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Spec driven team development, .NET gen AI-prompted data & state change decisions
Hi and welcome to 2026 and .NET Skåne again!
This time we have the pleasure of inviting you to Turbine Studios at Malmö central station for yet another inspiring evening!
This event is free to attend and there will be free drinks and food. We hope to see you there!
**IMPORTANT:** If you have signed up to the event but can't make for some reason please cancel your spot in good time before the event so the spot is free for someone else to attend.
**Agenda:**
**How to build an engineering team using spec driven development**
(Fredrik Hansson)
In this session we’ll look at Spec-Driven Development and what it means for building teams in an AI-first world.
In Spec-Driven Development, the spec is the main artifact: it makes intent, constraints, interfaces, and “done” explicit so implementation becomes predictable and reviewable. With AI in the loop, this matters even more - AI is only as good as the instructions we give it, and the spec becomes the contract between humans and code generation.
**.NET API with Gen AI-prompted data in the real world**
(Aimen Goitom)
GenAI is everywhere right now… and with that comes a lot of noise. Around 95% of AI startups fail, but that’s not a reason to stay on the sidelines. It’s a signal that this is the right time to understand the technology, separate hype from value, and explore what actually works in real systems.
In this session, I’ll share lessons from a recent real-world project at a client, focusing on how GenAI can be integrated into a traditional .NET API without overcomplicating things. We’ll look at two concrete and highly practical use cases: data matching and data enrichment.
Each use case is demonstrated with a simple, relatable demo inspired by real production scenarios. You don’t need any prior experience with GenAI-APIs. This talk is designed to be accessible, pragmatic, and developer-focused. Along the way, we’ll explore some core behaviors and trade-offs of popular GenAI-APIs, and hopefully we’ll also have time to discuss where they fit (and where they don’t) in everyday backend development.
**Making State Change Decisions**
(Per Ökvist)
As a follow-up to Pers previous session on deciders, we’ll dive deeper into how decisions about state changes are made. This talk explores collaborative state, concurrency, consistency, and constraints—along with the boundaries that shape these interactions. We’ll discuss practical ways to reason about data when making decisions, and how these concepts influence system design and reliability.
**About the speakers:**
[Fredrik Hansson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredrikha/) (Turbine Studios)
Fredrik is a technical visionary and serial entrepreneur with over two decades of experience building products, platforms, and companies.
He has held roles such as CTO, Product Manager, and Solution Architect, and has co-founded several successful companies in software and digital services. His strength lies in combining deep technical expertise with strong leadership and the ability to build high-performing teams.
[Aimen Goitom](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aimengoitom/) (Turbine Studios)
Aimen is a well-rounded software developer with over a decade of experience building and delivering production systems, primarily in .NET backend development. Since starting his career, he has worked across a wide range of domains including frontend development, Azure cloud solutions, data analysis, and data engineering using Databricks.
[Per Ökvist ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/perokvist)(Forefront consulting)
Per Ökvist is a technical architect consultant with Forefront consulting, based in Malmö.
Focusing on Azure and event driven systems, Interested in collaborative software design and modeling, along with the overlap/collaboration withing the software cycle as product, platform, data and AI.
**Host:**
Our host of this evening is Turbine Studios. Turbine Studios is a technology consulting company based in Malmö, built for senior consultants who want to focus on lasting impact rather than short-term engagements without taking on unnecessary individual risk. Turbine exists for consultants who want to focus on their craft, be part of a shared context, and build something that lasts — together
Join our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/w3gtJPjHUu) or our [GitHub repo](https://github.com/dotnetskane).
Tuesday Foodclub
We are a group of people meeting on Tuesdays to socialize around cooking and eating together. Usually around 40-50 people. Many are international students, but also other people join. The foodclub exist independent of Meetup, we invite you because we have room for a few more people.
The food is vegan and made from donated leftover veggies from a local greengrocery.
The place has originally hosted leftwing activist groups, and many of the people joining are also involved in political groups.
If you want to join for chopping and cooking, we will be doing that from 3 to 6 pm. It is possible to join part of the time.
From 6 to 8pm we are serving food. Donation around 30 kroner. If you are helping out some hours, chopping, cooking or cleaning, you can eat for free.
From 8 to 9 - 9:30 pm we are cleaning up the place.
