave Werner

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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

7:00 PM

Centriq Training

8700 State Line Road, Leawood, KS (map)

Back in the B.C. years (Before Computers), animators worked with pencils, paints and reams of overlays taking months and years creating their cartoons. Computers speeded up the process with digital puppets, but an animation still required millions of mouse clicks. Now, with Adobe Character Designer (included with After Effects CC), all you need is a properly layered digital puppet and your face to create (lip-synced!) animations.

Join us Tuesday night, May 3, as Adobe Senior Experience Designer Dave Werner shows us how this digital miracle works.

Fresh from NAB, Dave will join us live in a Connect session from 7 to 7:45. After his presentation we will go deeper into Character Designer with a few tutorials. We'll send you home with a link to an example file that you can play with on your own.

Come get animated with us on Tuesday, and bring a friend!

May 3rd: Lawrence Coders: Shop Talk

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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

7:00 PM

Johnny's Tavern North

410 N Second, Lawrence, KS (map)

This informal gathering is for designers and developers to get together, grab some food and/or drinks, and talk shop. A lot of great discussions and networking happen organically at these meetings, don't miss out!

April 28th: Kansas City Mobile App Developers - Summer Social Hour

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Thursday, April 28, 2016

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Coach's Bar and Grill

9089 W 135th St, Overland Park, KS (map)

Folks,

Its summer and sunny 80s out here in KC. So we’ll be converting this month’s meetup into more of an informal cocktail consumption social club at Coach's on 135th St in Overland Park. Come on out, eat up, drink out, talk down, look around and discuss what an exciting time it is to be alive!

This month’s refreshments are sponsored by Polsinelli.

John Bednarz is a patent and technology attorney who also happens to be a member of our Kansas City Mobile App Developers Group. In his day job, John assists software developers and inventors with protecting their technology. http://www.polsinelli.com/professionals/jbednarz John works with individuals, startup companies, large companies, and everything in between.

In his free time, John is an iOS developer with multiple apps available on the iOS App Store. John has been an iOS developer since 2009. http://www.jrbapps.com/

Come meet John, have a drink, and ask any questions you may have.

Please be sure to RSVP so we can have a decent idea of how big of a table to reserve and how many wrong opinions I’ll be disagreeing with. :)

See you there!

April 28th: Hammerspace Open House

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Thursday, April 28, 2016

6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Hammerspace

440 E 63rd St , Kansas City, MO (map)

1/2 block east of Oak St. on 63rd St.

Every Thursday, the members of Hammerspace gather to socialize, network, and meet new members of the space. We welcome the community at large to come down during this time to explore the workshop, check out all of the tools, fabrication equipment and work space made available to HammerSpace members, and ask questions of our community of Hammerspace users.

There is a concession stand and kids playroom available, and the evening is always the origin point of new and amazing creative ideas.

Tours are led every 30 minutes for those curious about the tools and capabilities of the facility and staff. This is a free event, open to the public.

April 27th: WordPress KC - Content Marketing Strategy and Content Ideas with Jim Grant

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

7:00 PM

Central Library - Meeting Room 312

14 W 10th St, Kansas City, MO (map)

We'll be in meeting room 312 - It is on the 3rd floor of the library. To the left as you get out of the elevator or go up the stairs.

Networking begins at 7pm and the presentation begins at 7:30pm.

Content Marketing Strategy and Content Ideas

“Content marketing is a strategic marketing approach focused
on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent
content to attract and retain a clearly-defined audience — and,
ultimately, to drive profitable customer action.”

To be more precise - own, don’t rent the media space
Create Value - Good content becomes more valuable over time
Value builds on the customer’s story, not yours

About Jim Grant

Jim Grant is the owner of Simply Creative Media - Helping companies get found, get social & get beautiful on the web

• Website - http://www.simplycreativemedia.com/
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimgrant

June 7th: Kansas City Salesforce Developer Group Meeting

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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

7:00 AM to 9:30 AM

Needs a location

This meet up is a live stream keynote announcement from Salesforce. The live stream is 7:30 AM - 9:30AM CST. We are working to see about getting a place to watch the live stream. You can watch from your office or home.

