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🇵🇹🇧🇷🇨🇻.. *🍾 Entre 10 e 30 participantes internacionais* 🍷 Nos reunimos para promover intercâmbios culturais e praticar línguas estrangeiras. 🥂 Esta noite, o foco é em português! Para uma atmosfera amigável e intimista, o número de participantes é limitado. O endereço do evento será compartilhado apenas com aqueles que possuem uma carteira de membro anual válida. Ao se juntar à nossa associação, você também receberá uma dica para verificar o número de participantes. A carteira de membro vem com uma vantagem: escolha um número de adesivo para ganhar um shot grátis no bar após conversar com outros membros do grupo. **Preço do ingresso**: €5 (disponível aqui). ⬇️ https://www.placeminute.com/event/afterwork/apero-linguistique-dans-un-bar-secret,36046.html 🇬🇧 🍾 Between 10 and 30 international participants 🍷 We gather to promote cultural exchanges and practice foreign languages. 🥂 Tonight, it’s all about Portuguese ! For a friendly and intimate atmosphere, the number of participants is limited. The event address will only be shared with those who have a valid annual membership card. By joining our association, you’ll also receive a little tip to check the number of participants. The membership card comes with a perk: choose a sticker number to get a free shot at the bar after chatting with other group members. Ticket price: €5 (available here). ⬇️ https://www.placeminute.com/event/afterwork/apero-linguistique-dans-un-bar-secret,36046.html

**MEETUP AFUP PARIS - Jeudi 8 janvier 2026** Réservez votre place pour le premier meetup de 2026 qui se se tiendra chez Believe ! 🗓️ **Date :** Jeudi 8 janvier 2026 ⏰ **Heure :** 19h 📍 **Lieu :** Believe, 24 Rue Toulouse Lautrec, 75017 Paris **A PROPOS DE L'EVENEMENT :** Rejoignez-nous pour une soirée de partage de connaissances, de discussions animées et de réseautage avec la communauté PHP de Paris. **AGENDA :** 🎙️ Introduction : "***PHP chez Believe, pourquoi et comment ?***" par **Sophie Beaupuis** Comment Believe utilise PHP pour servir au mieux ses clients ? Pourquoi ce choix de technologie, et comment l'entreprise s'est organisée pour produire efficacement... Cette introduction répondra à toutes vos questions ! 🎙️ "***Choix d'une architecture pour une problématique "standard" : gestion de business rule en PHP/SF***" par **Gaël Crispyn** et **Malik Khaldi** 🎙️ "***Utiliser des agents IA pour corriger les erreurs PHPStan***" par **Francis Hilaire** **INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES :** Cet événement est ouvert à toutes les personnes, quel que soit leur niveau d'expérience en PHP et leur parcours. Que vous soyez débutant·e, intermédiaire ou expert·e, ou que vous veniez d'un horizon différent, tout le monde est bienvenu·e pour participer à cette soirée enrichissante. La participation est gratuite et accessible à toutes et tous, mais les places sont limitées pour garantir un espace confortable. Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant pour réserver votre place et contribuer à une communauté diverse et respectueuse ! **À PROPOS DE BELIEVE :** **Believe est un leader mondial du développement d’artistes. Believe accompagne les artistes, labels et éditeurs dans le développement de leur carrière et de leur audience, en mettant au cœur de son action l’expertise, le respect, l’équité et la transparence.** Présent dans plus de 50 pays, avec 2 000 collaborateurs, Believe propose une offre complète de services, comprenant le développement d’audience, l’édition musicale, le marketing et la distribution, avec une approche sur mesure s’adaptant à chaque artiste, label ou éditeur. Engagé en faveur de l’indépendance et de l’innovation, Believe s’appuie sur un modèle unique qui allie l’expertise locale à la puissance d’une plateforme technologique mondiale, offrant des solutions exclusives grâce à des partenariats stratégiques avec les plus importants services de musique digitale mondiaux. Avec un portefeuille de marques prestigieuses telles que Nuclear Blast, naïve, TuneCore, Groove Attack, Sentric, AllPoints et Byond, les artistes de Believe ont généré plus de 800 milliards de streams dans le monde en 2024, à travers tous genres musicaux confondus, et ont été récompensés par plus de 70 distinctions majeures de l’industrie musicale. Believe est une société par actions simplifiée de droit français. En savoir plus sur [www.believe.com](https://www.believe.com)

Thursday Night Drinking Club! (TNDC) Come and join hashers in Paris for some lively Thursday night drinks. First to arrive grab a spot! Look for a group of boisterous anglophones, possibly with a HHH sign. *** **Who are hashers?** We are a drinking club with a running problem. Every weekend we enjoy the sights of the Paris area while running together on a trail set by a "hare". We also gather for a drink every Thursday night. Everyone is welcome! On on 👣🍻 [https://www.meetup.com/parish3-schhh](https://www.meetup.com/parish3-schhh)

commence ton année 2026 avec une activité créative pour offrir une carte de voeux réalisée à la main en aquarelle à tes proches… ou à toi-même! participation : 1 consommation au café aucun besoin de ramener de matériel, on prévoie tout !