We hope to see you in our lovely foodclub <3
Copenhagen Toastmasters Club (since 1996) - Become a better communicator
**Guests: Registration on email is required before attendance**
Guests are most welcome to join our meetings, but attendance must be registered by email to [copenhagen@toastmasters.dk.](http://copenhagen@toastmasters.dk.%2A%2A/) Please come 10 minutes before the meeting start. We start at exactly 18:00.
Welcome to ***Copenhagen Toastmasters Club***
Looking to improve your speaking and communication skills? Ignite your career? Gain the confidence to speak up? You’ve come to the right place.
**Our meetings for 2026**
• Wk 2: 6. jan.
• Wk 4: 20. jan.
• Wk 6: 3. feb.
• Wk 8: 17. feb.
• Wk 10: 3. mar.
• Wk 12: 17. mar.
• Wk 15: 7. april
• Wk 17: 21. april
• Wk 19: 5. may
• Wk 21: 19. may
• Wk 23 2. jun.
• Wk 25 16. jun.
**Our history**
The *Copenhagen Toastmasters Club* was established in June 1996 by a group of dedicated people. We are the first Toastmasters club in Denmark. We are part of the Toastmasters International which is a nonprofit organisation that helps people to improve public speaking.
**Our goals**
*Copenhagen Toastmasters Club* will give you the skills and confidence you need to express yourself effectively in any situation. Toastmasters is the most efficient, enjoyable and affordable way of gaining great communication skills. You'll learn how to:
* Formulate and express your ideas effectively
* Be more persuasive and confident when giving presentations
* Improve your one-on-one dealings with others
At *Copenhagen Toastmasters Club*, you'll get to practice your skills by organising and conducting meetings and motivating others to help you. Become a better negotiator. Gain trust. Inspire your team.
**Want to know more about *Copenhagen Toastmasters Club*?**
[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/CopenhagenToastmasters) , [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/2480522/admin/dashboard/)
[Toastmasters International - global network](https://www.toastmasters.org/)
Coffee Talk
Fulfillment. Joy. – Do you know what it is? Do you feel it now?
Many of us are living lives that have “just sort of happened”. We had a dream, a vision (maybe we still do) for what we wanted our lives to look like. Somewhere along the way, life took over and something else ended up happening. We made decisions, took a turn down a path, and now our life isn’t what we thought it would be.
Or we’re living someone else’s life. Maybe it’s what our parent’s wanted for us. What we believe our partner or a potential partner might want. Or maybe it’s what we believe we need to do and have to be happy. I was one of these people. My life checked all the boxes for what I thought I needed in order to be happy. And still, I wasn’t.
Join me for a coffee talk on what it means to live a Life By Design. Where your choices are deliberate and based on your authentic, true self. What you have to let go off to achieve this (hint: the notion that vulnerability is a weakness and feelings of fear and guilt) and who you will become in the process.
Shut Up & Write!™ Copenhagen
Join us for an hour of writing! We’ve discovered that it’s strikingly helpful to write with other writers. See if it’s true for you at our Copenhagen Shut Up & Write! sessions.
Be it a book, blog, script, essay, dissertation, résumé, melody, poem, or just plain work stuff, you are invited to write it with us. No one will see what you've written or give you unsolicited advice. Instead of just thinking about writing, come and get some real writing done.
SCHEDULE:
- 15 minutes of hellos and getting settled; maybe some quick intros.
- Then, the timer starts! : writing for 1 hour.
- After the hour is up... chat / take off / keep writing, if you're on a roll.
OPTIONAL SOCIALIZING happens once the hour of writing is complete. Writing can be very solitary... connecting (and sometimes even commiserating) with other writers is a cool thing.
It's best to be on time, but BEING LATE IS ALSO OKAY: just show up and get settled, then check in with us after the session. (We’ll be the ones with the small Shut Up & Write! sign.) If you were on time, please be willing to make room for the friendly latecomer.
What Should I Bring?
Whatever you need to be able to write!
Bring earbuds/earplugs if you want to block the cafe’s overhead music or the occasional conversation by other patrons.
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Scaling in the Real World
**Important:** This event will happen in real life in Copenhagen.
**Venue:** Saga (boat), Havnegade 31Z – Kajplads 140, 1058 København K, [sagaboat.dk](https://sagaboat.dk)
**Scaling in the Real World**
*What the Playbooks Don’t Tell You*
Real stories, messy trade-offs, and scaling lessons you won’t find in a framework.
