It was purely grassroots. No corporate sponsorship filters. You'd get senior engineers from Rozetka, MacPaw, or Grammarly giving raw, unfiltered talks. Their job board was surprisingly good for 2015-2019.
Their front page looked like it was built in 1999 (and probably was), but their meetups were legendary. Free pizza, terrible coffee, and surprisingly high-level talks about PostgreSQL, Golang, and network architecture.
Also, side question: Are the organizers still running any events under a new name? I moved to Kyiv last year and everyone tells me "Oh, Codec was the place to go," but nobody knows what happened after 2022. (In response to someone asking "What is the best IT community in Ukraine?") codec.kiev.ua reddit
The site UI looked like it hadn't been updated since 2005. No responsive design. The search function was broken for years.
I'm trying to find a specific article about debugging kernel panics on Ubuntu 16.04. Google keeps showing results from codec.kiev.ua/forum but the links are 404ing. It was purely grassroots
Since you didn't specify if you want a review , a warning , a nostalgia post , or a question , I have created three common Reddit-style formats. Choose the one that fits your intent. Title: Does anyone else miss the old Codec events in Kyiv? (codec.kiev.ua)
I know the site was a community-driven IT portal based in Kyiv. Does anyone have a local backup or a Wayback Machine link that actually works for their old threads? Or is the domain completely dead now? Their job board was surprisingly good for 2015-2019
The domain resolves to a holding page, but the meetup calendar is dead. The last real activity I saw was pre-2022. A lot of the core members either mobilized, left the country, or moved to closed Telegram channels.
I was cleaning out my old hard drive and found some photos from Codec conferences back in 2018-2019. For those who don't know, codec.kiev.ua was basically the hub for developers, sysadmins, and IT geeks in Kyiv.