This is a monthly roundup of dev groups, meetups, and other special events happening in and around Philly’s tech community.
Agile Philly
Sept 17th (Tues) Meeting — Link
The WHATS of Product Development: Continual Discovery and Delivery to Achieve Greater Customer Value through Lean Agile.
CocoaHeads
Sept 12th (Thurs) Monthly Meetup (Philly) — Link
Our meetings are a mix of formal presentations and show-and-tells. We welcome talk proposals of all skill level, and all speaker experience level.
Sept 28th (Sat) Side Project Saturday (Philly) — Link
Side Project Saturday is an opportunity to work on your iOS/Mac projects in a group setting. It’s a great chance to get help with your app, share your ideas, and socialize with other developers! Beginners are always welcome!
Code for Philly
Sept 6th (Fri) Launchpad 2019: Phundamentals -Brainstorming Nights (Philly) — Link
Project teams will explore civic tech solutions that help provide equitable access to Philly’s (re)defined set of basic needs. What are those 21st century basic needs? That’s up to us to decide! We’re starting a conversation around the resources and services that are necessary to thrive in Philadelphia today and forming project teams to improve access for Philadelphians.
Sept 7th (Sat) Launchpad 2019: Phundamentals – Opening Work Day (Philly) — Link
Our brainstorming event was fun, but now it’s time to get to work! This day will be filled with guest speakers, team formations, and workshops. All to get you pumped for some civic hacking! In addition, technical mentors will be on hand in helping teams to jump-start their project!
Sept 10th (Tues) Hack Night – Launchpad Edition (Philly) — Link
Ready to hack for Philly? This is a no-frills night for projects to meet in-person and get some real work done. Code for Philly projects are all free, open source, and operate in the civic space. Sharpen your skills and help Philly at the same time!
Sept 24th (Tues) Hack Night – Launchpad Edition (Philly) — Link
Ready to hack for Philly? This is a no-frills night for projects to meet in-person and get some real work done. Code for Philly projects are all free, open source, and operate in the civic space. Sharpen your skills and help Philly at the same time!
GDG Philly
Sept 25th (Wed) Flutter Study Jam (Philly) — Link
Ready to hack for Philly? This is a no-frills night for projects to meet in-person and get some real work done. Code for Philly projects are all free, open source, and operate in the civic space. Sharpen your skills and help Philly at the same time!
Greater Philadelphia AWS User Group
Sept 12th (Thurs) Go Deepracer Go (Blue Bell) — Link
Dabble in a little machine learning with Kunal Batra from AWS as he demos AWS DeepRacer. Amazon bills DeepRacer as a fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car driven by reinforcement learning. AWS has recently unveiled their Machine Learning Specialty certification and I know some of you have placed an interest in pursuing it.
Philly IoT Meetup
Sept 11th (Wed) Monthly Meetup (Philly) — Link
PHASE
Sept 10th (Tues) Bill Venners: Topic TBD (Place TBD) — Link
Bill Venners, co-author of Programming in Scala and author and maintainer of the highly popular ScalaTest testing framework, has tentatively agreed to join us remotely, from his Walnut Creek, CA, office.
Philly DevOps
Sept 17th (Tues) Monthly Meetup (Philly) — Link
Philadelphia Software Testing Group
Sept 26th (Thurs) The Pothole of Automating Too Much (King of Prussia) — Link
In this talk, Paul Holland will discuss some issues and problems with that approach. He will provide the participants with strong arguments why the “automate everything” approach will likely not be as successful as many people expect and he will provide details of an alternative balanced approach that will likely yield higher quality in the software. Paul will discuss the difference between testing & checking, detail 5 problems that can and do occur in situations where companies try to automate too much, tell real life stories from companies he has worked with, and provide details of a broader “balanced” solution.
Philly JUG
Sept 24th (Tues) Coding that Sparks Joy with Quarkus (King of Prussia) — Link
Does your heart beat faster when you’re developing your Java application? Do you Spark Joy when you’re coding it? If not, then it’s time to leave some old ways behind. Join us on this session and become Ahead of Time with Quarkus. You’ll learn to love how your old and new favorite APIs will start in a matter of milliseconds, and consume tiny amounts of memory.
Philly.rb
Sept 3rd (Tues) Project Night (Philly) — Link
Have some ruby code to show off? Need some time to work on your side project? Looking to pair with someone on an open source project? Come to the Philly.rb project night to work on your code or see what your fellow Rubyists are up to.
Philadelphia JavaScript Developers
Sept 19th (Thurs) Sept Meetup (Philly) — Link
It’s finally time for us to get together again! Our September meetup is right around the corner! We can’t wait to see each of you, to hang out, and hear some great tech talks about JavaScript.
Suburban Philly Cloud & DevOps
Sept 10th (Tues) Monthly Meetup (Malvern) — Link
Talks:
- Wide world of Cloud + DevOps: An open talk on recent events in the Cloud + DevOps industry from the past month.
- Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline for a Startup with Solomon Lasluisa
- Zero Trust Cloud Security with Dimitri Stiliadis, CTO of Aporeto