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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, June 1, 2020)

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Greetings, Tampa Bay techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds! Welcome to the June 1, 2020 edition of the list! Here’s this week’s list of online-only events for techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds based in an around the Tampa Bay area. Keep an eye on this post; I update it when I hear about new events, it’s always changing. Stay safe, stay connected, and #MakeItTampaBay!

For the time being, I’m limiting this list to online events. I know that there’s a lot of frustration about staying at home and staying six feet apart from people outside your own “house bubble,” but rather than follow the advice of armchair epidemiologists and assorted online “Monday morning quarterbacks”, I’m going with the public health official whom I trust the most: my sister, Dr. Eileen deVilla, Medical Officer for Health for Toronto (here’s an interview with her from Friday, May 29).

Monday, June 1

Tuesday, June 2

Wednesday, June 3

Thursday, June 4

Friday, June 5

Saturday, June 6

Sunday, June 7

There aren’t any tech, entrepreneur, or nerd events scheduled…yet!

Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?

Let me know at joey@joeydevilla.com!

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Suncoast Developers Guild marks two great years with their updated student handbook

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Suncoast Developers Guild — the tech heart and soul of Tampa Bay’s St. Pete side — has been around for two years! Since opening their doors in the summer of 2018, this coding school has graduated 100 students in the tech community, and there are others who attended their previous incarnation as the Tampa Bay branch of The Iron Yard.

I used to be a developer evangelist who travelled across North America in another life, and I can tell you that one of the signs of a healthy tech community in a small- to medium-sized city is a coding school that acts as a social/technical/gathering place. Here in Tampa Bay, Suncoast Developers Guild fills that role, and it does so spectacularly.

In their blog post Two Years in and Still Improving, Campus Director Katherine Trammell writes about one way they’re marking their two-year anniversary: by updating the handbook that they make available to their students, alumni, and even the community at large. It’s a useful piece of documentation that ambitiously tries to cover a wide variety of topics that a professional software developer will need both while in class and later on, in the real world — from the technical topics of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and C# — to what you’ll have to do when it’s time to go out there and land a job. They plan to expand the handbook into other topics, including “Java, Python, Typescript, Go, Angular.” (I’ll take this moment to cast my vote for Dart and Flutter.)

Better still, the community can contribute:

Our Handbook is also open-source; we look forward to having the community contribute. Community contribution is so significant to us that we added a button that sends contributors to a live Github based editor where they can make pull requests to suggest updates and edits. We’ll take pull requests both large (re-explain something) to small (fix our typoes, please!)

Congratulations on two excellent years, SDG, and great job with the handbook!

Want to see their handbook? It’s at handbook.suncoast.io.

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Tampa Bay’s Geek Breakfast happens online tomorrow morning!

Someday, we who attend Tampa Bay’s Geek Breakfast will reconvene at Jimbo’s Pit Bar-B-Q, and I will have my customary stack o’ hotcakes or biscuits and gravy washed down with a half-dozen cups of coffee. Until that happens, Geek Breakfast continues online, and it’s happening tomorrow from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. See you there!

Here’s the Zoom link.

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, May 25, 2020)

Greetings, Tampa Bay techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds! Welcome to week 9 of the Florida general stay-at-home order! I hope you’re managing and even thriving. There’s at least one online tech, entrepreneur, or nerd event each day this week. Keep an eye on this post; I update it when I hear about new events, it’s always changing. Stay safe, stay connected, and #MakeItTampaBay!

Monday, May 25

Tuesday, May 26

Wednesday, May 27

Thursday, May 28

Friday, May 29

Saturday, May 30

Sunday, May 31

Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?

Let me know at joey@joeydevilla.com!

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LinkedIn Local Tampa Bay — online tonight at 5:30!

Don’t forget that LinkedIn Local Tampa Bay is on later today — between 5:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., online! Under normal circumstances, this is a monthly get-together where Tampa professionals can get to know each other, make friends and connections, and even have a drink. They’re still happening, but for the next little while, it’s online — register here.

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Why Connections Matter More Than Your Resume: This afternoon on Synapse’s “Libate and Learn”

This afternoon from 4:30 to 5:30, Synapse is hosting a “Libate and Learn” session titled Why Connections Matter More Than Your Resume.

Here’s the abstract:

When looking for employment, we all know how to build a resume. But what else can we do? How important is your network and utilizing your connections? How can we build these connections in a virtual world? Are you wondering how to get in with the right company? Grab a drink, relax, and join us remotely for a FREE virtual event with Synapse’s next episode of Libate and Learn with Rich Heruska, Leigh-Ann Buchanan, and Jill St. Thomas, moderated by Synapse’s CEO Brian Kornfeld. They’ll share best practices for building your network and maintaining connections with the right stakeholder. We will then open up the discussion for Q&A.

Participating in this session will be:

  • Rich Heruska, serial entrepreneur, former accelerator director at Tampa Bay Wave, and Synapse Board Member, who’ll talk about…
    • What small and medium sized businesses are looking for
    • Why building a network during a downtime or recession is important
    • How a network can take you to the next steps of your career
    • What can someone building a network expect out of an entrepreneurial support organization and how can they maximize their benefits
  • Leigh-Ann Buchanan, Founding Executive Director of Venture Cafe Miami, who will cover:
    • Connections matter, particularly to build an ecosystem and with the right stakeholders
    • Ecosystems are built entirely on connections
    • Multiple ways people can get value from connections
    • Who are the important people and stakeholders to network with
    • How networking at in-person events or online can differ, and be similar
  • Jill St. Thomas, Executive Director of Tampa Bay Tech. She will cover:
    • Radical connectivity is the key to a thriving ecosystem
    • How connectivity can lead to jobs and opportunities
    • Connectivity between organizations can benefit everybody, it is not a zero-sum game
    • Continually getting and staying connected can be the difference between success and failure
  • Brian Kornfeld, CEO and Co-Founder of Synapse. He’ll moderate and will also cover
    • How to effectively build a network and promote yourself
    • What to look for when networking
    • How to continually add value to the community, and how that brings value to yourself
    • Things to be prepared for when building a network
    • When is the right time to make an ask

This session is online and free to attend, but you have to pre-register! Pre-register here.

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, May 18, 2020)

Greetings, Tampa Bay techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds! Welcome to week 8 of the Florida general stay-at-home order! I hope you’re managing and even thriving. While it appears that event organizers are adjusting to our new, temporary version of “normal” with online events, Saturday and Sunday are looking a little quiet. Keep an eye on this post; I update it when I hear about new events, it’s always changing. Stay safe, stay connected, and #MakeItTampaBay!

Monday, May 18

Tuesday, May 19

Wednesday, May 20

Thursday, May 21

Friday, May 22

Saturday, May 23

No Tampa Bay area tech events have been announced for this date…yet!

Sunday, May 24

No Tampa Bay area tech events have been announced for this date…yet!

Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?

Let me know at joey@joeydevilla.com!

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