📍 ekō (261 Pelissier St, Windsor, ON)👥 In Person Only💲 Free Hackforge is closing out the year in style with snacks, stories, and a little bit of geeky fun! Join us for our End-of-Year Mixer as we celebrate all things open source, local tech, and community collaboration. We’ll be hanging out at ekō, downtown Windsor's...
📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210)💻👥 In Person Only💲 Free When someone is unable to enter data directly into OpenStreetMap, they have the option to offer the information as a "Note." Notes might be business information, details about road surface quality, or pointing out an error in the data. These geo-tagged text strings...
📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210) & Online💻👥 Hybrid💲 Free Ever wondered what it takes to build your own AI agent from scratch? Join Doug Sartori (Parallel 42 Systems) for a behind-the-scenes look at what he’s learned on his journey creating a fully functional AI assistant using Python. Key Takeaways: 🔌Connecting your AI...
📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210) & Online💻👥 Hybrid💲 Free This event is an official esri GIS Day event! Curious about the spatial side of data science? Announcing the launch of Windsor-Essex GIS (weGIS), a brand-new Hackforge group dedicated to the dynamic and ever-evolving world of geographic information systems! And there’s no better...
📍Discord💻Virtual Only💲 Free Come join us as we nerd out about Linux at this month's Hackforge Linux User Group Virtual Social! What to Expect: This virtual social event provides an excellent opportunity to connect with fellow Linux enthusiasts, learn, and have fun! Hope to see you all there! 📆 Date: November 27, 2025🕦Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00...
📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210) & Online💻👥 Hybrid💲 Free Modern AI is powerful but it doesn’t know your business. In this live demo, Raneem Ghalion, AI Business Strategy Consultant (Adopli AI) will demonstrate how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) connects a language model to your own data for accurate, context-aware answers. You’ll see a...
📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210)💻👥 In Person Only💲 Free Step back into the world of classic computing with DOSember! Celebrate the charm of DOS-era gaming and coding through hands-on activities, retro challenges, and pure nostalgia. We’re bringing back the look, feel, and spirit of early PC culture, right down to the text-based...
📍Discord💻Virtual Only💲 Free Come join us as we nerd out about Linux at this month's Hackforge Linux User Group Virtual Social! What to Expect: This virtual social event provides an excellent opportunity to connect with fellow Linux enthusiasts, learn, and have fun! Hope to see you all there! 📆 Date: December 18, 2025🕦Time: 7:00 PM -...
📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210)💻👥 In Person Only (Invite-Only)💲 Free Complete the 2025 Community Survey and enter to win a seat at Hackforge's Invite-Only TTRPG table!There's an empty spotIn our Adventure PartyYou up to the task? Complete the surveyAnd win the draw to join usLuck be on your side Word on the...
📍Discord💻Virtual Only💲 Free Come join us as we nerd out about Linux at this month's Hackforge Linux User Group Virtual Social! What to Expect: This virtual social event provides an excellent opportunity to connect with fellow Linux enthusiasts, learn, and have fun! Hope to see you all there! 📆 Date: January 8, 2026🕦Time: 7:00 PM -...
📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210) & Online💻👥 Hybrid💲 Free Ever wondered what it was like to make games in the early days of personal computing, when you typed code straight from a book and hit “run”? Retro Code Revival is a hands-on event inspired by the classic BASIC Computer Games era, and...
📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210)💻👥In Person Only 💲 Free Using GPUs? For graphics??? In this economy? Shader Playground is a hands-on event where you’ll dive into the world of GPU programming right from your browser. Using Shadertoy, you can experiment with live graphics code, tweak samples, and see your changes instantly. It’s...