Most talks about scaling sound the same: clean diagrams, neat playbooks, and tidy case studies. This meetup is about everything that doesn’t fit on the slide. We’ll hear from product leaders who have scaled teams, products, and customers in the real world—with all the chaos, contradictions, and uncomfortable decisions that come with it.
Expect candid stories about what actually broke as things grew: processes that didn’t survive contact with reality, “best practices” that backfired, and the trade-offs they’d make differently today. You’ll walk away with concrete, experience-based tactics you can apply in your own company right now:
* How scaling really feels from the inside (not just in diagrams)
* What to do when bigger customers and bigger teams pull you in different directions
* How to choose which fires to fight, and which chaos you can live with
* Where popular scaling advice misleads—and how to adapt it to your context
Come if you’re in the middle of scaling, about to hit that stage, or just tired of polished stories that skip the hard parts.
We will have two exciting speakers lined up, each offering a unique perspective on scaling products teams and surviving it. Speakers are:
1. **Morten Lundsby Jensen** – This Is Fine: Scaling through new stages of chaos
Morten’s experience at Zendesk, Google, and major silicon valley companies – and now in Denmark working for Syndicate – has given him a front-row seat to the chaos behind scaling. Morten will unpack the gap between theory and reality, and talk about what really happens when growth leads to bigger customers, larger teams, and brand new problems.
2. **Pernille Trolle Brøgaard** \- Scaling Without Breaking Your Teams
In this talk, Pernille shares concrete stories from leading product organisations through a major platform migration, acquisitions, and cross-market scaling — including the deliberate choice to accept a traffic drop on dba.dk to enable a more scalable future.
She walks through how the org handled tension between teams and stakeholders, big differences in team maturity, and the constant pull between short-term delivery and long-term sustainability. Rather than theory or playbooks, this session focuses on practical decisions, real constraints, and what the teams actually did when things got difficult.
Whether you’re a seasoned leader or a team member navigating high-speed product environments, this event will offer grounded, real-world insights into what it takes to succeed under pressure.
Join us at **Product Loop** for an evening of honest talks, practical takeaways, and good conversations with fellow product and design professionals.
The event is powered by [Learning Loop](https://learningloop.io/).
Sponsored by [syndicate.dk](https://www.syndicate.dk/) – the only real product coaching company.
**AGENDA:**
* Intro (and who’s participating)
* **Morten Lundsby Jensen** – This Is Fine: Scaling through new stages of chaos
* Beer break
* **Second speaker**
* More Networking
* Thanks for tonight
**Keywords:** leadership, scaling, delivery focus, strategy shift, team alignment, sustainable pace, resilience, team topologies, product operating model, productivity, team collaboration, rapid prototyping, venture studios
Deep Dives into Vertex AI and Fake Data Generation
Join us for an exciting evening at GDG Cloud Copenhagen's next event! We will be hosting two talks.
Fake Data Generation:
Speaker: Mike Williamson, Data Architect at Cellpoint Digital
Title: Stop Using “Hello World” Data: Generate Data Directly from your Schemas
Synopsis: Mike has made an open source tool to create fake data from protocol buffer schemas. He will walk through the purpose, a few examples of how to do it with different schemas, and interactively show the audience how to install it and do the same, if they wish.
Vertex AI:
Speaker: Yannis Mageiras, Analytics Engineer at Dreamdata
Title: Automated Job Title Classification Using Multilingual Embeddings and Vertex AI
Synopsis: Yannis will walk us through a machine learning pipeline that automatically classifies job titles into 26 role categories using multilingual text embeddings and logistic regression, deployed on Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform for scalable training and batch prediction.
We will start at 16:00 and have dinner (Indian food) and drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) in between the two talks. We will finish at 19:00.
Agenda
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Speakers
Mike Williamson - Cellpoint Digital (Data Architect)
Mike's first career in semiconductor engineering prepared him for the mathematics needed when he found his true passion in machine learning and data engineering. Mike is currently working as a data architect and head of data at Cellpoint, where he created a new analytical data platform and pipeline.
Yannis Mageiras - Dreamdata (Analytics Engineer)
Yannis came into the data world with a strong background in mathematics from his work in astrophysics and nanotechnology. He currently works as an analytics engineer at Dreamdata, continuing his love of learning and curiosity.
