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Here’s the list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the final full week of January 2021 — Monday, January 24 through Sunday, January 30, 2022.
This coming week includes National Florida Day, January 25th, which falls on a Tuesday this year. It celebrates Florida’s arrival as the U.S.’ 27th state in 1845. I plan on celebrating by using my Wintel gaming laptop as my primary computer that day (the IBM PC was born in Florida, on IBM’s Boca Raton campus) and possibly making questionable choices in the spirit of Florida Man.
This list is a weekly service from Tampa Bay’s tech blog, Global Nerdy! For almost five years, I’ve been compiling a list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events happening in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas. There’s a lot going on in our scene here in “The Other Bay Area, on the Other West Coast”!
As far as event types go, this list casts a rather wide net. It includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under the category of:
- Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
- Tech project management / agile processes
- Video, board, and role-playing games
- Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
- Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
- Toastmasters (because nerds really need to up their presentation game)
- Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
- Anything I deem geeky
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
The mandatory omicron variant announcement
Prior to the omicron variant, there was still a pretty good chance that you didn’t personally know someone who’d caught COVID. Today, thanks to its contagiousness, omicron has made it so much more likely that someone you personally know has caught it — and probably has it now.
Omicron’s out there, and it’s not as “mild” as some people have described it. Be smart and responsible — get your booster, mask up in crowds, favor outdoor and online events, and we can get back to what passes for normal sooner!
This week’s events
I try to keep this list up-to-date. I add new events as soon as I hear about them, so be sure to check this page often!
Monday, January 24
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Tampa Bay Times | Tampa Bay Job & Career Fair | 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM EST |
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || What is UX/UI Design? | 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST |
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || Bootcamp Alumni Success Secrets | 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM EST |
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || UX/UI Design: Wireframes and Prototypes | 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM EST |
| Tampa Bay Tabletoppers | Monday Feast & Game Night | 5:30 PM |
| Board Game Meetup: Board Game Boxcar | Weekly Game Night! (Lazy Moon Location) | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa / St Pete Business Connections | South Tampa Professional Networking Lunch | 11:30 AM |
| Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton | Virtual Networking Lunch Monday | 11:30 AM |
| Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay | Live Online Connection Meeting- Monday | 11:30 AM |
| Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net | Monday Virtual Networking Lunch | 11:30 AM |
| Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa Business Professionals | Lutz, Wesley Chapel, New Tampa Virtual Networking Lunch | 11:30 AM |
| West Orange Comics & Video Games | Magic Mondays | 5:00 PM |
| Tampa# – C# and .NET | Group Code Challenge [Virtual] | 5:30 PM |
| The Tampa Chapter of the Society for the Exploration of Play | Critical Hit Games: Board Game Night | 5:30 PM |
| Beginning Web Development | Weekly Learning Session | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | Open Painting at Warehouse 51 | 6:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | MTG: Commander Open Play | 6:00 PM |
| Orlando Adventurer’s Guild | [FR] Waterdeep: Dragon Heist – DM Carson (Tier 1) | 6:00 PM |
| Thoughtful Writing | Philosophy in Writing | 6:00 PM |
| Toastmasters District 48 | North Port Toastmasters Meets Online!! | 6:30 PM |
| Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup | Trivia Night – Off the Wagon Kitchen & Brewery Smartphone Trivia Game Show | 6:30 PM |
| Nerdbrew Events | Anime Watch Party | 7:00 PM |
| Toastmasters District 48 | Time to Take Speaking Your Passion to the Next Level at South Tampa TM! | 7:00 PM |
| South Florida Poker, Music & Entertainment Group | FREE Texas Holdem Poker Tournaments at Fireside Lounge & Billiards 7 PM Start | 7:00 PM |
| Orlando Stoics | ONLINE: “The Stoicism of Ben Franklin” | 7:00 PM |
| Coded For Money, Flow and Fame – Tampa Group | How to Get a Never-Ending Flow of Clients | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | Intro to the Babylock Embroidery Machine (Members Only) | 7:00 PM |
