If you’re reading this, I hope we’ve already met. My name is Parker, and I’m the Community Manager at Groover Labs. Over the years, we’ve had several requests to provide tools for our members to communicate. It took some time, but we’re finally up and running with a Discourse forum with Slack integration (huge shoutout to @sethetter for all the help).
Below you’ll find some info about the setup and integration. After you’ve read through it, reply to this discussion to introduce yourself! (Suggestion: name, what you do, a few skills).
A few things:
In the Discourse forum, on the left-hand sidebar, you’ll find a custom Groover Labs section with a member directory.
When you fill out your profile, Discourse will create a card with that info in the member directory.
Below the directory is a link to the Groover Labs Slack channel.
The member directory is also pinned to the top of the Slack channel under General.
This is a soft roll-out. We invited members who come in regularly to help test the features and create content. We’ll do a wider rollout soon.
The community guidelines are simple:
Be kind.
No politics.
No religion.
No spam.
No (unreasonable) advertising.
Have fun.
That should do it. I’m sure we’ll have a lot more to say as we go (ex: we hope Discourse will become a great tool for the Maker Labs, and hope Slack will help us communicate with the membership on a regular basis.
As always, hit me up with any questions.
My introduction:
Hi, I’m Parker. I’ve worked at Groover Labs since 2019. Prior to that, I worked in tech/entertainment and banking. I also taught English at WSU. My skills: an uncanny ability to distract you from your work with stories about history, literature, and television. Hobbies: on the weekends, I try to be a good parent and keep up with my wife.
Hello! I’m Seth Etter, a software engineer and community organizer.
My day job is engineering for Zapier. My focus is on backend web applications, but I have experience across the board – infrastructure, ops, security, incident response, team process, mangement, and begrudgingly a bit of front-end as well. Prior to Zapier I spent 6 years in gov and civic tech.
On the side, I am the founder and current President of devICT, Wichita’s community group for anyone interested in coding and software. We welcome anyone to join the community and attend our events, no prior experience required! We have events at Groover Labs in the hotseat area on a pretty regular basis, so come hang out!
Most importantly, I’m a husband and father to two girls who keep me quite busy .
I love talking tech, feel free to say hey and strike up a conversation!
Hello all! I’m Brian Buller.
I’m a freelance software engineer, which I’ve been for just over a decade. I worked full time for a local software company for approximately a decade before that, after graduating with a computer science degree from K-State in 2004.
I’ll work on very nearly any type of code at all, though there are a few frameworks out there that I’m not a fan of. I especially enjoy working on backend server code and Android app development. I also spend quite a bit of my free time working on hobby projects.
I run Code & Coffee on Thursday mornings (7-10 AM, in the hotseat area; listed in the devICT events that @sethetter linked), which I’ve been running for 12 years or so, bouncing from place to place as different organizations have offered to host. I’m grateful to Groover Labs for letting us use the space for the last several years, and looking forward to the years ahead!
When I’m not writing code, my wife and I are planning/running/playing in various tabletop RPGs (D&D, etc), which I’m always more than happy to evangelize.
Hi all, I’m Mel.
I’m a senior software engineer with Trimble MAPS, where I’ve worked for a little over 5 years. I currently work on an enterprise web app in the parcel delivery space - for me that means C#, REST APIs, and microservices. I’m getting into python lately as well. I’m a hotseat member at Groover and you can (hopefully) find me making a valiant effort to get out of my house and come in on Thursdays and Fridays.
When I’m not working, I’m mostly doing mom stuff for my 5yo, 2yo, two dogs, and one cat. I collect stringed instruments and enjoy folk and country music. Please distract me if you want to talk science fiction.
Hi, I’m Tracy Hoover, co-founder of Groover Labs, along with my husband Curt Gridley.
You’ll generally find me sitting at my desk in the co-working area. In my (not-so-copious) free time, I like to knit, read, and play the viola da gamba (a bowed Renaissance string instrument). I just returned from a week at music camp in my beloved New England, where I got to spend a week making music with other members of my tribe. Curt and I have two grown kids, Henry and Fiona, who both work in tech in Southern California.
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