Hosted By
Rubén Blázquez Cob, GDG Organizer
Michael Williamson, Data Architect
I'll add more.
Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-copenhagen-presents-deep-dives-into-vertex-ai-and-fake-data-generation/.
Paint Mandalas with dots
Learn how to paint Mandalas with dots.
Painting a mandala is a therapeutic artistic activity that helps you de-stress and calm down. When you paint a mandala, all your attention goes towards maintaining symmetry. You get engrossed in the patterns and get into the flow of creation.
If done with an intention, painting a mandala lets you be in and enjoy the present.
Membership costs 50kr a year
[www.mindfulnesshome.se](https://mindfulnesshome.se)
Contact: 070-355 41 91(Emma)
UXDX Community Copenhagen: Design, Power and Being Human in a Digital World
**IMPORTANT:** This event is free, but you need to register here so we can provide access to the space:
https://forms.gle/MwT2n74STmdTV6im7
Join the UXDX Copenhagen community for an evening exploring how design, product, UX and engineering choices shape the world we build. This event brings together two thought provoking talks on the political dimensions of UX and the human qualities that differentiate us in a tech driven era.
## **✨ Talks**
### **UX is Always Political**
**Cecilia Fernández – Product Manager, Mastercard**
Every button placement, every default and every so called intuitive flow carries an opinion. UX is rarely neutral. Cecilia will break down the hidden power structures behind everyday design decisions, from bias in AI interfaces to dark patterns that influence behaviour.
You will walk away with a sharper lens on how design can empower or exclude and how to create more ethical, inclusive digital experiences.
### **Today I Experienced Something I Hope to Understand in a Few Days**
**Caroline Ardvisson – Design Leader**
Caroline explores what it means to stay human in a world increasingly shaped by technology. Drawing on her work and cultural references including Jørgen Leth’s *The Perfect Human*, she reflects on the analogue, emotional and interpretive aspects of being human that machines cannot replicate.
The talk offers a grounded, optimistic view of the future of design and the enduring qualities that set us apart.
## **📅 Agenda**
**16:45 – 17:20** Registration and welcome
**17:20 – 17:30** Introduction from the UXDX Ambassador- Tasha Melchior
**17:30 – 18:15** UX is Always Political – Cecilia Fernández
**18:15 – 19:00** Today I Experienced Something I Hope to Understand in a Few Days – Caroline Ardvisson
**19:00 – 19:30** Networking and close
## **About UXDX**
UXDX helps teams shift from project based delivery to empowered, autonomous product teams. We host global conferences and over 150 free community events each year, bringing together UX, Product, Design and Development practitioners to share how real teams build better products faster.
CopenhagenJS January - Famly
**Hello everyone**,
Join us for the January edition of CopenhagenJS, hosted by Famly! Kick off the new year with fellow JavaScript enthusiasts for an evening of great talks, networking, and community.
**\#\# Schedule**:
17:00 Doors open
17:30 Welcome
17:45 **Alexey Taktarov - Let's Build a Vibe-Coding Agent!**
18:15 Break with food and drinks
19:00 **Returns Undefined - Michail Roditis**
19:30 Group photo
19:30 Raffle
19:50 Socialising - Meet the community
21:00 See you next time!
**\#\# About CopenhagenJS**
CopenhagenJS is a community group in Copenhagen for all JavaScript developers. We get together and share things we work on and like. We talk about various technologies that we either use daily or aspire to use.
**\#\# Want to Present?**
CopenhagenJS is for and by the community, so you are more than welcome to discuss topics that interest you. We will assist you with your speaking if you are new or have any difficulties. You can contact us by sending a private message or commenting here on meetup.com, or on any social network where you can find us.
**Stay Connected**
Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/copenhagenjs/)
**We're looking forward to seeing you at the event!**
Best regards,
Islam, Jonathan, Gojko and Svetlana
Game Audio Playthrough #46 - Ancient Game Audio
Join us when Jakob Schmid takes us through the audio of antique video games.
The early years of video games, the 1970s and 1980s, were an era of intense innovation in game hardware and software.
Jakob always had a particular fondness for the games of this era, and has often used them as inspiration for his own projects. For instance, the 1981 arcade game Defender was a big inspiration for the music and sound of COCOON.
