Welcome to Tech Omaha!

About Tech Omaha

Tech Omaha is a group of passionate technologists building a strong tech community in Omaha.

Event Calendar

Discover tech events happening in the Omaha area. Meetups, conferences, Beer && Codes – if techy types are getting together – it should be listed here!

Video Repository

TechOmaha is also a repository of video recordings from user group meetings.

Upcoming Events

Events are kept in the Google Calendar below, you can can also follow @TechOmaha for event announcements.

	May 2019
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		1 Agile for Defense Happy Hour Agile for Defense Happy Hour Starts: 4:30 pm Ends: May 1, 2019 - 6:30 pm Location: DJ's Dugout, 10308 S 23rd St, Bellevue, NE, United States Description: http://www.meetup.com/Agile-for-Defense Please join us and contribute to the group’s professional development as we discuss Agile Practices in an interactive manner. The first 30 minutes of the event are reserved to socialize with fellow Agilists within the Defense Community. At 5pm we will begin by breaking into Lean Coffee groups each with their own Agile topic. A group lead will present a 20 minute overview of the theme followed by an interactive “Lean Coffee” session (leancoffee.org) that will be guided by the group within the scope of the specific Agile theme. See the meetup site for the Agile themes for this event: http://www.meetup.com/Agile-for-Defense Thanks to Agile Transformation for sponsoring the Agile Book Review! TEKsystems sponsors the event and provides food and drink from 4:30pm to 6:30pm or until a set amount is reached. Please feel free to invite others! We meet in the large room in the back left corner of DJs. RSVP'ing is encouraged so that we can plan the number of lean coffee sessions to set up. More details... Omaha Mobile Group Omaha Mobile Group Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: May 1, 2019 - 8:00 pm Location: Client Resources Inc 2120 S 72nd St #1300, Omaha, NE Description: http://www.meetup.com/Omaha-Mobile-Group/ More details... • •	2 SharePoint User Group SharePoint User Group Starts: 11:30 am Ends: May 2, 2019 - 1:00 pm Location: Microsoft Office, 2111 S 67th St, Suite 100, Omaha, NE 68106 Description: The SharePoint User Group meets monthly to learn more about the SharePoint platform. Each month, we invite a guest speaker to present on a specific topic related to SharePoint. We also have local companies talk about how they are using SharePoint in their company. Topics are varied amongst Developer, Administration, and Users. Check out the website link below for more information on the current topic and to RSVP. Lunch is free, so join us and learn about SharePoint! Check out http://omahaspug.org/calendar/ for more information and to RSVP More details... WP Omaha : Meetup Plugin Dev (Part 1): Using Settings Frameworks and APIs WP Omaha : Meetup Plugin Dev (Part 1): Using Settings Frameworks and APIs Starts: 6:30 pm Ends: May 2, 2019 - 8:30 pm Location: Do Space - 7205 Dodge St Description: WP Omaha: Dev Speaker: Rob Ruiz (yet again) Tech: PHP, Javascript, JSON Members that have been in the group for the 6-9 months might have heard about the Meetup plugin I have been developing for some time now. At this meetup, we will explore how I have setup the settings area of the plugin along with how I am managing my API connection with Meetup's API. Plugin/Theme Settings It is common when you are developing a custom plugin or theme to distribute to the masses that you need to create some place for the wp admin to configure or manage some settings that gets things to behave exactly how that admin needs them to be. Now, there are ways to create settings from scratch, but we will explore a better way using some frameworks. We'll explore 3 different frameworks that are freely available that makes the process of adding settings to your plugin/theme much easier to manage. Working with 3rd Party APIs If your WP extension is relying on a 3rd-party