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Hi Deep Learners, Our first Deep Learning Meetup in 2026 is taking place on **January 26** at Sky lounge of Raiffeisenbank International in Wien Mitte. Our topics this time are: Agentic RAG and Surprise Estimation in Music. \*\*\* **Agenda:** * 18:30 **Introduction** by the meetup organizers * **Welcome** by the host: Raiffeisenbank International * 18:45 **Talk 1:** **Agentic RAG: Advances in Autonomous Information Retrieval, Quantized Indexing, and Scalable System Design** by Liad Magen *(Raiffeisen Bank International)* * 19:30 **Announcements** * **Networking Break** * 20:00 **Talk 2:** **Surprise Estimation in Music** by Mathias Bjare *(Johannes Kepler University)* * 20:45 **Networking** * \~22:00 **Wrap up & End** \*\*\* **Talk Details:** **Talk 1: Agentic RAG: Advances in Autonomous Information Retrieval, Quantized Indexing, and Scalable System Design** Agentic RAG systems enable AI to plan how to find and utilize information autonomously, moving beyond simple lookup-and-answer patterns. Traditional RAG follows a fixed approach: retrieve documents, then generate an answer. Agentic RAG, on the other hand, utilizes autonomous agents that can reason through problems in multiple steps, reformulate queries intelligently, and adapt their retrieval strategy based on what they discover. This talk examines the architecture and capabilities of agentic RAG, focusing on how retrieval strategies have evolved to support multi-hop reasoning (following chains of related information), tool integration, and agent-driven workflows. Special attention will be paid to recent advances in quantized indexing and vector search, including Matryoshka embeddings. This technique stores information at multiple levels of detail, enabling scalable retrieval with tunable trade-offs between accuracy and storage. **About the Speaker:** Liad Magen is a senior data scientist at Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) and serves as the product owner of the Data Science Academy, an internal school within the RBI to upskill employees in machine learning and data science. In addition, he is teaching selected courses on NLP, computer vision and Information Retrieval as part of Master's degrees in Hochschule Campus Wien (HCW) and the university of applied sciences - IMC Krems. **Talk 2: Surprise Estimation in Music** The presentation will focus on Bjare's work on latent autoregressive diffusion models for computationally estimating experienced "expectedness" and "surprise" (surprisal) in music listening, presented at [Neurips 2025 - AI for Music Workshop](https://openreview.net/forum?id=rXUKO0ysUy&referrer=%5BAuthor%20Console%5D(%2Fgroup%3Fid%3DNeurIPS.cc%2F2025%2FWorkshop%2FAI4Music%2FAuthors%23your-submissions)). We revisit an established connection between music appreciation during listening and the extent to which humans or autoregressive models can predict musical continuations. We visit [Music2Latent](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06500), an open-source, computationally efficient audio codec used as the audio representation on which surprisal is modeled. We review GPT-style autoregressive diffusion models and show how they are suitable for surprisal estimation. We discuss the prediction of EEG responses to music listening based on our surprise estimates. **About the Speaker:** Mathias Rose Bjare is a fourth year PhD student at the Institute of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. He builds computational models for the estimation of musical expectancy and surprisal in audio and general symbolic music using modern artificial neural networks. His surprisal estimates enable research into how features of general recorded music correlate with neural responses to music listening We'd like to thank Raiffeisen International for providing the venue, drinks & snacks. ** Please note that the venue has a capacity limit of 120 people and people will be admitted on a first come, first served basis. ** We are very much looking forward to seeing you at our first meetup in 2026! Your VDLM organizers

Welcome to our friendly badminton event! Let's get moving, improve our game, and make some new friends. **Very important: this event is for you if your level is upper intermediate or advance.** 🏸🙂 **If you're joining us for the first time, the organizer will contact you directly to confirm that you have the required level for this event.** Feather shuttles (Babolat 1 / Viktor Master ACE / Forza s 6000) will be provided for this event and are included in the event fee The location: Sport & Fun Halle Favoriten / Windtenstraße 2, 1100 Wien The Price: We try our best to provide you with the best price in Vienna. You will be paying 9 euros for 2 hours. How to pay: We accept cash and bank transfer Number of players: 6 players for 1 court and about 10 -11 players for 2 courts. Remember to bring your own racket, please. **Cancellation policy:** 1- 24 hours before the event = free cancellation. 2- Any time after the 24-hour limit, I will ask you kindly to pay the event fee, if we can't find a suitable replacement. (No exceptions) See you on the court :)

