GitTogether Medellin 2024-06-20

[vanessamarely]

Event Theme

Learn More About GitHub Copilot and GitHub Pages

Date

2024-06-20

Time

18:00 - 20:00

Venue

Universidad EAFIT, Block 38, Auditorium 110 (38-110)

How to Reach

The venue is located in Block 38, Auditorium 110 (38-110) at Universidad EAFIT, conveniently situated behind the university library. The university offers public parking; please arrive early as there may be considerable wait times to enter. For detailed directions, you can use local public transport options or drive to the university's parking lot.

Event Banner

Meetup Description, include agenda

Hello, amazing Medellín community! 🌟

We are excited to announce an event organized by the GitHub community that you won't want to miss. 🎉

Our agenda is packed with interesting activities:

18:00 - Admission
18:10 - Introduction to our GitHub Medellín Community
18:25 - The Best Team: Codespaces, GitHub, Copilot, and VSC - Andres Bedoya
19:15 - Publish Your Pages with GitHub Pages - Jean Paul
19:40 - Networking & Raffles

Registration Link

Link to the Meetup Registration✨

[AndreaGriffiths11]

Hey @vanessamarely and @JeanPaulYps mind writing a short report about this event?

[JeanPaulYps]

Post-Event Report

Event Theme

Learn how to use generative AI using Github products (copilot and codespaces.) An introduction to GitHub Pages service

Date

2024-06-20

Time

18:00 - 20:00

Venue

Universidad EAFIT, Block 38, Auditorium 110 (38-110)

Event Summary

This event was about artificial intelligence and GitHub pages. The purpose of this event was about to give information of how to use generative AI for development, Andres show us two tools that we can use for this purpose: GitHub copilot and GitHub codespaces, the first one an extension to use with Visual Studio Code and the second one a development environment where the AI can help you out solving questions about your code and generating PR.

About GitHub pages, Paul show about how to use and activate this tool for publishing webpages for free, leveraging on GitHub infrastructure with zero effort. Useful for people who are starting in development and want to publish your projects using their existing workflow.

Agenda and Timings

Time	Activity	Speaker
18:00	Admission
18:10	Introduction to our GitHub Medellín Community	Community leaders
18:25	The Best Team: Codespaces, GitHub, Copilot, and VSC	Andres Bedoya
19:15	Publish Your Pages with GitHub Pages	Jean Paul
19:40	Networking & Raffles	Community leaders

Attendance

40 people

Key Highlights

The event has two talks. At the end raffles were made and people won GitHub swag.

Networking and Engagement

At the end of the event snacks were given to the attendees having the chance to meet new people. Raffles also were organized so people was able to interact with the speakers. Also during the event the people have the opportunity to ask questions to the speakers.

Photos and Media

Learnings and Improvements

We have troubles with the projector, one computer wasn't able to connect to projector we have to use the local computer in order to be able to make one presentation. Also at the end of the meeting the raffle and the giveaway of some swag was little messy for the next event we are going to close the event in an more organized way.

Conclusion

It was an event to learn about how to increase our productivity using gen-AI products and launching prototypes faster using GitHub Pages. Thanks for collaboration for the volunteer speakers. The attendance was appropriate and for the next one we're going to use the learnings from this event to keep improving