Monday, June 7, 2021 at 7:00:00 PM Online event

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UX case studies form the core content of a UX professional's portfolio. They are essential to getting you hired because case studies are a window to your professional practice — they show how you think, adapt, cooperate, and ultimately solve challenges. What does a good case study look like? And how should you build them to make your portfolio shine?

A great UX case study tells a story about you and like all the best stories, case studies benefit tremendously from a solid structure that guides the reader through your thinking and experience. Join us for this webinar as we discuss how to create impactful case studies with the right structure that will help your portfolio stand out from the rest.

What you will learn:

What is a Case Study?
How case studies are essential to your portfolio
Anatomy of the Case Study
The seven questions every case study should answer

How to join us: Once you register with Eventbrite, you will receive an email with the links to the live webinar from BigMarker. If you do not receive your link, please email virtual@thinkful.com.

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Monday, June 7, 2021 at 6:00:00 PM Online event

Register here for the Zoom link to kick off the meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrdOmgqT4rE9LOv-6yAWLFFZOGKqHgJf1Y

The Zoom link is the same week-to-week, but we ask you to register each week.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: We are taking a hiatus from our in-person Hack Nights as we deal with the implications of COVID-19. We encourage teams to continue project work and to meet virtually from 6:00-8:00pm on Mondays. Our ability to provide pizza and snacks will be compromised, however :).

Individual teams will have access to video breakouts via Zoom. You can use Slack for breakout rooms if you like.

We are also exploring possible projects we could take on to help address this public health emergency. Please email codeforkc@kcdigitaldrive.org if you have any questions or are interested in working on immediate public health-related projects.

Thanks,
Aaron, Paul, and the rest of the Core Team
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Interested in helping the Kansas City area? Great! Whether or not you know how to code, you can help by joining us to work on civic hacking to create a better Kansas City and surrounding cities. Bring projects, ideas, designs, laptops, data, and friends.

Meeting Format

6:00 - Kickoff and Introductions
6:15 - go into breakout rooms
8:00 - Wrap-up

"Pitch Nights," TBD when we have a slot for new project pitches during kickoff;

"Learn Nights," TBD where we have community speakers on civic tech topics from 6:30-7:30pm.

Please RSVP so that we know how many snacks & drinks to bring.

Civic Heroes of all types welcome! This event is for coders and non-coders alike -- as long as you're interested in making government more transparent and building interesting things for our city, you're more than welcome!

If you have something you'd like to work on or are excited about, please let us know via the meetup or at the hack night itself. We are growing our initiative and the energy comes from the community.

Code for KC is a program of KC Digital Drive, a local non-profit whose mission is to make Kansas City a digital leader by developing civic capacity to adapt to technology change. We are the local affiliate in Code for America's Brigade network.

Connect with Us:

• Join our Code for KC email list (http://eepurl.com/7gbQP).

• Follow us on Twitter @CodeforKC (http://twitter.com/codeforkc) and @KCDigitalDrive (http://twitter.com/kcdigitaldrive).

Got questions? Email our Brigade Captain, Paul Barham: captain@codeforkc.org or codeforkc@kcdigitaldrive.org.

Code for KC has a Code of Conduct! Please always be respectful and help us keep our events welcoming, positive, productive environments for everyone. Code For KC presenters and participants are held to this anti-harassment policy (http://codeforkc.org/hackkc-code-of-conduct).

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Friday, June 4, 2021 at 12:00:00 PM Online event

In the spirit of the Indianapolis 500, we at EDB wanted to continue the excitement with our own "Postgres 500" database race. We will use a standard benchmark kit to identify the best price-performance among cloud databases in real-time. Arm yourself with the knowledge and data to confidently select the best cloud option for your needs.

In this session you will learn:

+ Best practices in cloud selection (hint: it's not one-size-fits-all)
+ Financial best practices and ramifications from utilizing AWS and Azure clouds for database workloads
+ A methodology to properly size a cloud environment to maximize cost-efficiency

REGISTER AT: https://info.enterprisedb.com/Webinar_ThePostgres500.html

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KCDC is Back in 2021 After skipping a year many of us would rather forget about, the 12th edition of the Kansas City Developer Conference is back and in person! Come and join us in person to catch up with old friends and make new ones this September 15-17 as we return to the Kansas City Convention Center in beautiful downtown KC. Tickets are on sale now at: kcdc.info, reserve your place now as they might soon sell out! Don't miss this opportunity to learn, grow, and build relationships with your professional friends and peers.   Buy your tickets today

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Event to be held at the following time, date, and location: Tuesday, June 8, 2021 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (CDT) Longview Lake Shelter #12 11101 Raytown Road Kansas City, MO 64134 View Map

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SecKC Picnic!! You read that right! This is it, the night of nights! And oh what heights we'll hit.. Share this event on Facebook and Twitter. We hope you can make it!

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Thursday, June 3, 2021 at 6:00:00 PM The NEW HammerSpace Community Workshop

ATTENTION! THIS EVENT IS FOR MEMBERS OF HAMMERSPACE ONLY.
Well, we made it folks. All of our staff and instructors have been vaccinated by now and so we will be resuming classes and other group activities (at slightly reduced maximum attendees) beginning in June.

Our regular weekly open house will not be resuming. Instead we will be hosting a MEMBERS ONLY social event on the first Thursday of each month going forward. Come in and catch up with other members of the space, and check out the new improvements! As is traditional, feel free to bring a snack or extra beverages to share with new friends and old friends alike.

All spaces will be re-opened on this date, but mask use will still be required for an unknown duration. Eating and drinking should still be done on the patio.

Tours will now be provided EVERY DAY on a call ahead basis, so there is no need to wait for an open house.

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Thursday, June 3, 2021 at 10:00:00 AM Online event

🌍 This is a Kong Network event
❗REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/3fzqYLA

In this workshop, you'll learn about Kong for Kubernetes, a fully native Kubernetes Ingress Controller for enhanced API management. Kong for Kubernetes can manage ingress traffic and impose policies for you. You can configure all of Kong using Custom Resources Definitions (CRDs) with Kong for Kubernetes.

Kubernetes is the de-facto platform for container orchestration. To expose services outside of the cluster, Kubernetes requires Ingress resources to be defined. When services are exposed outside the cluster, they should be protected and secured. Requirements such as authentication, observability of the traffic, auditing, encryption, integrations with other solutions become critical for Ingress management.

Kong is a next-generation Service Control Platform that provides policy, health checking, load balancing and more to services running in and outside Kubernetes. In Kubernetes, Kong provides a world-class ingress management platform that can be managed using native tooling (i.e. kubectl, manifests, CRDs, helm, etc.) to manage Ingress traffic and apply policies to address the challenges of ingress management.

📚 Learn
In this workshop, you will learn how the Kong Ingress Controller can easily manage ingress traffic and policies for services in a native Kubernetes way. In particular, you will perform:

- Set up a Kubernetes Cluster
- Deploy the Kong Ingress Controller
- Deploy a sample Echo Service
- Expose, Secure and Protect the Service with Kong

The Kong Ingress Controller consists of a Kubernetes Ingress, the powerful Kong gateway and CRDs to deliver all of the benefits of Kong and ingress management, natively in Kubernetes.

⏱ Agenda
- Welcome & introductions
- Overview of Ingress management in Kubernetes
- Connectivity Test
- Hands-on labs
- Questions & Close

😎 Speaker: Ned Harris, Solutions Engineer at Kong

👋 Interact
The workshops are designed to be an interactive, hands-on experience. Please turn on cameras & mics.

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