More like fun-raising, amiright?
As we enter the back half of 2025 - yes, already! - we here at Indy Hackers are starting to think through the rest of the year, including our annual Holiday Social.
Fresh off a great event and turnout at our combination resume workshop and happy hour, we’re also thinking through what programming we should consider for the community.
Some topics that we’ve bandied about of late:
Legal and taxes for freelancers
Mental health for tech workers
Mock hiring interviews
AI’s impact on developer hiring
With these topics in mind, we’re kicking off our community survey in the coming weeks and also starting a fundraising drive.
Here's what we're raising funds for:
Our 2025 Holiday Social
Our paid(!) Slack community
Supporting local tech meetups
Building Code & Coffee communities (we have a new one in Zionsville!)
Creating community support events like those mentioned above
Sponsors get not just the warm fuzzies, but greater visibility to our thriving group of "hackers" (the folks behind the keyboard of Indiana's tech ecosystem … that’s you!).
If you or your company seem like a good fit for sponsorship, hit that reply button and we’ll send more info your way.
Meetup. Of. The. Fortnight.
IndyPy x IndyAWS: Python-Powered Cloud on July 22
Join IndyPy and IndyAWS on Tuesday, July 22 at 7pm ET for a joint hybrid meetup focused on real-world automation in the cloud.
Austin Ottinger (Anu) will demo a serverless GenAI pipeline that consolidates newsletters into one intelligent feed.
Jeff Licquia (Six Feet Up) will showcase Cloud Custodian, an open source policy-as-code tool for cutting costs and enforcing real-time AWS governance.
Attend in person at E-gineering (8415 Allison Pointe Blvd, Suite 110, Indianapolis, IN) or join via Zoom.
Free and open to all. Register here: https://www.meetup.com/indypy/events/305589070/
More Upcoming Community Events
Fishers Code and Coffee - July 8 7-9am
Zionsville Code and Coffee - July 9 8-10am
Indy Virtual Code and Coffee [Online] - July 9 8-10am
Agile Indy - July 9 6pm
Carmel Code and Coffee - July 10 7–9am
Downtown Code and Coffee - July 10 7-9am
Indy Game Developer Social Hour - July 12 1pm
Code and Tea - July 13th 1pm
Broad Ripple Code and Coffee - July 16 7-9am
Free Code Camp Indy - July 23 6pm
Central Indiana Linux Users Group - August 6 6pm
Indy .NET Consortium - August 6 6pm
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
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
One of those topics mentioned earlier - mental health for tech workers - strikes a particular chord for me.
I struggled with depression through college and social anxiety for much of the rest of my adult life.
I’m mostly down to generalized anxiety these days, and even that has gradually gotten better through five years or so of regular therapy.
I think, generally, if I didn’t tell you that - if I didn’t write it down here - you might not be able to tell or know.
And, the thing is, that’s true of a lot of mental illness. Those most affected often don’t want to feel like a burden to others, or don’t feel like they “deserve” to bother other people with their troubles.
So, they hide it … and secretly hope you notice it anyway. At least, that’s how my brain worked/works.
All around you in your workplace, in the grocery store, in traffic, folks can be suffering in ways you never know.
There’s no shame in this suffering - or any suffering.
There are difficult seasons of life, and bad brain chemistry, and sometimes just stuff you gotta work through.
Sometimes, the goal is just to see tomorrow, to get through today.
If you’re struggling to get through today, you don’t have to shoulder that burden alone.
Call a friend. Call family. Call the hotline.
Dig into the community and resources from our friends at Open Sourcing Mental Illness.
Ask for what you need.
Get to tomorrow.
Please.
We need you there.
As you are today.
I’ll see you there.
Chris Vannoy, Board President
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