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Coders4Charities

Adam — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:50:25 +0000

KC Web Geeks participated in the KC Coders 4 Charities event held this past weekend. What an experience! We were not only able to connect with other programmers and help out a good cause, but we also potentially helped thousands of people indirectly. An estimated 4000 man hours were donated during the event.

The charity that we were assigned to help out with was Kids and Cars.org.

KidsAndCars.org is a national nonprofit child safety organization dedicated to preventing injuries and death to children in or around motor vehicles. KidsAndCars.org has been pioneering a national prevention movement since 1996 by promoting the highest level of awareness among parents, caregivers, legislators and the public at-large about the dangers inherent to children in or around motor vehicles. KidsAndCars.org works to prevent these sudden tragic events through data collection, education and public awareness, policy change, regulations and survivor advocacy.

We had such a great time that we look forward to next years event.

Meetup Tweetups Everywhere

Adam — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:58:43 +0000

Are you into the social network scene? Do you have an addiction to twitter? If so there are a few meetups and tweetups happening next week

Aug 26 Kansas City Blogger Gathering 5:00pm-? 75TH Street Brewery Kansas City, MO

Aug 27 Kansas City Tweetup! – 5:30-8pm at Perceptive Software, Shawnee

Aug 28 CodeDiving in the Amazon Cloud 3-8pm at Kauffman foundation, $5-$10 donated to CCCKC.

Aug 29 Social Media Club breakfast. 7:30am at Broadway Cafe in Westport

http://kcsocialmedia.wetpaint.com/ is a great resource to find out what is going on around KC when it comes to social media like get togethers s.

Hope to see you at some of these events.

BarCampKC are you going? KC Web Geeks will be!

Adam — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:50:18 +0000

Kc Web Geeks is going to be headed to the BarCampKc. What is a BarCamp you ask? Well it actually does not have anything to do with a Bar. According to Wikipedia a BarCamp is

An international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

BarCampKC is May 9th – 10th 2008. It is being hosted at the Ad Astra offices in Overland Park

The sponsors so far are
Ad Astra
Panera Bread Co.
Roasterie
Boulevard Brewery

It looks like it will be a great event for learning, networking, and idea sharing. If you are a geek, tech head, coder or designer you should come.

To learn more about the event go to their site at http://barcampkc.wordpress.com/ you can also sign up for there event as well.