Together, we will look at a selection of these video game antiques, from the time when sound effects, ambience, voice synthesis, and interactive and adaptive music were first invented for the medium.
The implementation techniques were varied and unique - sound was produced from custom audio chips, software synthesis, discrete hardware components, cassette tapes, or even mechanical percussive devices. We will pick out a few examples of these techniques and go a little deeper into how they work.
We hope the talk will inspire you to look at the earliest video games with new eyes - as inspiration for your future work.
**Where:** Unity, Niels Hemmingsens Gade 24, 1153 Copenhagen
**When:** Wednesday, January 21st 2026, 18.30 – 21.30
**Schedule:**
18:00: Entrance with complimentary snacks and drinks
18:30: Presentation by Jakob Schmid
19.30: Break
19.45: Q&A
20:30: Drinks & mingle
21:00: Thank you for tonight. Voluntary afterparty at Wessels Kro
This event is arranged by Game Audio Denmark & hosted by
[Daniel Nielsen ](http://www.gminorscale.com)and [Nikolaj de Haan](http://audiobits.pro)
Check out other events by [Game Audio Denmark](http://www.gameaudiodenmark.dk)
Creative AI Bootcamp
Creative AI is moving fast - the real challenge is no longer what's possible, but how to move from pilots to production-ready workflows that meet enterprise demands for quality, governance, and compliance.
Join Virtuall and Engage Studios for a hands-on session exploring how Creative AI is being implemented inside organizations today: what works, what breaks at scale, and how teams navigate real-world constraints.
**What you'll take away:**
* How leading brands move Creative AI beyond experimentation
* Where teams get stuck when scaling
* Hands-on experience testing real use cases with Virtuall's platform
* Clear next steps for your organization
**Agenda:** 11:00 Arrival & Lunch \| 11:30 Introduction \| 11:40 Panel: Moving to Organizational Scale *(speakers announced in January)* \| 12:10 Hands\-On Testing & Use Case Exploration \| 12:50 Debrief \| 13:00 Event ends
💻 Bring your laptop 🍽️ Lunch included
**For:** Creative directors, content creators, marketing specialists, and visualization leads
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Evolutions of AI-Enabled Software Development with Sean Hoar
HYBRID EVENT, VIRTUAL SPEAKER
In this talk, Sean Hoar will explore the transformative journey of AI’s role in modern software engineering, from rapid prototyping (“Vibe Coding”) to strategic AI integration by skilled practitioners. It clarifies the distinctions between AI-assisted, AI-enabled, and practitioner-led approaches, offering insights into how developers can effectively adapt to and harness AI tools. The presentation also highlights recent advancements and practical strategies for leveraging AI in daily workflows and long-term development.
Learn Meditation and Stress Management in MD
Learn to manage stress and achieve self-growth through simple relaxation and Meditation.
Heartfulness Meditation is a simple, modern, methodical approach to meditation. Rather than homing in on your breath or repeating a mantra, you simply focus inward, on your heart, to cultivate inner strength and serenity. Heartfulness meditation is gaining traction in recent years. It focuses on the heart, allowing individuals to connect with themselves on a deeper level, and ultimately achieve peace, relaxation, and clarity. It is a practice that encourages patience, self-compassion, and acceptance, helping cultivate a deeper appreciation for the present moment.
This practice is offered with love and at no cost
Reston Happy Hour: Scaling Cloud Infrastructure for Heavy Workloads
Gaming, AdTech, EdTech, Media Streaming, and FinTech are just a few of the workloads where high-availability cloud infrastructure matters. Whether you’re doing battle daily in one of these spaces or are just curious about ways to improve performance, meet us in Reston for an in-person discussion on bare metal cloud architecture. You’ll meet our product lead, James MacKenzie, who will walk through how modern bare metal serves as a control plane for hybrid and private cloud architectures.
**What we will cover**
* Ways to leverage bare metal, containers, and orchestration for better performance and predictable economics;
* Real-world hybrid, disaster recovery, and data-intensive architectures;
* Our approach to eliminating ingress and egress fees.
**Who should attend**
* Cloud architects and platform engineers;
* DevOps professionals and infrastructure leads;
* FinOps stakeholders managing data-heavy or hybrid workloads.
**Why attend**
This is a technical, architecture-first conversation. You will leave with a clearer understanding of high-availability cloud infrastructure and how organizations are scaling cost-effectively.
