Monday, September 10, 2018 at 6:00:00 PM Plexpod Crossroads 1712 Main St, 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
8:00 - Wrap-up

First Mondays are "Pitch Nights," when we have a slot for new project pitches during kickoff; third Mondays are "Learn Nights," where we have community speakers on civic tech topics from 6:30-7:30pm.

Location: Plexpod Crossroads (formerly Think Big CoWorking).
Entrance in the alley on the West side of the building.
https://goo.gl/maps/hsBMJdcdEh72

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).

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 KC is a program of KC Digital Drive, a local non-profit whose mission is to make Kansas City a digital leader by developing civic capacity to adapt to technology change. We are the local affiliate in Code for America's Brigade network.

Connect with Us:

• Join our Code for KC email list (http://eepurl.com/7gbQP).

• Follow us on Twitter @CodeforKC (http://twitter.com/codeforkc) and @KCDigitalDrive (http://twitter.com/kcdigitaldrive).

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

Code for KC has a Code of Conduct! Please always be respectful and help us keep our events welcoming, positive, productive environments for everyone. Code For KC presenters and participants are held to this anti-harassment policy (http://codeforkc.org/hackkc-code-of-conduct).

Monday, September 10, 2018 at 5:30:00 PM District. Pour House + Kitchen 7122 Wornall Road, Kansas City, MO

Would you like an opportunity to network with other project managers in the area? This event is for you! Come join us in the tasting room at The Well in Waldo for an evening of great conversations. It's a great place to talk about your project management challenges, meet others in the industry, and network to advance your career.
Happy hour is served between 5:00pm to 6:00pm.

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 6:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop 5200 E. 45th St., Kansas City, MO

WELDING FOR EVERYONE! In the Welding for Everyone class, the instructor will cover basic welding techniques. A variety of useful welding methods will be demonstrated and then repeated by the students. Open to beginners as well as those who have prior experience. Please bring a long sleeved, preferably denim shirt with you to protect your arms. The class will introduce you to flux-core wire feed, MIG and ARC welding. For ages: 18-118 (All materials included) Seating is limited.

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 6:00:00 PM Stowers Institute 1000 E 50th St, Kansas City,

Please join us for an evening of looking at the exciting past month of PHP news and learning about interesting concepts and projects in PHP and software development.

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 - TBA

Your topic here? Contact us to speak (http://www.meetup.com/kcphpug/suggestion/)!

Rate the talks!

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!

Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 7:00:00 PM Tannin Wine Bar & Kitchen 1526 Walnut Street, Kansas City, MO

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!

Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 7:00:00 PM Centriq Training 8700 State Line Road, Leawood, KS

Many print and digital designers incorporate Adobe Acrobat into their internal or external workflow. But are you using it to its potential? Adobe Certified Expert and Lynda.com trainer Kelly Vaughn will show you how to customize your toolset, unlock hidden features, deep dive into commenting and markup, and more. Bring your Acrobat questions, and Kelly will answer them -- plus some you didn't know you had!

Kelly is a technical documentation specialist who owns and operates Verity Yacht Publications ( http://verityyachtpubs.com/). She's also founder of the Raleigh, N.C., InDesign user group. Kelly blogs at http://documentgeek.blogspot.com/

Lynda.com subscribers: Check out Kelly's course on PDF commenting here: https://www.lynda.com/Acrobat-tutorials/Adobe-Acrobat-DC-PDF-Commenting-AEC/597013-2.html

Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 6:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop 5200 E. 45th St., Kansas City, MO

Join us for and open-ended evening of building fun and interesting DIY Electronics Kits.

We have scoured the dark corners of the internet to bring you this selection of kits curated for makes of all ages and skill levels!

Are you a Beginner who is excited to learn the basics? We've got a basic kits that are easy to build and a blast to use!

Do you know what your doing but are eager for practice? Come build one of our larger multi-part kits!

Are you a soldering god who's looking for a challenge?! Then try your hand at building one of our Surface Mount Soldering Kits!

We meet in the Hammerspace Classroom starting at 6pm. You pick the kit you'd like to build from our selection, and our instructors will provide all the instruction, guidance, and assembly hints you need!

---Bring food and drink if you'd like, or even order takeout while you build.---

Young assistants are welcomed and encouraged!

No RSVP is required for MEMBERS of hammerspace $5 RSVP for non members, Kit prices vary from $15 to $45 depending on complexity. Cash and Cards accepted!

Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 6:00:00 PM Panera Bread 8580 S Church Rd, Liberty, MO

Bring a laptop or tablet with Linux running on it.

Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 6:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop 5200 E. 45th St., Kansas City, MO

Members of HammerSpace and their families: Join us for an old-school LAN party now that we have shiny new Google Fiber at the workshop. Bring your laptop and your Steam account, and enjoy an exciting evening of multiplayer gaming with fellow makers. This is a free event, but this time we will not be serving food and drinks, so personal food and drinks welcome and encouraged.

