September is here and with it, OPO.design #3, with the support of ScaleUp Porto.

We are super excited and we want to see you, so it’s time to book your calendar, register on the meetup group to get the invite and, don’t forget to let us know if you’re staying for the also free awesome 🍕Pizza Party 🍕 afterwards. One not to miss! 🎯

Don’t forget we’re always looking for help, new speakers and partners so pick a channel and reach out if you want to be a part of the OPO.network.

And without further ado, let’s check out what else is happening this month in Porto!

Upcoming Porto Events

❤ Here are the events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.

September 1–5

· misc · APPS para Crianças - Desenvolvimento e Programação
An opportunity for the kids you know to start playing around with robotics and programming. Choose between App development (MIT App Inventor), game development (Alice 3 / Construct 2) or robotics.

September 3, 18h30–20h30

· dev · A byte of: Google Play
Join the GDG Porto for a byte sized meetup with a talk about how to improve app listing with Google Play by Macy Kuang.

September 5–6, 9h00–18h15

· dev · Connect Fest
Two day conference focused on solving actual problems with new and inspiring perspectives about PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT — Mobile, Web, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Agile, UX, Security, Blockchain, IoT, Accessibility, Virtual Reality, Management 3.0, and DevOps.

September 8, 15h00–20h00

· misc · Criatividade e Pensamento Lateral
This is a workshop that invites participants to extrapolate the limits of their creativity through tools designed to maximize moments of catharsis.

September 11, 19h00–21h00

· misc · Porto digital Nomads and Expats Meetup
Join for a few beers, snacks and for some talks on being a digital nomad, expat or a local in the city of Porto.

September 12, 18h45–20h45

· dev · DevOps Porto #31: Metrics and context
The 31st meetup about DevOps and its culture, values and practices. This meetup will take place at Cocus office and the chosen topic is metrics around teams and processes.

September 12, 19h00–20h30

· dev · Machine Learning Porto #5 — Avoiding the Machine Learning Blackbox
Kicking off the new season by welcoming Miguel José Monteiro who is going to talk to about Explainability in ML and take everyone through SHAP as a tool for explainability.

September 12, 19h00–21h00

· dev · Porto Codes
Porto Codes is a meetup for local and international programming enthusiasts. One of the goals is to provide programming resources to the community.

September 14–15, 9h00–19h00

· design · Designathon — Porto UX
Designathon is an event that aims to bring people together. You are expected, as a group, to deliver an awesome functional prototype following Google’s Design Sprint Kit guidelines. Split the 24 hours in each phase of the design sprint and have 2 days of have fun!

September 18, 18h30–20h00

· misc· KPI Management with Impact Matrix by Math Marketing COO
Properly defining and managing KPIs is very important in both large and small organisations. In this talk, Lucas Souza will discuss methods to organise KPIs based on their impact on the organisation and also create a dynamic on how to respond to them.

September 21, 9h00–18h00

· dev · Flutter Study Jam with Flutter Portugal
Join the Flutter Study Jam where you will learn about the fundamentals and, by the end of the day, you will leave with an app that you build!

September 21, 15h00–20h00

· design · Introdução ao Design Thinking
Design Thinking is a full-featured methodology and tools that aim to empower group work and stimulate creative thinking. There are many tools that make up this method, and here’s a workshop that can offer a panoramic view of the process.

September 22, 10h00–12h00

· dev · PyCoffee in Porto i/o
PyCoffee is an experimental format of informal Python meetups, organized by Python Porto in partnership with Porto i/o.

September 23, 19h00–21h00

· misc · 9 Insights for Engaging Presentations - Porto Freelancers Meetup
This Freelancers Meetup edition is in partnership up with Look’n Feel agency to talk about how difficult it is to make ideas grow.

September 24, 18h00–20h00

· dev · ØxＯＰＯＳɆＣ Mɇɇtuᵽ [0x76] — The Meet
Learn something new, get to know other g33ks, build an information security community/group in the Porto area and, the most important thing, have fun.

September 25, 19h00–20h30

· dev · JAMstack OPO #3 | Array.prototype.reduce()d to atoms
Demystifying the use of the powerful Array.prototype.reduce() method in JavaScript. Go over the basic mechanics of it and look at how it can help to produce elegant transformations on different types of values.

September 26, 18h30–20h00

· misc · Tech After Work: How Blockchain is changing our world
This Tech After-work will focus on how blockchain is changing the way people do business.

September 26, 19h00–21h00

· dev · Python Porto #15 in Blip — Detecting phishing with Recurrent Neural Networks
Come discuss the efficacy of Recurrent Neural Networks with LSTM architecture on phishing detection.

September 26, 19h00–21h00

· design · Porto Design Community #3
We’re back for the 1st Design meetup of 2019, with the support of ScaleUp Porto. We’re preparing great things so brace yourselves! We’ll be publishing the whole event very soon.

September 26, 19h30–20h30

· design · Mudo Podcast: Conversa com This is Pacifica
Join in on this podcast which is also a meetup, this time at This is Pacifica’s office in Matosinhos.

September 28, 8h30–20h00

· dev · Portuguese Women in Tech Hackathon
Get a team together for this 8-hour hackathon focused on developing innovative tech solutions for climate change.

That’s all for now but we update our calendar every week so stay tuned!

Monthly Must Read & Watch

❤ We hand picked more articles and tools just for you!

