Weekly News – Oct 4th Edition

We’re Growing…

Homes of Hope is building a living building in Grand Rapids for a young family that has devoted their lives to helping the community. Brent Fisher, a Factory member, is on the board.

There’s one more ticket left for The Factory Tour excursion at Midwest UX.

One of The Factory members, John Rumery, is a volunteer radio programmer for WYCE. Check out their upcoming event WYCE: Live at Wealthy Concert series presents the BoDeans.

Check out Factory resident, Andy Westmoreland, in the photos of a recent article in MLive.

The West Michigan Ruby Users Group is hosting their monthly meetup on Monday, October 7th at The Factory. Adam DeLong, Factory resident, is a co-organizer.

Check out Lakeshore Pub Crawl on October 12th. Jared Olson, Factory member, is helping put the event together.

Dave Brondsema, Factory resident, is an organizer of one of largest local tech groups, GRWebDev. They will be hosting their next meetup “Fail! Lessons Learned from Your Oopsies” at The Factory on October 28th.

Upcoming
GRGiveCamp is happening here at The Factory November 8-10. They are still looking for volunteer developers, designers, marketers and anyone interested in technology to help out local area non-profits. Check out grgivecamp.org for more info.

Startup Weekend GR 2014 is January 17-19 at The Factory.