Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy,
Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics,
and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy!
Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, August 11 through Sunday, August 17!
This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list includes:
✅ When the event will take place
✅ What the event is
✅ Where the event will take place
✅ Who is holding the event
| Event name and location | Group | Time |
|---|---|---|
| CNC Bootcamp week 3 MakerSpace St. Petersburg |
Makerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group | 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT |
| Venice Strategy Board Gamers Venice |
Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton | 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT |
| Sunday Gaming Tampa Bay Bridge Center |
Tampa Gaming Guild | 1:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT |
| First Documentary: Oceangate Dissent Craft Brewing |
Tampa Bay Documentary Book Club | 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT |
| D&D Adventurers League Critical Hit Games |
Critical Hit Games | 2:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT |
| Sunday Chess at Wholefoods in Midtown, Tampa Whole Foods Market |
Chess Republic | 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT |
| Lego building afternoon Southern Lights Brewing Company |
Gen Geek | 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT |
| Sunday Pokemon League Sunshine Games | Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! |
Sunshine Games | 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT |
| Sew Awesome! (Textile Arts & Crafts) Tampa Hackerspace West |
Tampa Hackerspace | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT |
| The Marmoreal Tomb Nerdy Needs |
Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group | 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT |
| A Duck Presents NB Movie Night Discord.io/Nerdbrew |
Nerd Night Out | 7:00 PM to 11:30 PM EDT |
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How do I put this list together?
It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.
In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.
What goes into this list?
I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:
I’d normally save this for the Saturday picdump, but this meme was just too good to let sit for another few days. Share and enjoy!
In case you’re wondering what the original line was:
Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy!
Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, August 4 through Sunday, August 10!
This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list includes:
✅ When the event will take place
✅ What the event is
✅ Where the event will take place
✅ Who is holding the event
Monday at 8 p.m., online: Masterminds Tampa Bay is hosting a virtual speed networking event to grow your business network.
This is a “cameras on” event — you have to keep them on for the entire event, and you must commit to the full two hours!
Find out more and register here.
Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. at Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (Tampa): Alex from the Tampa AI Applications Group presents the Model Context Protocol and Function Calling, demonstrating how agents can perform tasks on your computer.
Find out more and register here.
Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. at New World Brewery (Tampa): Ideas On Tap, the quarterly lecture series over pizza and craft beer, is back with three talks on the rise of Artificial Intelligence and what that means for the world around us. Join us as three industry experts help us start to build a roadmap for an AI-enabled society:
Find out more and get your tickets here.
Thursday at 6:00 p.m. at Embarc Collective (Tampa):
Find out more and register here.
How do I put this list together?
It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.
In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.
What goes into this list?
I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:
Last week, I interviewed for a developer relations leadership role at a company whose product I genuinely use and admire.
I made it to round 2 of 3, but ultimately wasn’t selected.
While I didn’t land the job and a chance to work with an amazing company and incredible team, I’m honored to have been considered and incredibly proud of the work I put in:
I could simply throw up my hands in resignation and leave all that work and content to languish in a folder on a backup drive or in the cloud…
…but instead, I’m sharing it here. Why?
Because:
I’m sharing the slides that outline my complete developer relations strategy presentation plus my tactical execution plan, anonymized and annotated with speaker notes. You’ll see my “Foundation / Focus / Flywheel” framework, community engagement strategies, and how I approached everything from attribution tracking to expanding into Europe.
My philosophy is that either I win or I learn. I learned a lot from this process, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to have engaged with such a thoughtful team.
Next time, I just might win.
Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy!
