Refresh Meet Up Status
There’s been some questions regarding the status of RefreshColumbia continuing to have meet ups. The group is still alive and kicking! In fact we had a pretty cool Dribbble themed meet up last month, thanks to Kris Black for that brilliant idea.
However we are going to move to having 6 a year instead of 12. This will allow for extra time to plan meetings and get presenters lined up.
We’re always looking for some of you great people who have come to love RefreshColumbia to get up there and share your knowledge with us, anytime you want to present something please volunteer. WE NEED YOU! The same for organizing a meet up, if you have a great idea or know of someone who would give a great presentation let’s get it going.
There is no meet up this month for April, we’ll be getting together next month for May on the 25th (details coming soon). So as we ramp up to the next Refresh meeting, help spread the word and let’s get as many of us together as we can for it.
Sr Front End Dev at SCANA
SCANA is seeking a Sr Front End Web Developer with at least five years experience in related positions to join our Marketing & Communications team located in Columbia, S.C.
Position will primarily be responsible for Web design, client-side coding, and content management for both internal and external Web sites. This position will work with marketing, customer service and IT counterparts to deliver Web content, visuals, multimedia and applications that meet business objectives for this Fortune 500 Company. This individual will monitor content on a daily basis and work with our IT teams to resolve technical and production issues. Responsibilities also include adhering to Web standards in support of corporate branding. Required qualifications include a bachelor’s degree and at least five years of front-end Web development experience in a corporate or agency environment, knowledge of industry standards and best practices in Web usability, and demonstrated experience in Web and graphic design concepts. Applicants must be able to hand-code in standards-based (x)HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create rich Web experiences. Familiarity with server side programming languages and client-side libraries, such as jQuery, is desired. Additionally, experience with Photoshop / Imageready / Illustrator and enterprise content management tools is required.
The successful candidate will have an energetic, can-do attitude, precise attention to detail, high standards for quality and creativity, strong customer focus and the ability to multi task across multiple projects and work interdependently within the context of a larger team.
This position will be a core member of the development team for an upcoming Web redesign. If interested in applying, send your resume to cgarza at scana.com.
March 2011 Meetup
On March 31, join us for March Madness, Dribbble style. Come show off what you’ve been working on, or anything you want to share that you think is awesome. Since this is an officially sanctioned Dribbble event, we’ve got plenty of schwag to hand out to those who want to take part.
If you want to take part, just let us know by filling out this form. All you need to do is bring slides, paper, handouts, marble tablets or just yourself. Or you can just show up to see what everybody else is doing. It all starts at 6pm at IT-Ology. We’ll have the space setup with a projector and computer connected to the internet.
When:Thursday, March 31st, 2011 at 6pm
Where: IT-Ology – 1301 Main Street Columbia, SC 29201 (map)
Topic: Share your stuffs!
RSVP: On Facebook
Refresh Hiatus
Hello Refreshers,
It’s hard to believe that it’s been over 2½ years since our inaugural meetup in June of 2008. Since then we’ve gathered almost every month to share knowledge, promote local talent and make Columbia a better place for web designers and developers. It’s been a real joy to see this group grow and I have high hopes for where it will go from here.
Unfortunately though, the time has come for me to bid farewell. My wife and I will be moving to Atlanta at the end of March, so I must step down from my post as the Refresh Columbia organizer. I was hoping to plan meetings for this month and next, but I’ve decided it’s best for me to focus my effort on preparing for the move. As far as future meetups go, there are no immediate plans but I’ve been talking to several people about taking the reigns and I assure you that this hiatus will not last long.
In the mean time, you can check our calendar for the meetup details of other local tech groups…and there are several big conferences that are just around the corner too. I hope some of you will come down to Atlanta to see me speak at LessConf on 4/29-30. After that, I’m looking forward to attending An Event Apart Atlanta on 6/13-15 and I’m definitely be coming back here to Columbia for ConvergeSE on 6/24-25. Converge is going to be bigger and better this year, so if you haven’t yet, be sure to sign up for updates so you don’t miss the early bird registration.
At the end of the day, Refresh Columbia is not about me. It’s about you and the rest of the local web design and development community. To those of you who’ve attended our meetups in the past, thanks for being a part of that community. To those of you who’ve volunteered to speak or who’ve helped me organize the meetups, you are the catalysts that have made this community what it is. I hope that you will continue to share your knowledge, promote local talent and make Columbia an awesome place to be a web professional.
Sincerely,
Jason Beaird
@jasongraphix
January 2011 Meetup
To kick off our monthly meetups for 2011, we’re teaming up with the Columbia Adobe User Group on Thursday, January 20th to learn about a topic that’s relevant to both of our groups: HTML5 Video
This Month’s Talk:
Video for Everybody!
Greg Lunn (@greglunn)
Adding video to a website can be a tedious and confusing chore. Compression settings, aspect ratios, codecs, browser support, playback controls… it’s almost enough to make you give up on the idea completely. Greg will discuss methods for adding video to your Web page, including how to take advantage of the latest HTML5 video enhancements while still supporting older browsers through the use of Flash. He’ll also demystify those compression settings and variables in your video encoder, so you can be confident that your video is of the highest quality and available to the widest audience. Wondering which codecs, bitrates, and resolutions work best on the web? Want to see the easiest way to dive into HTML5 video? Come learn the answers.
Featured Book:
Thanks to the user group partnerships advertised in the sidebar, we give away a free book at each of our meetups. This month we’ll be giving away a copy of Stunning CSS3: A project-based guide to the latest in CSS by Zoe Mickley Gillenwater (who you might remember from last year’s ConvergeSE conference). We’ll be giving this book away to one random attendee and the Adobe User Group will be doing some giveaways as well. We hope you can make it out!
When:Thursday, January 20th, 2010 at 6pm
Where: South Carolina ETV – 1041 George Rogers Blvd. (map)
Topic: Video for Everyone!
RSVP: On Facebook
