Summer isn’t done yet. We have two outdoor picnics hosted by Vancouver’s tech community, as well as a weekly coffee social mixer, and a couple of events themed around the maker culture.
August 30th, 2022
Morning Coffee Social
Every Tuesday morning, the Vancouver tech community converges on the back patio of the Birds and the Beets in Gastown for informal networking.
From 8AM to 10AM
Picnic.js
Vancouver’s JavaScript community is hosting an outdoor social mixer.
Picnic.js event happening August 30th @ David Lam Park 6PM!
Bring your own drinks/food/blankets.
Come enjoy the nice weather while it lasts!
Sign up sheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1So-vWLjJNp2-Tf8ye_5j0IJkVs3h6xfr0iLRRN4ZC1U/edit#gid=0
August 31st, 2022
Relaunch Party | Sphere
Sphere is relaunching after two years in hiatus. Drinking is legal at Kits so BYOB. This will be a great way to reconnect with old friends and/or make new ones.
We will meet at 6pm on Friday the 26th: look for the Canadian flag and I will also post a comment at the time of the event with more specific location info.
Feel free to bring:
• Beach games/towel
• Booze, preferably in cans
• Friends, whether in tech or notBut you can just bring yourself!
100 spots available. Come for the sunset, stay for the amazing new people you'll meet. See you all there!
Women's Maker Meet Up | MakerLabs
At MakerLabs we believe that sharing space, tools, and skills are fundamental aspects of maker culture. The Tools For Women residency focuses on empowering self-identified women and non-binary people to use the tools at MakerLabs in a comfortable and supportive environment to make almost anything.
Join us for our monthly meet-up to see what the Tools for Women residents have been making, and learn about the residency.
Whether you're a seasoned maker or someone who has only made things in your head and have been too nervous to give it a go IRL, come by and meet other makers and dreamers. We will be having presentations from residents and a mix and mingle, for the opportunity to network with the community.
This event is open to everyone who wishes to support the residents and learn about the program.
Reserve your spot here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/womens-maker-meet-up-tickets-41595930548
Code Club | Richmond Public Library Tech Meetup
If you have some programming experience and want a place to learn more, time to work on your own projects, or a place to meet others with technical interests, come to Code Club. A mentor will be available to help you level up your skills. Short presentations will introduce new tools, languages, or platforms. Bring your own device or borrow a library device.
To register: https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/628971ccd2263e3000314201
Some topics this week:
Recursion & Fractals
Frontend Frameworks, i.e. React
Machine Learning
Functional Programming
If you would like to present a topic or something interesting you're working on, get in touch with Dethe (dethe.elza@yourlibrary.ca).
September 1st, 2022
Electronics Meet-up | MakerLabs
This electronics meetup is an opportunity to hangout with other passionate makers, share ideas, and work on projects collaboratively.
If you’re just getting started in hobby electronics you can drop by and ask for assistance. If you’ve been working on something cool and want to share it, you can do a 5 minute show and tell. Maybe you’re looking for collaborators on a project, or if you’ve recently learned a new skill, come share it with others.
This will be an unstructured event with no formal curriculum or teaching. Bring your own projects to work on, borrow components to test new ideas, use provided soldering irons to assemble your project, or simply hangout and chat.
Interdisciplinary participation is strongly encouraged, absolutely no experience required.
Topics: electronics, technology, robotics, Arduino, CAD modeling, 3D printing.
Please note, this event is open to members and non-members of MakerLabs. Although this is a free event, tickets are required to attend.
Reserve your spot here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/electronics-meet-up-tickets-258392467827
More events coming up
September 7th, 2022 — Vancouver Data Mesh Meetup Networking Night
September 7th, 2022 — Vancouver Virtual Data Engineering Networking Night
September 8th, 2022 — Kaggle Competition Talk: Natural Language Processing with Disaster Tweets
September 15th, 2022 — Emerging Media Lab Summer 2022 Showcase
September 15th, 2022 — Intelligent & Connected Cities: The Future of Embedded Vision
September 20th, 2022 — Computing And Engineering Sciences Education Research Series (CESER)
Stay in the loop
Tech Meetups Vancouver Twitter community. Once joined, you are more than welcomed to post relevant tech events happening in the Greater Vancouver Area
Official Google Calendar that you can subscribe to
You can also subscribe via iCalendar, by copying and pasting this link to your calendar software (including Google Calendar, Apple iCloud Calendar, and Outlook): https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=srcbt169566f8vbj8jeikh2oco%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FVancouver
Let me know!
If you have a meetup that you know of that was not mentioned neither in the Twitter community, the official calendar, nor in this newsletter, please do let me know, by either
replying directly to this post via your email account that you received this post from
emailing directly to hey.to.sal@gmail.com
Any leads that you send to me, I will gladly add the event to the calendar, and it may possibly be mentioned in the next newsletter post.
It will be a huge help to the community of readers. Thank you in advance! 🙏