ZEPLIN
Announcing Global Styleguides — connecting design systems to engineering · design
Global Styleguides in Zeplin — connecting design systems to engineering.

NAT FRIEDMAN
GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories · dev
GitHub Actions now includes built-in CI/CD. Easily automate how you build, test, and deploy your projects on any platform, including Linux, macOS, and Windows.

HOUSSEIM DJIRDEH, ADDY OSMANI AND MATHIAS BYNENS
Native lazy-loading for the web · js
Support for native lazy-loading images and iframes is coming to the web!

EMMET CONNOLLY
The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process · design
Why is the technology industry so obsessed with the tools we build and use? Tools not only extend our abilities, but also shape how we use those abilities.

GREG HOVANESYAN
Website Launch Checklist · dev
Handy list of things to double-check before launching a website.

PAIGE NIEDRINGHAUS
Node.js 12: The future of server-side JavaScript · js
Node.js 12 brings about some extremely exciting improvements like ES6 module support, better application security, and quicker startup times.

BRENDAN MAHONY
10 Best Chrome extensions for designers · design
After months of testing, here are the 10 best extensions and plugins for designers.

GOOGLE DEVELOPERS
Understand the JavaScript SEO basics · js
Making your JavaScript-powered web applications discoverable via Google Search can help you find new users and re-engage existing users as they search for the content your web app provides.

ERIK D. KENNEDY
4 Rules for Intuitive UX · design
Improve the UX of your designs WITHOUT hours of user research sessions, paper prototyping playtime, or any other trendy UX buzzwords.

These are our suggestions for you to read/watch in September!

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Meetup #1 is right around the corner, it’s time you get to know our speakers.

Marco Oliveira — Founder of OPO.network & CEO at MOXY

With a background in engineering and design, Marco has built several interdisciplinary teams on high-profile projects like BABOOM, and has been responsible for igniting some of the key Porto tech and creative communities.

An artist with a geek vein, Marco has been living with his feet in two worlds, going back and forward between design and engineering for the past 15 years.

An early adopter of what was then known as Macromedia Flash (remember that?), he quickly became charmed with the potential that the web had, and has been using it ever since as a canvas to exercise his creativity.

Even before obtaining his degree in Computer Engineering, Marco was invited to join Triworks, an internationally awarded design studio, where he quickly became lead developer, and was responsible for turning great ideas into real products.

A few years later, Marco took on the role of Chief Technical Officer at BABOOM, taking charge managing the company, from design and creative process, to software development. His efforts and achievements turned BABOOM into a well known Portuguese entrepreneurship story, with considerable media coverage, and landing Marco his nomination for Founder of the Year 2015 by UP Awards.

More recently, Marco started MOXY, a software and design studio, where he’s responsible for the business and design direction.

[UPDATE 2019.09.16] His studio rounded up 24 awards since the launch of their new website, on September 22nd 2018, including Mobile Site of the Year 2018 on the Annual AWWWARDS.

As the head behind OPO.design, the Porto Design Community and OPO.js, the Porto JavaScript Community, Marco has been focused on narrowing the gap between designers and developers, and trying to push the envelope of the Porto talent.

Enough bromance, we look forward to seeing what Marco has to share with us on the first OPO.design meetup.

[UPDATE 2018.05.08] Have a look at the meetup wrap up to see what happened.

If you’ve read this far (you’re awesome 🤘), we have 4 tasks for you:

1. Follow Marco.
2. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
3. Give this article your claps. 👏
4. Answer the questions below.

❤️️ Design? 💙 Porto? 💚 Francesinha? Join the OPO.design #1 dinner:

OPO.design meetup #1: Speaker Profiles 🗣 was originally published in OPO.network on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Meetup #1 is right around the corner, it’s time you get to know our speakers.

Luis Vaz — Founder of Canvaz Design Studio

Luis has been dedicating his work to real challenges and has worked across the globe in several projects with millions of users, as well as actively participating in the design community as a Judge for the CSS Design Awards.

Aproud father and surfer, after graduating in Advertising, he soon moved on to a multimedia post-graduation, focusing on UX/UI.

For the past 12 years, Luis has been designing digital experiences, some of his work being even featured by Apple, as was the case of the Breeze app.

Having gone through a few jobs, his entrepreneur skills were showing, and he started a serial entrepreneurship rampage of sorts, founding multiple companies, like muchBeta, Niiiws, Tails and Whales, FINIAM and Canvaz Design Studio.

Bouncing between working with clients and his personal projects, this experience helped Luis develop a deeper understanding of what’s required for the success of a project.

Luis loves to embrace hard projects that add value, while providing a great experience for users, or as he puts it:

“Can’t say no to a good challenge!”

His creativity has even caught the eye of sports celebrities such as Dwyane Wade, Adrian Peterson and Ernie Els, and recently he was invited to join the 2018 judge panel for the CSS Design Awards.

We can’t say enough great things about Luis, so I guess you just have to drop by and come meet him!

[UPDATE 2018.05.08] Have a look at the meetup wrap up to see what happened.

If you’ve read this far (you’re awesome 🤘), we have 4 tasks for you:

1. Follow Luis.
2. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
3. Give this article your claps. 👏
4. Answer the questions below.

❤️️ Design? 💙 Porto? 💚 Francesinha? Join the OPO.design #1 dinner:

OPO.design meetup #1: Speaker Profiles 🗣 was originally published in OPO.network on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.