PCE - "Philosophic Conversation in English" is a discussion event in English language which focuses on psychology, philosophy, self-consciousness and self-realization. The conversation is based on inclusive discussion rules. We will meet at at a restaurant where we will have a private room exclusively reserved for our event. At the beginning we will choose the topic to discuss. Everybody can suggest a topic. Then we will vote what to discuss. The person who suggested the winning topic will then explain his idea of the topic. Afterwards everybody gets his/her chance to make a statement. But you can also decide to remain silent and only listen, if you prefer that. We have a time limit for statements, so that everybody has enough time to speak. It is not allowed to interrupt somebody who is speaking. After a statement everybody can ask a question and the speaker will answer. After the first part there will be a 10 minutes break before we start the second part. Everybody is welcome to our event: We are interested in your thoughts and opinions! It is no problem if you arrive late and you can also leave whenever you want. Please check out last event's topics via this link: [http://pce-topic.project-website.org](http://pce-topic.project-website.org/)

**Discover the Power of Public Speaking & Leadership — Join the Blue Danube Leaders!** Are you looking for a new hobby that's not only fun but also helps you grow? Join us at **Blue Danube Leaders**, a Toastmasters club where you can improve your **public speaking**, **leadership**, and **communication** skills - all in a friendly, encouraging environment. Whether you’re just starting out or are already a seasoned speaker, you're welcome as our guest. **THIS PARTICULAR MEETING IS A CONTEST EVENT** Every year Toastmasters International holds the World Championship of Public Speaking, starting at club level for general speeches, evaluation speeches and table topics.This meeting on Jan 26 is our club contest.You are very welcome to join, just be aware that the meeting format on this evening is entirely different to our normal meetings described below. This is the usual meeting format: **What happens at a Meeting?** Our meetings follow a structured, interactive format: * **Welcome and Introduction** The meetings begin with a warm welcome from the Club President and the host (called *Toastmaster of the Evening)*. Then, we do a short introduction round where everyone - guests too - say a few words on the evening's topic. * **Word of the Day** A challenge that builds your language skills and sharpens your attention to word choice. A special word is introduced and everyone is invited to use this word whenever they speak. * **Table Topics** This is an exciting segment! Volunteers - guests too! - are invited to speak for 1-2 minutes on a surprise question or topic. It's a great way to practice thinking on your feet. * ***Short Break of 10 minutes*** * **Prepared Speeches** * Members deliver speeches prepared ahead of time, usually 5-7 minutes in length. Each speech is a step in the Toastmasters learning pathway. * **Evaluations** Every speech will be thoughtfully evaluated by a designated Evaluator. These evaluations focus on strengths, improvement tips, and encouragement. It's a crucial part of the Toastmasters experience. * **Role Reports** Throughout the meeting, members take on supportive roles that ensure the flow of the evening and give everyone a chance to grow. **Be our guest!** This meetup is open to guests. Toastmasters have a separate platform for the member registration. There are always 10+ people in the meeting. Join us at **18:45 CET** for a casual **Meet & Greet**; The program starts **sharp at 19:00 CET.** After the meeting, we often head to a nearby spot for food or drinks - a great way to relax and connect! Learn more: https://bluedanubeleaders.at/ Email: info@bluedanubeleaders.at

Hello Viennovans! Pickwick's is getting quizzical every monday night! You have a chance to win a round of shots, a 40€ bar tab and/or eternal bragging rights 😉 Teams of up to 6 people, reserve your spot today! Start time is 7! FREE SHOT FOR EVERYONE COMING FROM VIENNOVA!

