April Newsletter

Time to kick the flu with some coding workshops and events. We will be a little quiet for the next few weeks, though, but never fear, we are working on some awesome workshops in the coming months.

Some wonderful news, we gave two free Javascript workshop tickets to An Cosán kindly donated by Dean McDonnell.

Coding Grace have teamed up with Digiwomen, Ireland Girl Geek Dinners, PyLadies Dublin and partnering with Irish Computer Society as part of TechWeek.ie and launched a diversity-friendly #weAREhere unconference on Sat, 25th April @ Guinness Enterprise Centre.
>> Tickets are available here.

I am also very excited to announce the Maths Café. It is for people who want to brush up on their school maths or who maybe never fully got it in the first place. We'll be using a new app, Slam, that supports face-to-face collaborative learning. What's more, all proceeds go to the R&D of Ireland's only entry (that we know of!) for the Global Learning XPRIZE, a competition to enable child-driven learning.
>> Tickets are available here.

Finally, here are some reads for this month via my pinboard that you might be interested in.

If you have any questions, drop us an email at contact@codinggrace.com.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Some workshops that I'm organising in the coming months:-

• Workshop as part of Silicon Republic's Inspirefest 2015 fringe events. Details to follow.
• I'm talking to an animator from Giant Animation on running a workshop in June.
• Processing (Creative coding) workshop
• Functional programming - make a game with F#

There has been lots of interest in more data visualisation and manipulation workshops. I'm also looking into running more game-related workshops. Will aim for summer, so stay tuned.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Big DataWeek Belfast: Special discount. Email contact@codinggrace.com if interested.
When : Thu Apr 23
http://www.bdwbelfast.com/

HybridConf: Special offer to diversity groups - FREE ticket
When: Thu Aug 20 - Fri Aug 21
https://hybridconf.net/pay-it-forward

Other events happening around Ireland

I'll post more on CodingGrace.com blog if I find more after this newsletter.

DataKind: The power of data @ Science Gallery
Friday, April 17 (15:00 - 17:00)

PyLadies Dublin @ Wayra
Tuesday, April 21 (18:00 - 21:00)

Hadoop UG Ireland: The Data Lake Use Case: Insights in days or weeks rather than months @ Wayra
Wednesday, April 22 (18:00 - 20:00)

Dublin R: Data Visualization with ggvis @ CPL, Dublin
Wednesday, April 22 (19:00)

Hackers and Founders @ The Long Stone Pub, Dublin
Thursday, April 16, 23 & 30 (18:00)
Thursday, May 7, 14, 21 & 28 (18:00)

3Dcamp Dublin Meetup at Tech Week 2015 @ ICS
Tuesday, April 28 (18:00)

GDG Dublin @ Google HQ
Tuesday, April 28 (18:30 - 21:00)

Code for Ireland @ Google HQ
Thursday, April 30 (18:00 - 21:00)

Dublin JS @ Intercom
Tuesday, May 5 (18:30 - 20:30)

Graphic Design Dublin @ The Beerhouse
Wednesday, May 6 (18:00)

Dublin Scala User Group
Thursday, May 7 (18:30)

Women 2.0 City Meetup Dublin @ Mastercard
Thursday, May 7 (18:30 - 20:30)

Ireland Girl Geek Dinners
Thursday, May 7 - Details coming soon

Belfast GameCraft @ University of Ulster
Saturday, May 9

Dublin MongoDB: Talks on upgrading/benchmark­ing plus on memory management @ Radisson Blu Hotel, Dublin
Tuesday, May 12

Dublin R: Revolution R Certification Talk @ CPL
Tuesday, May 12 (19:00)

Python Ireland May Meetup @ Bank of Ireland, D2
Wednesday, May 13 (18:30)

The Limerick Open Source Meetup @ Absolute Hotel, Limerick
Wednesday, May 13 (20:00)

Limerick Game Designers @ Limerick Savoy Hotel
Thursday, May 14 (19:00)

DataKind Dublin: Datadive @ Bank of Ireland
Saturday, May 16 (10:00) - Sunday, May 17 (14:00)

Bitcoin Development Meetup - Bitcoin API programming in Python
Saturday, May 16

PyLadies Dublin @ Bank of Ireland
Tuesday, May 19th (18:00 - 21:00)

PHP Dublin
Wednesday, May 20 (18:30)

PCH Hackathon at DCU Innovation Campus @ DCU
Friday, May 22 (18:00) - Sunday, May 24 (23:00)

Nodeschool Dublin meetup @ Jawbone
Saturday, May 23 (14:00)

Functional Kats
Tuesday, May 26 (19:00)

Drupal Dublin meetup @ Dara Creative Office
Wednesday, May 27 (19:00)

Dublin R: Copula Analysis of Insurance Tail Dependence in R @ DIT
Thursday, May 28 (19:00)

Women Who Code Belfast Hackathon @ University of Ulster
Saturday, June 6 (09:00 - 21:00)

Rails Girls Galway @ INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics
Saturday, June 27 - Sunday, June 28