API for data, then it's important to architect a reliable system that is designed to work specifically with that API. I will show off how I like to set up integrations with WP and manage stuff like API authentication, user authorization, and performing CRUD operations in WordPress using Meetup's API. This will be part 1 of a 3-part plugin development series. I will spill the beans on some of my most valuable plugin dev tricks at this meetup, for FREE. This is one you won't want to miss! https://www.meetup.com/WP-Omaha/events/260651757/ More details... • •	3 Omaha 2600 cyber security meetup Omaha 2600 cyber security meetup Starts: 7:30 pm Ends: May 3, 2019 - 8:30 pm Location: Omaha Maker Group, 8410 K St, Omaha, NE 68127, USA Description: http://www.omaha2600.org/ More details... •	4	5
6	7 OMG Studio Time OMG Studio Time Starts: 5:30 pm Ends: May 7, 2019 - 9:30 pm Location: Omaha Maker Group, 8410 K St, Omaha, NE 68127, USA Description: Omaha Maker Group Studio Time OMG Open Studio Time will be on Tuesday every week. Doors will open by 5:30p. If we have a presentation or a space meeting, that will start at 7:00p. http://omahamakergroup.org/2018/09/18/schedule-change-open-studio-every-tuesday/ More details... Omaha Linux Users Group Omaha Linux Users Group Starts: 6:30 pm Ends: May 7, 2019 - 8:00 pm Location: AIM Institute Training Lab, 1905 Harney St, suite 203, Omaha, NE Description: http://www.olug.org/ More details... • •	8	9 Omaha Ruby Meetup Omaha Ruby Meetup Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: May 9, 2019 - 8:00 pm Location: Agape Red 1209 Harney Street Suite 400, Omaha, NE Description: http://www.meetup.com/Omaha-Ruby-Meetup/ More details... Nebraska UX Nebraska UX Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: May 9, 2019 - 8:00 pm Location: Gallup (1001 Gallup Drive, Omaha, NE) Description: Nebraska UX What happens when you get tasked with making something that was very developer focused to making it more user focused? We've brought together product ... https://www.meetup.com/Nebraska-UX/events/260475606/ More details... • •	10	11 OmahaTechConnect OmahaTechConnect Starts: 9:00 am Ends: May 11, 2019 - 11:30 am Location: Sump Memorial Library, 222 N Jefferson St, Papillion, NE 68046, USA Description: Omaha's Technology Hub for all OS's & Devices http://omahatechconnect.org More details... •	12
13	14 OMG Studio Time OMG Studio Time Starts: 5:30 pm Ends: May 14, 2019 - 9:30 pm Location: Omaha Maker Group, 8410 K St, Omaha, NE 68127, USA Description: Omaha Maker Group Studio Time OMG Open Studio Time will be on Tuesday every week. Doors will open by 5:30p. If we have a presentation or a space meeting, that will start at 7:00p. http://omahamakergroup.org/2018/09/18/schedule-change-open-studio-every-tuesday/ More details... GDG Omaha Meetup GDG Omaha Meetup Starts: 5:30 pm Ends: May 14, 2019 - 8:00 pm Location: Client Resources, Inc., 2120 S 72nd St # 1300, Omaha, NE 68124, USA Description: https://www.meetup.com/GDGOmaha/events/ More details... DEF CON 402: Lightning Talks DEF CON 402: Lightning Talks Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: May 14, 2019 - 8:00 pm Location: DJ's Dugout Sports Bar - Miracle Hills, 777 N 114th St, Omaha, NE 68154, USA Description: My take on modern SecOps John DiMartino Brief talk about staffing, strategy, and direction of SecOps in a modern enterprise Wigle Wifi Network Mapper Gus Gorman Using Wigle Wifi Wardriving to find wifi exploits Using Gmail as a Backdoor Shane Farris Simple command and control using Gmail to facilitate communication for client and server. More details... • • •	15 Nebraska Cert Nebraska Cert Starts: 11:30 am Ends: May 15, 2019 - 1:00 pm Location: Johnny's Cafe, 4702 South 27th Street, Omaha, NE Description: Nebraska's Cyber Security Forum meets over lunch on the third Wednesday of each month. Must RSVP in advance. http://www.nebraskacert.org/CSF/ More details... •	16	17	18	19
