Getting Involved with Baltimore's Tech Scene

Submitted by heycaseywattsup t3_125zxd8 in baltimore

Hi, I'm Casey!

I help run some local meetups (Baltimore Code and Coffee, Code for Baltimore, and Baltimore Musical Improv Meetup) and I help run the Baltimore Tech Slack.

At these events I'm always welcoming people who are new to the area, helping get them involved with the local tech scene. And now I finally wrote out all the things I'm always telling people!

I wrote out: a list of local tech meetups, our mega-calendar, tech conferences, joining our Baltimore Tech Slack server etc.

I guess I'm hoping for two things by sharing it here:

  1. Check out the blog post.
  2. Do you know of any local tech events/conferences/etc that I missed? I'd love to add more to this!

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Blog post:

🦀 Welcome to the Baltimore Tech Scene — Lots of tech folks here, once you know where to find us!

You're a tech person looking for some community in Baltimore? Come out and join us! I'm always telling people these ~10 things about the Baltimore Tech scene: Slack, meetups, my MEGA calendar of events, conferences and more.

https://www.caseywatts.com/blog/welcome-to-baltimore-tech/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit

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smilodon138 t1_je7fis7 wrote

Thanks for posting this! I'm data scientist/ NLP researcher in the process of moving to Bmore. Would love to get involved and (fingers crossed) make some new friends.

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heycaseywattsup OP t1_je842yb wrote

There are a lot of NLP folks in the area!

Maybe thanks in part to the university programs around 😄

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DfcukinLite t1_je6xam1 wrote

Are there any coding meetups? I’ve been learning myself, but it would be more helpful working with someone that actually knows what’s going on

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heycaseywattsup OP t1_je6xo5k wrote

Yeah a ton!

One of them is even specifically geared to people learning algorithms if that’s something you’re working on - Syntax R Us

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DfcukinLite t1_je6y2w7 wrote

Yup that’s one of the things I’m teaching myself. Any connection to the workshop would be most appreciated!

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RX_noob t1_je7065p wrote

Thanks for posting this! I was just looking for something like this a week ago, great timing.

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NationalMyth t1_je77scy wrote

In addition, there's Equitech Tuesdays that UpSurge hosts. They've been at Guilford Hall lately.

Also worth visiting is: baltimore.tech

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heycaseywattsup OP t1_je7a7ef wrote

ooh I've been to a couple of Equitech Tuesdays!
As far as I know there's no way to invite people publicly, no link or ical feed or anything -- I hope eventually we'll have something like that to point people to!

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jacobissimus t1_je7cvf7 wrote

I really enjoyed the coffee and code that I went to—but I’m really hoping a functional programming group would start up

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heycaseywattsup OP t1_je83zbu wrote

If you would be down to start one, join us on Baltimore Tech Slack in #meetup-organizers for some support 😄

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cwherman t1_je7xaha wrote

Are there any groups focused on cybersecurity? Moving there in a few months and I would love to meet some new people.

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heycaseywattsup OP t1_je83yoh wrote

If you would be down to start one, join us on Baltimore Tech Slack in #meetup-organizers for some support 😄

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cwherman t1_je85g69 wrote

Just joined the slack! Thanks!

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Cheomesh t1_jebkg3c wrote

Let me know how it goes; I do SA / ISSO work down south and am casting an eye to working in the city at some point in the nearish future.

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heycaseywattsup OP t1_je83jv9 wrote

I haven’t seen any myself yet - but I would be surprised if we don’t have one!

It’s also possible there’s an existing one that just hasn’t come out of Covid hibernation yet. Too bad Meetup’s search is so bad 😂

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ok_annie t1_je7kuvt wrote

I’d be interested in contributing to some of the Code for Baltimore projects, but looking at GitHub it doesn’t seem like there is a lot of activity recently. Is there still stuff going on?

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Made_at0323 t1_je8cpn2 wrote

Thank you so much for sharing this. Been looking for something like this but didn’t know where to search. Hope to join soon!

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Fit-Accountant-157 t1_je8tf1j wrote

Hi, I'm not in tech, but I did notice your blog mentioned coworking spaces. I'm fully remote and could use a change of scenery. Can you share some of the good coworking spaces in the city?

I've tried working from coffee shops in my neighborhood but would like to branch out. Also, I don't know if "coworking" specifically refers to space you pay for or if there are free options. Thanks in advance

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heycaseywattsup OP t1_je9dj1i wrote

The two I hear about the most are Co-Balt in Hampden, and Spark which is downtown. People seem to like these two!

The #coworking channel on the Slack is specifically meeting up in coffee shops and libraries etc, not these paid ones

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tajjj t1_jebfbgb wrote

Not a developer, but definitely in the Baltimore tech orbit. There's also incubators as well with ETC in East Baltimore, and Betamore in Port Covington.

For more cost-free options, there's always folks working in Whitehall Mill with plenty of parking and space to hang out.

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JupyterJeff t1_jeg91bd wrote

I'll leave to your judgement if weekly hackerspace Open Hacks could be considered "tech events" - if so, please feel free to include Baltimore Node – and here's a more specific list of our Events - thanks and feel free to let me know any questions (also might be possible to host other tech events at our space, if interested - keeping in mind it would be a group decision - so I can't personally myself commit to anything - but again feel free to inquire if interested)

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