| Florida Center for Creative Photography | FREE Lightroom Study Group | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Cryptocurrency (as seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Q&A (0NLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild | World of Greyhawk: 1E One-Shots | 7:30 PM |
| Tampa Flutter Meetup Group | In-Person Meetup | 7:00 PM |
Tuesday, January 25
GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit – Jan 25-27 2022 – Absolutely FREE 
Wednesday, January 26
Thursday, January 27
Friday, January 28
Saturday, January 29
Sunday, January 30
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || Intro to JavaScript: Build a Virtual Pet | 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST |
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || What is UX/UI Design? | 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM EST |
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || Intro To Data Analytics: Excel Basics | 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM EST |
| Lakeland Black Professionals | January Monthly Meeting and Book Club | 7:00 PM |
| Florida Center for Creative Photography | Birds on a Budget | 9:00 AM |
| Bradenton Photo Group | Bok Tower Gardens – Photo Walk | 10:00 AM |
| Nerdbrew Events | Illuminerdy Trading Card Game Con Trip | 12:00 PM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | 3D Printer Orientation: Prusa mk3s Printer (THS Members only) | 2:00 PM |
| Drunk’n Meeples West Pasco | Weekend Game Day | 2:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Cryptocurrency (as seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Using Trading Systems – (ONLINE) | 6:00 PM |
| Orlando Adventurer’s Guild | January New Player Nights – Various DMs (Tier 1) | 6:00 PM |
| The Historical History Book Club | Book Discussion: My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad | 7:00 PM |
Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?
Let me know at joey@joeydevilla.com!
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The quick summary: If you’re in the Tampa Bay area and need your Mac repaired, Steve Bush of Screwbox will come to where you are, pick it up, repair it, and bring it back to you. I needed repairs done on my 2014-era MacBook Pros, and Steve did a fantastic job fixing them — and I didn’t even have to leave my house!
My old MacBook Pros are still solid development machines
Even though the new M1 Max-powered MacBooks are singing their siren songs to me, I’m still doing my independent work on my personal MacBook Pros:
- A refurbished mid-2014 15″ MacBook Pro that I bought in early 2015 for a nice discount, back when I was working for a company that expected you to provide your own laptop, and
- A mid-2014 13″ MacBook Pro that a client gave to me in 2016 for building an iPad app in lieu of cash. Ah, the joys of freelancing when the company you work for cuts its workforce…
They’ve served me well…
- I used them to write every app that I’ve ever put into the App Store, as either the sole author or as part of my job.
- I used them to write my half of the code and text of The iOS Apprentice, 8th Edition.
- It’s been a part of every “audition” I’ve had for a tech position since 2017, from applying to join raywenderlich.com’s Android team (I’d never written an Android app before) to landing my current job at Auth0. You may have seen the output from these “auditions”: The raywenderlich.com application became this article, my test to become a developer advocate at Auth0 became an article in the Auth0 Developer Blog, and the one app I wrote for a prospective employer who ghosted me at least made for a good video.
- It was a key part of my creating my Apple augmented reality presentations at RWDevCon (the shorter one is available on YouTube) and this ARKit course at raywenderlich.com.
- It’s what I used to teach the online Python and JavaScript/React courses I taught on behalf of Computer Coach when my job disappeared in 2020 due to COVID.
- I took it with me on the StartupBus 2019 hackathon, where my team — Hyve — made it all the way to the finals.
- I’m currently using it to make a new series of YouTube videos on all sorts of aspects of software development. I’m also using it for music production for these videos.
I’m still doing all my “side hustle” work on these machines, doing iOS, Android, and Python development, along with video and music production. They do the job just fine, which includes composing this post and the images that go with it.
That being said, we’re at the point where the current version of macOS — version 12, a.k.a. “Monterey” — won’t run on them (version 11, a.k.a. “Big Sur”, is the latest version that runs on my MacBooks). Between that and Apple’s move from Intel processors to their own amazingly fast silicon, I expect to buy an M1 MacBook as a birthday present to myself in November and put my old MacBooks to work as home servers.
I needed repairs
My 15″ MacBook Pro was still processing just fine, but its trackpad was no longer responding to touch or presses, and in fact, it was becoming quite difficult to “click”.
The 13″ had a different problem: sound, especially once the volume was past the 50% mark, was distorting, which meant the speakers were damaged.
