Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 6:30:00 PM VeriShip 8880 Ward Pkwy #300, Kansas City, MO

COME PLAY! After the holiday weekend, this is JUST what you need to be inspired! I'm excited to bring this game I played at Agile Games New England from Derek W Wade and David A. Koontz. We will need at least 10 people to play, so bring a friend! There is a complete facilitators guide available, so you can take this interactive game back to your organizations at no cost.

The game is intended for leaders, managers, Scrum Masters, and other organizational change agents working to think about psychological safety. Players experience the effects of directive change such as mandating/training new behavior without consideration for social factors. The workshop offers an alternative approach to encouraging innovation, improvement, or other changes to the status quo.

Context
High-performing organizations innovate. Whether they are leadership teams, software teams, or something else they achieve results by being willing to challenge the status quo.

This can be scary. It's all very well to be encouraged to "fail fast" or "think outside of the box," but without the fear of looking foolish or being punished lead us to do what everyone around us is doing.

Ignoring the power of psychological safety is how organizations get stuck. We buy heavy-weight, detailed processes. We set up a chain of command. We define roles and responsibilities in great detail. We run everyone through training classes to ensure compliance with our new method. But somehow, people are even less innovative and more wary. Our fear of threat causes us to become so fixated on doing the new process correctly that we have no thought for performance.

Note: Pizza will be served, and beer is on tap. Bring your own beverage if you prefer. Refrigerators are available!

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Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 6:00:00 PM Stowers Institute 1000 E 50th St, Kansas City,

Please join us for two presentations: We'll have a lightning talk on getting MySQL & SSL to work with Laravel. We'll also have a guest speaker, Rhia Dixon, give a talk about tips that she picked up during her bootcamp journey.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Our Evening Meeting Format

We love Web Development and all things PHP. Our meetings are often a little free-formed, but we shoot for this schedule:

6:00pm - Mingling / Meet and Greet

6:15pm - Lightning Talk: Last Month in PHP

6:30pm - Lightning Talk -- Chuck Robinson: MySQL, SSL, & Laravel

7:00pm - Rhia Dixon: Tech-ish and not-so-tech-ish tips I picked up during my bootcamp journey

If you are interested in speaking or would like to suggest a future topic please suggest one: (http://www.meetup.com/kcphpug/suggestion/)

All Developers and Non-Developers Welcome!

We understand Web Developers often come from all backgrounds, and many work in more languages than PHP. Whether you're curious and just starting out, dabble in PHP on the weekends, write custom PHP on a daily basis, work in a framework like Symfony, Zend Framework, Silex, Slim, Laravel, CakePHP or customize CMS products like WordPress, Drupal or Joomla; our goal is that you will find something new, useful and thought provoking.

Park in any visitor space in the parking garage and enter the main building from the west. Follow the signs for PHP User Group and turn right at the security desk. Click here for event

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Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 7:00:00 PM Denny's Restaurant 1600 Broadway Blvd, Kansas City,

Open to anyone in the area who is interested in developing video games. In order to have a little structure, we'll try to do a couple things each week:

Introduce new members. What have you worked on, game related or not? What do you want to work on next?

Discuss this week's conversation starter. Some article, video or game that we can dig into a little.

Members can present any games they're working on, for feedback or just to brag.

Of course, it's all very informal. The main goal is interesting conversation(s) about our passion.

Looking forward to it!

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Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 6:30:00 PM Our Daily Nada 304 Delaware St, Kansas City, MO

• What we'll do
Casual discussions about intersectional feminism over various topics. Conversations about how to succeed in life, work and relationships while advocating for yourself and empowering the women around you.

• What to bring
An open mind and willingness to share your experience, ask questions and potentially be vulnerable. If you have additional topics you'd like to discuss, please don't hesitate to reach out or bring them up in the course of conversation.

• Important to know
These conversations aren't about subscribing to a certain set of answers, but instead they're about having honest, organic discussions that help us do and be better every day.

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Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 6:00:00 PM Dragonfly Tea Zone 215 NE Englewood Rd , Kansas City , MO

Bring a laptop or tablet with Linux running on it.

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Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 6:00:00 PM Westport Coffee House 4010 Pennsylvania Ave, Kansas City, MO

Join us for the SECOND ever KC Tech Book Club! We will still be talking about Deep Work by Cal Newport.

Feel free to still come if you haven't read the book. It will be a very laid-back discussion format. Should be fun!

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Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 10:00:00 AM Central Resource Library 9875 W 87th St , Overland Park, KS

Having trouble finding time to write your blog post. Me too.

I want to have a dedicated time to work on my blog post each week, I figured it would be great to schedule a time to blog and be with other WordPress people.

Let's get together and write and talk some, but be a support network to get our blog posts written.

This is not a help session, it is to post blogs.

This is not an information session, it is to post on your own website.

I plan on two in the morning per Month on Tuesdays or Wednesdays... Depending on my teaching schedule. Hope you to see you there.

NOTE - The library has free wifi. If you want a secure internet connection, bring your own hotspot - one will not be provided. The library does have secure computers right outside the conference 2 meeting room. The meeting room will change based on availability

Central Study Room 09 or 10 from the main entrance turn right to the back wall Click here for event

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