**THIS IS A MEMBERS ONLY EVENT. BE READY TO SHOW YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARD AT THE DOOR**

If you have any multiplayer games to suggest to other attendees of the party, please list them in the comments. We suggest Team Fortress 2, Quake 2, and Star Craft.

Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 5:00:00 PM SMG 1737 Mcgee St, Kansas City,

• What we'll do
You MUST register on Eventbrite to attend - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coding-cocktails-server-side-apis-tickets-46600665846?aff=meetup

Session Topic: Server-side APIs: Node.js, REST and SOAP

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.

This month we'll talk about using JavaScript on the server-side, or back-end. We'll compare to front-end (aka client-side) JavaScript and talk about API protocols and how to interact with them. We will practice using APIs with support from our fantastic mentors!

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

Attendance at previous sessions is helpful but not required - lean on the available mentors to help if you were unable to join our other sessions, there are no stupid questions!

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!

• What to bring
Bring a wifi enabled laptop that you have administrative rights to.
Don't have a laptop? Email [email protected] to request one!

• Important to know
- Must be at least 21 to attend
- Please familiarize yourself with Kansas City Women in Technology's Code of Conduct at http://kansascitywomenintechnology.github.io/CodeOfConduct.
- Cocktails, non-alcoholic beverages, and light dinner served
- You MUST register on Eventbrite to attend - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coding-cocktails-server-side-apis-tickets-46600665846?aff=meetup

Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 3:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop 5200 E. 45th St., Kansas City, MO

If you've ever wanted to get into 3D printing, but don't quite know how to get started, then this is the class for you! 3D Printing & Design class, going on every other Saturday at Hammerspace. Learn how to design objects to be printed, as well as how to operate a 3D printer. No prior knowledge required.

Be sure to bring your laptop so you can get set up to get started on designing your first 3D creation.

FYI: There are two ONI 3D printer available to members of HammerSpace Workshop.

Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 1:00:00 PM Johnson County Library, Leawood Pioneer 4700 Town Center Dr, Leawood,

Earl Glynn will talk about the Boruta library in R, which does feature selection. Serge Bushman will present a case study in R. He provided me the following description: "A great way to learn R is to pursue a project with loose timelines. This presentation describes a real-life project with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kansas City, who wanted to increase the likelihood that their match proposals result in successful relationships. It spans data munging, visualization, modeling, and app-development."

Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 11:00:00 AM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop 5200 E. 45th St., Kansas City, MO

This is a 3D Printer Build/Repair Clinic for those who need assistance building or repairing their 3D printer. Tom Newell, local inventor and distributor of ONI 3D printers will be walking you through the build or repair of your ONI 3D printer or any other brand of 3D printer you bring in with you. Spare parts for ONI printers will be on hand for sale during this clinic.

Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 10:00:00 AM Johnson County Library, Monticello 22435 W. 66th St, Shawnee, ks

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.

Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 6:30:00 PM Softek Illuminate 7255 W 98th Terrace, Overland Park, ks

The first presentation will describe a method for javascript interop using custom elements. Next, we will discuss a few of the major changes that came in Elm 0.19 and a few upgrade tips.

This week, we are sponsored by Softek Illuminate!

Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 6:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop 5200 E. 45th St., Kansas City, MO

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.

Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 6:00:00 PM Johnson County Community College 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, KS

Come meet other local Unreal/Game Developers, discuss the latest tech and ideas in game development, showcase your own game dev work, engage in round-table discussions, and network with other professionals.

The KC Unreal Devs User Group will be meeting at the Johnson County Community College CoLab. The CoLab is an active learning environment offering an array of resources — imaginative co-work spaces, advanced technology, technical support, and research assistance. The CoLab is located on the ground floor of the Office and Classroom Building. Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/fvPdZMi7oB52

The easiest parking location is to the North West of the Office and Classroom Building (OCB). Here's a .PDF map of the CoLab and parking locations: https://goo.gl/ucwUh8

Also, be sure to follow the KC Unreal Game Devs User Group on Twitter (@KCUnrealDevs) and join our Discord channel ( https://discord.gg/Dnk9YvZ ) for on-going discussions, tips-and-tricks, and other industry news happening in the world of Game Dev.

Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 6:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop 5200 E. 45th St., Kansas City, MO

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.

Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 6:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop 5200 E. 45th St., Kansas City, MO

WELDING FOR EVERYONE! In the Welding for Everyone class, the instructor will cover basic welding techniques. A variety of useful welding methods will be demonstrated and then repeated by the students. Open to beginners as well as those who have prior experience. Please bring a long sleeved, preferably denim shirt with you to protect your arms. The class will introduce you to flux-core wire feed, MIG and ARC welding. For ages: 18-118 (All materials included) Seating is limited.