We live in a time of constant movement — always connected, always performing, always becoming. And yet, many of us feel increasingly disconnected from ourselves. We chase success, recognition, and the next milestone, hoping they will bring peace, only to discover that what we’re truly seeking can’t be found outside of us. Our Breathwork Circles at **Light House Cape Town** are an invitation to pause, soften, and return inward. Through Conscious Connected Breathwork (CCB), we create a safe and intentional space to peel back layers of conditioning, expectation, and self-performance — and to reconnect with the truth that already lives within you. This practice supports nervous-system regulation, emotional release, and deep self-insight, allowing clarity and inner stability to emerge naturally, without force or pressure. Breathwork is a powerful experiential practice that can create profound shifts in a short amount of time. Participants often experience deep relaxation, emotional release, increased mental clarity, and a renewed sense of energy and focus. The practice can help reduce stress, calm an overactive mind, release stored tension in the body, and unlock insights that feel difficult to access through thinking alone. Many people leave a session feeling lighter, more grounded, emotionally clear, and reconnected to themselves — with a tangible sense of relief, openness, and inner balance that carries into their daily lives. **About us:** These circles are facilitated by Sophie and Bjoern, certified Conscious Connected Breathwork facilitators and co-founders of *onoera*. Coming from high-performance career backgrounds and having experienced burnout and misalignment firsthand, they guide each session with depth, sensitivity, and respect for individual processes. Their work blends science-informed nervous-system awareness with embodied presence, creating a grounded, non-dogmatic space where participants can explore at their own pace. Each circle is intentionally limited in size to ensure personal attention and a contained group experience. No prior breathwork experience is needed — only curiosity and a willingness to meet yourself honestly. **Address:** Light House Holistic Wellbeing 6th Floor, The Barracks, 50 Bree Street, Cape Town, 8000 **Important Booking Information:** You need a ticket for this event. Tickets can be purchased using this link: https://onoera.com/group-circles/breathwork-circle-light-house-holistic-wellbeing

Join Vienna’s longest-running English stand-up comedy open mic for laughs, live comedy, and English-language performances. Drop by to see experienced comedians work on their new jokes or maybe you will catch somebody trying to be funny on stage for the first time ever! We don't really know what will happen and that's part of the magic! Join Vienna’s longest-running English stand-up comedy open mic for laughs, live comedy, and English-language performances. Drop by to see experienced comedians work on their new jokes or maybe you will catch somebody trying to be funny on stage for the first time ever! We don't really know what will happen and that's part of the magic! **Do you want to perform yourself?** Hit us up on Instagram (@wiener.comedy) or Facebook (Wiener Comedy). Not on social media? Send us an email at wienercomedy5000@gmail.com If you’re waiting on a reply, please also check your spam folder. **Do you just want to watch?** Just come on over before 19:30, wear something comfortable, enjoy a pint and/or a burger, lean back and let us tickle your funny bone! **Tickets:** Seats can fill up fast, so we recommend reserving yours on Eventbrite. This is a *pay what you like* show so it doesn't cost you to reserve your seat. **Need a table for dinner or coming with a larger group?** Write us an email to sort everything out: wienercomedy5000@gmail.com or contact Charlie P's directly Doors Open: 19:00 Show Starts: 19:30 ***We'll hold your reservations until 19:20 at which time we will release the remaining seats to the public*** Age - 16+ Good talk, see you out there! **Do you want to perform yourself?** Hit us up on Instagram (@wiener.comedy) or Facebook (Wiener Comedy). Not on social media? Send us an email at wienercomedy5000@gmail.com If you’re waiting on a reply, please also check your spam folder. **Do you just want to watch?** Just come on over before 19:30, wear something comfortable, enjoy a pint and/or a burger, lean back and let us tickle your funny bone! **Tickets:** Seats can fill up fast, so we recommend reserving yours on Eventbrite. This is a *pay what you like* show so it doesn't cost you to reserve your seat. **Need a table for dinner or coming with a larger group?** Write us an email to sort everything out: wienercomedy5000@gmail.com or contact Charlie P's directly Doors Open: 19:00 Show Starts: 19:30 ***We'll hold your reservations until 19:20 at which time we will release the remaining seats to the public*** Age - 16+ Good talk, see you out there!

