October Porto Tech & Creative Events
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October is here and we are going to announce the date of the first OPO.network event this month. We have fantastic news, and we worked hard to surprise you and exceed your expectations.
We are extremely excited!
Stay tuned for all of this, it’s worth it!
Upcoming Porto Events
❤ Here are the online events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.
October 6–7, 9h00–15h00 / 9h00–13h00
· dev · Jamstack Conf 2020
Join 15,000+ developers and web enthusiasts for a dynamic day of keynotes, interactive sessions, live Q&A and 1:1 networking.
October 6–21, 14h00–19h00
· dev · DSSG SUMMIT 2020
What can I expect from the Summit?
October 7, 18h30–20h30
· dev · 6th LS Meetup — Connect: a major factor to Serve
How often those two words connect and serve come together? And when they do, what happens?
October 10, 9h00–19h00
· dev · Agile Connect Day
An online event full of talks, workshops, sharing sessions, and other surprises Lean & Agile friends might appreciate.
October 10, 10h00–16h00
· dev · Commit Porto ‘20
An excellent opportunity for knowledge sharing and inherently promoting Porto as a vibrant and dynamic city for technology-based companies.
October 10–November 14, 9h00–18h00
· misc · Future Female Founders
A program with three main focus: inspiration, networking, and training.
October 13, 17h30–18h30
· misc· Building Great Startup Communities: A Chat with Investor & Author Brad Feld
On this live online event, Jonathan Greechan, Co-Founder of the Founder Institute, will discuss with Brad the most recent best practices for building thriving startup ecosystems.
October 14, 18h00–19h00
· dev· Client Spotlight: Outside to In — a story of Transformation-Ryan Bryers, Flooid
With Ryann Bryers, Senior Vice President Of Global Engineering at Flooid.
October 16–18, 16h00–18h00
· misc· Techstars Startup Weekend Online Santa Catarina
A 54-hour virtual event held to provide first-rate experiential education to technical and non-technical entrepreneurs.
October 17, 08h30–19h00
· misc· CONF TSE
Everything about eCommerce.
October 17, 14h00–18h00
· dev· DevFest Portugal 2020 with GDG
An online DevFest that is being prepared by the GDGs, WTM and DSC from our country.
October 21, 19h00–23h00
· design· Design Colaborativo de Projetos
An exploration of social technologies that invites people to be aware of their responsibilities in society when using the design process to bring about cultural changes.
October 27, 18h00–19h00
· dev· [0x0D] — The Virtual Meet
With Pedro Umbelino, a speaker at several key security conferences handling top-notch research ranging from fancy green boards to testing daily technology limits.
October 27, 18h30–19h00
· misc· AMA — You didn’t fail, your product did
Susana Lopes, Senior Product Manager at Onfido, wil answer all your questions.
October 29, 18h30–19h30
· dev· Porto.Data #63 What has been going on with Azure SQL Managed Instance
Next Porto.Data meetup will be dedicated to Azure SQL Managed Instance. With the invited speaker, Vitor Faria Tomaz (currently working as Embedded Escalation Engineer (EEE) at Microsoft, focusing on Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
October 29, 18h30–20h30
· dev· Jamstack OPO #11 | Leveraging APIs in the Jamstack + Ecommerce in the Jamstack
Two amazing talks during this October edition:
— The importance of media;
— Leveraging APIs in the Jamstack.
October 29, 19h30–21h00
· dev· #7 Agile Beer Porto — Online
In this talk, you will understand why business agility depends fundamentally on replacing “command and control” with “autonomy and collaboration” to be real and sustainable.
October 30, 9h00–18h00
· dev · RECPAD 2020
A one-day conference with an invited keynote speaker and poster sessions along the day.
Monthly Must Read & Watch
We handpicked more articles and tools just for you!
JON YABLONSKI
Laws of UX · design
Learn more about 20 laws of UX.
CHRISTIE TANG
Responsive grids and how to actually use them: common UI layouts · design
How to use the right responsive grid and UI layout based on your design goals.
TARAS BAKUSEVYCH
Text fields & Forms design — UI components series · design
Simple rules that will help you design forms users will like to complete.
DYLAN FIELD
Embracing the tension between code and design · design
“There’s a natural tension between design and code. In the world of design, the focus is deciding what to build — in the world of code, the focus is building it.” — Dylan Field
CALEB WILLIAMS
How to Tame Line Height in CSS · dev
GraphQL backend for JavaScript apps.
PATRICK BROSSET
3 things about CSS variables you might not know · dev
What happens when a var function uses an undefined variable, how fallback values work, and how browser DevTools can help you.
BECKY KANE
What to Do When Your Brain Is Too Tired to Think Straight · misc
Why you feel mentally exhausted right now and 8 concrete ways to overcome it.
KENT C. DODDS
How to React ⚛️ · dev
See how learning React in the right order can make it less overwhelming.
ALEXA COLLINS
Storytelling is great, but is it enough? · misc
“The notion of storytelling has pervaded the marketing world as of late.” — Alexa Collins
PABLO STANLEY
Designing for accessibility is not that hard · design
Seven easy-to-implement guidelines to design a more accessible web.
Podcasts
They tell you cool stuff!
Our selection made through great references from our community.
Contact us and share your tips/work as well.
DEMAS RUSLI and BENJAMIN LEE
529 Podcast
A podcast about creators, for creators living the 5 to 9 life.
MARK HIRONS
Creative Waffle
Design and illustration podcast for students, graduates and emerging creatives. Bringing you top tips and honest advice from industry professionals.
MARSHALL BOCK and BRIAN LOVIN
Design Details
A weekly conversation about design process and culture.
These are our suggestions for you to read and listen in October!
Enjoy!
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