📍 Windsor Hackforge (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210) and Online 💻👥 Hybrid💲 Free Border City Data is beginning a new series, and with a new host! Join Hackforge Board Member Rashmi Krishnamohan for an introductory session to data analysis. In this free, entry-level workshop participants will learn: This event will use Microsoft Excel. Both Excel...

📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210) & Online💻👥 Hybrid💲 Free The weather may be (sort of?) cooling off, but that doesn't mean we have to stop mapping! During this casual event we'll be using desktop tools to update Windsor's OpenStreetMap data. This might mean adding missing attributes such as sidewalks, or putting in...

📍 Chapter II Brewing (234 Edna St)👥 In Person Only💲 Free 2024 has been another great year at Hackforge, and we'll be celebrating soon with our annual End-of-Year Mixer! This year we'll be meeting at Chapter II Brewing on the corner of Edna and Walker. Light snacks will be provided, with additional food items and...

📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210) & Online💻👥 Hybrid💲 Free This month, Border City Data is focused on a Luigi, a simple Python tool for building data pipelines with directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). Host Doug Sartori will guide attendees through a hands-on tutorial based on a pre-existing Luigi project. In order to follow...

📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210) & Online💻👥 Hybrid💲 Free Supercharge your data with AI! Learn how to easily connect your data to powerful AI tools on AWS. Discover how to unlock valuable insights and make better decisions. Using AWS's fully managed GenerativeAI (GenAI) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), we'll show you how to...

CANCELLED Dive into the world of Generative AI and build your own personalized recommendation system using AWS Bedrock and Python. This hands-on workshop will guide you through leveraging the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) to create a system that provides tailored recommendations to individual users. In this advanced session, attendees will learn: → Fundamentals...

📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210) & Online💻👥 Hybrid💲 Free Our next Hack Forge Linux User Group meetup is about bootable containers!  On Thursday, November 28th Charlie from Red Hat will be showcasing the new technology of creating an entire bootable OS from a singular Containerfile/Dockerfile. With the knowledge from this session, you'll...

📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210)👥 In Person Only 💲 Free Join us for an exciting event where we'll explore the future of the automotive industry in Windsor! As a hub for automotive innovation, Windsor is at the forefront of change, with AI, electric vehicles, and new policies shaping the landscape. This event...

📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210) & Online💻Virtual Only💲 Free Are you an experienced developer curious about the power of Large Language Models (LLMs)? Join us for a practical workshop where you'll learn how to implement and code with LLMs on your own machine. In this session, we'll be: 🤖Implementing a local LLM:...

📍 Hackforge HQ (300 Ouellette Ave, Unit 210)👥 In Person Only 💲 Free For our final event of 2024 we're bringing back one of our most popular sessions - Board Game Night! We'll have a few games on-hand, but feel free to bring your own as well. There is no cost to attend, and everyone...