May the Tech be with You

May is here, that means summer has arrived. Cherry blossoms, sunshine, exam season, and so many wonderful events happening in Dublin and around Ireland. I'm extending my apologies for lack of Coding Grace workshops, do please prod me, I'm hoping to at least run workshops at least once per quarter. In the meantime, do check all the cool stuff happening this month. 👇👇👇

👩‍🚀👨‍🚀I attended Dublin Tech Summit (huge thanks for the ticket), and was very lucky and blown away listening to Chris Hadfield about all the life-endangering encounters he and his team (and other astronauts) faced, and worked in.
"Early success is a terrible teacher, enforces bad habits. Look for failure, expose them."

“Visualise failure” as a leader. You will be calm and fixed those problems.
👨‍🎤With him wrapping his keynote with his rendition of Bowie's Space Oddity. 🚀

Chris Hadfield singing Space Oddity.

I mentioned last month that I'm Dublin Maker's new Maker Advocate based in DCU as part of the MADE (Maker Advocacy in Dublin for Everyone) programme funded by SFI. I hope to bring the Maker community together as well as raising the profile of Maker culture amongst many other goals of this role.
If you are or know someone who is interested in participating, the deadline for the open call is Wed May 15. Apply via http://www.dublinmaker.ie/open-call/

Want to keep this here so folks in and around Wexford can keep up to date with what they are up to.

If you are interested, you can sign up to their newsletter via http://eepurl.com/duzDSf.

📍Events you will find Coding Grace (aka me, Vicky) this month:

• Sun May 5 - Raspberry Pi Area at Coolest Projects @ RDS
• Fri May 10 - State of Play @ TU Dublin
• Sat May 11 - Visiting Northern Ireland Raspberry Pi Jam
• Thu May 16 to Fri May 17 - Inspirefest 2019 @ Bord Gais Theatre
• Fri May 24 - Joy of Coding (Rotterdam)

📚Reading list (if you have any to share in our upcoming newsletters, just drop me an email):

• What do companies expect from Python devs in 2019?
• Python at Netflix
• Adafruit Daily - MicroPython turns 6!
• Python for Lego Mindstorm EV3
• Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community
• TensorFlow is dead, long live TensorFlow!
• How playing board games made me a better product designer
• So You Want To Speak At A Tech Conference? by Suze Shardlow

Big shout out to allthetechthings.com where we pulled information about Diversity/Grants and Call for Papers from around Europe.

Any enquiries (incl. CFPs, announcements, etc), you can drop me an email at contact@codinggrace.com.

Thanks,
/// Vicky

🛠 If there's one you really, really want me to run, drop me an email at contact@codinggrace.com.

Inspirefest diversity ticket bursary with Silicon Valley Bank Conference Date: Thu May 16 - Fri May 17 2019
Where: Bord Gais Theatre
Deadline: Wed May 8

womENcourage Participation Scholarship Conference Date: Mon Sep 16 - Wed 18 2019
Where: Rome, Italy
Deadline: Mon May 27 2019

ShipItCon 2019 FinAid Conference Date: Fri Sep 6 2019
Where: Mansion House

Write the Docs - Free Tickets Conference Date: Sun Sep 15 - Wed Sep 17, 2019
Where: Prague,, Czechia
Conference site: writethedocs.org/conf
Deadline: Wed Jul 17 2019

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Startup Week Dublin Open Call
Event Date: Mon Oct 21 to Fri Oct 25
Pro

Girls In Tech Dublin Hackathon
Date: Fri May 24 - Sun May 26
Where: The Digital Hub
Promo Code: HACK50

Call for Speakers: JS Day Dublin/Ireland's first JS Conference are looking for speakers, and their target audience is audience skill level is intermediate to advanced. There's perks as well, check their site for more info.

Call for Speakers: IxDA Dublin
IxDA Dublin are looking for speakers for their monthly events.

Call for Speakers: PyLadies Dublin
We are looking for lightning talk speakers/demos for our upcoming monthly meetups.

@_caitriona created this awesome Women in Tech events listings, contributions welcome.

WITS Cork STEMMinst Book Club
When: Thu May 9 @ The Earth Cafe
Details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wits-cork-stemminst-book-club-tickets-60999910374

Coworking & Coffee @ Mind the Step Cafe
When: Fri May 10 @ Mind The Step
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Co-work-Dublin-Jelly/events/260339411/

Women in Tech Belfast: Lightning Talks Evening
When: Tue May 14 @ Cayan/TSYS, Belfast
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-In-Tech-Belfast-Lean-In/events/260369198/

TU Dublin

Using Tech for Good
When: Wed May 15 @ Technological University Dublin - Tallaght
Details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/using-tech-for-good-tickets-60254146775

Power Women
Dublin

Transforming business by driving diversity in technology
When: Thu, May 16 @ Facebook
Details: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/power-women-dublin-tickets-58799163882

All Things Cloud!
When: Mon May 20 @ Arthur House, Belfast
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Belfast/events/259664286/

PyLadies Dublin: Introduction to MicroPython (Part 1 of 2)
When: Tue, May 21 @ TBC
Details: https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/dclgvlyzhbcc/

Girl Develop It: Code & Coffee
When: Tue, May 21 @ Republic of Work @ 18:30
Details: https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-KtPOQaae/events/kwslwqyzhbcc/

UX Writing Best Practices
When: Wed May 22 @ Harvey Nash
Details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/ux-writing-best-practices-tickets-61246875052

Coworking & Coffee @ Mind the Step Cafe
When: Thu May 23 @ Talent Garden, Glasnevin
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Co-work-Dublin-Jelly/events/260340027/

National Museum
of Ireland

Women in Design
When: Fri May 24 - Sat May 25 @ Collins Barracks
Details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/women-in-design-tickets-60252709476

