GemCity TECH

03/18/2024

For the 4th week of March, GemCity TECH has 1 tech events for you!

💬 Thursday, March 21st, 2024 at 6:00 PM
The [New To Tech] group will continue with 'part 2' of setting up your development environment with GitHub and Docker.
This is a +1 meeting for the month to continue from the March 7th meeting.

Did you miss the 'part 1' meeting? No worries. Join us, bring your laptop and we'll catch you up 👍
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/299666474/



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**Note: this is the 2nd part of our 07MAR meeting - please read below!** "It's on GitHub, just pull down the repo and run it." These words can be *frightening* when you'r

03/10/2024

For the 3rd week of March, GemCity TECH has 3 tech events for you!

💬 Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Nick Gerakines Uncorked

🏗 Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 7:00 PM
The Dayton Dynamic Languages User Group - Streamlit data apps

🏆 Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Gem City Game Developers - How to start and actually finish making a game

RSVP through Meetup.com:
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/



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03/04/2024

For the 1st week of March, GemCity TECH has 3 tech events for you!

TUE, MAR 5, 2024, 6:00 PM EST
Code For Dayton - Civic Hacking

WED, MAR 6, 2024, 6:00 PM EST
ARM, Bicep, knees and toes! Infrastructure as Code for beginners with our friend Samuel Gomez.

THU, MAR 7, 2024, 6:00 PM EST
New To Tech - Good time exploring the fundamenals with Matt Alioto.

RSVP through Meetup.com:
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/

02/11/2024

For the 3rd week of February, GemCity TECH has 3 tech events for you!

Tuesday, February 13th at 6pm - We have a guest speaker Kat Fairbanks taking us on "A Deep Dive into Caching with Service Workers" to get the most out of offline applications.
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/kkxmjtygcdbrb/

Wednesday, February 14th at 6pm - Dayton Dynamic Languages - For Valentine's day Evelyn J. Boettcher will show us how to use Google App Scripting. She will show us how to create custom macros, functions, and custom menus to fetch data and process it within your spreadsheets.
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/dkgdrsygcdbsb/

Thursday, February 15th at 6pm - Gem City Machine Learning - A "Double Feature" night with to presentations: "Speech to Text using Vertex AI" and "LLMs & ML in Wargame Simulations"
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/zjtxhtygcdbtb/

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02/05/2024

For the 2nd week of February, GemCity TECH has 3 tech events for you!

Tuesday, February 6th at 6pm - CodeForDayton will continue work on a digital screener app for the Dayton Energy Collaborative. Come out and lend a hand.
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/qnmvgtygcdbjb/

Wednesday, February 7th at 6pm - We have a guest speaker Richard Miller Wimmer sharing how to grow your IT career by building and delivering your professional brand.
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/jhdnjtygcdbkb/

Thursday, February 8th at 6pm - Gem City Game Developers will explore how to implement shading affectively in your game design. We'll cover the background of shaders. Answer questions like, "What are shaders?", "When should I use a shader?", "What can I do with shaders?".
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/qkhzctygcdblb/

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01/30/2024

For the February 1st New To Tech meeting, Matt Alioto will dive deeply into querying and joining data using the structured query language (SQL) so we can manage our data.

Databases organize and store the data for almost every computer application, mobile app, website, or service.

For any technical career it's important to have a basic understanding of querying and joining data.

Join us to learn more:
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/298375718/

01/16/2024

For the 3rd week of January, GemCity TECH has 2 tech events!

Tuesday, January 16th at 6pm (in person) - CodeForDayton will dive into a new project for the Dayton Energy Collaborative. Come out and lend a hand.
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/qnmvgtygccbdb/

Thursday, January 18th at 6pm - Gem City Machine Learning will be meeting (ONLINE ONLY) to explore the world of using No / Low Code with Machine Learning.
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/ghghjtygccbxb/

01/06/2024

For the 2nd week of January, GemCity TECH has 4 tech events for you and one of them is brand new to the community!

*Cognitive Think Tank* has joined the GemCity TECH family and will be meeting (online only) the 2nd Wednesdays of the month at 5pm. Welcome to the leadership team Layla Akilan and Damon Troncone!

