Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 6:30:00 PM C2FO 4210 Shawnee Mission Parkway Suite 308A, Fairway, KS

Do you want to start building native Android apps? Whether you are coming from the world of the web development or making desktop apps, knowing where to start can be a daunting challenge. Join the Xamarin Developers meetup as Roger O'Dell demonstrates building an Android app with both Xamarin in Visual Studio 2017 and Google's Android Studio 2.3. Is one better than the other? Find out at the meetup -- AND in real time over the next month as Roger live-codes what he will present (follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/rogerodell to see when Roger is live-coding).

Location: C2FO (4210 Shawnee Mission Parkway Suite 308A, Fairway, KS)

Sponsor: TBD -- Contact Mike Cerny if you want to sponsor

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Monday, April 3, 2017 at 6:00:00 PM Sprint Accelerator 210 W. 19th Terr., Kansas City, MO, 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

(7:00 ~ Pizza arrives -- first Mondays only) 
7:45 - Wrap up - get project updates

Location: Community Room on the South side of the building.

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).

On first Mondays, there will be pizza! We'll be getting some 'za from Sizzle Pie, so there will be a vegetarian option.

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 Kansas City has a Code of Conduct! Please always be respectful and help us keep our events welcoming, positive, productive environments for everyone.

Connect with Us:

• Join our Code for KC email list.

• Follow us on Twitter @CodeforKC

• Join us on Slack: slackinvite.me/to/codeforkc

Got questions? Email our Brigade Captain, Paul Barham: [email protected].

Code For Kansas City presenters and participants are held to this anti-harassment policy.

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Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 6:00:00 PM Company Kitchen 8500 Shawnee Mission Pkwy, Merriam, KS

Sean Cribbs has offered to share his knowledge of Elixir's GenStage & Flow. These tools can be thought of as "flow control" for parallel Elixir work flows.

If we have enough time, Jeremy Owens-Boggs has also offered to give us a quick education on dialyzer, an analysis/debugging tool for Erlang code.

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Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 7:30:00 AM Eggct 5107 Main Street, Kansas City, MO

When you walk in the door, let them know you are with KC Roundtable and they should bring you to the table! 

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Monday, April 3, 2017 at 6:00:00 AM Hammerspace 440 E 63rd St , Kansas City, MO Click here for event

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Monday, April 3, 2017 at 6:00:00 PM Pinsight Media 1100 Main St #1500, Kansas City, MO

DeVerne Coleman will go over some of the work he as has done attempting to automate the prediction of NFL games.  This talk will cover attempts to incorporate data science/machine learning techniques to NFL game prediction and team ranking.  These techniques include Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forest and others.

DeVerne Coleman is as Lead Database Administrator DST Systems in the Enterprise Architecture group focusing on SQL performance and tuning.  In his spare time, he has spent the last few years learning about predictive analytics and is working on applying this to his personal project, predicting football games.

There should be plenty of street parking on nearby surface streets and should be free by 6pm. On the 2nd floor, use the East bank of elevators to come up to the 15th floor. Click here for event

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Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 6:00:00 PM Hammerspace 440 E 63rd St , Kansas City, MO

Every Thursday, the members of Hammerspace gather to socialize, network, and meet new members of the space. We welcome the community at large to come down during this time to explore the workshop, check out all of the tools, fabrication equipment and work space made available to HammerSpace members, and ask questions of our community of Hammerspace users.

There is a concession stand and kids playroom available, and the evening is always the origin point of new and amazing creative ideas.

Tours are led every 30 minutes for those curious about the tools and capabilities of the facility and staff. This is a free event, open to the public.

1/2 block east of Oak St. on 63rd St. Click here for event

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