Bring your JS interest and a good vibe! Everybody is welcome & feel free to share this invitation! https://viennajs.org/en/meetup/vienna-js-january-2026 **Timetable:** * 18:00: Gathering, food & drinks * \~18:45 - 19:00: Start of the first talk **Talks:** 🗣️ Housein Abo Shaar ▶️ AI Just Made Us Better at Typing AI can write code now, and it's only getting better at it. Which changes something I genuinely love: the act of *programming*. Just opening up an editor and typing away, observing problems and patterns, finding reusable solutions, caring about how my code *looks* while probably making a few too many premature abstractions. However, I say "programming" for a reason, because it's entirely distinct from software engineering, the thing I actually do for a living. In this talk, I'll go through my experience with AI: the ups and downs, the mistakes I made, and why I think I'll be using it a lot more in the future. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- 🗣️ Marcel Maßmann ▶️ It's about time - a new Date() with Temporal Working with dates and times in JavaScript has always been… complicated. new Date() looks simple, but quickly turns into a source of bugs, confusion, and timezone-related headaches. Adding days, comparing times, or reasoning about “what date is it really?” often requires defensive coding or third-party libraries. Temporal is a new JavaScript API designed to fix this. In this talk, we’ll explore what Temporal is, why it exists, and which long-standing problems it solves compared to Date. We’ll look at how Temporal makes time arithmetic predictable, how it models concepts like instants, calendar dates, durations, and time zones explicitly, and how it can replace much of the functionality we currently rely on external libraries for. We’ll also cover how Temporal interoperates with legacy Date objects, and— most importantly — what mental model you need to use it correctly. You’ll leave with a clear understanding of when to use Temporal.Instant, Temporal.PlainDate, or Temporal.ZonedDateTime, and when Temporal is not the right tool. If you’ve ever been bitten by time zones, off-by-one-day bugs, or confusing date math, it’s about time we talked about Temporal. **🗣️ Give a Talk:** [https://viennajs.org/en/participate/give-a-talk](https://viennajs.org/en/participate/give-a-talk) **Location:** Sentry 📍 **NEW ADDRESS** Jakov-Lind-Straße 5, 4. OG (Entrance next to Max & Benito) 1020 Wien **Sponsors:** 🙏 Sentry Sentry is the market leader in the error monitoring space and like many startups with engineer founders, Sentry was born out of frustration with technology. David started Sentry as an open-source side project in 2008. We started in a small community — the Django web framework — and over time expanded our technology to support dozens of other platforms, including browser JavaScript and mobile applications. Fast forward to today, we're a $90M Series E company with a $3B valuation and 200+ employees on a mission to help developers write better software faster, so we can get back to enjoying technology. As one can see, the adventure continues to be exciting as we bring our developer-first Application Monitoring to more customers and industries worldwide. Consider us for the ride - We're hiring a JavaScript developer! 🙏 Ketryx Ketryx is an American based AI-powered platform specifically designed for the life sciences industry supporting companies that build regulated software. Its core function is to bridge the gap between agile software development practices and stringent regulatory compliance. The platform operates as an overlay that integrates seamlessly with existing, best-of-breed developer tools like Jira and GitHub. By doing this, Ketryx automates compliance-related tasks, such as generating audit-ready documentation, maintaining a real-time, end-to-end traceability matrix across all connected systems. This automation significantly reduces the manual burden of paperwork allowing development teams to accelerate their release cycles and bring safer, compliant products to market much faster. We're building up our engineering hub in Vienna. Our Co-Founder and CTO, [Jan Pöschko](https://www.linkedin.com/in/poeschko/), is based here, and we’re on the hunt for best-in-class engineering talent to join our team. Link to Open Roles: [https://www.ketryx.com/about/open-positions](https://www.ketryx.com/about/open-positions) **🙏 Want to sponsor?** We are looking for more sponsors! If you are interested please contact us via [viennajsmeetup@gmail.com](http://viennajsmeetup@gmail.com/) or at [viennajs.org.](http://viennajs.org./) \*\*\* **Don't forget to RSVP!**

🎤 Karaoke Night 🎤 Friday | Start: 7:30 PM | Stay until 2am Whether you’re a karaoke fan or just looking for a relaxed and social evening, this event is for you! 🎶✨ Our karaoke night is all about fun, connection, and community - no singing required to enjoy the good vibes. We’re excited to bring back this popular FUSE event at a new location, now with even more ways to connect! We’re teaming up with Brainpower Events and Mausen Bar, expanding beyond Meetup so you can meet people from all over Vienna’s social scene. 📍 New location – with both indoor space and an outdoor seating area, perfect for chatting between songs or just soaking up the atmosphere. Start: 7:30 PM Kind reminder: Please be polite and order at least one drink to support the venue. 🎤 Singing is optional. Socializing is guaranteed.