There were free workarounds for both issues, but I decided that I wanted repairs done, if available for a reasonable price. I asked around, and got a couple of enthusiastic recommendations for Screwbox.
My experience: Great!
I filled out the contact form at the bottom of Screwbox’s home page, and Steve Bush got in touch with me via text shortly afterward. The description of my MacBooks’ issues was enough for him to diagnose their problems:
- With the 15″, the trackpad didn’t work because the battery was bulging, and the battery is located beneath the trackpad. His recommendation: Replace the battery. After watching this video to see what the procedure was, I opted to have Steve do it.
- The solution for the 13″ was obvious: replace the speakers. I thought that I might want to try this myself, so I watched this video. The process is less complex than battery replacement, but in the end, enlightened laziness (one of the great programming virtues) won out, and let Steve do it.
As promised on the site, Steve gave me a flat rate quote for the work: $199 plus tax for each repair, for a grand total of $431.83, payable in advance via Zelle. He would order the parts, pick up the MacBooks from my place when the parts arrived, perform the repair at his shop, and drop them off at my place once repaired. Once you factor in the cost of labor, parts, and travel, it’s quite clear that he’s offering a deal.
I Zelled him the money, and he picked up my MacBooks a couple days later when the parts arrived. He returned my fully-functioning MacBooks a day later, and I didn’t even have to leave the house!
Steve’s service was helpful and fast, and I wouldn’t hesitate to contact him again for Mac repair. If you’re in the Tampa Bay area and need a Mac fixed, you’ll want to reach out to Screwbox and Steve Bush.
How to Business is a new YouTube channel created by Tampa Bay-area techie Frederick Weiss of Thunder Nerds fame that features quick video interviews (typically around 10 minutes in length) that show techies how to tackle business tasks that they may need to take on.
While there’s no shortage of resources that teach you how to use a particular technology, there is a need for how-tos aimed at techies who need to know how to do things related to money, business processes, sales, and other topics outside our main areas of expertise. That’s what How to Business is for!
Here’s How to Business’ promo video:
Here’s the first interview, How to Make Websites Accessible. It features Todd Libby, accessibility engineer at WebstaurantStore and host of the Front End Nerdery podcast.
The next interview, How to Qualify Sales Opportunities, features John Roth, SVP of the Sales Specialists Team at Sangoma.
The most recent interview, How to Implement Authentication and Authorization with Auth0, features Yours Truly, where I’m operating in my capacity as a Senior Developer Advocate at Auth0, and I talk about not rolling your own authentication and authorization but going with an experienced provider instead:
Keep an eye on the How to Business channel — Frederick’s been recording interviews, and it’s looks like they’ll be interesting and useful!
Here’s the third weekly list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for 2021! This one’s for the week of Monday, January 17 through Sunday, January 23, 2022, a week that includes the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. His actual birthday falls on the 15th — it’s just that MLK Day is observed on the third Monday of January.
This list is a weekly service from Tampa Bay’s tech blog, Global Nerdy! For almost five years, I’ve been compiling a list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events happening in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas. There’s a lot going on in our scene here in “The Other Bay Area, on the Other West Coast”!
As far as event types go, this list casts a rather wide net. It includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under the category of:
- Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
- Tech project management / agile processes
- Video, board, and role-playing games
- Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
- Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
- Toastmasters (because nerds really need to up their presentation game)
- Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
- Anything I deem geeky
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
The mandatory omicron variant announcement
Prior to the omicron variant, there was still a pretty good chance that you didn’t personally know someone who’d caught COVID. Today, thanks to its contagiousness, omicron has made it so much more likely that someone you personally know has caught it — and probably has it now.
Omicron’s out there, and it’s not as “mild” as some people have described it. Be smart and responsible — get your booster, mask up in crowds, favor outdoor and online events, and we can get back to what passes for normal sooner!
This week’s events
I try to keep this list up-to-date. I add new events as soon as I hear about them, so be sure to check this page often!
