{"id":97,"date":"2011-04-19T15:09:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T19:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2015-08-05T12:23:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T16:23:52","slug":"my-groups-and-conferences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/my-groups-and-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"My Groups and Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m involved to varying degrees with several West Michigan user groups and conferences. Here are the ones I most frequently help out with.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-organizer of and speaker at <a href=\"http:\/\/barcampgr.org\/\">BarCamp Grand Rapids<\/a> in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/conga-wm.org\/\">CoNGA West Michigan<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Former co-organizer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/grlug.org\/\">Grand Rapids Linux User Group<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Co-founder of, former co-organizer of, and speaker at the <a href=\"http:\/\/grmobiledev.com\/\">Grand Rapids Mobile Development Group<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Founder of, organizer of, and speaker at <a href=\"http:\/\/grpug.org\/\">Grand Rapids Python User Group<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Co-founder of, former co-organizer of, and speaker at the <a href=\"http:\/\/grwebdev.org\/\">Grand Rapids Web Development Group<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Participant at <a href=\"http:\/\/grgivecamp.org\/\">Grand Rapids GiveCamp<\/a> in 2013 and 2014<\/li>\n<li>Member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!forum\/wmmakers\">West Michigan Makers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Member of, and speaker at the <a href=\"http:\/\/wmlug.org\/\">West Michigan Linux Users Group<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/loco.ubuntu.com\/teams\/ubuntu-michigan\">Ubuntu Michigan Local Community<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Former member of <a href=\"http:\/\/friendlycode.org\/\">FriendlyCode<\/a>, the Grand Rapids Code for America Brigade.<\/li>\n<li>Former member of <a href=\"http:\/\/grmakers.com\/\">GRMakers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also spoken at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/pyohio.org\">PyOhio<\/a> regional Python conference in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mobidevdaydetroit.com\/\">MobiDevDay Detroit<\/a> in 2013<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/grdevday.org\/\">GRDevDay<\/a> in 2011 and 2013<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mug.org\/\">Michigan \/usr Group (MUG)<\/a> in 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been a core developer on the <a href=\"http:\/\/kivy.org\/\">Kivy<\/a> cross-platform multitouch Python GUI framework since 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m involved to varying degrees with several West Michigan user groups and conferences. Here are the ones I most frequently help out with. Co-organizer of and speaker at BarCamp Grand Rapids in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. Co-founder of CoNGA &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/my-groups-and-conferences\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}