MaineR Social June 2026 Meetup

Join us the evening of Thursday June 25th at Novare Res Bier Cafe for an informal evening of connection, conversation, and quickfire inspiration with the MaineR community!

During the day, we'll have Portland local Nick Lisac give a short talk online dubbed

> Talk to Your Own Computer - Not the Cloud: Truly Local LLMS

I've asked him to use some R case studies, but this should be interest to all you data scientists out there.

See other MeetUp event for links there.

In the evening, we'll get together at Novare to de-brief about the talk and catch up.

What to expect:

• Friendly faces
• Informal networking (i.e. if you're looking for work, tell the group, bring examples of your work, and tell us if there's anyone we can introduce you to!)
• Whether you're debugging ggplot2, building dashboards, using Claude within Positron, modeling data, or writing your first R script, we’d love to hear about it.

This group also meets at the same time a Chess group meets at Novare. Several MaineRs in March popped on over to play a game after getting their fill of stats, so don't drink too much beer if you're trying to push up your Portland ELO!

Please RSVP so we know how many to expect.

We hope to see you there!

We will be the group with the wooden R on the table and more Posit stickers than you could ever want.

If the weather is nice, I will try to get a table outside.