Monday, June 5, 2017 at 6:00:00 PM Think Big Partners 1712 Main Street, Kansas City, MO

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 / Networking
6:15 - Kickoff and Introductions
6:25 - New Member Orientation and Hacking

(7:00 ~ Pizza arrives -- first Mondays only)
7:45 - Wrap up - get project updates

Location: Think Bit CoWorking on the West 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.

Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 1:00:00 PM Johnson County Library, Leawood Pioneer 4700 Town Center Dr, Leawood,

This is tentatively set up as a beginner's session, but we might switch it with the advanced topics session in May or July. No speakers or topics confirmed yet. If you have a suggested topic or you want to volunteer to give a talk, leave a comment below. Just as a reminder, a beginners topics meeting covers fundamental aspects of R that anyone learning R needs to know in order to succeed. Some examples of beginner topics talks include file manipulation, importing data from Excel, subsetting data structures, and recoding variables.

In contrast, an advanced topics meeting covers aspects of R that are more specialized. Some examples of advanced topics include LASSO regression, R on the Raspberry Pi, wavelets, colors in R, interactive web applications built with R, Bayesian models, data mining using the caret package, and survival data analysis. You don't have to be a beginner to show up at a beginners topics meeting. Advanced users can still benefit by getting a more complete understanding of fundamental R features.

You don't have to be an advanced user to show up at an advanced topics meeting. Beginners can benefit from these talks to because they give you an idea of the breadth and power that R has.

Finally, on some months, we hold a hack session. There are no formal presentations during a hack session. Just show up ready to ask questions of the others in the group. We have a very broad and diverse membership, so there's a very good chance that someone will be available to help you with any questions about R that you might have.

Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 5:00:00 PM The Nerdery 100 E 7 St Suite #401, Kansas City, MO

You MUST register on Eventbrite to attend - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coding-cocktails-june-tickets-31953829765?aff=meetup

Session Topic: Programming Concepts 101: Intro to jQuery & JavaScript

Join us for our monthly coding series, Coding & Cocktails. Women are invited to attend sessions to get an introduction to website building in a fun, laid-back atmosphere.

We'll discuss what Javascript and jQuery are, why they are important to front-end developers and how to incorporate them in our websites. Using these tools will allow you to make your website interactive. We will practice using jQuery with support from awesome mentors!

There will be lots of guidance and support for those with no coding experience so come join the fun! 

• No coding experience necessary (we mean that!) 

• Wifi-enabled laptop is required (don't have one? Borrow one of ours) 

• Must be at least 21 to attend 

• Cocktails, non-alcoholic beverages, and light appetizers served 

• Please familiarize yourself with Kansas City Women in Technology's Code of Conduct.

Do you need financial assistance to attend? View codingandcocktails.kcwomenintech.org/financialaid for more information.

If you are unable to attend, you must cancel 48 hours prior to the event to receive a refund!

Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 10:00:00 AM , ,

RSVPs open 10 days before the date of the event.

Come work on Python projects, get programming help, help others, and meet interesting people. We'll begin with brief introductions and an opportunity to talk about what we're each working on. We'll have members available to help beginning Python programmers with language basics and getting Python and related tools installed on their computers. We'll have plenty of time for more advanced topics, too.

Audience: Everyone! We'll have something for all Python experience levels.

What to bring: A laptop with WiFi and power cord.

Monday, June 5, 2017 at 10:00:00 AM Central Resource Library 9875 W 87th St , Overland Park, KS

Having trouble finding time to write your blog post. Me too. 

I want to have a dedicated time to work on my blog post each week, I figured it would be great to schedule a time to blog and be with other WordPress people. 

Let's get together and write and talk some, but be a support network to get our blog posts written. 

This is not a help session, it is to post blogs. 

This is not an information session, it is to post on your own website.

I plan on two in the morning and two in the evening per Month on Tuesdays or Wednesdays... Depending on my teaching schedule. Hope you to see you there. 

NOTE - The library has free wifi. If you want a secure internet connection, bring your own hotspot - one will not be provided. The library does have secure computers right outside the conference 2 meeting room.

Friday, June 2, 2017 at 2:30:00 PM Hammerspace 440 E 63rd St , Kansas City, MO

Fidget Spinners are all the rage right now, and HammerSpace is hosting a class where you can make your very own out of 3D printed parts and high quality bearings!

