Happy networking,
Katharine
Tuesday, February 15th
5:30PM NYC Software Process Improvement Network: We Need It Before The End Of The Year: What’s Your Estimate?
No matter what your position on a project you must be a good estimator of your work, and it is a cardinal sin to let good estimates by smart people get overwhelmed by the strong desires of powerful people. Accurate estimates are the foundation of all critical project decisions regarding staffing, functionality, delivery date, and budget. How do we accurately estimate in a world where tradition declares that the deadline is set before the requirements are even known? Tim Lister will offer practical advice on dealing with this thorny issue. We think this talk will run two hours, but we're really not sure at all. That's why we're going.
RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/
6:30PM Founders @FAIL: Mike McCready and the story of Polyphonic
Way before Pandora ever outed you as a Phil Collins fan or Amazon suggested you might also like to buy a spatula with that hot plate, Mike McCready was using statistical analysis and signal processing to predict if the latest pop songs would become hit singles. Yet, the failure dog buried a bone in his backyard. Come hear the story.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/
6:30PM Arts/Tech Social Media Week Edition: Social Media Art
Well, technically it's the week *after* Social Media Week, but if Restaurant Week can go on for 2-3 weeks at a time, why not Social Media Week? Either way, we'll be looking at how artists are integrating social media into their art making practice. This month's event is exploring the creative overlap between social media and the arts. Instead of the usual discussion of Facebook fans and Twitter followers, we wanted to take a look at some of the most inventive implementations of social media we've come across: social media art experiments.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Arts-
6:30PM food+tech: Real Time Farms Demo
Real Time Farms is going to give us an introduction to their site and their newly launched features--enabling you to track your food digitally from farm to fork. Somewhere, there's a cow tweet joke in there somewhere.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/food-
Wednesday, February 16th
6PM General Assembly: The Essentials of Startup Law - Session I: Financing // Selim Day & Adam Dinow, Partners at Wilson Sonsini
This course will introduce entrepreneurship law to students who wish to gain an understanding of the core legal issues involved in starting a company. From choosing the right corporate structure to negotiating a term sheet with a venture capitalist, this comprehensive course will cover the topics an entrepreneur needs to know. The first session will discuss the alternatives available for startups to raise capital, including convertible notes, preferred stock, and common stock. There are no jokes here...just lawyers.
RSVP: http://
6PM Extreme Hiring: Applying agile principles to hire better developers
A few months ago, we had a Fishbowl Discussion on what makes a good Agile developer. But now that we know what we want, how do we go about finding and hiring them? There are better ways to find and interview good candidates than just looking at a resume and then asking a few technical questions. How do we test for "pairing" and TDD fanatics? Come join our discussion as we focus on how to find and hire good Agile developers.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/xp-26/
6:30PM #OpenNY's Feb Meetup - @CodeforAmerica, #iCities & #OpenGov in Thailand
Hot off the heals of GovGeeks & Drinks and Social Media Week, once again we are hosting our monthly OpenNY Forum Meetup at New Work City. For February, we will discuss the following important issues:
1. Code for America, what is it and what is the DC team working on?
2. Intelligent Cities Conference (#iCities), what is it and how can you attend?
3. (Potentially) A report back on Thai Open Government initiatives.
4. Setting the record for hashtags in an event title.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/openny/
Thursday, February 17th
6PM Inaugural #BikeNYC Tech Meetup!
We are off to a great start! 90 biking nurds ain't too shabby. For our inaugural meeting, I want to open the floor to introductions. To those of you who have projects and/or need help in making some project happen, I'd love for you to spend a few mins outlining what you need. For everyone else, I want to hear want from this meetup.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/BikeNYC-
6PM General Assembly: Introduction to HTML
This intensive hour-long class will teach students without any web development background the key elements of HTML needed to build a basic static web page. Topics to be covered include styling HTML text, creating paragraphs and lists, inserting and manipulating images, creating forms (text input fields, buttons, and dropdown lists), and a brief introduction to styles and layouts, including an overview of how CSS integrates with HTML.
RSVP: http://introductiontohtml1.
6:15: Entrepreneurs Roundtable: David Pakman
David joined Venrock in 2008 as a Partner and focuses on early stage venture investing in internet and digital media companies. Previously, Pakman was the CEO of eMusic, the world’s leading digital retailer of independent music, second only to iTunes in number of downloads sold. Prior to joining eMusic, Pakman was Co-Founder and President of Business Development and Public Policy at Myplay, Inc.
RSVP: http://er33.eventbrite.com/
6:30PM Best Practices: Building a Great Team/Company
The success of every company hinges on having a great team, from the CEO and founders in the early stages down to the managers and employees as the company grows. But how do you go about (i) finding those rare “A-players”, (ii) putting together a ”killer” core team and (iii) building a group that that can allow the company to take full advantage of its opportunities. Come and learn how to build a great team/company from 2 successful guest CEO’s, who will join Best Practices host Joe Chin, serial CEO, in an interactive discussion: Lucinda Duncalfe Holt, CEO of ClickEquations, and Steven Krien, CEO of Organized Wisdom
RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Technically Speaking
Wednesday, February 16th
7PM The New York Android Developers February Meetup
Dario Laverde's talk on Securing Android Applications:
How to use LVL (License Verification Library), obfuscation and additional techniques.
and why LVL is currently broken and not sufficient enough.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/
7:30PM R in the New York Times Graphics Department
While the New York Times introduced the general public to R way back in 2009 with its feature article on the language, the newspaper has been using R for many years to produce data analysis and statistical graphics. This month we are extremely lucky to be hosting Amanda Cox from the New York Times' Graphics Department. Amanda will present how R is used in the news cycle at the The New York Times to crunch data and prepare graphics before they go to print or online.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/nyhackr/
Thursday, February 17th
7PM Django NYC - Class Based Views
This month we'll be talking about Class Based Views. To start off the night we'll be viewing a talk from last year's Djangocon on the topic and we'll follow up with a Q&A/Discussion session.
RSVP: http://www.djangonyc.org/
Friday, February 18th
9AM Northeast Scala Symposium
The Boston, Philadelphia, and New York Scala user groups have combined to organize this first ever Northeast Scala Symposium. We've got lots of great speakers within our groups. At the Symposium we'll get to share them among the groups and meet Scala enthusiasts (and employers) across the region.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/ny-
Saturday, February 19th
10AM Foursquare Developer Hackathon
the first-ever foursquare hack day. we'll supply: • food, • drinks, • breakout rooms, • engineers to answer your toughest questions, • fellow hackers ('Zero Cool' and 'Acid Burn' not included). you should: • bring your best ideas and your hacker friends, • meet foursquare engineers (collect them all!), • listen to talks from fellow developers using our platform (more info at http://developer.foursquare.
RSVP: https://spreadsheets0.google.
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