What: April Seattle Locksport and DC206 Meeting
When: April 21, 2019 (3rd Sundays), 11:00am-~4:00pm
Where: Black Lodge Research
Who: (Eugenia, Hattz, DarkDiesel, Dune, Panic, and the DC206 community)
Chef of the Month: Easter Potluck!

11:00am-1:00pm: Seattle Locksport
1:00pm-?: DC206 Meeting Presentation (usually 1-2hrs)
Post-presentation: Potluck begins!

Black Lodge Research hackerspace hosts a monthly event with two
adjacent user groups: Seattle Locksport and the DC206 Meeting.
Seattle Locksport’s monthly Eastside event takes place immediately before
the monthly DC206 Meeting. DC206 Meeting is the monthly meetup of
the Seattle-area DEF CON community. Locksport takes place 11:00-1:00.
The DC206 Meeting takes place immediately after Seattle Locksport,
starting at 1:00pm. Potluck begins after the DC206 Meeting presentation
ends.
*We are planning an Easter Potluck! Please bring a dish to share and
celebrate! As always, we welcome hard ciders/beer/drinks too! *

DC206 Meeting Presentation:

Title of Talk: Cryptography Basics

Abstract:
In this presentation, we will take a helicopter view on modern cryptography
with some underlying mathematical basics, and explanation of the most
widespread terms and abbreviations that you likely already met many times.

Bio:
Eugenia provides IT security consulting services (penetration testing,
security research and analysis, etc.) for enterprise clients. She holds a
master’s degree in Mathematics with a focus on cryptography and
cybernetics. With over 13 years’ experience in information security,
Eugenia has participated in various projects, from audit and consulting to
the design and implementation of complex distributed information security
systems, including PKI.

Eugenia Potseluevskaya (twitter: @epotseluevskaya)

This event will be videotaped by Panic. It will not be live streamed via
YouTube.
If you cannot attend, there will be a recorded copy for those who would
like one.

DC206:
https://dc206.org/
http://lists.dc206.org/listinfo.cgi/list-dc206.org

Seattle Locksport:
https://twitter.com/LockpickSeattle
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Lockpicking/

Black Lodge Research:
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Building A, mid-building, between the coffee roaster and the security
company.
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A good content strategy for marketers takes a brand’s business and communications goals and transforms them from ads (intrusive) to stories (interactive) to connect with people in a meaningful way. In this class we'll learn how to define a brand’s thematic strategy and how to connect business goals to formats and larger cultural themes and topics. You'll leave knowing how to lay the foundation for creating content and how to activate across digital channels.

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Pick the right direction Careers opportunities that create a positive social impact exist in more places than ever before, but they're hard to find. Should you join a startup, get into politics, or apply to nonprofit -- or perhaps you've heard of the Social Enterprise/Benefit Corporation movement? We'll talk about different opportunities across all sectors, and do a live workshop on how you can use your skills and experience to find a career path with more purpose.

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If you haven’t registered please do!
I’m humbly honored to MC some of the event and I’ll be presenting a session on the results of using AI to analyze the over *700,000* conversations N3 has with technology decision makers every WEEK.

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Register NOW at NewTechNorthwest.com (https://www.newtechnorthwest.com/events/new-tech-eastside/), NOT on this page. RSVPing on this page will not register you for the event.

More than just a meetup, we're a community that loves and supports people, the Northwest and tech. New Tech Eastside (as part of New Tech Northwest (http://newtechnorthwest.com)) is breaking down the silos and bringing together the smart, fun, creative people from across the full spectrum of the Northwest tech community.

+ the crowd:
The Northwest’s smart, fun, creative, innovative tech community – software and application developers, company owners, startup founders, recruiters, hackers, job seekers, executives, investors, community leaders, and people who are new to the area.

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Founders, leaders & innovators sharing their passion & new tech through 5 minute presentations & 3 minutes of your Q&A. Presenters flow from early stage startups to enterprise companies. (See updated list for this event HERE) (https://www.newtechnorthwest.com/events/new-tech-eastside/)

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Neighborhood block party – fun, friendly & relaxed with complementary food & a no host bar. You’ll laugh, smile, and have a fun night out with[masked] Seattleites,[masked] Eastsiders or 100 Tacomans.

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Discover innovative, creative and inspirational new technology (or smarter use of old tech). Could be VR, IoT, Apps, Fintech, Mobiletech, Healthtech, Cloudtech… you get the idea.

