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You think you know everything about football, the Champions League and legendary players or iconic matches?⚽ Prove it! 😎Join to a fun and competitive Soccer-Themed Pub Quiz Night at **Munchy Urban Kitchen**. Take your friends ✅ Build your quiz team✅ and enjoy the evening!🎉 Football, good vibes, cold drinks and a great sports-bar atmosphere is waiting for you!🥳 Whether you’re new in town or just want to expand your circle — Everyone is welcome at our table! Enjoy your Monday Night! 🥳 [Follow us on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/makingfriendsinvienna)❤️ [Follow us on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/makingfriendsinvienna)💙 Do you have questions? Write us on Instagram 🎉

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!

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

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/)

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!

❗️Even if Meetup shows it as full — you’re still welcome to join❗️ I’ll share the exact location in the WA group https://chat.whatsapp.com/GqWhKBUCR5RAhI6WUguIcR?mode=wwt We’re going ice skating on the huge ice rink Eistraum at Rathausplatz on Monday, January 26 at 6:30 pm! ⛸✨ You can also join us for mulled wine, food, chatting and hanging out, even if you don’t skate! ⭐ **Important:** • Every Monday there is a 50% discount on the entrance ticket for Vorteilsclub members when buying online, you just need to register. For those who don’t want to register — I’ll post a discount code in the WA grup on Monday. • The discount does NOT apply to skate rental. • Buy your ticket online in advance — otherwise you’ll have to stand in two separate queues (ticket + rental). ⏰ **Timing:** • If you need to rent skates, please come 30 minutes earlier (at 6 pm) — the rental line is usually 30–40 minutes. • We will meet at the entrance to the ice rink at 6:30 pm and start skating right away. • Anyone who doesn’t want to skate can join later for drinks and socializing. Don’t worry if you’re a beginner — skating is something you learn quickly, especially in good company 😊 I’m planning to go skating every Monday as long as the weather isn’t too warm, and we’ll likely start earlier next time. See you on the ice! ✨⛸

Hallo, hast du dich schon einmal gefragt, was *weight friends* eigentlich ist? Jetzt hast du die Möglichkeit, es ganz unverbindlich kennenzulernen! Komm zu unserem **kostenlosen Schnupper-Workshop** und erfahre, wie unser Programm funktioniert, was wir anbieten und wie wir dich auf deinem Weg unterstützen. Unser Fokus liegt auf einem gesunden Lebensstil durch: * ausgewogene Ernährung * Bewegung und Fitness * mentale und soziale Stärke – mit dem Ziel einer nachhaltigen Gewichtsabnahme. Triff Gleichgesinnte, die die Herausforderungen und Erfolge einer Lebensstilveränderung kennen. Tausche dich aus, teile Erfahrungen und fühle dich in einer offenen und freundlichen Atmosphäre willkommen. Du erfährst: * wie unser Programm aufgebaut ist * wie du motiviert bleibst * wie du mit Höhen und Tiefen umgehst * wie aus kleinen Schritten dauerhafte Veränderungen werden Komm vorbei, schnuppere kostenlos rein und finde heraus, ob *weight friends* zu dir passt –**ganz ohne Verpflichtung.** [weight friends](https://www.weightfriends.at/)

A cozy, beginner-friendly at-home creative meetup in Vienna—designed for connection, relaxation, and a fun evening together. No drawing or painting experience is needed. This is not a class and there’s no pressure to “be good at art.” The only requirement is a willingness to socialize, try something creative, and enjoy the process. We’ll start with a warm welcome and quick introductions so everyone can get comfortable. Then I’ll announce the theme for the evening. All materials are provided for each participant: a canvas, paints, and brushes. We’ll paint for around two hours in a relaxed, supportive atmosphere—chatting, sharing ideas, and simply having a good time. Coffee, tea, and a selection of snacks are included. You’re also welcome to bring your own drinks or snacks if you’d like—just please avoid anything containing peanuts due to a peanut allergy