During this class, students will get to choose from a wide variety of color casings for their fidget spinner (including UV color changing and glow-in-the-dark). The instructor will then teach you how to open and prepare the different types of bearings for maximum spin time and balance, then everyone will assemble their spinners.

Nathan Hall of Rocketman Toys makes and sells fidget spinners of all shapes, sizes, and colors right here in the KC area. His spinners are high quality, and usually spin for 60-90 seconds at a time. In addition to being the instructor for this class, he will also have pre-assembled fidget spinners for sale at HammerSpace during the class if you wish to pick some up while you're there.

For ages: 8-108 years old

This and all classes are open to BOTH HammerSpace members AND non-members, but you must RSVP and prepay for this class if you wish to attend. There is also a 1pm-2pm session of this same class on the same day.

Friday, June 2, 2017 at 1:00:00 PM Hammerspace 440 E 63rd St , Kansas City, MO

Fidget Spinners are all the rage right now, and HammerSpace is hosting a class where you can make your very own out of 3D printed parts and high quality bearings!

During this class, students will get to choose from a wide variety of color casings for their fidget spinner (including UV color changing and glow-in-the-dark). The instructor will then teach you how to open and prepare the different types of bearings for maximum spin time and balance, then everyone will assemble their spinners.

Nathan Hall of Rocketman Toys makes and sells fidget spinners of all shapes, sizes, and colors right here in the KC area. His spinners are high quality, and usually spin for 60-90 seconds at a time. In addition to being the instructor for this class, he will also have pre-assembled fidget spinners for sale at HammerSpace during the class if you wish to pick some up while you're there.

For ages: 8-108 years old

This and all classes are open to BOTH HammerSpace members AND non-members, but you must RSVP and prepay for this class if you wish to attend. There is also a 2:30pm-3:30pm session of this same class on the same day.

https://www.meetup.com/little-blockchain-on-the-prairie/

• 2:30 - 2:40 - Greeting and Housekeeping
• 2:40 – 2:50 – Dell EMC Introduction
• 2:50 - 4:00 - Presentation
• 4:00 – 4:10 - Wrap up and Q&A
• 4:10: - 6:00 – Enjoy the College Basketball Experience

Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 6:00:00 PM Hammerspace 440 E 63rd St , Kansas City, MO

This will be the last Open House night at the current HammerSpace building before everything in the workshop is packed up and moved to the NEW, BIGGER, BETTER HammerSpace location at 5200 E. 45th St. KCMO.

Our soft opening and first open house at the NEW HammerSpace location will be on Thursday, July 13th, 6pm-9pm. We will also host an official GRAND OPENING ribbon cutting event later in the year, complete with live music, food, maker exhibits, and other entertainment.

We hope all of our members (past and present) can make it to this final open house night at HammerSpace at the "old" location. This building holds 5 years worth of memories, stories, and moments of inspiration. We watched our children grow up here, and made life-long friendships with some amazing people. We are sad to say goodbye to our Brookside home, but the good news is we get to take the memories with us to the new building, and also THIS NEW BUILDING IS AMAZING!!!!!

Hope to see you during this final open house night event, and also at the new location in the very near future! Thank you for all of your support, fellow makers!

Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 6:00:00 PM Company Kitchen 8500 Shawnee Mission Pkwy, Merriam, KS Click here for event

Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 6:00:00 PM The District Pour House & Kitchen 7122 Wornall Road, Kansas City, MO

This month we will be teaching Cynefin via Legos and playing X-Team Silos - getting in T-Shape.

The X-Team Silos game helps to highlight the difference when we allow ourselves to conquer tasks outside of our expertise. We will play the game to jump start change and create a collaborative atmosphere.

The Cenefyn Lego game will help us explore four of the fie domains of Dave snowden's Cynefin Framework. We will go through four exercises using Legos to solve problems and work in a context designed to create a simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic system. Playing this game will show us how to figure out what is going on in the organizational structures and communication in the specific system we are working in.

Appetizers will be provided, sponsored by Blueshift Innovation!

Please RSVP if you're planning to attend. We look forward to seeing you there!

GALE KC's mission is to provide a safe place to learn about new tools to solve problems in knowledge work, and/or ways to teach agile and lean concepts.

Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 7:30:00 AM Eggct 5107 Main Street, Kansas City, MO

When you walk in the door, let them know you are with KC Roundtable and they should bring you to the table!