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Collectively advance the Northwest’s booming tech ecosystem

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5:00pm - Doors Open/Buffet/Drinks/Get to know your community
6:00pm - Event Begins
- Community Shoutouts
- Four 5 minute presentations with 3 minutes of Q&A ; see which startup and enterprise companies are presenting at New Tech Eastside (https://www.newtechseattle.com/events/new-tech-eastside/).
7:15 - After Party at 520 Bar & Grill

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+ the crowd:
The Northwest’s smart, fun, creative, innovative tech community – software and application developers, company owners, startup founders, recruiters, hackers, job seekers, executives, investors, community leaders, and people who are new to the area.

+ the speakers:
Founders, leaders & innovators sharing their passion & new tech through 5 minute presentations & 3 minutes of your Q&A. Presenters flow from early stage startups to enterprise companies.

Jobscan presented by Amanda Ostrove - Optimize your resume and LinkedIn profile for your next job - trusted by half a million job seekers.

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Year Up presented by Joseph Velez - Year Up enables young adults to move from minimum wage to meaningful careers in just one year.

+ the format:
Connecting, food & drinks >community building >community shoutouts >sponsor shoutouts >presentations >afterparty

+ the vibe:
Neighborhood block party – fun, friendly & relaxed with complementary food & a no host bar. You’ll laugh, smile, and have a fun night out with[masked] Seattleites,[masked] Eastsiders or[masked] Tacomans.

+ the experience:
Discover innovative, creative and inspirational new technology (or smarter use of old tech). Could be VR, IoT, Apps, Fintech, Mobiletech, Healthtech, Cloudtech, Spacetech… you get the idea.

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Share your knowledge of business and change management related topics with our long-standing group of friends in business over dinner and drinks.

***Please RSVP on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-htmlcss-build-your-own-website-tickets-58143809700?aff=meetup ***

Curious about coding, but don’t know where to begin? This workshop is the perfect place to start. Join us as we teach you the fundamentals of HTML & CSS while building an interactive website.
In this workshop, you'll learn the key concepts of HTML & CSS, which are the basic “building blocks” of all websites. You'll start building your own site with the help of our instructor and TAs, and you’ll leave with your own site live on the internet to share with your friends and family. Take a look at a live website created by a previous attendee here! https://ludicrous-mailbox.glitch.me/

Suggested Experience Level:
Beginner - no previous coding experience needed

What to Bring:
Laptop - this will ensure you get the most out of this workshop
Water bottle

How to find us: Pioneer Collective
The event will be held at the Pioneer Collective located at 100 S King St #100, Seattle, WA 98104. Upon entering the space, the meeting room will be directly in front of you in the far back. Street parking is available and there is a parking lot 1 block away on Occidental Ave S.

If event is sold out, please contact Community Manager: Stephanie ([masked])

Sponsored by Thinkful:
This workshop is proudly sponsored by Thinkful, the #1 rated coding boot camp on CourseReport. Thinkful is a new type of school that brings high-growth tech careers to ambitious people everywhere. Thinkful provides 1-on-1 learning through its network of industry experts, hiring partners, and online platform to deliver a structured and flexible education. To join the Thinkful network, visit thinkful.com.

We had a great time during our meetup on 4/3. Big Block was recommended as the best place for the followup.

Let us keep the agenda free form - Meet / Greet.

Please RSVP, so that I can call and give them a heads up.

Cross posting for a Google AI Huddle event -
https://www.meetup.com/Google-AI-Huddle-Seattle/events/259987900/

Agenda:
5:30 - 6:15 networking
6:15 - 7:15 first presentation:
7:15 - 8:00pm networking

SPEAKER
Martin Görner, Google Cloud AI, Developer Advocate

ABSTRACT
Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are revolutionizing the way data scientists work. Week-long training times are a thing of the past and many models can now be trained in minutes in a notebook. Agility and fast iterations are bringing neural networks into regular software development cycles and many developers are ramping up on machine learning. This session will introduce TPUs, then dive deep into their microarchitecture secrets. It will also show you how to use them in your day-to-day projects to iterate faster. In fact, we will not just demo but train most of the models presented in this session on stage in real time, on TPUs.

PARKING
Only street parking is available. Here are some options nearby: U-Park lots - Lot 52, Lot 58, Lot 62, Lot 71, Lot 72, Fremont #81, and the Red Door Lower Garage #71B.

