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      <h1>About us</h1>
      <p>We are a JavaScript community that meets regularly in Austin, Texas, to discuss a wide range of topics, including:</p>
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        <li>The JavaScript language</li>
        <li>JavaScript application frameworks</li>
        <li>Server and client-side JavaScript</li>
        <li>JavaScript on other people's sites</li>
        <li>Testing</li>
        <li>DevOps</li>
        <li>Cryptography</li>
        <li>How CSS colors got their names</li>
        <li>JavaScript position openings</li>
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      <p>The group started back in 2009 and has been going strong ever since. For a taste of our rich history, take a peak at the <a href="/posts/meetups/">meetup archives</a>—they're full of videos and fascinating characters.</p>

      <h2>Meetings</h2>
      <p>We typically meet on the 3<sup>rd</sup> Tuesday of each month somewhere deep in the heart of Austin, Texas — typically downtown. We’ll have a speaker or two, open things up for questions and discussion, and then head to a nearby watering hole to continue the networking and the conversations.</p>

      <h2>Excellence</h2>
      <p>We work hard to build a community of good natured and helpful people that treat each other with <em>excellence</em>. We’ve formalized what this means into our <a href="/code-of-conduct/">Code of Conduct</a>.</p>

      <h2 id="colophon">Colophon</h2>
      <p>Austin JavaScript is powered by &lt;surprise&gt; JavaScript! This website is kept humming by a great many spectacular moving parts. Here are but a few:</p>
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        <li>Static site generator: <a href="https://11ty.dev/">Eleventy (11ty)</a></li>
        <li>Templating language: <a href="https://liquidjs.com/">LiquidJS</a></li>
        <li>Image resizing/caching: <a href="https://11ty/eleventy-img/">@11ty/eleventy-img</a></li>
        <li>CSS framework: <a href="https://bulma.io/">Bulma</a></li>
        <li>CSS preprocessor: <a href="https://sass-lang.com/">Sass</a>, <a href="https://github.com/sass/node-sass">node-sass</a></li>
        <li>Icons: <a href="https://ionicons.com/">Ionicons</a></li>
        <li>Cleanup and minification: <a href="https://purgecss.com/">PurgeCSS</a>, <a href="https://kangax.github.io/html-minifier/">HTMLMinifier</a></li>
        <li>JavaScript linting: <a href="https://eslint.org">ESLint</a>, <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-config-airbnb-base">Airbnb config</a></li>
        <li>Markdown linting: <a href="https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint">MarkdownLint</a></li>
        <li>Source code versioning, CI/CD, web site hosting: <a href="https://github.com/austinjavascript/austinjavascript.com/">GitHub</a></li>
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        <h2>Organizers</h2>
        <p>Austin JavaScript is made possible by the goodwill and hard work of a great many people. Please reach out to the following folks if you have any questions or want to <a href="{{ '/contributing/' | url }}">get more involved</a>.</p>
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        <h2>Emeriti</h2>
        <p>These past leaders helped make Austin JavaScript what it is today.</p>
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