Specifically, we need someone who would like to assist with media relationships and our social media network. This amounts to about 10 hours per month of work + some time helping us keep up with Twitter, Facebook and maybe adding other social media venues such as Linked In and Google+. (things you may already be doing anyway)

Typical responsibilities include:

• Adding events to the blog, calendar and Facebook (1 hour per month)
• Contacting Juice, Datebook and other news organizations (1 hour per month)
• Participating in planning and events (6 hours per month)
• Helping us keep the social media feeds fresh and interesting by engaging our audience, retweeting/sharing interesting and helpful (??? per month)

Your qualifications:

• Comfortable with the web and social media tools
• Technical enough to be able to identify with the interests of local web geeks. You do NOT have to be a geek
• Able to communicate clearly in writing
• Willing to regularly participate in our events, of which there are currently three types:
  • Dojos on the 2nd Monday evening of the month
  • Monthly lunch meetings
  • Monthly planning meetings
• Bring your own interesting and unique skills: Maybe you love to take pictures or videos of events, you can make WordPress dance and sing, or ??? Tell us what it is that you can bring to the team.

Pay:

You get to enjoy the satisfaction of a job well done and meet lots of web enthusiasts from the greater metro area. It is actually very interesting work and the variety of people you meet really do make it worth while. Sadly, none of the people who volunteer for webgeeks get paid for their work.

If you’re interested, please fill out this form.

We think it will be a blast, come join us. We’re meeting Monday, May 14th at 7:00 pm at Foundry coworking, 418 6th Avenue, Suite 210, Des Moines IA (map). Parking at the meters is free since its after 6:00.

You can RSVP by leaving a comment on this blog post or on our Facebook page. Things you should bring:

• A laptop or mobile device may be useful

• If you’re a designer come inspired and ready to push some pixels or scribble on napkins

• Your web dev skills such as PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Database, Rails and etc

See you there!

Remote teams: We’ll be trying out Google+ hangouts this Monday night. This is great for a group of 2-4 people in Ames or somewhere else who want to participate but can’t make it to the meeting. Please leave a comment here or on Facebook if interested so that we can work out the details.

Come join us for lunch at 12:00 at Felix and Oscars in West Des Moines on Tuesday April 17th. The address is 4801 Westown Parkway  West Des Moines. It will be helpful to us if you can RSVP by either leaving a comment or confirming on our Facebook event page.

So come to Smokey Row 1910 Cottage Grove, Des Moines IA (near downtown) on Wednesday, Dec 28th at 12:00 for a round-table discussion. Jeremy has a few interesting tricks he’d like to share and wants to hear some of your favorite tools and techniques. This is a conversational format, not a presentation. If it is anything like our last round-table, it will be power packed and you very likely will want to take a few notes.

If you could please RSVP by either leaving a comment here or on our Facebook event page, that would be awesome. See you there!

Tony’s slides are available on slideshare, but if you want the quick take-away message: Just try it! MongoDB’s barrier to entry is very low and works with many different programming languages and tools.

Meet us at Felix and Oscars in West Des Moines at 12:00. There will be time to eat, listen to the presentation and be out in under an hour. The address is 4801 Westown Parkway  West Des Moines.

Please RSVP by leaving a comment here or on the Facebook event page.

Plan your projects over the DSMWebgeeks group mailing list with other coders. Then meet us later that night at Foundry. Write some code, get help from other Web Geeks members on your projects, or just socialize.

See you there.

This Thursday, 6th at 12:00 we’ll be meeting at Felix and Oscars in West Des Moines where we’ll be hearing from Ryan Bergman about how he was able to achieve 508 compliance without having to give up the Ajax goodness we all love.

Ryan is currently a web developer for John Deere but this project was created when he worked for Geo Learning and was designed to satisfy the accessibility requirements of their corporate and government clients. Come for an introduction to the Wai-Aria standard and see how you make your favorite dynamic technique work for everyone.

Felix and Oscar’s is at 4801 Westown Parkway West Des Moines, Iowa.

We’ll give you a hard but realistic challenge, split up into groups and see if, in only 90 minutes, we can complete the tasks. At the end we’ll present our findings and show off our work.

We think it will be a blast, come join us. We’re meeting Monday, Oct 3rd at 7:00 pm at Foundry coworking. Afterwards (about 9:00) we’ll head over to Raccoon River Brewery.

You can RSVP by leaving a comment on this block post or on our Facebook page. Things you should bring:

• A laptop or mobile device may be useful
• Your web dev skills such as PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Database, Rails and etc
• If you’re a designer come inspired and ready to push some pixels or scribble on napkins.

See you there!

The topic this time will be HTML5, but the rest is a mystery. We’ll be meeting at Foundry Coworking at 7:00. Come on down for a great time!

Leave a comment here or on our Facebook event page to let us know if you’re coming.