This month we will be exploring the role of technology as it supports Social-Emotional Learning. We will hear current research on social-emotional learning, technologies being used in the classroom and engage in a discussion about the current and future possibilities of EdTech's role in social-emotional learning. We will be meeting in the back room of Ada's Technical Books and Cafe.

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Daniel Goleman identifies coaching as the most effective management style, and yet the least practiced. Coaching is a way of helping members of your team solve the real problems they are facing, rather than the surface ones. Coaching promotes self-sufficiency and can significantly improve individual and team performance. In today's business environment where employees have a lot of choice about where they work, coaching can create a deep manager-employee relationship built around trust, and gives you the capability to develop your team.

In this panel, we'll hear from three perspectives on coaching: an expert coach, a manager successfully deploying coaching and an HR leader.

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Speaker: Dave Karow, Split Software

Abstract: How do companies like Netflix, LinkedIn, and booking.com crush it year after year? Yes, they release early and often. But they also build control and observability into their CD pipeline to turn releases into results.

Progressive delivery and the statistical observation of real users (sometimes known as “shift right testing” or “feature experimentation”) are essential CD practices. They free teams to move fast, control risk and focus engineering cycles on work that delivers results, not just releases.

Learn implementation strategies and best practices for adding control and observability to your CD pipeline: Where should you implement progressive delivery controls: front-end or back-end? Why balancing centralization/consistency and local team autonomy in your implementation will increase the odds of achieving results you can trust and observations your teams will act upon. What two pieces of data make it possible to attribute system and user behavior changes to any deployment? How “guardrail” metrics can automate observability of unintended consequences of deployments, without adding overhead to teams making changes or tasking your exploratory testers and data scientists to go looking for them.

Bio: As Continuous Delivery Evangelist at Split Software, Dave focuses on strategies that connect progressive delivery with the observation of system health, user experience and user behavior. Before Split.io, he spent 3 years at BlazeMeter democratizing "shift left" performance testing. Dave has given talks at AWS re:Invent and Jenkins World, launched the "JMeter Academy" tutorial series and lead transformation talks for large audiences at major banks, insurance companies, entertainment brands and startups of all stripes.

Schedule:
Doors open at 6:00 pm. Food arrives around 6:05. Presentation starts at 6:30.

PLEASE NOTE THE NEW LOCATION AT AVVO!

Other:
As always, the meetup is completely free. Thanks to our hosts, Avvo for our fabulous new meeting location. Also thanks to Split Software who will be the sponsoring food and beverage for this meeting.

Open Seattle is a cross-sector community exploring the intersection of civic engagement, government, and technology to make a positive impact in the greater Seattle area. Everyone is welcome!!

Our mission is to improve our communities through cross-disciplinary collaboration and civic innovation. "Civic innovation" broadly defined is collaborating to solve civic problems and building solutions for the public good. We are the Seattle chapter of the Code for America network.

Open Seattle meets regularly on the fourth Wednesday of every month to learn about community or technology initiatives in Seattle, network, and present new and existing projects.

MEETING AGENDA:

6:00: Dinner with other awesome people who care about civic innovation

6:25: Announcements

6:30: Speaker presentation (TBA); Q&A

7:15-8:00: Open discussion

*Ping the #general channel in our Open Seattle Slack group (link below), or email the organizers on Meetup and we can add you to the agenda. You don't have to be on the agenda to talk. We always leave open time for members to discuss projects/events.

WHAT TO BRING:
You'll probably want a laptop (or be prepared to team up with someone that has a laptop, or work on projects that don't require a computer).

HOW TO CONNECT:
We plan things, ask/answer questions, and discuss projects using Slack.
Join the Open Seattle Slack channel here:

https://join.slack.com/t/openseattle/shared_invite/enQtNTMyNTU1MTUwODE5LWM3ZTk3ZjM0MjRiNDgwNzczZTYxNTllY2YwNDIyYWViYTQxY2IzMDBjN2JiZTM2MGFkZTIwNzZmNjU5OTUwY2Y

MEETING LOCATION:
Tyler Technologies, 255 South King St, 11th floor. The elevators are located in the corporate elevator bank (on the other side of the Embassy Suites lobby). An organizer will be on the 11th floor to open the door for you to the Tyler Technologies office space. You can also ping the Open Seattle Slack group if you have any issues (#general channel).

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What is a Data Scientist? What is Big Data? Wondering if you're qualified to start a career in this field?