Food and drinks will be provided. Space is limited to keep the discussion interactive.
Open Play MahJongg at Cleveland Park Library
Open play comes to Cleveland Park Library (downstairs meeting room) the first and third Thursday of the month! Both American and Chinese/Hong Kong style players are welcome to meet new friends, practise your hands, and improve your strategy. Although no formal instruction or lessons will be offered, lots of friendly players to proffer advice.
Build a Large Language Model from Scratch
Join us for another session of our study group as we dive into the fascinating world of Large Language Models (LLMs) using the book **Build a Large Language Model from Scratch** from Manning. In this session, we will finish **Chapter 7: Fine-tuning to follow instructions**. In the last session, we talked about how to prepare the dataset for instruction fine-tuning and in this session we will perform the fine-tuning and evaluate the model afterwards.
This isn't just a lecture! Come ready to ask questions, share insights, and code along. Whether you're a beginner or have some experience, this is the perfect opportunity to build a strong foundation together. If you plan to work with the code on your own laptop during the session, try and set-up the environment ahead of time (https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/tree/main/setup).
We will be meeting at the Herndon library this evening.
Moonlight Hike: C&O Canal Towpath, Great Falls, MD
Hike in the moonlight along the C&O Canal towpath to Great Falls, Maryland, 4 miles
**Time**: Hike starts promptly at 8:15 p.m. and goes to approximately 10:15 p.m. (2 hours). It’s best to arrive about 10-15 minutes before the start of the hike (around 8:00 – 8:10 p.m).
**Meeting Place**: Parking lot across from Old Angler's Inn, 10801 MacArthur Blvd., Potomac, MD.
**Reservations**: Unlike CHC's Saturday bus hikes, signing up for Moonlight Hikes is not required. However, if you do sign up, you can be notified of a possible change in plan. Usually, light rain alone will not cancel the hike--for safety reasons, severe weather or a thunderstorm will.
**Directions:**
a. From the Beltway (I-495), take exit # 41, which is immediately north of the American Legion Bridge. When taking exit # 41, take it west towards Carderock / Great Falls, Maryland.
b. This puts you on the Clara Barton Parkway, heading west. Stay on the Clara Barton Parkway for 1.7 miles until you come to a flashing stoplight.
c. Make a left turn at the flashing stoplight onto MacArthur Blvd. Go for 1 mile until you see the Old Anglers Inn on your right side. Park in the parking lots across the street from the Old Anglers Inn.
What to bring:
a. A flashlight
b. A small bottle of water
c. Insect repellent
d. Comfortable walking shoes (tennis shoes are fine)
Cost / Donation: There is no charge for this hike, in accordance with CHC’s permit from the National Park Service.
**Difficulty / Terrain**: This hike is mostly over flat terrain along the C&O Canal towpath and the Berma Road. This hike is considered to be an easy hike.
**Ages**: This hike is open to all ages, so long as they can comfortably walk 4 miles. Parents need to be mindful of small children during the hike for their safety.
**Dogs**: Dogs are welcome, so long as they are kept on a leash at all times, are friendly around people and other dogs, and are not taken out on the walkway to Olmstead Island.
Learn & Play Go-Stop, a Korean Card Game
**FOR BEGINNERS**
If you've ever seen Korean movies or K-dramas, you may have seen some characters play with small red cards decorated with flowers and animals. Those cards are called "hwatu" or flower cards. The most popular game played with hwatu is "Go-Stop".
Come to the inaugural meeting of Hwatu Hangout, and learn how to play this awesome game. It can take some time to orient yourself with the cards and rules, but once you do, there's no turning back. It's major fun.
**FOR EXPERIENCED PLAYERS**
No Tazza-style deck rigging or hand chopping. Most importantly, no gambling. We may play with plastic chips to raise the faux stakes, but that's it! If you'd like to skip the lesson/demo, then please arrive at 2p for game play.
**THE PLAN**
**1:00p - 1:30p**: Learn how to play
**1:30p - 2:00p**: Demo Game
**2:00p - 4:00p**: Game play
Before attending, please complete [this interest form](https://forms.gle/BNyZuZSZBzmDKQNA7). I will bring some hwatu decks, but please bring a deck if you have one.
Questions? Send an email to hwatuhangout (at) gmail (dot) com
Hope to see you there!
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