Pete Prodoehl
Hacker of many things... Web414, BarCamp, MilwaukeeDevHouse, Bucketworks...

This 'event' was intended to start gathering support to encourage a POTENTIAL campaign by former senator Russ Feingold to run for governor in the eventual recall election against Scott Walker. As of Aug 19, he has elected not run for office in 2012.

For now we keep our focus on removing Walker and supporting the eventual opposition...

Wow! What a year it's been.

To think a year ago around this time, we launched our Pink Rooms at the hotel.

Now after a successful one year into the Pink Room program, it's time to celebrate our accomplishments.

Save the Date!

We'll be holding a Pink Room Anniversary Soirée on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011.

Stay tuned for more...

Madison's annual Barcamp event is happening Saturday, August 27th in downtown Madison. Join us. Share. And Learn.

This year we are chilling things out a bit as Club Z2 welcomes singer, songwriter and acoustic guitar master Willy Porter. We've labeled this year's event as Willy, Wine and Wings because we'll also be featuring fine wine from the Meeker Vineyards in Sonoma and eight, yes eight varieties of gourmet wings in honor of our eighth year....

The Milwaukee Makerspace will be participating the the Bay View South Shore Frolics Parade.

PhotoCampMilwaukee is a BarCamp-like event fully focused on photography. It’s an ad-hoc “un-conference” for people who love photography to get together and teach what they know, and learn what they don’t. It’s about sharing in an open environment. Everyone has experience to share, and getting everyone together in one place, for a full...

The Plane to Libson is performing at the Milwaukee Makerspace on Bay View Gallery Night (sponsored by BVAG and Made in Milwaukee).

Come see art in its strangest, coolest, most awesome, and slightly-dangerous forms! There will be illustrations, hand-made musical instruments (some of which include flames), kick-ass sculpture and more!

See the full list of 21 exhibitors at http://www.bayviewgallerynight.com/hot-spots/milwaukee-makerspace

Niot sure how to locate us? This vid...

Join us in celebrating the local business, art, music and creative community of Bay View this June 3rd! Bay View Gallery Night is a chance for the greater Milwaukee area to come out and enjoy the great places and talents of the Bay View Community! More info at bayviewgallerynight.com

Sweet Water Organics

Time: 5pm - 9pm

2151 South Robinson...

Milwaukee robotics club meeting.

Topic: Memory Power!

Something different! Don't forget! We'll be welcoming Roger Seip, who will show you how to Discover Your Memory Power.

If you've ever forgotten something important, be it someone's name, or to write some bit of code, Roger will show you how to do it better in the future. Remember it!

Sound a little crazy?...

Topics: Symphony CMS, SXSW ReCap

Bernard Yu will share with us everything he knows about Symphony, an XSLT-powered open source content management system. That's right, it's not Drupal or WordPress!

We'll also do our yearly review of SXSW with the folks who were there. We're hoping to see Tom Henrich, Brian Artka, Tracy Apps,...

Come one come all to our grand opening and mini maker faire! The event is free and open to the public.

The schedule is as follows:

Noon: Doors Open & Meet The Makers

1pm: Power Wheels Race - Adults reliving their childhood on modified electric kiddie cars!

2pm: Stump the Makers - bring a tool, appliance, or gizmo & the Makers will...

http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=32705

We must elect Joanne Kloppenburg to the Wisconsin State Supreme Court. A vote for her opponent (Prosser) is a vote for Walker, clear and simple.

Not voting is also a vote for Walker because low voter turnout always helps the conservatives. This election determines whether...

Topic: Agile Development, Spreenkler Talent Labs Hackathon

Curtis Gibeaut "developer supreme" will discuss Agile Development and Project Management. What is it really? What is Big A and little a? Do you need Yoga classes? Will you have to Tango with a partner. All of this and more will be covered at the next Web414. You will learn about...

Topic: Templates, PubSub, Maker movement

Matt Gauger will host with guests Ralph Holzmann and Pete Prodoehl.

We'll hear from Ralph Holzmann (@ralphholzmann) about client side templating and PubSub, and then Pete Prodoehl and Matt Gauger will talk about the Maker movement.

http://web414.com/node/1020

Topic: Templates, PubSub, Maker movement

Matt Gauger will host with guests Ralph Holzmann and Pete Prodoehl.

We'll hear from Ralph Holzmann about client side templating and PubSub, and then Pete Prodoehl and Matt Gauger will talk about the Maker movement.

I'll be shooting photos of the Makerspace, and hopefully doing a bit of hacking with Matt Gauger.

Topic: The Ultimate WordPress Showdown!

What is "The Ultimate WordPress Showdown" you say? Well, it's a damn catchy title. We hope to have Mike McCallister, Mike MacAllister, Jeremey Jannene, and Scott Offord all showing and telling us something about WordPress. What do these people do? They write books about WordPress, design (and...

Birthday bash!!! We'll have sponsors (this means food and drink! - come hungry and thirsty)
We'll give a brief history of the first year of the MKEPUG organization. Talk about where we want to go. We'll get feedback from you on what you want to see in 2011 and how we can server our members better. We'll also talk a little...

To celebrate moving into our new space we are going to have a party on Jan 2, 2011! Everyone is invited! (Note that we'll have a more fully publicized Grand Opening Party in the spring)

We'll have refreshments and live rock music by Wamsley (http://web.me.com/wamsleylive/Band/Home.html).

So come on by and check out our new space, our...

Topics: git and GitHub, LABjs and yepnope.js

Join us to recap what happened at MilwaukeeDevHouse5 [http://web414.com/node/990], 10 Minutes with Arlen [http://twitter.com/arlen], Matt Gauger [http://twitter.com/mathiasx] on using git and GitHub, and Ralph Holzmann [http://twitter.com/ralphholzmann] talking about LABjs and yepnope.js.

This will be the first MilwaukeeDevHouse with a purpose... In the past we just called it a "party with laptops" and invited you to come and work on whatever you wanted to. You can still do that, but we're also going to focus on ways to make BarCampMilwaukee (and Bucketworks) better.

Call it "Hack the BarCamp!" or maybe...