20	21 OMG Studio Time OMG Studio Time Starts: 5:30 pm Ends: May 21, 2019 - 9:30 pm Location: Omaha Maker Group, 8410 K St, Omaha, NE 68127, USA Description: Omaha Maker Group Studio Time OMG Open Studio Time will be on Tuesday every week. Doors will open by 5:30p. If we have a presentation or a space meeting, that will start at 7:00p. http://omahamakergroup.org/2018/09/18/schedule-change-open-studio-every-tuesday/ More details... Omaha Java Users Group OJUG.org Omaha Java Users Group OJUG.org Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: May 21, 2019 - 9:00 pm Location: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska, 1919 Aksarben Dr, Omaha, NE 68180 Description: http://ojug.org/ More details... • •	22	23 Nebraska Office365 User Group Nebraska Office365 User Group Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: May 23, 2019 - 5:00 pm Location: Microsoft, S 67th St, Omaha, NE 68106, USA Description: For more information and to RSVP - http://o365ne.org More details... Omaha .NET User Group Omaha .NET User Group Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: May 23, 2019 - 7:00 pm Description: https://www.omahamtg.com/ More details... • •	24	25	26
27	28 OMG Studio Time OMG Studio Time Starts: 5:30 pm Ends: May 28, 2019 - 9:30 pm Location: Omaha Maker Group, 8410 K St, Omaha, NE 68127, USA Description: Omaha Maker Group Studio Time OMG Open Studio Time will be on Tuesday every week. Doors will open by 5:30p. If we have a presentation or a space meeting, that will start at 7:00p. http://omahamakergroup.org/2018/09/18/schedule-change-open-studio-every-tuesday/ More details... Omaha Gophers Meetup Omaha Gophers Meetup Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: May 28, 2019 - 8:00 pm Location: Flywheel Underground, 420 S 14th St, Omaha, NE 68102, USA Description: April showers bring May Gophers! Come have some pizza and talk Go with us again this month. Matt Ehlinger will present, "Creating a realtime chat app with Go" Bryan Rockwood will be talking about using tview to create terminal UIs More details and RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Omaha-Gophers/events/260861953/ More details... • •	29 Omaha Azure User Group Omaha Azure User Group Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: May 29, 2019 - 4:30 pm Location: Microsoft, S 67th St Suite 100, Omaha, NE 68106, USA Description: https://www.meetup.com/Omaha-Azure-User-Group-Meetup/ More details... Monthly Meetup Monthly Meetup Starts: 5:30 pm Ends: May 29, 2019 - 7:00 pm Location: 13609 California Street \| Omaha, NE \| 68154 Description: Monthly Enterprise Architecture discussions to share ideas, best practices and experiences executing enterprise architecture in corporations. More details... • •	30 WP Omaha : Game of Phones: Optimizing Websites for a Mobile User-base WP Omaha : Game of Phones: Optimizing Websites for a Mobile User-base Starts: 6:30 pm Ends: May 30, 2019 - 8:30 pm Location: Do Space - 7205 Dodge St Description: Speakers: Rob Ruiz and hopefully others Tech: WP Admin Complexity: Beginner-Intermediate Many times, it's easy to only think about the desktop user experience when it comes to a WordPress site. However, it's about time we dedicate an entire talk to all things mobile when it comes to our WP sites. Mobile today was much different than mobile last year, and I'm sure next year will yield an equally dramatic change. In this talk, we will explore a few big players in the mobile game when it comes to WordPress. Let's talk about Responsive (of course), but lets also explore AMP and it's benefits, PWAs, and browser/device notifications. Did you know all of these things are not only possible in WordPress, but they are tremendously popular and powerful. We are going to look at some plugins, some themes, and explore some core concepts of these emerging technologies. We will also open it up to Q&A and explore your concerns when it comes to the mobile experience. https://www.meetup.com/WP-Omaha/events/261134741/ More details... •	31

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