Orlando Tech Events
Gregg Pollack
It's been a little while, but here comes your reminder of how awesome the Orlando tech community is (and let you know about a bunch of events over the next month). Feel free to forward on this email to your friends, companies, or other users groups.
Orlando Ruby Users Group - Thursday, June 16 - 6:30 PM
Free Gringos (mexican food) at 6:30 PM, followed by a talk on CoffeeScript, the beautiful Ruby-like language that compiles into javascript, and a talk on the Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline, which helps you keep your application more organized (and makes it easier to use things like CoffeeScript). See http://orug.org for more details.
Likemind.us - Friday, June 17th - 8 AM
Coffee and conversation with likeminded individuals. At Urban ReThink. Normally you can find information on this at http://floridacreatives.com (but the website hasn't been updated yet).
Orlando Coding Dojo - Saturday, June 18 - 10 AM
The Orlando Coding Dojo is the dedicated group for practicing the craft of test-driven development while pair programming. We meet biweekly in various places around the Orlando area, pick a programming language to use, a problem to attempt to solve, and briefly discuss a proposed implementation to follow. See http://www.meetup.com/orlandodojo/
Urban ReThink Open House - Tuesday, June 21 - All day
Orlando's newest creative (co-working) space is holding an all day open house. Come by, work for free, and get 10% off your food at Virgin Olive Market (the cafe). See http://www.urbanrethink.com/
TEDxOrlando Salon - Tuesday, June 21 - 7 PM
At a TEDx event, TEDTalks videos and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. See http://www.tedxorlandosalon.com/.
FAMiLab soldering workshop - Friday, June 24th - 6 PM
FAMiLab is a profitless community-based art and technology collective (i.e. a hackerspace). See http://familab.org
Florida Creatives Happy Hour - Tuesday, June 28th - 6 PM to 9 PM
Happy hour meetup with local creative / tech people. At Gringos Locos. Normally you can find information on this at http://floridacreatives.com (but the website hasn't been updated yet).
Build Guild Orlando - Wednesday, July 13 - 7 PM
Build Guild is a brand new monthly gathering of web folks that enjoy chatting over drinks. Mustaches optional. See http://orlando.buildguild.org/
CF Blogger Conference - Saturday, July 16 - All day
If you want to learn the basics of blogging and self promotion through twitter and facebook, check out this small conference going on at Park Maitland School for just $30 a ticket. See http://centralfloridabloggerconference.com/
Thanks folks, and have a great month!
Gregg Pollack
Envy Labs
http://envylabs.com
407-754-5517