**Join hashers for Paris H3 R\*n 1125: the Kings** 🐰 Hares: King Gasbag 👣 Trail: A-to-A trail, with bag drop 📍 Meeting Point: Torcy RER Station 🧭 Directions: Exit/Sortie 1, Jean Moulin (bus station), follow the chalk markings **Come and follow Gasbag’s marks to the Galette and maybe become a Hash king or queen yourself!** 💶 Hash Cash: 5 € (Hash cash is collected to keep our club active, and also to pay for your beer.) Bring what you need. Up to you, but this could include water, sunblock, snow goggles, survival snack, chalk to back mark, a whistle if you can’t shout, brand new running shoes, a virgin, shiggy socks, a hash hymnal, a bag of tea, a bag of wine, wax, and/or extra cash. Dress appropriately - we run, and we may get into some shiggy (mud, puddles, scratchy bushes, wet paint, ...) On on! 👣🍻 https://www.meetup.com/parish3-schhh

**Important time note:** Please plan on arriving between 5:30 and 6:00 as the elevators lock after 6 and you'll need to message us and we'll need to come get you. The building address is 4450 Bridge Park The entrance is 6620 Mooney St, Suite 400 **Abstract** GitHub Copilot is rapidly changing how developers write, understand, and maintain code. Powered by generative AI and deeply integrated into modern development environments, Copilot acts as an intelligent coding assistant, helping developers move faster while maintaining quality and focus. In this session, we’ll explore what GitHub Copilot is, how it works, and where it fits into a real-world developer workflow. We’ll break down what Copilot can (and cannot) do, where it can be used, and how licensing differs for individuals and organizations. Most importantly, this talk goes beyond theory with a live, hands-on demo showcasing Copilot inside the IDE and on GitHub, demonstrating how it can assist with code generation, refactoring, learning new APIs, and accelerating day-to-day development tasks. Designed for developers, technical leads, and engineering managers, this session provides a practical introduction to AI-assisted development, highlights best practices for getting value from Copilot, and closes with guidance on how to continue learning and evolving alongside this rapidly advancing tool. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how GitHub Copilot can enhance productivity, improve developer experience, and fit into modern software teams today, not someday. **YouTube Link** TBA

