Happy New Year! We'll be back at South Street this time.



First Wednesdays is a regular meetup of technologists and technology-interested folks local to the Charlottesville, VA area. We often like to talk about technology, business, and related matters -- but anyone is welcome to attend regardless of their profession, and we hope we see you there.



If you're looking for some conversational topics, here are some recent tech events that happened in the past month:



• Vulnerability in the client software for git, a popular distributed version-control system, is announced



• Shanley Kane, technology culture critic and diversity advocate, is profiled by MIT's Technology Review



• Yukihiro Matsumoto, the inventor of Ruby, announces Streem, a concurrent stream-based scripting language



• CoreOS announces a container runtime, Rocket (analogous to Docker plus an app container)



• Sony Pictures is hacked by self-titled Guardians of Peace



• Look, No Hands: designer Michelle Vandy uses a modified Apple Trackpad to craft designs using only her nose and mouth