Let’s kick off the year with some talks in collaboration with the **[Java and Friends](https://www.meetup.com/java-and-friends/)**[ meetup group](https://www.meetup.com/java-and-friends/). Fresh topics, shared knowledge and a strong community vibe. **===Topic===** **1st talk: WebAssembly** If you have been living under a rock like me and have heard about WebAssembly but don't really know what it does, then this talk is right for you! WebAssembly is one of the biggest standardization efforts in modern computing and we will have a look at how it works, why you should care, and why big players like Microsoft, Intel, and the CNCF alike have a vested interest to push it further. Did you know that Kotlin is implementing a wasm backend, so we can run Kotlin code without the JVM? What once started out as a browser hack to make javascript faster is slowly but steadily growing into a new computing substrate, and finally, a common architecture and compilation target for our programs. It's write once, run everywhere, but hopefully for real this time. Oh and it will also replace docker. And Kubernetes. Okay, I am overdramatizing. I swear my takes are not as biased as this introduction but you will have to listen to my talk to find out. **Speaker:** Florian Schindler **2nd talk: Spring Boot 4 with Kotlin: Modern Spring Development, Refined** Spring Boot 4 raises the bar for modern development in the JVM ecosystem, and Kotlin fits it perfectly. This talk highlights what’s new in Spring Boot 4 and how Kotlin helps you build cleaner, safer, and more concise applications with less boilerplate and better defaults. **Speaker:** Marián Varga **===Schedule===** 18:00 - Doors open 18:30 - Welcome by Erste Bank, Kotlin Vienna & and SQUER 18:40 - First talk 19:25 - Break 19:35 - Second talk 20:20 - Pizza, Drinks & Networking **===How to find us===** Canetti Tower - Erste Group, Canettistraße 5, 1100 Wien

**Location: Cafe Benno** Looking for a relaxed way to meet creative people in Vienna without the pressure of formal networking? Join us for a **Board Game Evening by Creative Collabs Vienna**, where creativity, conversation, and play come together in a friendly, social atmosphere. This event is designed for **creatives, designers, content creators, marketers, photographers, filmmakers, artists, and anyone working or interested in creative fields** who want to connect naturally, through shared experiences. 🧩 **What to expect:** * A cozy and social evening centered around **board games** * Easygoing ice-breakers through gameplay * A mix of **strategy games, party games, and casual games** * Plenty of time to chat, laugh, and get to know people between games * An open and welcoming environment where conversations flow naturally

**❗️ 👉 TO THE EVENT:** [Kotlin & Java Kickoff 2026: WebAssembly & Spring Boot 4](https://www.meetup.com/de-de/java-and-friends/events/312867286/)**❗️** In cooperation with the[ ](https://www.meetup.com/re-presented-diversevoicesintech/)[Java and Friends](https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/java-and-friends/) Community and [Kotlin Vienna](https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/kotlin-vienna/) are hosting a meetup **at the Erste Bank Campus.** **👉** Please register on the dedicated [Kotlin & Java Kickoff 2026: WebAssembly & Spring Boot 4](https://www.meetup.com/de-de/java-and-friends/events/312867286/) Page to join us on January 27 at 6:00 PM 🥳 We are looking forward to seeing you there!

**IMPORTANT READ THIS HERE ON HOW TO JOIN US:** Signing up for this gathering here on MeetUp does not give you a spot, you have to grab your spot here!! [https://luma.com/0op6yk1z](https://luma.com/0op6yk1z) This gatherings is VIRTUAL! You'll receive the link after getting approved at the event sign-up at the link above. Join us for a cozy 3 hours of co-working, co-creating and connecting with like-minded people 💌 **​This is the perfect space** for creatives, visionaires, dreamers in their 20's or 30's and also anyone who is passionately working on something that is close to their heart. ​We start at 2pm (CEST) and stay on until 5pm. We work for 45 min each and take breaks in between to connect, pause and to stay mindful and intentional. ​We purposefully want to keep the circle small and intimate to cultivate true connection and meaning, i mean, who knows, maybe you'll meet some of your new best friends here? 🌟💗

