November Porto Tech & Creative Events

OPO.js #10 was incredible and we are pumped!

We had over 140 attendees on the last OPO.js and three amazing speakers and talks. We’ve also had help from the community and awesome volunteers, so thank you all!

Keep an eye out for the wrapping up article which will include the talks available online among other things. Now, let’s take a look at all the tech and creative events happening in Porto this month!

Upcoming Porto Events

❤ Here are the events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.

November 5, 18h30–20h30

· dev · Nerdzão PT #5 — Aubay
Discuss everything about distributing and managing data! There will be 2 lectures covering why, how and what to use to have your data covered in a distributed world.

November 6, 18h30–20h00

· misc · P4P #6 — Cultura nas Organizações
A discussion about the challenges, struggles and benefits of this vital matter which is often forgotten in organisations.

November 8–9, 17h00–24h00 & 9h00–21h00

· misc · EUREKATHON
Eurekathon is a competition organised by LTPlabs, Porto Business School and NOS that addresses societal issues associated with sustainable development goals. Register by Nov. 6th.

November 11, 19h00–21h00

· misc · Porto Freelancers Meetup
An event for the Porto Freelance community to grab a few beers, meet each other and network in a nice atmosphere. It has an inclusive, crowdsourced and decentralised format so anyone can participate.

November 12, 18h30–21h00

· dev · NextStep Recap — Porto
Here’s a bit of NextStep at Porto! This OutSystems User Group will be focused on two of the biggest announcements that were launched at NextStep, which will be presented by OutSystems experts.

November 12, 19h00–21h00

· dev · Go serverless & Rock on w/animations
If you are a developer and you’re interested in creating serverless web applications in a cloud-native environment having integrations with open source technologies, join in!

November 14, 18h30–20h30

· dev · World Usability Day: Usabilidade e o Público Sénior + OutSystems Live Stream
World Usability Day is here so it’s time to bring out the goods on this amazing event with national and international speakers, some on the venue and some on live stream.

November 14, 19h00–21h00

· dev · Porto Codes meets JAMstack
Porto Codes is a meetup for local and international programming enthusiasts. The talks are recorded and published with the presenters’ consent as one of the goals is to provide programming resources to the community.

November 17, 10h00–12h00

· dev · PyCoffee in Porto i/o
Every time there is a new challenge. If you are interested in sharpening your skills by participating in it, join every other Sunday in Porto i/o Downtown.

November 18, 18h30–20h00

· dev · Automated Web Testing 101 — I — Programming basics
This is the first event of the “Automated Web Testing 101” series aiming to share experience and knowledge with whoever wants to learn more about Automated tests. Each session will have support of 4 experienced QA’s.

November 20–22, 8h00–17h00

· misc · ROBOT’2019
ROBOT’2019 main goal is to continue the precedent efforts in showing the robotic research and development of new applications in the Iberian Peninsula.

November 21, 18h30–20h00

· dev · Automated Web Testing 101 — II — Introduction to Selenium
This session will be the first contact with one of the most used web test automation frameworks: Selenium.

November 22, 19h00–21h00

· misc · Porto Digital Nomads Meetup
A new edition of Porto Digital Nomads Meetup will bring you lots of great vibes and new people to meet! Join in for a few beers, snacks and for some talks on being a digital nomad, expat or a local in the city of Porto!

November 22, 9h00–18h00

· dev · SQLSaturday 2019 Porto Workshop: Power BI Tips, Tricks & Hacks — The Deep Dive
This precon is all about learning and trying a bunch of useful techniques over the Power BI platform from Development to Tenant Governance and DevOps.

November 23, 10h30–14h00

· dev · Geek Girls Portugal — G2PT84
Join in for another meetup, this time at Finantech, with talks about UX and the Switch Program.

November 26, 18h30–20h00

· dev · Automated Web Testing 101 — III — Selenium Webdriver
This session’s focus will be the Selenium Webdriver. During this session the participants will mostly do automation using Selenium Webdriver, going through more advanced scenarios and usual issues.

November 26, 18h30–21h30

· dev · DSPT#65 — The Journal Club: Automatic Model Monitoring for Data Streams
The focus will be the recent preprint by Fabio Pinto, Marco Sampaio and Pedro Bizarro about model monitoring for data streams.

November 27, 19h00–20h30

· dev · CocoaHeads Porto
We want to provide a stage for speakers from the Portuguese iOS and MacOS community as well as for international guests to share and discuss learnings from their work.

November 28, 19h00–21h00

· design · OPO.design #4
Save the date for the next Porto Design Community meetup, which is dedicated to the Porto area designers and creatives. Join the meetup group to be the first to register when we publish the event!

December 1, 9h30–16h00

· dev · PyCoffee and Redis Portugal workshop
This time we change the format of PyCoffee to turn it into a full-day workshop, along with Redis Portugal and Porto i/o. WORKSHOP CHALLENGE: VISUALIZING WIKIPEDIA EDIT STREAMS WITH REDIS AND PLOTLY DASH.

That’s all for now but we update our calendar every week so stay tuned!

Monthly Must Read

We hand picked more articles and tools just for you!

STEVE SCHOGER & ADAM WATHAN
Design Tips · design
A collection of design tips gather in a twitter moments feed.

SUNIL SANDHU
I created the exact same app in React and Vue. Here are the differences. [2019 Edition] · dev
React vs Vue. Finally, a side-by-side code comparison between Vue and React! [Updated and rewritten for 2019: Now with React Hooks]

CLAUDIO HOLANDA
SVG Color Filter Playground · design
This is a tool to help understand how feColorMatrix works.

TOM BROW
Dark mode in a website with CSS · dev
Here’s a very simple trick for you to use as “dark mode” is getting trendy! Supporting prefers-color-scheme was easy, though there were a couple surprising details to address.

BRAM VAN DAMME
How Facebook 3D Photos work, and how to create one yourself · design
How about learning a little bit more about the adventures of 3D photos?

LOTTIEFILES
Lottie Editor · design
Edit Lottie JSON Animations Online. Simply upload your animation to adjust color, layers and more.

MARC CHAMBON
WebAssembly Literacy · js
Here’s a very cool free WebAssembly Ebook for JS devs.

These are our suggestions for you to read/watch in November!

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