[bhelx]

Speaking of community, there is a really nice little tech community going strong in New Orleans that I think reflects the culture talked about here. If you are ever in town you should stop by an event https://www.noladevs.org/.

Feel free to reach out to me if you want some intros.

[b8]

NOLACon is nice too. I'm down to meetup for Xbox Game development (I have a DevKit) and hacking stuff. The sites Slack invite link is dead btw.

[bhelx]

yes, the local security community punches above their weight i think.

[markstarkart]

BSides Nola is a little more than a week away https://nolabsides.com/nolabsides-main

[sixothree]

Any recommendations on which meetups are worth attending?

[bhelx]

Hack night is the generic networking meetup at the rusty nail. It's way more casual. No presentations or organizing. below-c-level and frontend party are generally more organized and have talks. All the meetups happen before (and geographically near) to hack night on the same night. So you can generally do both. See a meetup then walk to the bar with everyone for the networking event.

[selimthegrim]

Typically every Tuesday night at the Rusty Nail bar at 7 PM. A lot of the community meets for so-called Hacknight.

[togakangaroo]

Also a link on that noladevs site to the community slack. That one has been going since early Launchpad days....what? 14 years ago?