What a fun month of diversity and inclusive events. I was very excited to attend AlterConf Dublin on August 6th and learnt a lot from the amazing stories told that day. Soon after, Etsy & Coding Grace partnered for our first ever Allyship workshop on August 11th. I didn't take many photos from both events, I have however captured some of my thoughts which includes storyified links of folks tweets from both events. I attended Intertech Ireland's Wonder Women event (Aug 18), which had an array of fantastic speakers.

Besides all the wonderful events I attended, I want to mention about the sad passing of an amazing and talented person in sci-tech, Jemma Redmond. She left behind an amazing legacy, for those who don't know, she worked on producing bioprinters to print items used for medicine.

Big thanks to WITS Ireland and Women in Technology Galway for inviting Coding Grace to mentor a beginner's Python workshop as The Porter Shed recently. I had a lot of fun, met some wonderful people and the space is amazing, and it was our very first Coding Grace in Galway. Here's a couple of pics from the evening (thanks to Sandra Riordan for the photos).

I also want to say thanks to Kevin O'Brien who ran Coding Grace Limerick's second workshop in University of Limerick. Here's to more workshops in the very near future in the mid-west. :-)

As I compose this newsletter, we have completed 2 out of the 3 workshops of our joint pilot programme based on encouraging more diversity attending the workshops. I would like to thank everyone involved so far, it has been a lot of fun. The final workshop is on Saturday (Sept 3) which introduces people to Unity3D by making 2D games with the Fungus Game library. We are compiling the results of the research and will hopefully make them available in the near future.

Here's some links of interest that I pinned for this month. Do let me know if you want me to include a link to share with folks.

Any enquiries or if you want to help, please email contact@codinggrace.com.

Thanks,

/// Vicky

WORKSHOPS

ReFig: Make 2D Games in Unity3D with Fungus Games

Our 3rd and finally diversity-friendly workshop which is part of a series of beginners workshops. If you are interested, it's waiting list only.

I am working on more workshops and events in the coming months.

Upcoming Workshops

• Beginners HTML5/CSS
• Beginners Unity3D
• Intro to Elm
• Intro to F#

Follow @CodingGrace for updates.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

FINANCIAL AID OPEN

PyCon Ireland is back! This year the conference will be held on Sat 5th - Sun 6th November in the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel in Dublin.

There will be two tracks of talks along with two tracks of workshops.

SUGGESTIONS/FEEDBACK

What workshop would you like us to run next?

Other events happening around Ireland

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

Startup Digest Dublin also has a great listings of events happening in Dublin.
Want me to include an event? Email me at contact@codinggrace.com.

Female-Friendly Events

Women Who Code Dublin: Drawing fractals and trees with a functional first programming language with Functional Kats
When: Tue, Sep 6 (18:30)
Where: Zendesk
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/FunctionalKats/events/233371770/

Women in Tech Galway

Women In Technology Galway: Technology and You
When: Wed, Sep 7 (18:30)
Where: PorterShed, Off Eyre Square, Galway
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Women-In-Technology-Galway/events/233430477

Ireland Girl Geek Dinner Sept Meetup
When: Thu, Sep 8 (18:00 - 20:00)
Where: TBC
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Ireland-Girl-Geek-Dinners/events/233709242/

PyLadies Dublin Sept Meetup
When: Tue, Sep 20 (18:30 - 21:00)
Where: TBC
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/232700076
Fancy showing us what you do with Python? Demo, short talk... let us know by filling out this form.

Upcoming Events

THU SEP 01

Cork (Ireland) R-Users Group: 1 Day Intro to R [WORKSHOP FULL]
Where: Western Gateway Building (09:00)

Hackers and Founders: Have a beer, meet other Hackers and Founders!
Where: The Longstone Pub (18:00)

CodePen Meetup / Ghost of Pub Standards (September)
Where: Against The Grain (18:30)

Belfast Linux User Group: ZeppeLang Debate & Linux on Azure
Where: CME Group Belfast (18:30)

Dublin Coder Forge @ DFC - learn and code, then code some more
Where: Dublin Food Coop (19:00 - 21:00)

THU SEP 01
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FRI SEP 02

Irish Game Based Learning Conf
Where: TCD

FRI SEP 02

Dublin Commissioner's 'Startups + Friends Brekkie
Where: Custom House Quay (08:00 - 10:00)

Lunch and Learn
Where: Dogpatch Labs (12:45 - 14:00)

Silicon Drinkabout Dublin
Where: Yamamori Izakaya, Georges St, D2 (18:00 - 20:30)

SAT SEP 03

Build a Boardgame Jam
Where: Pulse College, Halston Street (10:00 - 18:00)

MON SEP 05

Introduction to 3D printing
Where: dlr Libraries, Dun Laoghaire (18:00)

C++ Dublin User Group Sept Meetup
Where: Workday (18:30 - 20:30)

TUE SEP 06

AWS IoT workshop for developers/engineers
Where: IAA building, D'Olier Street (08:30 - 16:30)

Cork (Ireland) R-Users Group
Where: Western Gateway Building, Cork (13:00 - 14:00)

DublinJS: Lightning Talks
Where: Intercom, D2 (18:30 - 21:00)

Graphic Design Dublin
Where: TBC (19:00)

WED SEP 07

Migration Patterns: Migrating Legacy Systems to Cloud Native Architectures
Where: DCU Business School (14:30 - 16:00)

