We want to create a free and open community of local beginner, amateur, and professional programmers to meet in person to learn, teach, and share expertise with programming languages and their tools. We welcome web and software developers, including anything from JS to R, Ruby to C++, ML to Python. We emphasize friendliness to the new coder and want novices and experts alike to grow by the following: Learning to code by building useful things. Cooperating to build useful things. Sharing experti …