More details coming soon.

April 26th: Smarter SharePoint KC User Group

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WHAT

Smarter SharePoint

KC User Group

WHEN

Tuesday

April 26, 2016

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Add to Outlook

WHERE

Microsoft Office

Corporate Woods

10801 Mastin Blvd 6th Floor

Overland Park, KS, 66210

Microsoft presents: A sneak peak at Sharepoint 2016

SharePoint 2016 will be widely available in early May. During this session we will cover the upcoming release, to understand the high level investment areas for SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online.

As we developed the next version of SharePoint Server 2016, we paid close attention to trends in team collaboration, user experiences across devices, and how the cloud can be blended into existing on-premises scenarios in new and compelling ways. In particular, we focused on delivering value to customers as part of their on-premises deployments, while at the same time making it easier to take advantage of Cloud innovation thru Hybrid deployments of SharePoint with Office 365. With that backdrop, SharePoint Server 2016 delivers enhancements and new capabilities in three major areas:

New user experiences
Cloud-inspired infrastructure with Hybrid at the core
People-centric compliance

>>REGISTER HERE<<

Jack French, a cloud and productivity specialist at Microsoft, helps organizations map out their business strategies with technical solutions, including Office 365, SharePoint, Skype for Business, Exchange, and Office.

Location: Microsoft Office | Pizza will be provided

Please register for this event at: http://kcsmartersharepoint.eventbrite.com/

April27th: Kansas City CodeAnd Meetup

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

5:00 PM

Harry's Country Club

112 Missouri Ave, Kansas City, MO (map)

A meetup for after work to grab a beer and maybe talk some code. Even if you don't drink feel free to show up and hangout.

May 5th: Kansas City Mobile .Net UserGroup Meeting - Hello Android: An Introduction to Android Development with Xamarin

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Thursday, May 5, 2016

6:30 PM

Wirestream

521 Walnut, Kansas City, MO (map)

Wirestream is directly south of Planters; park in the Planters lot on the other side of Walnut street for free parking after 6pm.

Join the KCMobNetDevGru for a Cinco de Mayo Android presentation! We will cover some of the basic anatomy of a Xamarin Android application, app fundamentals, and architecture basics. Additionally, we'll cover some more advanced topics such as navigation page construction and more. We'll walk through a demo of a simple Xamarin.Android app.

Speaker: Yair Segal (Founder, Peach Software)

Space provided by: Wirestream https://www.wirestream.com/

Sponsor: Adaptive Solutions Group
Remember to thank Jessica Lopez and Adaptive Solutions for sponsoring our meetup!

Book sponsor: Packt Publishing: http://www.packtpub.com/

Packt is making discount codes available to the meetup attendees and one person will win an ebook of their choice!

Parking: free parking after 6pm in the Planters parking lot (west side of Walnut)

April 26th: OWASP Kansas City Meeting - Shogo Cottrell, Security Strategist at HP Enterprise Security

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OWASP Kansas City - April 2016

Event to be held at the following time, date, and location:

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (CDT)

Kauffman Foundation Conference Center
4801 Rockhill Road
Brookside Room
Kansas City, MO 64110

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You are invited to the April meeting of the Kansas City Chapter of the Open Web Application Security Project!

We are excited to announce that for this month we have Shogo Cottrell, Security Strategist at HP Enterprise Security, to speak about Application Security and the 2016 HP Cyber Risk Report, which highlighted Application Security as one of the key areas of focus for Information Security in 2016:

Attackers have shifted their efforts to directly attack applications - The perimeter of your network is no longer where you think it is. With today’s mobile devices and broad interconnectivity, the actual perimeter of your network is likely in your pocket right now. Attackers realize this as well and have shifted their focus from servers and operating systems directly to applications.

Shogo has been an active participant in the KC Information Security community for many years, and we are looking forward to his presentation! If you have (or are!) a developer needing a high-level view of the importance of application security, this will likely be a great meeting to attend.

As usual, the meeting will be from 6:30 to 8:00pm at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center, just East of the Plaza. Please RSVP if possible so we can provide an accurate count to the facility, but don't let a lack of RSVP discourage you from attending!

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We hope you can make it!