Introduction to Programming and Electronics: Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Where: dlr Libraries, Dun Laoghaire (18:00)

Clojure Ireland: Lightning Talks
Where: Intercom (18:45 - 21:00)

Cork Java User Group: HTTP/2 Comes to Java - Talk from David Delabassée (Oracle)
Where: The Western Gateway Building (19:00)

THU SEP 08

Data & Analytics Chats (in a pub)
Where: Location known to members (18:30)

IGA Games Night Dublin - Free play!
Where: Robert Reade Pub, D1 (19:00)

SAT SEP 10

Cardboard Céilí (Board gaming with Irish Game Devs)
Where: Against the Grain (12:30 - 15:30)

MON SEP 12

Hadoop User Group Ireland: The Future of Analytics, Oracle Big Data SQL and The Three I"s of Big Data
Where: The Morisson (18:00 - 21:00)

Introduction to 3D printing
Where: dlr Libraries, Dun Laoghaire (18:00)

TUE SEP 13

Maker Drop in evenings
Where: Dun Laoghaire LexIcon Library (18:00)

Cork|Sec Meetup 39
Where: Soho Bar, Grand Parade, Cork (19:00)

WED SEP 14

Python Ireland September Meetup
Where: The Vaults, Dogpatch Labs (18:30)

Internet of Things Belfast Meetup 3
Where: Belfast Met (18:30)

The Limerick Open Source Meetup Group
Where: Absolute Hotel, Limerick (20:00)

THU SEP 15

Interactive Fiction/Video Game Writing with Charlene Putney
Where: Irish Writers Centre (6 Weeks Course)

Dublin Mongo User Group: MongoDB Bug Hunt: Hands-On Session
Where: MongoDB Inc, Dublin (18:00 - 20:30)

Code Co-op NI: The Ruby Trials
Where: Farset Labs (18:00)

Dublin Software Craftsmanship Community
Where: Techmeetup Space (18:15)

IGA Games Night Dublin - Guided Play!
Where: Robert Reade Pub (19:00)

FRI SEP 16
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SUN SEP 18

BioPharma Ambition Hackathon. Hosted by MIT's Hacking Medicine & DCU Alpha
Where: DCU Alpha - Glasnevin

SAT SEP 17

Functional Kats {Belfast}: Kats Conf 16 - A Software Developer Conference
Where: The Waterfront Hall, Belfast (09:30 - 18:00)

Alt Events: Game Night at Bluefire Street Festival
Where: Smithfield Square, D7 (14:00 - 20:00)

MON SEP 19

DublinBeta #19
Where: Hangar, Andrew's Lane, D2 (18:00 - 20:00)

TUE SEP 20

DevOps Belfast Meetup
Where: TBC (18:30)

THU SEP 22

Dublin Software Craftsmanship Community: Evening Open Space is back
Where: Techmeetup Space (18:15)

PHP Belfast September Meetup
Where: Location know to members (18:45)

3Dcamp VR+AR Meetup - September
Where: Workday (18:30 - 21:00)

IGA Games Night Dublin - Free play!
Where: Robert Reade Pub (19:00)

TUE SEP 27

Docker Dublin: Orchestrating MongoDB on Docker, using Docker Swarm
Where: Location known to members (18:30 - 20:00)

WED SEP 28

Dublin UX Talks
Where: The Vaults, Dogpatch Labs (18:00 - 20:00)

Natural Language Processing Dublin
Where: Zalando (18:00)

THU SEP 29

Code Co-op NI
Where: Farset Labs (18:00)

Nodeschool Dublin Meetup: Nodeschool #10
Where: The Rooftop Garden, Dogpatch Labs (18:30)

IGA Games Night Dublin - Free play!
Where: Robert Reade Pub (19:00)

FRI SEP 30

Access Silicon Valley: Fireside with Silicon Valley’s Hottest Matchmaker SAEED AMIDI, PLUG & PLAY
Where: Livestream (02:45 to 04:30)

The App Academy Ireland - Swift App & iOS Development Meetup: App Development Openhouse
Where: Ely Bar, IFSC (19:00)

SAT OCT 1
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SUN OCT 2

WordCamp Belfast
Where: Queens University, Belfast

MON OCT 03

Microsoft Ireland Tech Gathering: Satya Nadella shares his vision on the future of technology
Where: The Convention Centre Dublin (10:00 - 18:00)

TUE OCT 04

Predict Conference 2016
Where: RDS

DublinJS: Lightning Talks
Where: Intercom (18:30 - 21:00)

Dublin AI / Robotics Meetup: Build a self-driving robot - 4 week introductory course (€150)
Where: Dogpatch Labs (18:30 - 20:30)

TUE OCT 04
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WED OCT 5

Predict Conference 2016
Where: RDS

THU OCT 06

Have a beer, meet other Hackers and Founders!
Where: The Long Stone Pub (18:00)

Dublin Adobe User Group: After Effects & motion graphics - getting started for newbies
Where: Photography Academy of Ireland (19:00)

IGA Games Night Dublin - Free play!
Where: Robert Reade Pub (19:00)

FRI OCT 07

Alt Events: The Walking Dead Interactive Cinema Club
Where: Fringe Lab (18:30)

SUN OCT 09

Alt Events: Game Night at Fringe Lab
Where: Fringe Lab (17:00 - 22:00)