Geekspace Gwinnett Moves In

The region's latest makerspace, Geekspace Gwinnett now has a home and is building out. I went to one of their regular Tuesday Open House events last night. They're in the building out phase. So far they have Wifi and workbenches with a couple of older osciliscopes. In the back shop area are a couple of drill presses, an old Craftsman table saw in need of a tune-up, a small metal lathe, cutoff saw and scrollsaw. A milling machine is in the works as soon as moving equipment can be arranged. All in all, about a dozen people showed up and the space has great promise. So come out to one of their events and learn more.

Dart Meetup Forming

There's a new Northeast Georgia Dart meetup group forming. If you're not familiar with it, Dart is an open-source web programming language that compiles to JavaScript and is supported by Google. If you're interested in web programming, check them out.

Joomla Day Atlanta - April 5th, 2014

As a regular Joomla User (such as this site), I'm excited to announce the first-ever Joomla Day Atlanta is coming April 5th, 2014 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center. There'll be about 20 speakers on 4 tracks, with lots of good information. Yes, I'm also scheduled to speak. So buy your tickets now, early bird pricing is available. See you there. 

Site Update

I updated the site from Joomla 2.5.x to Joomla 3.2.x. In the process I put a new, responsive template. I hope it serves the community well. Any comments and feedback are welcome.

Great Wide Open Conference - Update

From Chris at the Atlanta PHP group:

Hi everyone!
 
We were contacted by the organizers of the Great Wide Open conference coming to Atlanta April 2nd and 3rd. They graciously offered us a group discount (details below) and two free tickets to give away - we gave away one last week at our monthly meeting and will give away the remaining one at our March meeting. This is organized by the same group who put on POSSCON in South Carolina the last couple years and I've heard good things about that, so I'd expect this one to be as good or better. The schedule looks great and covers a wide range of open source topics. Please help Atlanta get more events like this by attending and showing people outside our area that we have a strong, vibrant dev community. Hope to see you there!
 
Chris
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We would love for AtlantaPHP to be a part of our conference. If you could spread the word as much as possible throughout the group, that would be great. We would like to give your group a discount on our tickets. If your group orders either single day tickets or the two day ticket, all they need to do is type in the promo code "atlantaphp" and they will get 15% off. Thank you so much and we are looking forward to seeing AtlantaPHP at Great Wide Open!
 

Thank you for your interest in Great Wide Open (http://greatwideopen.org/) and for asking to receive updates on the event. The event is taking place April 2 & 3 at 200 Peachtree in Downtown Atlanta. We are working very hard to make this a world-class conference for those with an interest in Open Source, Open Tech, and the Open Web.  
 
The goal of the event is to provide world-class education from some of the most well known experts in the country, at a cost that provides a tremendous ROI.  Whether you're a developer, programmer, scientist, data or system administrator, CIO, CTO, IT manager, or just someone interested in what's coming next, you will find sessions for you.  We sincerely hope you can make it. 
 
Why Should You Attend (show this to your boss or friends/colleagues):
http://greatwideopen.org/why-you-should-attend.php
 
Register Here (Early Bird tickets are on sale now!):
http://greatwideopen.org/register.php
 
Just a few of the confirmed speakers include:
 
Chris Aniszczyk - Twitter - Head of Open Source / Eclipse Foundation Board member
Clay Johnson - Blue State Digital - Co-Founder / Author of The Information Diet 
Andy Hunt - The Pragmatic Programmer - Author
Ross Mason - Mulesoft - Founder & VP Product Strategy
Joel Esler - Cisco - Intelligence Lead / Open Source Manager
Trek Glowacki - Ember.js - Core Team Member
Ines Sombra - Engine Yard - Lead Data Engineer
David Meyer - OpenDaylight Project - Chair
Christopher Clark - Sparkfun Electronics - Director of IT
Ryan Berg - Sonatype - Chief Security Officer / Author
Steve Klabnik - Balanced - Developer / Author
Lynn Root - Spotify - Developer / Author
Leigh Heyman - Exec Office of the President - Dir. of New Media Technologies
Joe Stagner - Zend Technologies - Director of Developer Strategy
Jonathan LeBlanc - PayPal - Emmy Award Winning Engineer
Jim Jagielski - Outercurve Foundation - President
Jason Hibbets - Opensource.com - Director
 
The most important companies in the open source space will attend and participate:
 
Red Hat, GitHub, Mozilla, Oracle, Acquia, Twitter, PayPal, Engine Yard, Apache Software Foundation, Hewlett Packard, Shadow Soft, Cloudera, Sparkfun Electronics, Groupon, SkySQL, SugarCRM, Open Software Integrators, Eucalyptus Systems, Mulesoft, Zend Technologies, Heroku, OpenSource.com, Spotify, CISCO, Brocade, Blackduck Software
 
Early Bird tickets are just $99 per day and $149 for both. The ROI with this event is a no-brainer. We challenge you to find more value in a conference anywhere. To purchase tickets, go to http://greatwideopen.org/register.php 
 
For the latest updates:
 
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GWOcon
Track us on Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/2014/great-wide-open/
 
Thanks,
Danny Perez-Caballero
Organizer for Great Wide Open
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