Monday, December 6, 2021 at 7:00:00 PM

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How do professional designers create a user-friendly experience? They go straight to the source — the user.

About this event

User research is the secret weapon that helps designers learn about the behavior, goals, motivations, and needs of the people who actually use their platform. With this valuable skill set, you'll be ready to kick off your career in UX design.

Join us in this webinar to get introduced to some of the proven techniques within this space, learn how to develop better user experiences, and how those skills will put you in high demand in this exciting career.

What you will learn:

What is the UX/UI Design Process
Discover the different types of user research
How human behavior applies to user research
And so much more...

How to join us: Once you register with Eventbrite, you will receive an email with the links to the live webinar from BigMarker. If you do not receive your link, please email [email protected].

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Monday, December 6, 2021 at 6:00:00 PM Online event

Register here for the Zoom link to kick off the meeting:
https://kcdigitaldrive.zoom.us/j/84232981632?pwd=MFB0Qm0yQXIyWGw4VC9iMEJxWDQ5Zz09

The Zoom link is the same week-to-week, but we ask you to register each week.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: We are taking a hiatus from our in-person Hack Nights as we deal with the implications of COVID-19. We encourage teams to continue project work and to meet virtually from 6:00-8:00pm on Mondays. Our ability to provide pizza and snacks will be compromised, however :).

Individual teams will have access to video breakouts via Zoom. You can use Slack for breakout rooms if you like.

We are also exploring possible projects we could take on to help address this public health emergency. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions or are interested in working on immediate public health-related projects.

Thanks,
Aaron, Paul, and the rest of the Core Team
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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 - Kickoff and Introductions
6:15 - go into breakout rooms
8:00 - Wrap-up

"Pitch Nights," TBD when we have a slot for new project pitches during kickoff;

"Learn Nights," TBD where we have community speakers on civic tech topics from 6:30-7:30pm.

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!

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: [email protected] or [email protected].

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).

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Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 7:00:00 PM

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Join us as we teach you the fundamentals of HTML & CSS while building an interactive website. You'll build your webpage with the help of our instructor, and leave with your site live and ready to share.

About this event

Curious about coding, but don't know where to begin? This workshop is the perfect place to start. Join us as we teach you the fundamentals of HTML & CSS while building an interactive website.

In this workshop, you'll learn the key concepts of HTML & CSS, which are the basic "building blocks" of all websites. You'll start building your own site with the help of our instructor and TAs, and you'll leave with your own site live on the internet to share with your friends and family. Take a look at a live website created by a previous attendee here!

What you will learn:

Basic Fundamentals HTML like tags, elements, and attributes
Basic Fundamentals of CSS like selectors, properties, and values
Learning about Margins, Borders, and Padding
And so much more...

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Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 6:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop

Learn to cast pewter holiday ornaments in laser cut MDF molds. We will be altering existing designs and casting from existing molds to create a variety of beautiful pewter ornaments. Make as many as you like during the time that we have. This is a great introduction class for anyone interested in learning metal working.

For ages 10-110 years old

Class cost: $30/person (class cost includes 1 ornament. Additional ornaments are $1.75 per ounce of pewter used.)

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Sunday, November 28, 2021 at 12:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop

In this fun and foundational class we will be forging square tapers, practicing our drawing out technique, developing general hammer control and learning to use anvils in synergy with your hammer strikes.

We will also be learning make a simple scroll and a twist pattern.

Our goal is to create unique steel skewers for roasting treats over a fire or holding a hot strip of searing hot meat safely away from your fingers.

This blacksmithing class is suitable for ages 13 to adult.
Price:$25

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(ISC)2 Kansas City Chapter

Observability - The Evolution of Monitoring

OBSERVABILITY Observability is a growing practice in the world of software development and operations. Observability gives you the opportunity to learn about the important aspects of your environment without knowing in advance the questions you need to ask. Put more simply, it seeks to answer how much you can understand about a system by looking at it from the outside. Discussion concepts and topics: What is observability and how does it differ from monitoring? How does observability impact security programs? What is the state of observability and where is it going?  Join us virtually at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 5:30 - Welcome/Chapter Announcements 5:45 - Presentation/Open Discussion 6:30 - Wrap Up 6:45 - Meeting Closeout REGISTER CISSP Study Group - Contact [email protected] Welcome Nick Heudecker, Senior Director Market Strategy Cribl Nick Heudecker leads market strategy and competitive intelligence at Cribl. Prior to joining Cribl, he spent over seven years as an industry analyst for Gartner, where he led thought leadership, research, and started in the data and analytics space. With over twenty years of experience, he has led engineering and product teams across multiple successful start-ups and has a background in open source technologies and governance.

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Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 12:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop

Just in time for a gift making activity! Learn how to heat, hammer, and shape metal while making your very own, very cool looking ring out of a US quarter dollar coin. Coins will be provided, but feel free to bring a special one of your own if you prefer.

Cost: $50/person (all materials included)
Suggested age: 14-114 years old

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