*GOhio!* turns 8!! 🥳 Come celebrate with us at [Pins Mechanical](https://www.pinsbar.com/locations/easton)! 😄 **Summary** Pins Mechanical Co. is a social entertainment venue that combines old-school games like duckpin bowling, pinball, and other classic arcade and table games with craft cocktails, local beers, and punch. The vintage-industrial atmosphere is designed for playful, face-to-face gatherings with friends, family, and colleagues, offering a casual and lively alternative to a typical bar. Pins' Easton location spans over 38,000 square feet, making it the largest in the United States. This massive entertainment venue features two floors, a mezzanine level with stadium seating, and three full-service bars. It offers 16 duckpin bowling lanes, two indoor bocce courts, and more than 60 classic and modern pinball and arcade games. For additional fun, the location is known for its two outdoor patios, an indoor slide, and an expanded patio pong setup. **Activities** As noted below, some machines take actual quarters. Pins has two change machines (one downstairs and one upstairs) that accept ones, fives, or tens (only), and return quarters (only). * *Duckpin Bowling* [Like Bowling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duckpin_bowling) but with smaller balls, stubby pins, and no oil on the lanes. The cost is $9 per game per person. * *Pinball* [Who](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who)'s a [wizard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Wizard) on these [retro machines](https://pinballmap.com/map/?by_location_id=15311)? At $1 per play, everyone! Takes quarters. * *Arcade* Play classics like Gorf, Pac-Man, Gorf, Donkey Kong, Gorf, Galaga, and Gorf! The best part is, there's Gorf! And all the arcade games are free! * *Patio Pong* The classic college party staple but bigger. Instead of tossing a ping pong ball into cups, you use a regular ball and oversized buckets. There are two of these upstairs, and they're both free! * *Ping Pong* The most popular sport in China! They have two ping pong tables downstairs and two more ping pong tables upstairs. For those of you who have studied topological spaces and set theory, you will know this means they have four total ping pong tables. They have bubble gum dispensers with ping pong balls in them for 25¢ each. The dispensers take quarters. However, they also have racks where they store the ping pong paddles, and in these racks are slots for ping pong balls. It's not uncommon to see balls already here, so there's a chance you may be able to play ping pong for free if you want to. * *Hookie* You can't put your eye out! The safe alternative to darts: Hook thrown rings on a board. Outdoors on the upstairs patio, and free! * *Bocce* Like bowling, except there’s turf and a lot more balls. You can also knock your opponent’s balls out of the way. There are two of these upstairs, and they're both free! * *Foosball* Everyone loves [foosball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_football)! 50¢ a game. Takes quarters. * *Giant Jenga* Stack massive wooden blocks into a tower, then take turns pulling out one block at a time without collapsing the tower. There are four of these sprinkled throughout the venue (two downstairs and two upstairs, with one on each patio), and they're all free! * *Skeeball* There are three skeeball machines on the first floor (near the Gorf machine!), and they're all free! * *Giant Connect Four* On the outdoor patio upstairs, and free! * *Bubble Hockey* This is upstairs. Up to four people can play at once, and it costs $1. Takes quarters. * *Cornhole* There are two cornhole lanes upstairs, and they're both free! * *Basketball* There are two basketball machines downstairs. They're tucked behind the downstairs bar, so they're not always obvious unless you go look for them. They're $2 per play, and they take quarters. * *NES and Sega Genesis video games* These are collections, downstairs (near the Gorf machine!), of video games that you can play for free! * *The Big Metal Indoor Slide* This large two-story slide is for kids, and certainly no adults would ride this. After all, it's not like it's free or anything. **Outdoor Patio** Pins at Easton actually has two outdoor patios. But for our purposes, only the upstairs one matters. See, it will be winter and likely cold. But their upstairs patio has multiple ceiling heaters and two massive gas fire pits that put out a ton of heat. Sitting out here may be a real option. As mentioned above, the upstairs outdoor patio has one of the venue's two Patio Pong setups, one of their multiple Giant Jengas, the Giant Connect Four, and Hookie. **Food** Pins doesn't serve food, but there's a [Mikey's Late Night Slice](https://www.latenightslice.com/) next door. This Mikey's is basically an extension of the Easton Pins; there's a large open doorway between both establishments. Mikey's has a fountain dispenser with Coke products. You can also get Coke and Diet Coke (but not Coke Zero, like you can at Mikey's) at the bars in Pins, but I think the quality of the soda pop from Mikey's fountain is better than that from the bar hoses Pins uses to dispense soft drinks. You are also quite allowed at Pins to either bring food in or order it in via your favorite delivery app. **Parking** I recommend parking in the [Worth Garage](https://eastontowncenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/parking-at-easton-updated-file-sept-25.pdf). It's literally right next door to Pins, and it's free as long as you park on Level 2 or above. They recently started charging people to park on Level 1, and you pay for parking on this level the same way you pay for street parking in Columbus, with the [ParkColumbus](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.parkmobile.parkcolumbus&hl=en_US&pli=1) app. I've seen them enforce this by ticketing people's cars, but I don't know how they actually compel payment. The garage is not a public street that actual cops can write you tickets for parking illegally on. If you have an actual ticket from a cop that you don't pay, they can go so far as to issue a warrant for your arrest. But all Easton has, seemingly, is, "[Please pay our ticket](https://eastonpreferredpark.com/)." Still, in my ongoing efforts to eliminate needless stress and aggravation from my life, I just park above the first Level. The actual address of the garage is [4049 Worth Ave, Columbus, OH 43219](https://www.google.com/maps/place/4049+Worth+Ave,+Columbus,+OH+43219/@40.0542293,-82.9137962,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x88388a86de3af559:0xc1dc8b4661fc834f!8m2!3d40.0542293!4d-82.9137962!16s%2Fg%2F11sgzjp4ml?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDkyNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D). However, your GPS is stupid. The actual entrances to the garage are on the cross steets Brighton Rose Way and Fenlon St, not Worth Ave. Just keep this in mind once you get to the garage. **Where we'll meet** I'll post in the comments where I am. People will obviously want to explore different areas of the venue over the course of the event (and there's a lot to explore), but please just let me know (as in, come find me) once you've arrived. **Peroration** Come on out and say hi! 😄

Early-bird coffee and conversation at [Java Central Café and Roaster](https://javacentral.coffee/)**!**