Hello everybody, Let’s start the new year with two great talks on how we can avoid falling into the legacy debt trap … **Agenda** 🕡 17:30 - Doors open 🕕 18:00 – Intro & First Talk 🗣️- Tracking Health over Debt: Strategies to keep a Microservice Architecture Healthy 🕢 18:50 – Break 🕖 19:00 – Second Talk 🗣️ - Architectural Fitness in Practice: Defining & Measuring your architecture goals with fitness functions 🕗 19:50 – 🎉 Open-end with 🍕&🍻 \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **🗣️ First Talk - Tracking Health over Debt: Strategies to keep a Microservice Architecture Healthy** For a long time kununu focused on fixing what’s broken - a Big Ball of Mud Monolith - and how to move away from it. As we enter the last phase of what has been a multi-year migration, we are shifting from focusing on what's broken into maintaining what’s healthy (Known as [tracking health over debt](https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/tracking-health-over-debt)). Expect an inside view into kununu’s practices that maintain a healthy system. Learn how we define what healthy means through testable System Quality Requirements, how we ensure that we learn from incidents long term, and how regular domain health checks help teams prioritise what’s important. Whether you're stuck in tech debt discussions or looking for a more proactive approach to system quality, join us for practical lessons from our journey. ***Angela Rumpl*** *is a Solution Architect at kununu, the leading employer review platform in the DACH region. With 20 years of experience in software engineering, a strong background in backend development, and extensive leadership experience, she now leads the Architecture Council supporting approximately 80 engineers across 9 cross-functional teams. She drives cross-organisational strategic initiatives such as kununu's migration from monolith to microservices. Her approach emphasises architecture facilitation over gatekeeping – empowering teams through collaborative processes such as modeling workshops, Advice Forums & ADRs for decision making. Angela is a co-organiser of the DDD & MRDS meetup in Vienna and contributes to organising [ComoCamp](https://comocamp.org/).* \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **🗣️ Second Talk - Architectural Fitness in Practice: Defining & Measuring your architecture goals with fitness functions** Modern software architecture needs measurable guardrails instead of PowerPoint wishful thinking. In this talk, I’ll show how to use fitness functions as a systematic approach to derive the right metrics for you to turn architecture goals into something concrete and verifiable. I'll show you my pragmatic catalog of building blocks you can use and combine to design your own fitness functions and why these are the most important dimensions to consider in practice. On this basis, I’ll introduce a fitness function testing pyramid, walk through concrete examples of useful checks and metrics, and demonstrate how to deliberately use generative AI as an architecture assistant – from generating ideas for fitness functions and target metrics to helping you shape your ideas into concrete metrics to verify. ***Rene Weiss*** *is an independent software and enterprise architect, consultant, and coach based in Vienna. He lives the “Architecture Elevator”: from the boardroom down to the code, he works with top management on transformation programs as well as with development teams on concrete architectures, fitness functions, and effective ways of working.* *For more than 20 years, Rene has supported agile software development projects and has been a regular conference speaker on evolutionary architectures, measurable architecture goals, and pragmatic software engineering practices.* \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **🏢 Location sponsor** The location, food, and drinks are sponsored by kununu ([https://www.kununu.com/](https://www.kununu.com/)). kununu is the leading employer review and workplace insights platform in the DACH region, empowering employees to share authentic workplace experiences and helping job seekers make informed career decisions. With millions of reviews and salary insights, kununu creates transparency in the job market while helping companies build stronger employer brands. Sounds interesting? Check out [their open positions](https://www.kununu.com/at/kununu/jobs).

**\*\*\* We've Moved! Bold Penguin - 6555 Longshore St, Dublin, OH 43017 \*\*\*** Please note that the Jan meeting is moved to the following week because of the MLK Holiday (instead of the 3rd Monday of the month) **AGENDA:** * Doors open at 5:30, feel free to come and hang out before! * Official start of the meeting is at 6:30pm * After the meeting is done, we will go hang out at a nearby space in Bridge Park! If you can, please sign up via meetup by noon the day of the meeting so we can have an estimate headcount for food :) We always order extra, so feel free to join us even if you don't get signed up! Thank you to Bold Penguin for providing the location! **Parking & Arrival:** **Parking:** Parking in Bridge Park is free. The closest lots are the Mooney Garage and the Hotel/Endres Garage. **Entry:** The doors to the office are to the right of PINS. The street level door and elevators lock at 6pm. If you arrive after that, someone should be there to let you in, else call the number posted. Take the elevator to the 2nd floor. Once you exit the elevator, turn right. \*\*\* We are a bunch of professionals, students, and geeks who are excited about Ruby programming language ([http://ruby-lang.org/](http://ruby-lang.org/)) and Rails framework ([http://rubyonrails.com/](http://rubyonrails.com/)) and the joy they have brought back to web development. Our main goal is to share the love of the Ruby and Rails ecosystems with anyone that is interested. We cater to everyone, whether a non-programmer through advanced Rubyists. We give lectures on programming topics We freely provide decades worth of experience For full details of this month's meeting please visit [http://columbusrb.com](http://columbusrb.com)

