May Newsletter

Summer's here! The first of May and the sun is smiling and shining bright today.

This is a quiet month, but I am working on workshops from June onwards. :-D

Just a reminder about 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.

News you might have missed:

• Write-up from the weAREhere TIME unconference.
• Guest blog post from one of our awesome mentors, Serena Fritsch, who mentored our AngularJS workshop at Women Techmakers at Google recently.

Women in Technology and Science are celebrating their 25th Anniversary this year. They are offering a special EUR25 membership for first time joiners, and full-time student affiliate membership for FREE.
Details >> http://witsireland.com/becoming-a-member/

Here's my selection for May's reading list (with a couple of videos).

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

Enjoy and looking forward to more warm sunshine as exam season starts.

Cheers,

/// Vicky

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.
• Invited to run workshops at the next Women Techmakers (Dublin) at the end of July. Details to follow.
• The animation workshop is pushed out till July.
• 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

Drupal Open Day
When : Fri May 22 - Sat May 23
http://2015.drupal.ie/

HybridConf:
Special offer to diversity groups - Apply for FREE ticket

When: Thu Aug 20 - Fri Aug 21
https://hybridconf.net/pay-it-forward

Female-friendly events

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

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

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

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

Other events happening around Ireland

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

Want me to include an event? Email me at contact@codinggrace.com.

Dublin JS: Famo.us, JS Game Development and Building Responsive sites with AngularJS @ Intercom
Tuesday, May 5 (18:30 - 20:30)

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

Clojure Ireland: On Datomic, Reagent & Watchman @ Intercom
Wednesday, May 6 (19:00)

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

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

Belfast GameCraft @ University of Ulster
Saturday, May 9 (09:00 - 21:00)

Web Developers Ireland: Front-End Development Workshop: Functions in Javascript @ Starbucks, Leeson St, D2
Saturday, May 9 (10:00 - 14:00)

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

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)

BMO photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/_doodles_/10415962506/