BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260210T215924Z UID:F65EAD49-5F71-4C77-8093-EAE5A9699C5D DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260129T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260129T200000 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special hands-on “AI Coding Tools Demo Night” on Thursday\, January 29th\, 2026 at 6:00pm\, hosted at the Madison Colle ge Truax campus. Over the course of two hours\, 3–4 presenters will each use a different AI-assisted coding tool—Copilot\, Cursor\, Claude Code\ , Gemini\, Codex\, etc—to build the same small app from scratch in about 20 minutes each\, from first prompt all the way through deployment. This is a great chance to see how these tools actually behave in real time and to ask questions about how people use them: prompting strategies\, workflo w tips\, costs\, subscription tradeoffs\, and anything else you’re curio us about. It’s not a competition—just a guided\, practical way to lear n what these tools can do.\n\nThe project itself is deliberately small and easy enough that most developers could quickly plan out how they'd build it: a lightweight aggregator for Madison Common Council member blog posts. Each presenter will create a simple static web app hosted on GitHub Pages that pulls new posts from the 20 alder blogs\, supports filtering by alde r and date range\, includes basic search over recent posts\, and publishes an optional RSS feed. All the backend work is handled through GitHub Acti ons and scheduled jobs that perform the scraping. Every presenter will get their own GitHub repo and will build the whole thing live so you can watc h how different tools plan\, scaffold\, generate\, debug\, and deploy code .\n\nYou’re very welcome to bring your laptop and follow along. Our proj ect description is available at https://github.com/Programming-with-AI/Civ ic-Hacking-Alder-Aggregator-Overview/ and we encourage anyone interested t o fire up their own coding assistant and try building the app themselves a s the demos run. Also\, please feel free to take a look at the repository ahead of time\, and chime in with suggestions for our initial prompts and a few other resources we'll provide that night by joining in the Github Di scussions\, or by opening a pull request.\n\nWe'll be in the Madison Colle ge Truax Main Building\, at 1701 Wright Street. We'll be in the conference hall\, which near the cafeteria. The room number is D1630\, breakout room s B and C\, and is labeled as '21' on this map: https://madisoncollege.edu /files/media-document/2023-12/truax-first-floor.pdf\n\nWe recommend parkin g in the visitor lot\, which can be accessed via Hoffman Street. The acces s code to the visitor lot will be #0146. If the lot is full\, you can use the surrounding student stalls. There is also metered parking at the Ander son St entrance\, near the meeting room. The Truax Building is also on the Bus Rapid Transit line\, if you want to skip the driving and parking.\n\n This will be a joint session of the IEEE Computer Society\, MadAI Meetup a nd the Civic Hacking Madison Meetup\, and we hope to make it a friendly\, low-pressure\, high-learning evening. If you’re a software developer who ’s never touched an AI coding tool before\, this is a perfect on-ramp— you’ll see multiple real workflows side-by-side\, get a feel for how the se assistants “think\,” and a chance to see what you think is worth pa ying for (and what isn’t). And if you’re already using these tools dai ly\, this is a chance to see how other developers structure prompts\, debu g with an agent\, and collaborate with these models in practice. No matter your level of experience\, you’ll come away with new ideas\, new techni ques\, and a clearer sense of what these tools can add to your own develop ment style. We’d love to see you there!