What we're about

Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 3:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop 5200 E. 45th St., Kansas City, MO

If you've ever wanted to get into 3D printing, but don't quite know how to get started, then this is the class for you! 3D Printing & Design class, going on every other Saturday at Hammerspace. Learn how to design objects to be printed, as well as how to operate a 3D printer. No prior knowledge required.

Be sure to bring your laptop so you can get set up to get started on designing your first 3D creation.

FYI: There are two ONI 3D printer available to members of HammerSpace Workshop.

Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 11:00:00 AM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop 5200 E. 45th St., Kansas City, MO

This is a 3D Printer Build/Repair Clinic for those who need assistance building or repairing their 3D printer. Tom Newell, local inventor and distributor of ONI 3D printers will be walking you through the build or repair of your ONI 3D printer or any other brand of 3D printer you bring in with you. Spare parts for ONI printers will be on hand for sale during this clinic.

Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 10:00:00 AM Johnson County Central Resource Library 9875 W 87th St, Overland Park, KS

I think we have an actual client. Stay tuned-I will update with details.

Monday, July 23, 2018 at 6:00:00 PM Plexpod Crossroads 1712 Main St, Kansas City, mo

Interested in helping the Kansas City area? Great! Whether or not you know how to code, you can help by joining us to work on civic hacking to create a better Kansas City and surrounding cities. Bring projects, ideas, designs, laptops, data, and friends.

Meeting Format

6:00 - Social / Networking
6:15 - Kickoff and Introductions
6:25 - New Member Orientation and Hacking
8:00 - Wrap-up

First Mondays are "Pitch Nights," when we have a slot for new project pitches during kickoff; third Mondays are "Learn Nights," where we have community speakers on civic tech topics from 6:30-7:30pm.

Location: Plexpod Crossroads (formerly Think Big CoWorking).
Entrance in the alley on the West side of the building.
https://goo.gl/maps/hsBMJdcdEh72

Please RSVP so that we know how many snacks & drinks to bring.

Civic Heroes of all types welcome! This event is for coders and non-coders alike -- as long as you're interested in making government more transparent and building interesting things for our city, you're more than welcome!

Bring a laptop: If you intend on getting some hands-on hacking done (it's ok if you can't but it definitely helps to have one).

If you have something you'd like to work on or are excited about, please let us know via the meetup or at the hack night itself. We are growing our initiative and the energy comes from the community.

Code for KC is a program of KC Digital Drive, a local non-profit whose mission is to make Kansas City a digital leader by developing civic capacity to adapt to technology change. We are the local affiliate in Code for America's Brigade network.

Connect with Us:

• Join our Code for KC email list (http://eepurl.com/7gbQP).

• Follow us on Twitter @CodeforKC (http://twitter.com/codeforkc) and @KCDigitalDrive (http://twitter.com/kcdigitaldrive).

Got questions? Email our Brigade Captain, Paul Barham: captain@codeforkc.org or codeforkc@kcdigitaldrive.org.

Code for KC has a Code of Conduct! Please always be respectful and help us keep our events welcoming, positive, productive environments for everyone. Code For KC presenters and participants are held to this anti-harassment policy (http://codeforkc.org/hackkc-code-of-conduct).

Friday, July 20, 2018 at 6:30:00 PM Sprint Accelerator 210 W 19th Ter, Kansas City,

****** APPLICATIONS FOR DJANGO GIRLS KC 2018 ARE NOW CLOSED. Signing up on Meetup does NOT grant you a seat, you MUST have filled out the Django Girls application and been accepted. If you applied but have not heard from us by June 9th please contact ashley.sullins@kcwomenintech.org ******

If you are a woman (14+) and want to learn how to make websites, we have good news for you: we are holding a weekend workshop for beginners!

Kansas City Women in Technology's ongoing mission is to grow the number of women in technology careers in Kansas City. KCWiT is excited to introduce women to coding and technology through this Django Girls workshop. We want to give you an opportunity to learn how to program and become one of us – women programmers!

Workshops are free of charge and some meals will be provided.

Schedule
Friday, July 20th
6:30 - 7:00pm Attendee check in
7:00 - 9:00pm Install & pizza party

Saturday, July 22nd
9:30 - 10:00 am Attendee check in & light breakfast buffet
10:00 - 10:15am Opening presentation & kickoff
10:15am - 12:30pm Session
12:30 - 1:30pm Lunch break
1:30 - 5:00pm Session

This meetup is for anyone interested in learning how to setup, run and program in ROS. You will need a computer or laptop with Linux installed on it to use ROS 1.0. ROS 2.0 runs on Windows but it was just released. We can also talk about how to get a certification in ROS.

https://www.meetup.com/Kansas-City-ROS-Robotic-Operating-System-Meetup/