Cheers,
OWASP-KC

April 26th: KC .NET User Group - Build 2016 Reactions

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

VinSolutions

5700 Broadmoor Street, Mission, KS (map)

Park either above the covered parking or out front and take the elevator to the 9th Floor

In case you missed it, this year's Build conference just wrapped up and it was full of a whole bunch of awesome for .NET developers. Join the conversation with our panel as we highlight some of the most relevant bits and discuss our reactions.

Panel Speakers:

John Alexander @JohnAlexander

Duane Newman @DuaneNewman

Brent Stewart @BrentEStewart

Sponsor: Stackify @Stackify

April 26th: - Kansas City Big Data Group - DataStax Enterprise: The Database for Distributed and Cloud Applications

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

5:00 PM to 8:30 PM

DST Systems

1055 Broadway, Kansas City, MO (map)

This talk will walk through the explosion of data seen over the last half century and the varying database solutions that suited the volume and velocity of data at given points in time. We’ll take a high level look at the NoSQL market space and then discuss the architecture of modern distributed and cloud applications and focus on how DataStax Enterprise can help to reduce the complexity of these systems. We will then focus on how having search, analytics, and graph in direct communication with your transactional workload further simplifies development of enterprise applications. Lastly we will discuss Cassandra, which powers DataStax Enterprise, and enables us to achieve linear scalability and high availability across multiple geographies.

Speaker Bio:

Mitch Henderson is a field engineer for DataStax which offers a battle-tested, Cassandra Powered enterprise platform for Cloud Applications. Mitch’s background is rooted in DevOps roles mostly focused on inserting new technologies into the enterprise. Before joining DataStax Mitch played **integral roles** at Thompson Reuters and CenturyLink where he built large-scale deployments, planned auditing services, and was a key player doing financial data delivery with a focus on quality, maintainability, stability and scalability.

April 21st: Limited WIP Society of KC - Overland Park Lunch

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

11:30 AM to 1:00 PM

Digital Evolution Group

10801 Mastin Street #130, Overland Park, KS (map)

You’re invited to join us for lunch and great conversation on Lean software and Kanban.

Format: Lean Coffee topical format
Where: Digital Evolution Group Coffee Shop, 10801 Mastin Street, Overland Park, KS

This is a BYOL (bring your own lunch) event.
Starbucks coffee is provided!

April 25th: Kansas City Code for America Brigade

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Monday, April 25, 2016

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Sprint Accelerator

210 W. 19th Terr., Kansas City, MO, Kansas City, MO (map)

http://codeforkc.org/

Interested in helping the Kansas City area? Great! Whether or not you know how to code, you can help by joining us to work on civic hacking to create a better Kansas City and surrounding cities. Bring projects, ideas, designs, laptops, data, and friends.

Meeting Format

6:00 - Social / Introductions 6:10 - New Member Orientation 6:20 - Project Pitches

See if there are any updates on projects
See if anyone has a new project they would like to work on Pitch existing projects to work on

6:30 - Work on projects (7:00 ~ Pizza arrives -- first Mondays only) 7:45 - Wrap up - get project updates

Location: Community Room on the South side of the building.

Please RSVP so that we know how many snacks & drinks to bring.

Civic Heroes of all types welcome! This event is for coders and non-coders alike -- as long as you're interested in making government more transparent and building interesting things for our city, you're more than welcome!

Bring a laptop: If you intend on getting some hands-on hacking done (it’s ok if you can’t but it definitely helps to have one).

On first Mondays, there will be pizza! We'll be getting some 'za from Sizzle Pie, so there will be a vegetarian option.

If you have something you'd like to work on or are excited about, please let us know via the meetup or at the hack night itself. We are growing our initiative and the energy comes from the community.

Code for Kansas City has a Code of Conduct! Please always be respectful and help us keep our events welcoming, positive, productive environments for everyone.

Connect with Us:

• Join our Code for KC email list.

• Follow us on Twitter @CodeforKC

• Join us on Slack: slackinvite.me/to/codeforkc

Got questions? Email our Brigade Captain, Paul Barham: [email protected].

Code For Kansas City presenters and participants are held to this anti-harassment policy.