\n\nRoom: Rooms 309 & 311\, Bldg: Madison College\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, United States\, 53711 LOCATION:Room: Rooms 309 & 311\, Bldg: Madison College\, Madison\, Wisconsi n\, United States\, 53711 ORGANIZER:harrison@glsan.com SEQUENCE:10 SUMMARY:AI Coding Tools Demo Night URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/532026 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong>Join us for a special hands-on &ld quo\;AI Coding Tools Demo Night&rdquo\; on Thursday\, January 29th\, 2026 at 6:00pm</strong>\, hosted at the Madison College Truax campus. Over the course of two hours\,&nbsp\;<strong>3&ndash\;4 presenters will each use a different AI-assisted coding tool</strong>&mdash\;Copilot\, Cursor\, Claud e Code\, Gemini\, Codex\, etc&mdash\;to build the same small app from scra tch in about&nbsp\;<strong>20 minutes each</strong>\, from first prompt al l the way through deployment. This is a great chance to see how these tool s actually behave in real time and to ask questions about how people use t hem: prompting strategies\, workflow tips\, costs\, subscription tradeoffs \, and anything else you&rsquo\;re curious about. It&rsquo\;s not a compet ition&mdash\;just a guided\, practical way to learn what these tools can d o.<br><br>The project itself is deliberately small and easy enough that mo st developers could quickly plan out how they'd build it: a lightweight ag gregator for Madison Common Council member blog posts. Each presenter will create a simple static web app hosted on GitHub Pages that pulls new post s from the 20 alder blogs\, supports filtering by alder and date range\, i ncludes basic search over recent posts\, and publishes an optional RSS fee d. All the backend work is handled through GitHub Actions and scheduled jo bs that perform the scraping. Every presenter will get their own GitHub re po and will build the whole thing live so you can watch how different tool s plan\, scaffold\, generate\, debug\, and deploy code.<br><br>You&rsquo\; re very welcome to&nbsp\;<strong>bring your laptop and follow along</stron g>. Our project description is available at&nbsp\;<a class="!text-ds2-text -fill-brand_primary-enabled hover:!text-ds2-text-fill-brand_primary-hover" href="https://github.com/Programming-with-AI/Civic-Hacking-Alder-Aggregat or-Overview/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener ugc">https://github.c om/Programming-with-AI/Civic-Hacking-Alder-Aggregator-Overview/</a>&nbsp\; and we encourage anyone interested to fire up their own coding assistant a nd try building the app themselves as the demos run. Also\, please feel fr ee to take a look at the repository ahead of time\, and chime in with sugg estions for our initial prompts and a few other resources we'll provide th at night by joining in the Github Discussions\, or by opening a pull reque st.<br><br>We'll be in the Madison College Truax Main Building\, at 1701 W right Street. We'll be in the conference hall\, which near the cafeteria. The room number is D1630\, breakout rooms B and C\, and is labeled as '21' on this map:&nbsp\;<a class="!text-ds2-text-fill-brand_primary-enabled ho ver:!text-ds2-text-fill-brand_primary-hover" href="https://madisoncollege. edu/files/media-document/2023-12/truax-first-floor.pdf" target="_blank" re l="nofollow noopener ugc">https://madisoncollege.edu/files/media-document/ 2023-12/truax-first-floor.pdf</a><br><br>We recommend parking in the visit or lot\, which can be accessed via Hoffman Street. The access code to the visitor lot will be #0146. If the lot is full\, you can use the surroundin g student stalls. There is also metered parking at the Anderson St entranc e\, near the meeting room. The Truax Building is also on the Bus Rapid Tra nsit line\, if you want to skip the driving and parking.<br><br>This will be a&nbsp\;<strong>joint session of the IEEE Computer Society\,&nbsp\; Mad AI Meetup and the Civic Hacking Madison Meetup</strong>\, and we hope to m ake it a friendly\, low-pressure\, high-learning evening.&nbsp\;<strong>If you&rsquo\;re a software developer who&rsquo\;s never touched an AI codin g tool before\, this is a perfect on-ramp</strong>&mdash\;you&rsquo\;ll se e multiple real workflows side-by-side\, get a feel for how these assistan ts &ldquo\;think\,&rdquo\; and a chance to see what you think is worth pay ing for (and what isn&rsquo\;t).&nbsp\;<strong>And if you&rsquo\;re alread y using these tools daily\, this is a chance to see how other developers s tructure prompts\, debug with an agent\, and collaborate with these models in practice.</strong> No matter your level of experience\, you&rsquo\;ll come away with new ideas\, new techniques\, and a clearer sense of what th ese tools can add to your own development style. We&rsquo\;d love to see y ou there!</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR