Windsor Hackforge

Create Your Own Digital Maps Using QGIS and Geoenabled Data!
2026-03-04 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | Hackforge HQ, 300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210, Windsor, Ontario, N9A 7B4
📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210) & Online💻👥 Hybrid💲 Free

Let your creative side flourish during this choose your own adventure style map making tutorial, using the completely free and open source desktop GIS software, QGIS! 🗺️✍️

Join Theo Walschots in a follow-along map making session where attendees are guided through GIS map creation and taught essential cartographic principles. This guided tutorial is not strict and outside the box thinking is encouraged! Many different datasets will be made available, each with their own context and varying geometry. The goal is for every attendee to walk away with wildly different maps, reflecting that individual’s creativity as well as their respective dataset.

What to bringBring a laptop if you have one, with QGIS (qgis.org) installed.Don’t worry if you don’t, we’ll have some laptops available to share.

📆 March 4, 2026🕦 6-8 PM📍Hybrid (Hackforge HQ @ 300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210 & Online via Zoom)🎟️RSVP for In-Person attendance below💻Register for virtual attendance via Zoom

Passion Project Lightning Talks
2026-03-12 18:00 - 20:00
📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210) & Online💻👥 Hybrid💲 Free

Got a side project you can’t stop thinking about, a tool you’re obsessed with, or a weird tech idea that lights you up? Passion Projects Lightning Talks is a fast-paced, high-energy night of 5-minute talks where curiosity beats polish and enthusiasm is the main requirement.

This event is for developers, designers, founders, students, tinkerers, and anyone in tech who loves building, experimenting, or learning; whether you’re actively working on a project or just want to be inspired by what others are creating.

What to bringBring your curiosity, your passion (and slides if you’re speaking), and an open mind.A laptop is optional, questions are encouraged, and good vibes are mandatory.What you’ll get out of it

Share your passion with a group of likeminded folks

Learn from other folks’ passion projects

Network and find community

You’ll discover new ideas and tools you didn’t know you needed, get inspired to start or keep going on your own passion project, and connect with people who care deeply about building things just for the joy of it.

To sign up to give a lightning talk, please email Bolt by March 12th at 1pm EST at bolt@hackf.org. If you are planning on presenting via slides or media, please share the link(s)/slides in that email. We welcome online and in person talks!

📆 March 12, 2026🕦 6-8 PM📍Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave., Unit 210) & Online via Zoom🎟️RSVP for In-Person attendance below💻Register for virtual attendance via Zoom

Windsor C and C++ User Group Inaugural Meeting
2026-03-19 19:00 - 21:00
📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210) & Online Via Zoom💻👥Hybrid💲 Free

The inaugural meeting of the Windsor C and C++ Users Group (WCCUG) will be on March 19th 2026 in-person at Hackforge. This is a new interest group, targeting C and C++ enthusiasts and active users.

To learn more about WCCUG, please visit wccug.org

“What’s your Interest?”We will be discussing plans for what we’d like future meetings to be about!

Feel free to bring projects to hack on, interesting code to share, or topics to discuss. Bryan will be bringing along a space-efficient implementation of the std::any class from the C++ Standard Library to talk about, but any and all digressions will be actively encouraged!

What to bringBring a laptop if you have one.Don’t worry if you don’t, we’ll have some laptops available to share.

Planning to attend? Please let us know! Register to attend in-person using the RSVP form below, or get the videoconference link by registering via Zoom.

📆 March 19,2026🕦 7-9 PM📍In-person at Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave Unit 210) & Online via Zoom