✈️ Tuesday, January 9th at 6pm (in person) - Guy Royse is returning to share on his personal interests - Tracking Aircraft with Streams and Software-Defined Radio. Guy is a wealth of knowledge across a range of technology and his presentations are always fun and educational.
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/298059177/

🧠 Wednesday, January 10th at 5pm (online only) - Cognitive Think Tank: Human Centered Systems.
This is the debut of our newest user group targeting:
- UXUI designers
- Software engineers
- Machine Learning Engineers
- Human Factors Engineers
- Cognitive Engineers
- Students
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/297905559/

💻 Wednesday, January 10th at 7pm (in person) - Dayton Dynamic Languages
If you’re interested in Ruby (including Rails), Python, PHP, Perl, Javascript, Scheme, Lisp, Smalltalk, etc, this is the place for you. RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/298079346/

🕹️ Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 6pm - Gem City Game Developers - Learning Blender 4.0
This week continues the new year tradition of diving into the Blender 3D computer graphics software tool set.
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/297510701/

Find more events on the GemCity TECH Meetup Event Calendar:
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/calendar/
Map to our meeting location - the Innovation Hub:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/XAnWpv671EU8W57X7

01/02/2024

Happy New Year tech community!

It's the 1st week of 2024 and GemCity TECH has 2 tech events for you to kick off the new year.

🪽 Join us on Wednesday, January 3rd for a dive into the Swift programming language.
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/jhdnjtygccbfb/

💻 Join us on Thursday, January 4th to development your tech fundamentals. There will be plenty of time for group discussion & live coding. Please bring your laptop!
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/zzxxgtygccbgb/

Both events
- Are at the downtown Dayton Innovation Hub
- Start at 6pm
- Will have pizza and drinks available

Find more events on the GemCity TECH Meetup Event Calendar:
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/calendar/

Map to our meeting location - the Innovation Hub:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/XAnWpv671EU8W57X7

06/12/2023

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It's the 2nd week of June and we have 4 technical user groups lined-up for you!!
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 at 6:00 PM
1️⃣ Autonomous Miami Valley
Discussions around research, development, and engineering autonomous systems in various industries and applications
RSVP:
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/ghbfdtyfcjbrb/

Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 at 6:00 PM
2️⃣ The Dayton .NET Developers
In introduction to Blazor, a feature of ASP.NET for building interactive Web UIs using C # instead of JavaScript.
RSVP:
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/tlfjbtyfcjbrb/

Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 at 7:00 PM
3️⃣ Dayton Dynamic Languages Group
Discussion of technology and techniques related to dynamic programming languages.
RSVP:
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/dkgdrsyfcjbsb/

Thursday, June 15th, 2023 at 6:00 PM
4️⃣ Gem City Machine Learning
Dr. Jeff Clark from RedPoint AI will discuss Spiking Neural Networks (SNN). If time permits, we'll also have Bayesian Optimization for faster results.
RSVP:
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/ggffbtyfcjbtb/

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04/28/2023

🌟 We have 4 exciting tech events for you this coming week! 🌟

Monday, May 1, 2023 at 6:00 PM
🔌 Gem City Mechatronics [Lab Night]
This is a brand new user group is focused on the community of electronics enthusiasts.

We'll be doing Introductions, discussions on current project, and sharing projects you would like to work on. Please feel free to bring project materials with you (limit size to things that can fit inside a grocery bag).

Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 6:00 PM
🏛 Code For Dayton
We'll be doing more mob programming exercises focused on collaborative problem solving. This is open to people of all backgrounds and skill levels. We will be writing Python, but the “mob” approach allows folks to engage in a way that matches their comfort levels.

Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 6:00 PM
🎓 New To Tech - Guest Speaker Sara Betts
This month's meeting will be hosted by Sara Betts! Sara has a ton of experience in professional development curriculum design, equity, and student advocacy - a great match for New to Tech!

Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 6:00 PM
🕸 Dayton Web Developers - Augmented Development with AI
A new wave of code-writing AIs are flooding our industry and the demos are impressive. What does that mean for us? Will we fall behind? Lose our jobs? We could live in fear, or we could dive in and learn how to use AI tools to enhance our development skills.

At this meetup, we'll discuss how we can use Github Copilot, ChatGPT, and other AI tools to become better, more productive programmers.

RSVP:
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🔌 Gem City Mechatronics - NEW GROUP
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/bhwhdtyfchbcb/

🏛 Code For Dayton
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/dmlzwsyfchbdb/

🎓 New To Tech
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/mdhndtyfchbdb/

🕸 Dayton Web Developers
https://www.meetup.com/gem-city-tech/events/hwdqqsyfchbfb/

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