Girls in Tech Hacking for Humanity (Hackathon)
When: Fri May 24 - Sun May 26 @ The Digital Hub
Promo Code: HACK50
Details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/come-to-our-first-global-women-in-tech-hackathon-in-ireland-tickets-55403181407

Women of Wearables: Balancing Work, Health and Well-being with Tech
When: Wed May 29 @ WeWork, North Dock, D1
Details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/balancing-work-health-and-well-being-with-tech-tickets-50823887616

BlockW Series 7: Blockchain Standards and Popular Use Cases
When: Thu May 30 @ NCI, D1
Details: https://www.meetup.com/BlockW-Ireland/events/btwldqyzhbcc/

Culture Chats Evening with Ifeoma Ike
When: Thu Jun 6 @ WeWork, Harcourt Road, D2
Details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/culture-chats-evening-with-ifeoma-ike-tickets-61008655531

In case your are curious, I go through meetup, eventbrite and other places each month to curate events of interest for this newsletter, it takes a lot my time. If you find that this is not useful, let me know. In the meantime, after each newsletter, I'll post more updates on CodingGrace.com blog and do feel free to share events in the comments.
BTW, 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.

SUN MAY 05

Skill Boost Dublin: Game Development For Beginners
Where: Q House, D18 @ 10:00 - 16:00

MON MAY 06

Electronics, Microcontroller and IOT Evening
Where: TOG Hackerspace @ 19:00

TUE MAY 07

GDG Dublin I/O Extended 2019
Where: The Foundry, Google

DublinJS: A Blockchain in JavaScript & Visualising Data with D3
Where: Intercom @ 18:30

1GAM Galway May Meetup - Automated Testing for Unity with Eamonn Hannon
Where: The Portershed @ 19:00

WED MAY 08

Python Ireland Meetup
Where: Check meetup page @ 18:30

Dublin Microservices May Meetup!
Where: HBC Tech Dublin @ 18:30

The Limerick Open Source Meetup
Where: Absolute Hotel Limerick @ 20:00

THU MAY 09

MakerDojo May 9 - As the servo turns
Where: Tyndall National Institute, Cork

SmartBear Solve the #1 Challenge in UI Testing with Artificial Intelligence
Where: The Portershed @ 18:00

Analytics at Speed - Dublin Meetup
Where: Dogpatch Labs @ 18:30

Limerick Games Developers Inaugural Meetup!
Where: Wickham tap @ 19:00

Tech Thursday Kilkenny: Agritech in the South East
Where: St. Mary’s Medieval Mile Museum, Kilkenny @ 19:30

FRI MAY 10

Launch Event: 3D Data Hack Dublin
Where: 1 Windmill Ln, D2

MakerMeet 2019
Where: LIT-Thurles @ 19:00

FRI MAY 10
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SUN MAY 12

Copernicus Hackathon Ireland
Where: IT Building, NUI Galway

SAT MAY 11

Career Zoo Athlone
Where: The International Arena, Athlone Institute of Technology

FutureMed Festival [Design & Innovation Challenge]
Where: Workbench, Bank of Ireland, Limerick

Dublin Scala User Group:John De Goes - Error Management: Future vs ZIO
Where: Zalando @ 15:00

MON MAY 13

May C/C++ Meetup
Where: Tenable Dublin @ 18:30

Bring Your Laptop, Work on Code, it's TOG's Open Coding Night!
Where: TOG Hackerspace @ 19:00

TUE MAY 14

DSF Meetup with Riot Games
Where: Riot Games @ 18:00

Xcake! Mobile app development with an Appley flavour: Let's talk about Google (and iOS too)
Where: Deloitte Digital & Blockchain Lab. @ 18:15

WED MAY 15

Work on 3D modeling, laser cutter, 3D Printer projects at TOG's CAD Night
Where: TOG Hackerspace @ 19:00

Craft Night, Knitting, Sewing and Art, Open to All
Where: TOG Hackerspace @ 19:00

SAT MAY 18

Open Data Hackathon
Where: Cork IT @ 08:15 - 20:00

MON MAY 20

Electronics, Microcontroller and IOT Evening
Where: TOG Hackerspace @ 19:00

WED MAY 22

The Ruby Ireland Monaco Grand Prix
Where: PlayON, Digital Exchange, D8 @ 18:00

Public Talk: Black Holes and Quantum Computers
Where: Hamilton Building, TCD @ 19:15 - 21:00

THU MAY 23

Dublin Data Science: Statistical Modelling of Power Grids
Where: Dogpatch Labs @ 18:30

Dublin Applied Mathematics Meetup
Where: AIB Grafton Street @ 18:30

FRI MAY 24

Blockchain Ireland Week - Cork
Where: UCC @ 07:30 - 09:00

MON MAY 27

Bring Your Laptop, Work on Code, it's TOG's Open Coding Night!
Where: TOG Hackerspace @ 19:00

TUE MAY 28

The Travel Edition - Dublin UX
Where: Viasat Ireland @ 18:00

WED MAY 29

Dublin Tech Talks: We are talking Fintech
Where: Harvey Nash @ 18:00

Wikipedia Editing and Pizza, at TOG Dublin
Where: TOG Hackerspace @ 19:00

Work on 3D modeling, laser cutter, 3D Printer projects at TOG's CAD Night
Where: TOG Hackerspace @ 19:00

Craft Night, Knitting, Sewing and Art, Open to All
Where: TOG Hackerspace @ 19:00

MON JUN 03

Electronics, Microcontroller and IOT Evening
Where: TOG Hackerspace @ 19:00

TUE JUN 04

AWS | Dublin Meetup - JUNE 4th
Where: Button Factory @ 18:00

1GAM Galway Meetup!
Where: The Portershed @ 19:00