⚠️ **IMPORTANT: You must sign up and buy a ticket here to attend:** [https://groupvibe.com/](https://groupvibe.com/) **This is a curated, small-group meetup make new friends in Vienna.** Each meetup brings together 4–6 like-minded people for casual conversations over coffee . We use the Groupvibe platform to organize and ensure everyone’s a good fit. 👉 **To attend, you’ll need to complete registration via this link:** [https://groupvibe.com](https://groupvibe.com) Once you register, and **buy a ticket or become a Groupvibe member**, we’ll share the exact location and match you with your group. **Why this works:** \* Smaller groups make real conversations easier \* Matching helps avoid awkward dynamics **Note:** RSVPs here on Meetup don’t reflect total attendance. Many attendees register directly via our website. This meetup is organized by **Groupvibe**, a small team passionate about helping people form meaningful friendships offline.

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).

**New year, new UX Vienna event format!** Join us on the last Friday of each month for networking and peer support among UX and other product professionals. Each session combines a structured activity or discussion in the first half with open networking in the second. **Agenda** At our very first session, we're kicking things off with lightning talks where everyone is invited to **share something that sparked their professional growth** \- whether it's a book\, article\, podcast\, project\, or other recent insight\. No slides needed\, no pressure: just bring your inspiration and tell us what you learned\, or simply come to listen and be inspired by others\. The second half of the evening is all about **networking and conversation** over drinks. Whether you're looking to practice public speaking, connect with fellow UX professionals, or gain fresh perspectives, this is the perfect place to start. We look forward to seeing you! By participating, you agree that your likeness may be recorded and authorise UX Vienna to use any recording containing your likeness in any medium for any purpose. The venue will be announced shortly, once we have a first idea of the number of people who will attend.

Heyho and welcome to our cozy Science Fiction Circle which is part of the Social Book Club! We meet every month to discuss one book (or short story). **This time we read Ursula Kroeber Le Guin's influential novel "The Left Hand of Darkness" (1969)**, a feminist science fiction story that explores how sex and gender influence societies. Please read the book before the meeting so you can participate in the discussion. We meet at IKEA Westbahnhof at JOE&JOE'S in the 5th floor. Drinks and some food can be bought there (please support the location if you can afford it).

Hello everyone! We’re excited to announce the first **Vienna AI Engineering Meetup** of the year on **Tuesday, January 27**! This time we’ll be hosted by **Eversports** at their office next to **Praterstern**. **Alex Gavrilescu**, the creator of Backlog.md, will kick off the meetup with his talk about “**The Cambrian Explosion of Agentic AI”**. At the end of the talk you will have a good mental model of the current Agentic AI tooling landscape, which will hopefully make it easier for you to separate the wheat from the chaff in this space. Then, **Anna Saranti** will talk about **"Context Engineering in Practice"** and the lessons learned from putting Document RAG in production at RINGANA. Join us to explore the future of AI Engineering together! \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- Here are the detailed abstracts: **The Cambrian Explosion of Agentic AI (Alex Gavrilescu)** The landscape of AI coding tools is exploding. We evolved quickly from simple autocomplete to the GitHub Copilot era, and now we face a new wave of Agentic CLI tools, protocols like MCP, ACP and A2A, and frameworks like ADK. It moves so fast that catching up feels impossible. This talk aims to ground us. I will guide you through this explosion of tools, separating the hype from the reality. We will focus on practical applications and identify the specific tools that actually help us ship real software right now. **Context Engineering in Practice: From Documents to Answers with VectorDBs (Anna Saranti)** This talk focuses on the practical steps of digitalisation faced by organizations working with large, heterogeneous documents. Text and images must be preprocessed, stored, retrieved, and evaluated before they can reliably power AI systems. 1. Text Chunking Strategies: Semantic, late, and agentic chunking, with a focus on the pros and cons. 2. Vector Databases in Practice: Weaviate & Pinecone comparison through a practical scenario. 3. Query & Result Pre-processing and post-processing of retrieved results with an impact on relevance and context usability. 4. Evaluating Retrieval Quality: Evaluation of retrieved context and generated answers against human-defined ground truth through RAGAS. 5. Context Engineering as a discipline. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- About the speakers: * **Alex Gavrilescu** leads backend & web engineering at Funstage GmbH in Vienna, keeping millions of free‑to‑play gamers happily tapping. He still ships code, tinkers with Raspberry Pi Kubernetes clusters for fun, and is passionate about weaving project‑management smarts with practical AI. Most recently he created Backlog.md, a micro‑tool that turns side‑project chaos into shippable tasks. * **Anna Saranti** is an AI Engineer at RINGANA, where she works on data-driven evaluations and the development of intelligent multi-agent systems using frameworks such as CrewAI and LangGraph, supported by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). She holds both an MSc and a PhD in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI), each awarded with distinction from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). Before joining RINGANA, she served as a tutor and Postdoctoral Researcher at several universities in Austria. Anna’s research and professional interests include the practical application of AgenticAI, time-series forecasting, and causal modelling with counterfactuals. She also brings extensive industry experience as a software developer, data scientist, and AI engineer across multiple technology sectors. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- Schedule \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- 18:00 - Doors open: get together with food and beverages 18:30 - Welcome talk by Eversports 18:40 - "The Cambrian Explosion of Agentic AI" (Alex Gavrilescu) 19:25 - Short break 19:30 - "Context Engineering in Practice" (Anna Saranti) 20:15 - More drinks & networking. Looking forward to seeing you on January 27th! \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- Location \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- Eversport GmbH Jakov-Lind-Strasse 13 / Door 6 / 5th Floor 1020 Vienna \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- Sponsor \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- This event is generously sponsored by Eversports. Thank you! 🙏