Monday, January 17 (MLK Day)
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || UX/UI Design: Designing A UX Case Study | 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST |
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || Intro To Data Analytics: Excel Basics | 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM EST |
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || Intro to Data Analytics: SQL Fundamentals | 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM EST |
| Rafael Stuchiner | Blockchain, Bitcoin, Crypto! What’s all the Fuss?~~~Tampa, FL | |
| Board Game Meetup: Board Game Boxcar | Weekly Game Night! (Lazy Moon Location) | 6:30 PM |
| Tampa Bay Coalition of Reason | N Pinellas – Monthly TBCoR* Humanist Social Dinner | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Tabletoppers | Monday Feast & Game Night | 9:45 AM |
| Coaching for Everyone: Sarasota-Manatee | GSCA January 17th “Virtual” Meeting | 11:30 AM |
| Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa Business Professionals | Lutz, Wesley Chapel, New Tampa Virtual Networking Lunch | 11:30 AM |
| Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net | St. Pete Networking Lunch! Fords Garage! Monday’s | 11:30 AM |
| Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay | Live Online Connection Meeting- Monday | 11:30 AM |
| Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group | South Tampa Referrals | 11:30 AM |
| Tampa / St Pete Business Connections | South Tampa Professional Networking Lunch | 11:30 AM |
| Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton | Virtual Networking Lunch Monday | 11:30 AM |
| Entrepreneurs Empower Empire | Office Hour | 12:00 PM |
| West Orange Comics & Video Games | Magic Mondays | 5:00 PM |
| The Tampa Chapter of the Society for the Exploration of Play | Critical Hit Games: Board Game Night | 5:30 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | Open Painting at Warehouse 51 | 6:00 PM |
| Beginning Web Development | Weekly Learning Session | 6:00 PM |
| Thoughtful Writing | Philosophy in Writing | 6:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | MTG: Commander Open Play | 6:00 PM |
| Toastmasters, Division D | ACE Advanced Toastmasters 3274480 | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay DevOps Meetup | TBDevOps monthly meeting | 6:30 PM |
| New Wealth Advisors Club Tampa | How to close great deals with ONE powerful marketing strategy | 6:30 PM |
| Toastmasters District 48 | North Port Toastmasters Meets Online!! | 6:30 PM |
| Toastmasters Division G | Triple Crown Toastmasters Club 4147 (Virtual) | 6:30 PM |
| Toastmasters Division E | Lakeland (FL) Toastmasters Club #2262 | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Flutter Meetup Group | In-Person Meetup | 7:00 PM |
| Florida Center for Creative Photography | FREE Lightroom Study Group | 7:00 PM |
| Toastmasters District 48 | Time to Take Speaking Your Passion to the Next Level at South Tampa TM! | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Cryptocurrency (as seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Q&A (0NLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| ShutterObi – Orlando Photography Group | The Business Of Photography : Commercial Images – Will They Sell? An Online Zoom | 7:00 PM |
| Nerdbrew Events | Anime Watch Party | 7:00 PM |
| Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild | World of Greyhawk: 1E One-Shots | 7:30 PM |
| Latino CRYPTO Professional Networking | Crypto/Trading/Negocios Online/Enprendimiento | 7:00 PM |
| Agile Orlando | A Conversation on Enterprise Agile Coaching | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Area Crypto And NFT IRL Hosted By Endangered Mints NFT | Tampa Area Crypto and NFTs – Share and Learn Group | 7:00 PM |
Tuesday, January 18
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || What Tech Career Is Right For Me? | 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST |
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || Intro to HTML & CSS: Build Your Own Website | 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM EST |
| Military Spouse Professional Network | Entrepreneurship Through Comedy with Dr. Kerry Szymanski | 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EST |
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || What is UX/UI Design? | 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM EST |
| Shut Up & Write!® Tampa | Online Event: Shut Up & Write on Zoom | 10:00 AM |
| Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs Meetup | Professional Business Networking Lunch Glory Day’s New Tampa | 11:30 AM |
