Announcing the Summer of Tech 2010 lunchtime seminar series, proudly sponsored by Xero!
YOU are invited, yes, that means YOU! SoT2010 Interns, Mentors, Colleagues, members of the wider Wellington Tech community! We’d love to see you at our summer seminars, supporting & developing & connecting the top talent of Wellington and the top employers of Wellington.
First up in the Xero Summer Seminar Series:
USER GROUPS & VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Expanding your ‘help’ horizons – plugging into support communities beyond your workplace.
Where do you go when you’re stuck on a problem? Jumping into new technologies can have its challenges. Software developers especially can find themselves in a new language environment having to upskill really quickly. Don’t panic. There are many places to go for help, including real life networking, user groups, online forums and virtual communities.
The Speakers:
Jonathan Harker… co-ordinates the Wellington Python User Group which occurs the first Thursday of every month. Jon will share stories from KiwiPyCon and talk about fun to be had with Python. In his spare time, Jonathan is a Moodle developer at Catalyst IT, specialists in open source technologies.
Michael “Koz” Koziarski… is 1/3 of the Southgate Labs Team, a software developer and consultant who specialises in Ruby on Rails, database architecture, web businesses and object oriented design. Koz became a contributor to Rails in 2004 and has been a Rails core team member since 2005. Koz will talk about getting (and giving) support via virtual communities.
Kirk Jackson and Owen Evans… co-ordinators of the Wellington .NET user group, Kirk & Owen bring regular installments of pizza, beer and presentations to the .NET community. They also happen to be on the Development team at Xero, bringing online accounting awesomeness to the world.
When … 12.15-1.30pm, Friday 26 November
Where …Kiwibank, level 6, Radio New Zealand House, 155 The Terrace (here’s a map)
Rsvp …is essential!! please do this over here on the groovy lil’ regie platform.
What …are you waiting for? free lunch! networking! inspiring & informative speaker!
HUGE thank-yous to Xero for being our fantastic sponsor of the seminar series. And to Kiwibank for being our fantastic venue partner. Thanks for making these events possible.
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