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Colorado Startup Week
AI, startups, cleantech, and a food recovery panel
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PNW Climate Week
I came to PNW Climate Week curious how I could better serve the planet. That might mean using my software skills to power an organization focused on environmental impact, conservation, or clean energy. It could also look completely different, part of a more conscious lifestyle spent tending community gardens or helping in ways I have yet to dream up. There are a lot of possibilities!
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North Coast Men's Gathering
This year was my first time attending the North Coast Men’s Gathering at the Mattole Camp and Retreat Center in the beautiful lost coast town of Petrolia. Huge thanks to the organizers and participants over the last 33+ years who have contributed to such an incredible event! I was blown away at the quantity and quality of men that came out of the woodwork who might not normally have a chance to connect on a day to day basis around town. Most men’s groups I’ve been a part of in the past have been dogmatic and fixated on ideas around masculinity, while this group was organic and inclusive. The gathering is a DreamMaker project of the Ink People Center for the Arts.
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Django Community
“Eventually after applying for Session 5 of Djangonaut Space, I was selected for Team Mars 🚀 ! I was so inspired that I continued working on the Django issue I had dropped and finally that was merged just yesterday after over a year of work on and off 🎉.”
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Elm Events in Colorado
December Elm Hack Night has been cancelled, but Wednesday January 24th is Beginner’s Night at Front Range Elm. Please spread the word and bring your friends!
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Tips From a FP Noob
Functional programming is amazing! Huge thanks to the professors, colleagues, and friends who have helped me appreciate that. In this post I will humbly share four tips I’ve picked up along the way:
- Play with a passion project
- Ask the right questions
- Really read the docs
- Give back to the community
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Impact Hub Berlin
I hope that Impact Hub Berlin never changes. Members will come and go, superficial improvements may happen over time, but the warm and colorful community there can withstand all of it. To understand this co-working space, you have to know its history and the people behind it.
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Nordic.js
JavaScript is unique from other programming languages because it is used not only on the server, but within the browser. So while other languages might give you the ability to create visualizations on the front-end or develop an API on the back-end, JavaScript empowers engineers to do all of those things and much more.
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Impact Hub Stockholm
Travel to a place where you know nobody and instantly become part of the community there. That’s the experience that I had visiting Stockholm and using the Impact Hub Passport! Everyone from the founder to the hosts and members were extremely friendly and collaborative. This has been the first stop on my journey which will take me to 3 (now 4) hubs in Europe, so it will always have a special place in my heart.
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Impact Hub Adventure
As I’ve said before, I love being a member of Impact Hub Boulder. The incredible people there inspire me every day. However, it’s time for a new adventure. I’m off to Europe!
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Northern Colorado Value Investing Meetup
I’m speaking on the value investing newsletter Valunicorn at the next Northern Colorado Value Investing Meetup “Q2 2015”. Register here. The meeting will take place beginning at 8:15 AM Sat Jun 27 @ La Vita Bella Coffee in Longmont. Hope to see you there!
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Cross-pollination
I love being a member of Impact HUB Boulder! The community here has helped me grow both personally and professionally. While my experience locally has been amazing, I know that there is more out there, and have put together a letter in anticipation of a stay in Europe this fall. A few members of the leadership team will be passing this along to other Impact HUB directors at gatherings over the coming months:
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BLDRPPL: Changes Coming Soon!
We have had some amazing conversations over the last couple of months at BLDRPPL. Our third full episode will be finished sometime this week. While each person featured so far has been very unique and interesting, I hope that we can branch out further over the next year and have slightly more frequent posts. Also, if anyone is aware of a sponsor who would be willing to donate space for less than an hour every couple of weeks for a quiet interview, please let us know!
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A Tale of Two Conferences – PyCon vs. LambaConf (Part 1)
Over the course of the last week I attended both PyCon in Montreal and LamdaConf right here in Boulder. I have always enjoyed using Python, but thanks to one outstanding professor, I also have very fond memories of functional programming and lambda calculus from grad school. Both conferences were amazing, and there were similarities between the communities, but these are two fundamentally different styles of programming.
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BLDRPPL
I started a new project this weekend called BLDRPPL. There are so many interesting characters in this little town and I wanted an excuse to get to know them. Here is the basic idea:
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Longmont Hackathon
What an experience! I met so many fantastic people and learned a bunch at the Longmont Hackathon this past weekend. Skyline High School was well represented with a team of incredibly gifted young developers, but the star of the show was 14-year-old Jackson Roberts who took 1st place with his “Longmont Events” application.