Come out to Improving for our monthly iOS and Mac meetings. This Month's Presentation: Nothing yet. (You should volunteer). What is Cocoaheads (http://cocoaheads.org/)? CocoaHeads is a group devoted to discussion of Apple Computer's Cocoa Framework for programming on MacOS X and iOS (including the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch). During monthly meetings, members present on their projects and offer tutorials on various programming topics. What is BuckeyeCocoa (http://buckeyecocoa.org/)? BuckeyeCocoa is a group of Objective-C/Swift developers/enthusiasts. We host monthly Cocoaheads and near-weekly NSCoder meetings in Columbus, Ohio. The meetings are free to attend. Presentations! Presenters welcome! We are always in need of people willing to present material. Any Swift and/or Objective-C related topic is welcome. Times can be 5 minutes (i.e. lightning talks) to a maximum of 2 hours. Interested? Contact info is on the BuckeyeCocoa website. To volunteer for a presentation contact us at @BuckeyeCocoa on Twitter. Follow us on Twitter! @BuckeyeCocoa (https://twitter.com/#!/Buckeyecocoa/) For more information: http://buckeyecocoa.org/

Join us Saturday, 1/31 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm for an evening at The Cozy at Portia’s Café. Come learn about this local, grassroots animal rights organization and our current campaigns. Whether you want to do more for animals or simply meet other activists and vegans, this is the place for you. Bring your friends — all animal lovers are welcome. Enjoy games, socializing, and meaningful connections with fellow vegans and animal advocates. Light snacks and drinks will be provided. Feel free to purchase food from Portia’s if you’d like — it’s completely optional. Location: Portia’s Café 3083 Indianola Ave, Columbus, OH 43202 The Cozy is located right next door.

Bring your work or your hobby, hang out, and code with us. Follow @buckeyecocoa for more information.

We are excited to host Guided Meditations on Sundays at 6 pm in our Ashram/Gallery/Home! !! !! Everyone wants to know what kind of God we worship and what kind of meditation we do. We worship the GOD that LOVES US! We understand that god is an energy and it lives in us as us. Our meditations guide others to actually experience that energy! xoxo We don't just talk about peace, love and affection, we experience it :) Also we are a home not a business, so we enjoy building community one friend at a time. We always build in time for people to mingle & develop friendships! xoxo Much Love, Frank Tennyson Namaste, Frank Tennyson http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/f/9/9/600_447824953.jpeg

Our monthly PHP meetup. A virtual shindig courtesy of Zoom. Check back here for the details around 6:15 pm

## Learn Infrastructure-as-Code (the FUN Way) — Through Minecraft 🎮☁️ **Joint Meetup: Azure CBUS × Columbus HashiCorp User Group × DevOps Columbus** What if learning Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code didn’t feel like a whitepaper… but more like a game? Join us for a joint Azure CBUS, Columbus HashiCorp User Group, and DevOps Columbus meetup where **Mark Tinderholt** \(Principal Architect\, Microsoft Azure \| HashiCorp Ambassador \| “The Azure Terraformer”\) shows how **Minecraft** can be used as a surprisingly powerful way to understand real-world Infrastructure-as-Code concepts. In this session, Mark will demonstrate how Terraform and Azure can be used to provision, configure, and manage Minecraft servers—while teaching the same patterns you’d use for production cloud infrastructure. ### What we’ll cover * Infrastructure-as-Code fundamentals using **Terraform** * Provisioning real infrastructure on **Azure** * Applying **IaC best practices** (immutability, repeatability, versioning) * How playful environments like Minecraft make complex concepts *click* * Why learning through experimentation beats click-ops every time ### Who should attend * Developers, platform engineers, and cloud engineers * Terraform users (new or experienced) * Anyone curious about Infrastructure-as-Code but tired of boring examples * Minecraft fans who want to see it used in a totally unexpected way No prior Minecraft experience required—just curiosity and a willingness to learn infrastructure the fun way. Come for the blocks, stay for the Terraform. 🧱➡️📐 Want to be a speaker? submit your talk to our Call for Presenters!!! https://sessionize.com/azure-cbus-2026/