SOLD OUT! Cocoa Programming Foundations
Filed under: Education/Workshops, Independents Hall, IndyHall U, coworking
A couple of weeks back we announced our first IndyHall U class, developed in conjunction with Cocoaheads Philly. As of last night, this class is SOLD OUT!
Congratulations to the team who put this class together, we’re really looking forward to hosting it at IndyHall’s Classic location at 32 Strawberry Street.
IndyHall-U pilots “Mac Programming Foundations” class with Philly Cocoaheads
Filed under: Education/Workshops, Events, Independents Hall, IndyHall U
Education is core to IndyHall. Specifically, peer education. We’ve said (and not just Geoff and I, but our members) that it’s hard to not learn something while working at IndyHall. The diversity of skillsets and experiences, along with a group over people who truly love their craft, makes for some really unique learning experiences.
Take that, mix in Geoff’s University professor background and our shared flare for seeing education reformed into a more hands on format, and something starts to bubble.
For a while now (at least since the first IgnitePhilly), we’ve been musing around the idea of having a more formal workshop series than the evening workshops we’ve held over the last 2 years. Something where the model for organic peer education we already know works, but we have a chance to really focus on it and figure out a way to institutionalize it without killing it with bureaucracy.
With the move to the new office space on 3rd street, we’re left with “IndyHall Classic” (the new pet name for our Strawberry street location) for the next 10 months as an experimental classroom workspace. We’ve got lots of ideas, and will share more as things evolve. Things are likely to start design and tech heavy, but that’s only because that’s who’s volunteered to work on developing classes. IndyHall U is NOT meant to be a tech shop, much like IndyHall isn’t. Diversity is welcome. Deviation from the norm is encouraged. Seriously.
In the mean time, we’re excited to announce the very first beta class from within the Tech Department of IndyHall U: Mac Programming Foundations.
Bring an Apple for the Teacher
As a natural evolution of the monthly Cocoaheads meetup that convenes at IndyHall once a month, Mac Programming Foundations grew out of a desire to develop a higher baseline of knowledge for Cocoaheads attendees. Cocoaheads organizer Andy Mroczkowski banded together with Jason Allum, David Martorana, Aaron Evans, and Michael Zornek to put together the two-session class, and urged us to let them hold it almost immediately after we’ve migrated our office to our new location.
The class will consist of two sessions on Saturday May 9th and May 16th. $100 gets you not just the two sessions, but a copy of “Learn Objective C on the Mac“, a companion book for the class.
$100 is a steal even without the curriculum and the book: to get to learn from 5 extremely bright Cocoa Developers for 8 total hours is well worth the c-note.
You can visit the Mac Programming Foundations page for more information.
Space is limited, so if you are interested in the class please register as soon as possible!
BarCamp Rocked – Keep the Energy Up!
Filed under: Community Support, Events, Independents Hall
Wow, what a great weekend for the Philadelphia scene! We had our first BarCamp here in Philly, thanks to Roz Duffy, JP Toto, and a hard working team of volunteers. Contratulations to everyone who attended on making this event not only one of the best events we’ve had in Philadelphia yet, but one of the best BarCamp’s I’ve attended!
At the end of the day, we had a “Philly Scene” session led by Kimberly Blessing, which involved us filling a whiteboard with places, events, and websites that are the lifeblood of everything awesome going on in our town. Once Kimberly shares her redux of the list we compiled, we’ll share it here. In the mean time, we’ve got a bunch of stuff coming up that you can get into to keep the Barcamp spirit going!
CocoaHeads Philly – Thursday, November 13th
CocoaHeads is a monthly get-together of cocoa developers (not chocolate, Cocoa is Apple’s development framework) to talk about development techniques and the things that they are working on. Last month Andy Mroczkowski showed off an iPhone project he’d been working on, and since then, it’s hit the iTunes app store. Check out Wolfgang’s Vault!
This month’s meeting is on Thursday, November 13th and runs from from 7-9pm, at IndyHall.
CupCakeCamp East – Sunday November 16th
BarCamp + Cupcakes = Love. Dana and Katie from OpenSourceCupcakes will be celebrating the launch of their cupcake site by having a cupcake exchange in the format of “CupcakeCamp”, pioneered in San Francisco; now we’re bringing it to Philly! Full details on the previous post about the event.
IP For Independents – Wednesday, November 19th
Frank Taney, shareholder and chair of the Information Technology Litigation Practice Group at the law firm Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, presents “IP for Independents.”
Frank will address a number of intellectual property (”IP”) topics with particular significance for Independents, including:
- The main categories of IP and how Independents are likely to encounter them
- The basic steps Independents need to take to protect their IP
- “Safe” licensing, conveyance and use of IP
- Identifying actionable IP infringement
- Enforcement of IP rights and remedies for infringement
We tend to take pretty liberal views on IP issues here at IndyHall, so getting some varied perspective from the legal side is going to be beneficial and certainly interesting. We look forward to Frank’s lecture. Please RSVP on Upcoming!
IndyHall Show and Tell – Thursday, November 20th [lunchtime!]
Who said Show and Tell was just for kids? We’re going to be hosting a lunchtime Show and Tell monthly, at least, where 4 people from the community (that’s folks who work at IndyHall AND folks who don’t) will be able to talk about and show off whatever they’ve been working on, have found interesting, learned about, etc. We’ll order some sandwiches and drinks, and if you’re able to get to Old City between 12 and 1pm on Thursday, November 20th, you should join us! Interested in showing or telling? Drop us a note. Either way, please RSVP on Upcoming since space is limited and we need to order food.
