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by pawptart 867 days ago
As someone who lives a few miles from Georgetown, KY, it's important to note that this factory already exists and sounds like they are (partially) re-tooling it to begin EV production. So that might explain the dollar figure.
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jmoak3 867 days ago
Louisville checking in, spent a lot of time in Georgetown and can confirm this is likely just more work on the Camry plant.

Toyota has been good to the area.

Off topic, but is there a popular tech meetup in the state? Moved back a year and some change ago and would love to get more involved.

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J0EKR 867 days ago
We have been working hard to grow the bluegrass tech community (mainly focused on Lexington area right now). The following are a good place to start:

- https://lextalk.tech/ - should be another one in April or may

- https://www.meetup.com/The-Bluegrass-Developers-Guild on Meetup - lots of good events here

- https://www.bluegrassdevs.org/ - join our slack

I really suggest coffee and code. It is super chill and a great way to meet folks around the area: https://meetu.ps/e/MN0XK/1RyZP/i

We are always looking for folks to help out.

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malfist 867 days ago
Wow there's more of us here than I thought. Glad to see another lexitonian!
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richiebful1 867 days ago
I'd be curious too. I'm in Powell County, so the "greater Lexington area". I'm seeing these in Lex:

- PHP user group (https://www.meetup.com/kentucky-php-user-group/events/298973...)

- Bluegrass Developers Guild (https://www.meetup.com/the-bluegrass-developers-guild/events...)

Also, being an early employee at a startup, I've been attending the rare Startup Lexington event I can make it to.

Feel free to contact my email (in profile) if you want to connect

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warnhardcode 867 days ago
Another Kentuckian in tech here. Thanks for the list. A friend recently attended https://13layers.com/event/lextalktechjan24/ and said it was a good mix of talks. I think they're quarterly and it's on my list to follow up.

I also lurk on these slacks: bluegrass-dev.slack (same folks as the meetup I assume), Louisville Tech louisville.slack, and startuplexington.slack

Hope we keep this ball rolling a bit longer on meetups and gatherings both in person and online.

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