Closing the tab on 2024
Welcome to 2025. We hope it’s treating you well so far.
Today, we’d like to take a moment to look back and say goodbye to 2024, which turned out to be a key year for us here at Indy Hackers and our merry band of nerds, geeks, dorks, and all around excellent folx.
This has been a big year of revitalizing the community, and so many of you came through with connections, donations, or opinions.
We sent out a survey and y’all spoke loud and clear that you wanted more in-person programming - more chances to get together and catch up after so many years of Zoom meetings and Slack messages (though, we do love our Slack!).
To that end, we threw four events this year:
A kickoff in July which blew us away with how many of you showed up
A panel at the Rally Innovation Conference in September
A panel on Bridging the Business-Technical Divide in October
A renewal of our Indy Hackers Holiday Social in December
In the next few weeks, we’ll find out if our community wins at the Mira Awards, but regardless, we’re just getting started.
In the coming year, we plan to continue our focus on in-person programming, building our community, and looking for opportunities to increase the impact of our community on the wider technology ecosystem here in the Hoosier State.
Stay tuned for more on that, and a new community survey in the coming weeks as well.
Meetup. Of. The. Fortnight!
AI Innovation Network Kick-off Meeting
January 22, 2025, 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM ET
47th Floor SalesForce Tower
1 E Ohio St. Indianapolis, IN 46204 United States
Our friends at Techpoint are kicking off a new group to network and explore what we currently call artificial intelligence. There will be a mix of different kinds of tech folks here and it could be an opportunity to really show your expertise.
Upcoming Events
Fishers Code and Coffee - Jan 14 7-9am
Downtown Code and Coffee [In Person] - Jan 16 7-9am
Carmel Code and Coffee [In Person] - Jan 16 7–9am
Broad Ripple Code and Coffee - Jan 21 7-9am
Indy .NET Consortium - Jan 8 8:30pm
Indy.js - Jan 21 7:00pm
Indy AWS - Jan 21 7:00pm
Is there an event you would like to announce here? Let us know at newsletter@indyhackers.org and we’ll get it added to the calendar.
New on the Job Board
Software Engineer at BookNookAzure Data Engineer at Aurorium
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management at Ironclad
The IndyHackers job board is free to companies and the community. Our goal is to help as many community members as possible land jobs they love at companies based here in Indiana, growing the community of hackers throughout the state.
If your company is hiring, post your job here.
If you’re hunting for a job, the full job board is here or you can follow along in #jobs in our Slack. Or: Just reply to this email with what you’re looking for.
One last thing
Also last year, we fired back up this very newsletter.
Based on several conversations at the Holiday Social, y’all seem to dig it. Thanks!
In a weird week for me - shoveling snow, the kids going back to school, finding out that one of my favorite spots on the planet is shutting down at the end of the month - writing this newsletter every other week or so is a refreshing bit of normalcy.
The world can be crazy, or topsy-turvy, or just keep spinning, but I know every other week I need to sit down and write this newsletter.
And anytime I hear that someone has read it and enjoyed it (or not!), it makes doing that a little bit easier.
I hope this edition comes to you at the end of a great week, and that, like me, you’re starting to settle into the new year.
May your resolutions be easily achievable, and your code easily readable.
Until our next fortnight, hang in there.
I’m rooting for you.
Chris Vannoy, Board Member
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