**Dein Business. Dein Weg.** Bist du bereit, dein Business aufs nächste Level zu heben? Am **29\. Januar 2026 ab 17:30 Uhr** dreht sich alles um die Frage, wie du **smart AM statt nur IM Unternehmen arbeitest**. Mit den richtigen Strategien, Systemen und einem klaren Mindset. Ein Abend voller Inspiration, Wissen und echter Connections. Freu dich auf spannende Keynotes, Panels und Deep-Dives rund um Themen wie Lean Growth, KI im Business, Fehlerkultur und nachhaltiges Unternehmertum. **[Alle Infos gibts hier 👉 zur Summit Page](https://summit.gruenderio.com/)** Unter anderem erwarten dich folgende Expert:innen: **Nana Janashia:** Tech Entrepreneur & Co-Founder TechWorld with Nana **Paul Zödi:** Immobilienexperte \| Präsident Immo Invest Club Austria **Simona Hübl:** Founder Nejo **Matthias Neumayer:** Co\-Founder Branding5 \| Oscar Stories \| LORA \| FragDasPDF **Sophie Caillaud:** Founder Scale to Global **Lukas Lauda**: Founder & CEO Repark **Julia Schindler:** Serial Entrepreneur **Alexander Porsch:** Lean Business & Produktmanagement Experte \| Co\-Founder Gründerio *weitere Speaker:innen folgen bald* Zum Abschluss erwarten dich **Expert Tables**, **Networking**, **Drinks & DJ** – die perfekte Gelegenheit, dich mit Gleichgesinnten zu vernetzen. **Perfekt für dich, wenn du...** 🚀 selbstständig oder Freelancer:in bist 💼 dein eigenes Unternehmen aufbauen oder weiterentwickeln willst 🌍 remote arbeitest oder arbeiten möchtest 📈 lean und smart wachsen willst 🎯 klare Strategien suchst, die zu dir passen 🤝 Teil einer unterstützenden Community werden möchtest 🎟️ Tickets ab sofort verfügbar! Weitere Infos zu Speakern und Programm folgen in den nächsten Wochen – stay tuned! \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **Your Business. Your Way.** Are you ready to take your business to the next level? On **January 29, 2026, starting at 5:30 PM**, everything revolves around one question: How can you work on your business instead of just in it – with the right strategies, systems, and a strong mindset? Get ready for an evening full of inspiration, insights, and real connections. Look forward to keynotes, panels, and deep dives on topics like lean growth, AI in business, failure culture, and sustainable entrepreneurship. **[Find more information here 👉 summit page](https://summit.gruenderio.com/)** Among others, the following experts await you: **Nana Janashia:** Tech Entrepreneur & Co-Founder TechWorld with Nana **Paul Zödi:** Real Estate Expert \| President Immo Invest Club Austria **Simona Hübl:** Founder Nejo **Matthias Neumayer:** Branding5 \| Oscar Stories \| LORA \| FragDasPDF **Sophie Caillaud:** Founder of Scale to Global **Lukas Lauda**: Founder & CEO Repark **Julia Schindler:** Serial Entrepreneur **Alexander Porsch**: Lean Business & Product Management Expert \| Co\-Founder of Gründerio More speakers to follow soon To wrap up the evening: **Expert Tables, networking, drinks & a live DJ** – the perfect setting to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs. **Perfect for you if you…** 🚀 are self-employed or a freelancer 💼 want to build or scale your own business 🌍 already work remotely or plan to 📈 want to grow lean and smart 🎯 are looking for strategies that truly fit you 🤝 want to be part of a supportive community 🎟️ Tickets available now!

