List of Upstate Tech Organizations #1
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Anybody have additional groups to add, or even exclude (PMA?). If not then we'll start investigating and grouping these folks into how/where they post events and see how many are readily scrapeable vs how many require contacting. |
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I checked my list - you got them all!
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There are 30 tech organizations listed above. Anybody got time to research maybe the first 10 or 15 of them, and I'll do another 10 or 15, and if we get three folks we all do 10? We'd be looking for a URL(s) of where they post data and what, if any, standard formats are available (iCal, RSS, rich-snippets, nothing). Much of the event today focused on the trolley/bus, since we had City folks on hand. Though, one comment about the Events API was that ITology apparently runs the unused http://www.gsptechevents.com/events site and they would probably be interested in pulling from such API data and/or being a champion/stakeholder for such things. |
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I can help this weekend. Just got out of the Beer and Napkins Meeting. On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Jim Ciallella notifications@github.com
Wryen Meek |
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Rock on Wryen. I'm not able to edit the spreadsheet. I can probably fill in a few things On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Wryen Meek notifications@github.com
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changed On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Jim Ciallella notifications@github.com
Wryen Meek |
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Edited a few things recently. Also, just met a couple guys interested in OpenWorks who started a Rails meetup. |
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Wryen, I feel like that is a necessary component of an API for organizations and events, so this group is pretty dependent on reaching out to these folks. We've already identified many of them on the spreadsheet, though accuracy and contact info are in question. At a minimum, we should probably have everyone working on the same spreadsheet data. So, if a new repository is created for actually contacting the leaders then at least we should make the two groups aware of each other. OrangeCoat has a good relationship with the GSATC/Ta5 folks and Phil. I could try to get them to look over the current list and update contact info and add groups if they see others we missed? |
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Ryan Heafy and Phil Yanov have been asked to fill in our remaining gaps and add any communities we missed. On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Jim Ciallella jimc@orangecoat.com wrote: Code For Greenville has a project to build an API of tech communities and pull in events in via RSS, iCal, screen scraping and such. The idea is to not ask people to have to enter or submit events to a new place, but to get it from where they already post. As an open API, the thought is that anyone can consume the organizations and/or events and produce tools, hopefully in unique ways. So, OpenUpstate could pull orgs and events around open source. GSP Developers can pull Microsoft related stuff, or whatever. Similarly, we'd expect to be able to tag things, so GSATC could theoretically pull an iCal feed to populate the community portion of the calendar, or at least double check things and learn about new groups, yada yada yada. Related, Beer and Napkins collaborated with Code for Greenville last week to do a brainstorm about how the tech communities/meetups as a whole might be better connected around common goals, much in the same way GSATC and Ta5 connect the business side around networking. The take away from that meeting was to gather the contact info for leaders of the various (30-ish) tech communities and reach out to them when there are opportunities that cross tools/languages/etc. For instance, Code for Greenville and iMAGINE Upstate are to newer groups which are tool/language agnostic and are good examples of ways to get different groups mixing on occasion. In short, we have a handful of gaps in the list, and possibly are even missing communities or meet-ups. As the king of the nerds I though you might be able give some minutes to fill in gaps or omissions. If you, or one of your folks with access to the Philodex, could help us out then that would be fantastic. Here's the list with the missing names and emails sorted to the bottom https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kNJRd0rw5eU7__0Wj9ZgSFg7gDiHOIbeisGvKkWivvU/edit?usp=sharing Best, Jimmy C |
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sweet! thank you. On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Jim Ciallella notifications@github.com
Wryen Meek |
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Phil has "phil-ed" in a few gaps. Does anyone have contact info for Bryan Townsend If so, please update |
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I dug through my email looking for contacts - I only have what they use on On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Jim Ciallella notifications@github.com
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@wweliz You mentioned TIY's Kids class. I see http://theironyard.com/academy/#kids , but are you aware of an actual site with events, or the contact for the group? Likewise, if you know of any community groups not on the list Thanks, |
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The Iron Yard kids are active in Spartanburg, Katherine Wakefield is doing basic web design with them. As far as I know the Greenville one still doesn't have any events scheduled. |
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The Iron Yard in Spartanburg currently offers 4 classes:
The Iron Yard in Greenville currently offers 2 classes:
I don't think there's an actual site with events for either campus, so your
The general schedule is that kids classes run for six weeks in the middle
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:56 PM, SuMoD123 notifications@github.com wrote:
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Thanks @wweliz . I've added a location column and added both of TIY's kids classes. We'll get in touch with the campus folks once the API gets under development and see if/where events are posted. @wryenmeek since we've formally added a Location, feel free to add Spartanburg meetups/communities to the list if you know of them. I've added a row for Code for Spartanburg. |
Per Tuesday's conversation, here's a start on a list of tech organizations pulled from Meetup.com, GSATC.org calendar, Google, and my brain.
I didn't get into Spartanburg or Anderson and will leave it to someone more knowledgeable about what's going on in those areas to add a list.
Please review and share additional groups.
We can use this to investigate how each group shares their event info and look for low hanging fruit. Having content semantically described with a standard from http://schema.org/Event would be great. More likely we'll find iCall and RSS
We talked about avoiding asking groups to post their events on another outlet. I found http://www.gsptechevents.com/events in the mix and they clearly never got folks to post to their (empty) calendar.
Annual Events
Monthly
No particular order. Not sure if groups like the project managers are really tech specific, but listed them anyway.
Spartanburg
Here's a start/placeholder for Sparkle City based groups
Defunct
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