[Cialug] Fwd: FW: Invitation: Des Moines java Script User Group, Tues. Sept. 10th

[jim kraai]

First Des Moines JavaScript Users Group meeting Tuesday, Sep. 10.

All other pertinent (and a few impertinent) groups are invited to attend.

Send any questions to chad.thompson at dice.com  Questions like:
- what kind of pizza?
- coke or pepsi?
- what's dice's street address? (12150 Meredith Drive, Urbandale)
- what time does the meeting start?


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*From:* Chad Thompson
*Sent:* Friday, August 02, 2013 12:48 PM
*To:* DM Technology
*Subject:* Invitation: Des Moines java Script User Group, Tues. Sept. 10th**
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To the DM Technology group:****

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Dice Holdings is pleased to be sponsoring (and hosting) the September
meeting of the Des Moines JavaScript Users group on Tuesday, Sept. 10th
2013.  We'd like to invite (and encourage!) any Dice employees to attend
and  participate.  The meeting will be held in the front conference rooms
and will be open to the Des Moines technical community to attend.****

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*A little background about the group*: The Des Moines JavaScript Users
group has been a "group within other groups", providing content to meetings
of other technology user groups around the area, like the Des Moines
WebGeeks, the Central Iowa Java Users Group (CIJUG), the Iowa Ruby Brigade,
Pyowa and likely many others.  This meeting at Dice will be the first
'standalone' meeting they've held as a group – partially due to scheduling
conflicts with CIJUG meetings at the Meredith offices downtown.  We'll be
inviting other user groups to attend as well.****

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The focus of Des Moines JS is "front end" development and JavaScript
technologies that make the web a richer and more interesting experience.
The organizer (Toran Billups) also has some outstanding contributions to
the EmberJS community and has been speaking at a number of groups about
Ember and JavaScript in general.    You can find out more about the group
at their homepage (http://dsmjs.com) or through their Twitter account
(@desmoinesjs)****

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*About The Meeting*: ****

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One of the reasons we offered to have Dice host is because I'm one of the
speakers for September!  Toran contacted me last spring and scheduled me to
speak on the GitHub ecosphere and how to get started both contributing and
creating your own open source projects.  I'll be talking about experiences
in contributing to large projects (in my short stint as an O'Reilly
author), contributing to smaller projects and maintaining a small open
source project with contributors (http://vagrantpress.org).  Here's my
'official' abstract to the group:****

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## Biography****

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Chad Thompson is a DevOps Engineer with Dice Holdings, Inc. in Urbandale.
 Chad has enjoyed a great career in creating and helping others create
great technology as a developer, architect and consultant.  Chad has served
as organizer of the Central Iowa Java Users Group (CIJUG), is currently a
Senior Contributing Editor to the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG)
SELECT Journal and has enjoyed the pleasure of speaking to a variety of
audiences on technology topics.  You can follow Chad on Twitter
(@chadothompson) or read some of his writings at http://chadthompson.me****

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## Abstract****

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If you've been attending user group meetings, or just had someone forward
you a GitHub URL - you've seen some of the things that developers have been
doing in the Open Source community.  In this session, I'll talk about open
source development, the GitHub ecosphere and how you can get involved.
 Along the way, we'll share some success stories (and not so successful
stories) about getting involved in the community, how you can make positive
contributions and what to expect when you start your own open source
project.****

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Following that, Toran will present a talk on how to incorporate JavaScript
promises for better web application performance.  (See a quick description
here: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/JavascriptPromise.html )****

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The "official" biographies and abstracts will be up soon on http://dsmjs.com
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Feel free to ask myself or Tom Bonney about the group, and we look forward
to seeing you there!****

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Chad****

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*Chad Thompson | DevOps Engineer | **Dice Holdings,
Inc.*<http://diceholdingsinc.com/>
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