Guitar Effects StudyGroup

The first Monday of every month is Guitar Effects Workshop night at Hive76. We will build a simple musical gizmo and discuss how it works. Even if you have never touched a soldering iron (or a guitar), stop by and learn how to build simple musical electronics. More advanced mad scientists are encouraged to come show off their own guitar effect creations. There may be a small lab fee (less than $10) to cover the cost of parts. RSVPs are appreciated.

This Event is Organized by Jack Zylkin of Hive 76

Crowdsourcing Change

Junto: Persepolis

The Persepolis Junto

Thursday February 4, 2010

The discussion which will begin at 7pm. Food and drink at 6pm.

Please join us this Thursday, February 4th at 6pm for the Junto. This month we will be discussing the book The Complete Persepolis to coordinate with the One Book, One Philadelphia. We will start the evening off by watching a clip from the film version of Persepolis. We will follow that up with a discussion led by Siobhan Reardon, President & Director of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

As always, we provide the cold Newcastle Brown and Philadelphia's best tomato pie. You bring something to share, if it is not too much trouble.

Hope to see you there!

When:

Thursday February 4, 2010

The discussion will begin at 7pm. Food and drink at 6pm.

Where:

P'unk Avenue
1168 E. Passyunk Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19147

Travel Photo Event

Refresh Philly February

Please join us for the February installment of Refresh Philly hosted by local GIS software development firm Avencia. We'll be meeting at Avencia's offices located at 340 N 12th St (at Callowhill).
http://avencia.com/Info/Directions.aspx

Aaron Ogle
Walkshed
http://walkshed.org/

While living in Seattle, Aaron became intrigued by Alan Durning of the Sightline Institute and his concept of a "walkshed" that would score a location based on the quantity and diversity of amenities within a one-mile radius. A year later, Walk Score, which drew heavily from Durning's walkshed concept, became the first application to calculate walkability. Walk Score is a fantastic application with a clever methodology but it also has a number of acknowledged limitations.

Aaron wondered if improvements were possible. So as part of Avencia's 10% research project program, he has developed Walkshed to demonstrate that it is possible to more accurately calculate and map walkability by accounting for actual walking distances and user preferences. Walkshed is available in Philadelphia and New York City, and is competing the NYC BigApps software competition.

Josh Marcus
CommonSpace: Sustainable Transit Visualization

Getting around without a car -- by walking, biking, or public transit -- adds another wrinkle to making plans with friends. Instead of just having to figure out what's going on in the city, we need to figure out what's going on that's conveniently located to everyone. Could a web-based tool make this moment of planning and collaboration easier? And could it promote Philadelphia "local treasures", sustainable businesses, and sustainable transit at the same time? That's the question Avencia is exploring for NPower and the Sustainable Business Network, as part of an exciting initiative funded by the William Penn Foundation to implement innovative web-based tools focused on the environment and Philadelphia communities.

Josh will show an early mock-up of an imagined application that would allow real-time collaboration, integrate a variety of curated data feeds of destinations and events (sustainable business databases, online services, Philly blogs), provide biking and public transit directions, as well as allow users to dynamically visualize and search the areas that are available to them -- and the "common space" where a group of friends could meet if they want to split the difference and meet in the area that's convenient to everyone, based on how they're each traveling.

Refresh Philly February
Monday February 8th
6:30 to 8pm
340 N 12th St Suite 402
RSVP on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=304507208178

Philly.rb: February Presentation

Ruby SSO - Randy Schmidt
Redis and/or other caching tools - Ryan Findley

Room: G55

*Please "RSVP online":http://bit.ly/b0cfFs*

Sponsored by "Red Nucleus":http://www.red-nucleus.com

Central NJ Drupal meetup February 10

NJ and Philly Tech February Meetup

NJ and Philly Tech Meetup Group

It appears that this tech meet up group has grown significantly, so we will have a separate table at the Swanky bubbles for the tech group and have technology discussion if a critical number comes. The other groups at swanky bubbles will be present including 3M modelling group and NJ night life group. www.swankybubbles.com Swanky Bubbles 428 Evasham Road Cherry Hill, NJ 856-428-4999

Philadelphia, PA 19106 - USA

Thursday, February 11 at 7:00 PM

Photo: http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/f/f/event_420767.jpeg

Details: http://newtech.meetup.com/16/calendar/12323668/

PhillyCHI Quizzo

Philadelphia Robotics Meetup

Dial 519 to get buzzed in, we're on the 5th floor.

Hive76 Board Meeting

This is a 3 hour Board meeting, with an hour 'chill out and eat' break in the middle.

We will meet at Hive76, and may go somewhere else to go from there to talk. There will be an hour break to relax, eat, and hang out in the middle of it.

Topic are (at a minimum):
1. Board self-training - WTF are we doing?
2. Updates From Officers
3. Pick date for next board meeting
3. Review of 2009
4. Ideas/Proposals for 2010

Philly.rb: February PubNite

We'll be back at our usual stomping grounds this month, T.A. Flannery's.

Philadelphia Drupal MeetUp - February 17th

Dive into programming Python

This is a quick class to get people into writing code in Python. We will help you get python setup, and get you working on some great initial projects to get your feet wet. This class is best for people with some programming experience in *any* language, but can be taken by someone without any experience at all.

The class is $5, and mostly so we can get some snack for you all. If you can't afford that, email hive76@gmail.com and we will work something out.

You will need to bring your own computer (Mac/Linux/Windows) and your curiosity. Bonus points if you bring a snack for the people running the workshop!


It's be quick, it'll be fun, and you will walk away knowing how to build some cool stuff using your new tools.

Please register for the class at : http://hive-76.ticketleap.com

This class is brought to you by Hive76, specifically by both Phillip and Far.

PANMA Event: Developing for Mobile

TrendCamp

Social Media and Crisis Response

PhillyPHP Meetup | IDE's: Beyond vi\, emacs\, and Notepad++

The Philadelphia Area PHP Meetup Group

As a programmer, your text editor is your most powerful tool for working more productively. You probably rely on key bindings, syntax highlighting, macros, and other features to speed your coding. But if you're not using an IDE - an Integrated Development Environment - you might as well be programming with mittens on. In addition to incorporating powerful text editors, IDEs incorporate class and object browsers, hooks to svn/git and other version control systems, source-level debuggers, and more. By actually running your code inside your editor, you have much greater insight into what your code is doing, where it's going wrong, and how to get back on track fast. In this presentation, we'll introduce the concepts and tools of IDEs, and take a tour of some of the most popular among PHP developers, including Eclipse (including Zend Studio, PDT, and Aptana variations), NetBeans, and PHPEd. Whether you develop on Windows, Linux, or OSX, adopting an IDE will undoubtedly improve your workflow and efficiency. So come out to the first Philly PHP Meetup of 2010 and learn how one of these IDEs can make your coding more efficient and more enjoyable. There'll be pizza, sodas, and plenty of PHP to go around.

Philadelphia, PA 19104 - USA

Thursday, March 4 at 6:30 PM

Photo: http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/f/9/b/event_800379.jpeg

Attending: 1

Details: http://www.meetup.com/phillyphp/calendar/12399468/