Thanks again to Neil F for a great meeting last month. With 9 folks in person and two on line spanning Peru (yep) and Steamboat it was our best turn out yet for a fantastic talk.

This month Ryan Flemming and Boyd Hemphill will be presenting.

Some Tech - Make Plants Sweat

Inspired by Neil's IoT talk in November, Ryan will share some science about making plants grow along with how he uses open source software to connect home made solutions to retail iot devices through Home Assistant

Some Management - How to Hire Engineers

I uses projects to hire. This is somewhat controversial, but I make a minimum six figure bet on every person I hire.

In this talk, I will share Victory's Python hiring project, talk about why we use it, how we score it and the benefits Victory - and the candidates who make it this far - gain from the effort.

Agenda -

• 5:45 - 6:00 - Zoom will come up at some point.
• 6:00 - 6:15 meet and greet, who's hiring, who's looking
• 6:15 - 6:45 - Making Plants Sweat - Ryan F
• 6:50 - 7:15 - How to hire software engineers
• 7:15-ish - BeerOps - Location TBD