| Tampa Investor/Training Meetup | Tampa Bay Investor Training | 6:30 PM |
| The 360 Exchange – Winter Garden Location | The 360 Exchange – Where Referrals Come Full Circle | 11:30 AM |
| Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net | Breakfast with professionals Village Inn Clearwater | 7:30 AM |
| Tampa Bay Agile | v-Lean Coffee | 7:30 AM |
| Bootstrappers Breakfast® – Tampa Bay Area | East Coast Bootstrappers Breakfast® | 8:30 AM |
| Write the Docs Florida | Morning social | 8:30 AM |
| Front End Creatives | Transferring your Personal Brand to your New Career | 10:00 AM |
| The 360 Exchange – Lake Nona | The 360 Exchange – Lake Nona Networking | 11:30 AM |
| Toastmasters District 48 | MESSAGE CRAFTERS | 12:00 PM |
| Dr. Phillips Chamber of Commerce | Ladies Entrepreneurs of Dr. Phillips | 12:00 PM |
| Essential Communication Skills for Career Advancement | Learn and Practice Communication For A More Confident Approach | 7:30 PM |
| Suncoast Credit Union Micro Enterprise Development Meetup | SBDC Hillsborough County: Starting Your Business | 7:30 PM |
| Florida Startup: Idea to IPO | Top Ten Legal Mistakes that Could Kill Your Startup | 3:00 PM |
| Crypto Currency Alliance Opportunities | RECAP OF CRYPTO 2021 – WHERE ARE WE? and WHATS NEXT | 6:00 PM |
| Full Stack Meetup | Unit Testing with .NET 5 Part 3 | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | Weekly Open Make Night | 6:00 PM |
| Saint Petersburg Book Club Meetup Group | Jan. Book Club | 6:30 PM |
| Wealth Builders Real Estate Enreprenuers Association | Wealth Builders Monthly Meeting | 6:30 PM |
| Library Book Clubs – OCLS | Let’s Talk: All About Drugs-Podcast Discussion Group | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Cryptocurrency (as seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade For Beginners – (ONLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Orlando Adventurer’s Guild | [Online SEASONAL] Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden – DM Canon (Tier 2) | 7:00 PM |
| Communicate with Self-Confidence Meetup, Tampa, FL | [Online] How to Be a Confident Communicator | 7:30 PM |
| DOUX — Downtown Orlando UX Meetup | How to survive an epic failure | 7:30 PM |
| Tampa Entrepreneurs Network | Be a confident negotiator and close 27% more deals | Karen Judd Smith | 8:00 PM |
| Sisters in Technology | Learn Coding- Why Coding | 8:00 PM |
| Bradenton Photo Group | Self Assignment Photo Challenge – Holiday Lights and Bokeh | 7:00 PM |
| Cult, Mystery & Suspense Movie Club | Crime Noir Double-Feature – SHOCK & WHIRLPOOL | 7:00 PM |
| Orlando Writer’s Critique Group | Orlando Writer’s Critique Group | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay SQL Server User Group (TBSSUG) | TBSSUG Monthly Meeting | 5:30 PM |
Wednesday, January 19
Thursday, January 20
=== Mail ===
Friday, January 21
Saturday, January 22
Sunday, January 23
Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?
Let me know at joey@joeydevilla.com!
Join the mailing list!
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Here’s the second weekly list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for 2021! This one’s for the week of Monday, January 10 through Sunday, January 16, 2022. That’s right — the upcoming week takes us past the halfway point of January.
This is a weekly service from Tampa Bay’s tech blog, Global Nerdy! For the past four years, I’ve been compiling a list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events happening in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas. There’s a lot going on in our scene here in “The Other Bay Area, on the Other West Coast”!
As far as event types go, this list casts a rather wide net. It includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under the category of:
- Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
- Tech project management / agile processes
- Video, board, and role-playing games
- Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
- Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
- Toastmasters (because nerds really need to up their presentation game)
- Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
- Anything I deem geeky
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
This week’s events
This list includes in-person events as well as online events. Omicron’s out there, and it’s not as “mild” as some people have described it. Be smart and responsible — get your booster, mask up in crowds, and we can get back to what passes for normal sooner!
I try to keep this list up-to-date. I add new events as soon as I hear about them, so be sure to check this page often!