We'll cover the emergence of big data and what it means to be a data scientist. We'll walk you through how to get the skills to become a data scientist, and focus on the different jobs that will be open to you once you've mastered the skill set.

Suggested Experience Level:
Beginner - no previous coding experience needed

What to Bring:
Come armed with questions, this is your opportunity to find out everything you need to know about beginning your career in tech.

How to find us: Pioneer Collective
The event will be held at the Pioneer Collective located at 100 S King St #100, Seattle, WA 98104. Upon entering the space, the meeting room will be directly in front of you in the far back. Street parking is available and there is a parking lot 1 block away on Occidental Ave S.

If event is sold out, please contact Community Manager: Stephanie ([masked])

Sponsored by Thinkful:
This workshop is proudly sponsored by Thinkful, the #1 rated coding boot camp on CourseReport. Thinkful is a new type of school that brings high-growth tech careers to ambitious people everywhere. Thinkful provides 1-on-1 learning through its network of industry experts, hiring partners, and online platform to deliver a structured and flexible education. To join the Thinkful network, visit thinkful.com.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-react-tickets-58878540299

his FREE event is especially for beginners in Seattle who want to learn the basics of React!

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This is a friendly workshop focused on learning the basics of the React for absolute beginners! We hope you'll leave excited and more comfortable using React!

What You'll Learn:

What is React
Basic React Syntax and uses

How to Prepare:

- Bring your laptop, fully charged (bring your charger just in case)

- Install Google Chrome (any browser will do, but Chrome can do some cool things): https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/

We'll use an online coding environment, so don't worry about installing anything else!

Prerequisites:

None

About Galvanize:

Galvanize is premiere dynamic learning community for technology. With campuses located in booming technology sectors throughout the country, Galvanize provides a community for each the following:

Education - part-time and full-time training in web development, data science, and data engineering

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To learn more about Galvanize, visit galvanize.com.

Get (or give) real-world advice on Seattle-area tech careers. Bring laptops and be prepared for real-time resume updates and job searches.

Speaker: Chris Robison, Hoard (hoard.exchange)

Location: Galvanize in Pioneer Square

Time: 7-9 PM

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**Automation, AI, and Virtual Economies**

Automation and Artificial Intelligence lower the bar each day on what jobs are considered "low-skill work" (defined as work that can be fully displaced by a machine operator). As the future nears, individuals will need to find other methods to generate and secure wealth (money, status, relationships, and lifestyle).

The popularization of gaming has already shaped large factions of society. Social media and many professional tools have already undergone a process of gamification to meet the expectations of individuals (which were molded through their own experiences playing games). "Play" as a lifestyle will only continue to become more relevant and immersive as time goes on.

As synthetic worlds continue to emerge, it is rational to imagine that they will compete for our attention in dramatic ways. People may, in fact, leave the real world in a mass exodus; their attention and wealth will be primarily focused on synthetic worlds to the extent that GDP may literally drain into them from nation-states.

But there is a threat ahead. If we allow these synthetic worlds to be developed solely by corporate interests, we will almost certainly find ourselves in more addictive and manipulative behavior control loops than we find ourselves in presently (see social media). Additional decentralized infrastructure is required to neutralize this threat and maintain a healthy balance of human values.

Intellectual Property is the battlefront where this clash will be fought. It is the medium where our attention will be focused. Just like purist blockchain enthusiasts call for Decentralized Finance (#DeFi) to dismantle financial powers, we must also demand innovation in Decentralized Intellectual Property (#DeIP) in anticipation for IP monopolies.

True Ownership of items in virtual economies is the first place to start. And where virtual economies are currently the most relevant is in video games. Games will, once again, be the trojan horse that will mold human expectations for society. Once we have #TrueOwnership of virtual assets (NFTs), we can iterate through #DeIP, until we can safely opt-in to making a #MassExodus.

Join us for drinks, snacks and good conversation with Code Fellows' students, staff, and alumni. You'll have an opportunity to learn more about Code Fellows’ programs and what a future career in coding can look like for you.

Agenda:
4:30 - 5:00: Mingling
5:00 - 5:30: Brief introduction to Code Fellows
5:30 - 6:30: Additional networking and mingling with Code Fellows staff and instructors

We’re here to hang out and answer your questions. Low pressure, great drinks, top-notch alumni, and even a ping pong game or two if you’re in the mood.

Grab your spot now: https://codefellowshappyhour.eventbrite.com/?aff=meetup