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 6:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop 5200 E. 45th St., Kansas City, MO

WELDING FOR EVERYONE! In the Welding for Everyone class, the instructor will cover basic welding techniques. A variety of useful welding methods will be demonstrated and then repeated by the students. Open to beginners as well as those who have prior experience. Please bring a long sleeved, preferably denim shirt with you to protect your arms. The class will introduce you to flux-core wire feed, MIG and ARC welding. For ages: 18-118 (All materials included) Seating is limited.

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 6:00:00 PM Stowers Institute 1000 E 50th St, Kansas City,

Please join us for an evening of looking at the exciting past month of PHP news and learning about interesting concepts and projects in PHP and software development.

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 - TBA

Your topic here? Contact us to speak (http://www.meetup.com/kcphpug/suggestion/)!

Rate the talks!

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!

Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 6:30:00 PM TBD TBD, Kansas City, MO

The Kansas City Search Engine Marketing Association is dedicated to educating the local business community about the benefits of Search Engine Marketing and helping aspiring and existing SEMs advance their careers.

Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 6:30:00 PM Cerner Innovations Campus 8770 Hillcrest Rd, Kansas City, MO

For our inaugural meetup, we're joining forces with JSKC to bring you GraphQL: The Basics and Beyond! Make sure to register on eventbrite and check out the meetup post at https://www.meetup.com/JavaScriptKC/events/253651202/

It has been duplicated below for convenience. Hope to see you all there!

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/javascriptkc-august-2018-meetup-tickets-48926316931

Abstract: REST is wonderful at exposing single-consumer APIs. However, it starts to fall down when you need to provide a non-breaking long term solution that multiple clients with various concerns must depend on. To solve this and many other problems we have GraphQL.

This is not another Apollo GraphQL talk. Instead, this talk focuses on how to build out a Node.js hapi server to serve the needs of REST and GraphQL clients without the need for separate handlers for each case. The talk will also cover how to interact with GraphQL from the frontend using Vue. Additionally, it will focus on how to make GraphQL requests from a server to other servers. This talk will also cover basic approaches to testing these GraphQL services.

Everything in this talk is oriented toward the modern JavaScript Engineer who is interested in learning about the shortcomings of REST and the reasons why GraphQL is gaining popularity.

Bio: Wyatt regularly contributes to open source software, namely software in the Node.js ecosystem. I helped to create hapi and the surrounding ecosystem. He has a passion for containers, microservices, application security, and testing. You can find his open source work at https://github.com/geek

Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 6:30:00 PM Cerner Innovations Campus 8779 Hillcrest Road, Kansas City,

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/javascriptkc-august-2018-meetup-tickets-48926316931

Abstract: REST is wonderful at exposing single-consumer APIs. However, it starts to fall down when you need to provide a non-breaking long term solution that multiple clients with various concerns must depend on. To solve this and many other problems we have GraphQL.

This is not another Apollo GraphQL talk. Instead, this talk focuses on how to build out a Node.js hapi server to serve the needs of REST and GraphQL clients without the need for separate handlers for each case. The talk will also cover how to interact with GraphQL from the frontend using Vue. Additionally, it will focus on how to make GraphQL requests from a server to other servers. This talk will also cover basic approaches to testing these GraphQL services.

Everything in this talk is oriented toward the modern JavaScript Engineer who is interested in learning about the shortcomings of REST and the reasons why GraphQL is gaining popularity.

Bio: Wyatt regularly contributes to open source software, namely software in the Node.js ecosystem. I helped to create hapi and the surrounding ecosystem. He has a passion for containers, microservices, application security, and testing. You can find his open source work at https://github.com/geek

Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 6:00:00 PM NAIC 1100 Walnut, Kansas City, MO

We will discuss how NIPR built a call center with AWS Connect, its surrounding serverless components, the experience so far, and the next integrations and automations on the roadmap.

Food will be provided and parking info will be distributed prior to the event. Please RSVP before the day of, to ensure you have food and parking.

Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 6:00:00 PM Panera Bread 8580 S Church Rd, Liberty, MO

Bring a laptop or tablet with Linux running on it.

Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 6:00:00 PM VinSolutions 5700 Broadmoor Street, Mission, KS

Understanding the real value of Open Source with nopCommerce

Open Source. Developers hear about it a lot. What should you really look for and why? For example, I choose to study nopCommerce, which has led to some amazing opportunities. nopCommerce has a familiar architecture, a plug-in model, and an active community. This is a fast paced walk-through of the nopCommerce architecture and source code. More importantly, you will discover the many ways to get involved with nopCommerce, or any other open source software, to better your career and life.

John Baluka @JohnBaluka

John has been developing software with the Microsoft stack for 20+ years. For most of the last 10 years, John has been a sub-contractor, business owner, and a Dad. John enjoys researching and applying new technologies to real world examples.

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