Monday, January 10
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || Learn Data Analytics With Thinkful | 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST |
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || Data Science vs. Data Analytics | 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM EST |
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || Intro To Data Analytics: Tableau Basics | 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM EST |
| Tampa Bay Tabletoppers | Monday Feast & Game Night | 6:30 PM |
| The Tampa Chapter of the Society for the Exploration of Play | Critical Hit Games: Board Game Night | 1:00 PM |
| Thoughtful Writing | Philosophy in Writing | 2:00 PM |
| Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education | Network & Learn: Founder’s story Jules Gibson on Publishing to Petals | 11:30 AM |
| Front End Creatives | Tampa Bay’s Job Seeker Coffee Talks | 9:00 AM |
| Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa Business Professionals | Lutz, Wesley Chapel, New Tampa Virtual Networking Lunch | 11:30 AM |
| Tampa / St Pete Business Connections | South Tampa Professional Networking Lunch | 11:30 AM |
| Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay | Live Online Connection Meeting- Monday | 11:30 AM |
| Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton | Virtual Networking Lunch Monday | 11:30 AM |
| Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group | South Tampa Referrals | 11:30 AM |
| Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net | St. Pete Networking Lunch! Fords Garage! Monday’s | 11:30 AM |
| SCIPS, a 50+ Tampa Bay Singles Club | EUCHRE, Rummy Q and other Board Games for ENTHUSIASTIC GAME PLAYERS | 4:00 PM |
| West Orange Comics & Video Games | Magic Mondays | 5:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | Open Painting at Warehouse 51 | 6:00 PM |
| Orlando Adventurer’s Guild | [FR] Waterdeep: Dragon Heist – DM Carson (Tier 1) | 6:00 PM |
| Board Game Meetup: Board Game Boxcar | Weekly Game Night! (Lazy Moon Location) | 6:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | Heavy/Euro Board Game Night | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Wargaming Society | Star Fleet Battles at Nerdy Needs | 6:30 PM |
| Bradenton Photo Group | A Complete Guide to Photogrpahy | 6:30 PM |
| Toastmasters District 48 | North Port Toastmasters Meets Online!! | 6:30 PM |
| North Florida Stock Investing Education | Digging into the Better Investing Magazine | 7:00 PM |
| Library Book Clubs – OCLS | Virtual Event: Hiawassee Book Club | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Cryptocurrency (as seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Q&A (0NLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Flutter Meetup Group | In-Person Meetup | 7:00 PM |
| Orlando Stoics | ONLINE: “Ryan Holiday interviews Massimo Pigliucci: The Spock Syndrome” | 7:00 PM |
| Toastmasters District 48 | Time to Take Speaking Your Passion to the Next Level at South Tampa TM! | 7:00 PM |
| Nerdbrew Events | Anime Watch Party | 7:00 PM |
| Florida Center for Creative Photography | FREE Lightroom Study Group | 7:00 PM |
| Toastmasters Division G | Clermont Toastmasters Weekly Meeting | 7:00 PM |
| Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild | World of Greyhawk: 1E One-Shots | 7:30 PM |
| Tampa Cybersecurity Training | Tampa Bay’s Job Seeker Coffee Talks | 8:00 PM |
| Entrepreneurs’ Empowerment Empire | Office Hour | 5:30 PM |
| Brandon WordPress Meetup | TBA: Regular WordPress Meeting | 6:30 PM |
Tuesday, January 11
Wednesday, January 12
Thursday, January 13
Friday, January 14
Saturday, January 15
Sunday, , January 16
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || Intro To Data Analytics: Tableau Basics | 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST |
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || Free Crash Course: JavaScript Fundamentals | 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM EST |
| Thinkful Tampa | Thinkful Webinar || Enhancing Your Career With Mindfulness | 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM EST |
| Suncoast Photo & Video Drone Club | Honeymoon Island / Dunedin Causeway | 9:00 AM |
| Florida Center for Creative Photography | Super Hero Sunday at Sarasota Polo | 10:00 AM |
| Gen Geek | St Pete Beer, Bacon, and BBQ at Vinoy Park! | 1:00 PM |
| TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group | Let’s play chess! At Driftwood Kava Coffee | 2:00 PM |
| Portable Gaming Together | Meet and Greet | 5:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Cryptocurrency (as seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Forex & Cryptos – (ONLINE) | 5:00 PM |
| The Historical History Book Club | Book Discussion: My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad | 7:00 PM |
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