Once a week the Austin Post rounds up all the networking, social and just plain nifty technology related events taking place in the greater Austin metro area.
There are plenty of user groups and a couple of happy hours this week, but if you’re a coder, designer, project manager, or just plain tech enthusiast who wants to do some good in the community, Code Across America is holding a day-long civic hackathon here in Austin. You’ll meet some new people, learn some new skills, and do some real good.
The Austin iPhone Developer’s Group
Sept 4, 8:00 p.m.
Join to learn the location
Theme: We introduce ourselves, have a few beers and share iPhone developer tips and tricks. It's also a good time to talk about what apps we've noticed. New SDK easter eggs, etc. If you are an iPhone developer, then feel free to join us. Please no sales offers, recruiters, etc.
QA SIG Downtown - The Ten Minute Test Plan
Sept 5, Noon
Spredfast
412 Congress Ave
Theme: The traditional test plan within agile environments is seldom used. It has been replaced with various tools and concepts. One of the newer concepts to come along has been dubbed "The Ten Minute Test Plan". It advocates for boiling down test plans to the essential attributes, components and capabilities of the software under test. We'll walk through an example of how a company applied this technique recently, and follow with an open discussion; we'll also review some of the takeaways from the previous North QA SIG on the same topic.
Austin NoSQL
Sept 5, 7:00 p.m.
Capital Factory
701 Brazos St, Suite 1601
Theme: Come learn about RIAK! After taking the summer of, come kick start your NoSQL knowledge as Parnell Springmeyer of Whoosh Traffic and Seth Thomas of Basho introduce you to Riak, the highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed database. This month we move to our new location, downtown Austin' newest downtown coworking space, Capital Factory. Basho has generously offered to "make it rain" tacos, so come enjoy some of Austin's finest cuisine, the best coworking views in Austin, and talk of some massive scalability in September's Austin NoSQL!
Lean Startup Machine Pre-Show
Sept 6, 6:30 p.m.
Capital Factory
701 Brazos St
#1601
Theme: We'd love for you to join us for a pre-show event. Come enjoy good company and tasty drinks! It will be your opportunity to meet workshop mentors, folks from Lean Startup Machine and find out why we are bringing Lean Startup Machine back to Austin. We already have an all-star lineup of mentors, speakers and judges coming from Spark 59, Austin Center for Design, Capital Factory, Appsumo, Twilio and many others.
Drupal Dojo
Sept 6, 7:00 p.m.
Mangia Pizza
8012 Mesa Drive
Theme: The Drupal Dojo is for anyone interested in hanging out with other Drupalistas in a "hive mind" environment. There is no set topic or presenter so bring your laptop, a pet project and an appetite.
TechShop Austin Pre-Opening Party in Round Rock
Sept 7, 6:00 p.m.
TechShop Austin Round Rock
120 Sundance Pkwy
Round Rock
Theme: You are invited to join TechShop Austin Round Rock's manager Brian Hatfield and TechShop's founder Jim Newton for an evening of pizza, drinks, and information about the TechShop Austin Round Rock which is now under construction! You'll see video renderings and walk-throughs of how the fantastic space will appear when it opens later this year. You will also be able to ask Brian and Jim questions about TechShop.
ATX 2600
Sept 7, 8:00 p.m.
Spider House Cafe
2908 Fruth St
Theme: If you’re familiar with 2600 magazine you already have a good idea what these white hat hackers are all about. They set a very high and specific bar for knowledge, so check out their page for more details.
Code Across Austin: Y’all Come Hack Now
Sept 8, 9:30 a.m.
Conjunctured
1309 East 7th Street
Theme: Calling Austin’s civic hackers: join us for a day of wrangling code and wading into civic data. The last Code Across America ATX hackathon was such a success that we’re coming back for more. Work on transit, homeless services, garden sharing and more, or propose your own project to other coders and engaged Austinites working to build a more connected Austin. Food and drinks will be provided.
KidBot
Sept 8, 1:00 p.m.
ATX Development Center
1908 Kramer Ln. Bldg. B Ste. L
Theme: The ATX Development Center is starting up a kids learning group. Kids must be with parent at all times. Activities will vary based on age and skill level but include the following:
Take stuff apart... How does it work? Electronics introduction, mechanics, designing circuits, building circuits on solderless breadboards, soldering skills, computer programming, NXT, XO, Arduino, Windows, Web, robotics.
Austin Ruby on Rails Developers Meetup
Sept 10, 7:15 p.m.
TechRanch Austin
9111 Jollyville Rd, Suite 110
Theme: Our lightning rounds are designed to let attendees talk and interact as much as possible and for the presenter to be more of a Discussion-Guide than capital-P Presenter God. So every 15 min when the buzzer sounds, we vote if we'd like to continue for another round expanding on that topic, or if we'd like to hear something new. New to Rails? Even better: take just 10 minutes and tell us one incredible thing you learned recently that made you go "wow.”