February 14: Designing better meetups & HTML5 mobile app and game development

Designing better meetups

Presented by Vitorio Miliano (@vitor_io)

Maybe “better” means more organized, or having more attendees, or doing what your attendees want. Whatever your goals, Vitorio has practical, actionable suggestions on how to improve the quality of your user group, meetup or local community. Miliano researched the Austin design community for an essay, “Local Communities In Practice and By Design.” He’ll share common problems user groups face, ways to discover what your meetup is made of, and how to use that information to make it better.

appMobi: HTML5 mobile app and game development platform

Presented by Steve Tsuruda (@stsuruda1), from appMobi

Steve will discuss cross-device HTML5 developer tools for creating both native mobile applications and HTML5 web apps. He’ll talk about advances in HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 that help developers accelerate their time-to-market and reduce costs associated with deploying cross-platform.

Feb. 14, from 7-9 p.m. at Buffalo Billiards (6th and Brazos)

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Special thanks this month to The Creative Group for sponsoring this month’s drink tab!

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