CHANGED to WEDNESDAYS COLUMBUS RECREATION CENTERS require membership fee to play. Register & Pay at the desk when you arrive. $5 day pass is available. I have some extra pickle ball paddles and balls if you don’t have one. Definitely bring your own paddle if you have one and bring some balls if you have them. Legal Stuff: The event hosts/Organizers are just fellow member volunteers. By participating in any event, you assume all risks of liability and injury inherent in these activities. You are responsible for your own safety and for determining if you are in condition fit to participate. You are also responsible for knowing and abiding by all laws and rules during your participation in any event.
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**GIS and Software Programming** (with a focus on Python and JavaScript) by **[Gary Yu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-yu-analyst/)** * GIS Overview * Programming Overview * GIS History * History of Programming * A Cluster of GIS Software * A Tale of Two Programming Languages (Python and JavaScript) * How to integrate GIS Software in Python * How to integrate GIS Software in JS ***Bring your laptop and expect to write some (non-AI generated) code!*** *(title subject to change)* Food and drinks will be available. **LOCATION:** 6515 Longshore Loop, Suite 300, Dublin, OH 43017 **FREE PARKING:** 6725 Longshore Street, Dublin, OH 43017

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.

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

If you enjoy knitting, crocheting, working with yarn, this is the group for you. Meet new friends, bring your projects, learn from others.
We normally meet a few times a month during the week from 6:30-8:30pm. We will occasionally meet on weekends during daytime hours. *extended hours on this one 1-5pm feel free stop by anytime or stay the whole time- no pressure on timing.

**The idea for this group is to build a community where men can gather together and build connections & learn and grow from each other.** How we start each meeting is by each of us checking in with our "roses and thorns" aka what are the good things and the bad things going on in your life recently? Then we will go into a topic discussion. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS** \*\*THERE WILL BE A ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY FOR NO-SHOWS. IF YOU RSVP TO A MEETING AND FAIL TO SHOW UP WITHOUT NOTICE, YOU'LL BE REMOVED FROM THE GROUP. THIS IS TO PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF THE GROUP\*\* 1. Confidentiality - EVERYTHING that is shared NEVER leaves this space so that this space remains safe and sacred. There is a zero tolerance policy for this. If a man is in violation of this, they will be permanently removed from the group. 2. Non-Judgement - we respect and honor every man’s truth so that we may receive the same from others. While we may not agree on everything, we commit to respecting every man’s perspectives and engaging in honorable discussion with one another. 3. Be committed - honor your commitment to this group and to yourself. If you attend a meeting, please commit yourself fully to the meeting. Also be committed to your own journey. When we fail, we own it & clean it up. 4. Speak from the heart - this is NOT a space to “look good”, have the “right” answers, and have it all together. Relax and know you are not alone. Be exactly who you are within the safety of this space. 5. Be supportive - This means always willing to provide encouragement to your fellow men, encourage action and momentum in each other’s lives.. Be willing to challenge each other. Be willing to hold each other accountable. 6. Participation - what you receive from this community will be a reflection of what you put into it. Period. We ask that you share your perspectives, reflect on others, and give/receive support when and where it’s needed.