🎇Happy *Belated* New Year!🎇

Hope everyone had a nice holiday break. Here's to an amazing 2020!

It's been 8 years since Coding Grace was formed, so not quite a decade, and we are super happy that it's the start of the new year, start of the new decade. This is a good time to see what people are interested in... see big blue button below. Your feedback is appreciated. 😊

I'm still updating the list of Diversity in Tech groups around Ireland, and so many new groups popped up in 2019. If you know of a group that is not on the list, please let me know and I'll update it.

And because I'm so excited about it and mentioned in the last newsletter... I want to mention it again, Dublin will be hosting EuroPython in 2020. 🙌 I'll (Vicky) certainly will try and gather PyDiversity folks together, it's a reality ever since the first PyCon Ireland I first co-organised back in 2010! Dream come true, only took nearly 10 years! 😅😂 -- if you want to help out, check out https://www.europython-society.org/workgroups.

🤲We are also trying something new, to try and make Coding Grace sustainable, our huge expense is our accountant each year. So we are trying out Open Collective and we are open to donations from individuals and corporates. We are not-for-profit and it's wholly volunteer-based running it.

📢Hack Access Dublin Hackathon

Calling all Engineers, developers, designers, urban innovators, entrepreneurs and anyone interested in innovation; here’s your opportunity to make an impact on your city! TICKETS >>>

FRI FEB 21 - SUN FEB 23

📢TechFoundHer Launch

Keep your evening on Mon Feb 10 free, it's hosted at WeWork (Charlemont Street). Launch event for TechFoundHer - a community that celebrates women tech leaders and builds solidarity locally and globally.
Register your ticket here >>>

MON FEB 10

📍Upcoming events I'll be at:

• Tue Jan 22: PyLadies Dublin @ Zalando
• Sat Jan 25 & Sun Jan 26: Light up your Chinese New Year Greeting Card @ Dublin Chinese New Year Festival Spring Fair
• Mon Jan 27: Mentoring at the Intro to Python Workshop organised by Neuroscience Society at TCD
• Mon Feb 3: Giving a lightning talk at iWish @ RDS

📚Reading list this month. If you have something to share in our reading list, drop me an email.

• [Silicon Republic] Inside Enterprise Ireland’s Action Plan for Women in Business
• The Diversity Diaries: Career Advice from Women working in STEM
• Dream Big by Niamh Shaw
• MicroPython: An Intro to Programming Hardware in Python
• Empire of Sin: Brenda Romero spent decades noodling on this mob strategy-RPG
• JavaScript survey: Devs love a bit of React, but Angular and Cordova declining. And you're not alone... a chunk of pros also feel JS is 'overly complex'
• Organizing a tech event and not sure how to encourage more women & nb folks to join?
• Most Powerful Women In Tech In 2019: Beyond CEOs,Women Dominate The C-Suite
• How I negotiated a $300,000 job offer in Silicon Valley
• Lab Coats and Lace e-book now available via WITS Ireland

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 you want me to run workshops, drop me an email at contact@codinggrace.com.

Learn Python making a text-based adventure game (TCD) When: Mon Jan 20
Neuroscience Society reached out to us to run our beginners Python workshop at TCD for their members.

Science Gallery Dublin Open Call: SYSTEMS
Deadline: Fri Jan 31, 2020

DublinAI Fellowship 2020
8 week Fellowship for PhD grads and postdocs.

🌈What workshop would you like us to run next?🌈
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Call for Speakers: IxDA Dublin
IxDA Dublin are looking for speakers for their monthly events.

Call for Speakers: PyCon Limerick
Limerick's 2nd Python Conference in Feb 29, 2020

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

Call for Action: Volunteers for UseR! 2021 in Dublin
If you are interested in being on the bidding team for Dublin, contact Kevin O'Brien.
Details: https://www.r-project.org/useR-2021_call.html

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

GDCFP Day Belfast 2020 - Public Speaking Workshop for Complete Beginners
When: Sat Jan 18 @ Farset Labs
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Belfast/events/266542513/

PyLadies Dublin
When: Tue Jan 21 @ Zalando
Details: https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/dclgvlybccbcc/

Women in AI: Ethically Driven AI Design
When: Wed Jan 22 @ TCD
Details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ethically-driven-ai-design-tickets-87658854995

BlockW Series 10: How to Build a Blockchain Application
When: Tue Jan 28 @ Deloitte, Dublin
Details: https://www.meetup.com/BlockW-Ireland/events/267317382/

"Growing our UX careers" Ladies that UX Belfast - Meetup 4
When: Tue Jan 28 @ Allstate Northern Ireland
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Ladies-that-UX-Belfast/events/267293499/

Women Techmakers 2020 Launch!
When: Thu Jan 30 @ Puppet, Belfast
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Google-Developer-Group-Belfast/events/267697581/

WomenHack
When: Thu Jan 30 @ Verizon Dublin
Details: https://womenhack.com/events/#eb-events-candidate

UpStarter Women in Tech Talent Event
When: Thu Jan 30 @ Dublin
Details: https://upstarter.typeform.com/to/YSYHJ7

TechFoundHer Launch
When: Mon Feb 10
Details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/techfoundher-launch-tickets-90239144711

HackAccess Hackathon
When: Fri Feb 21 - Sun Feb 23 @ Google
Details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/hack-access-dublin-2020-tickets-89236630163

Diversity & Inclusion - Celebrating Social Entrepreneurs
When: Wed Feb 26 @ WeWork, Charlemont Street, D2
Details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/diversity-inclusion-celebrating-social-entrepreneurs-tickets-90289234531

Tech Léi

Tech Léi Talks
When: Tue Feb 11 @ WeWork Dublin Landings
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Tech-Lei/events/267936623/

WTM Belfast 2020
When: Sat Apr 4 @ Ulster University, Belfast
Details: https://womentechmakersbelfast.com/index.html

Women in Tech Dublin
When: Thu Oct 15 - Fri Oct 16 @ Convention Centre Dublin
Details: https://www.women-in-tech-dublin.com/

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.

MON JAN 20

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

TUE JAN 21

Dublin Tech Talks: Cloud focused infrastructure and product dev In Zendesk
Where: Zendesk @ 18:00

WED JAN 22

Mobilize Dublin Meetup
Where: Intercom @ 19:00

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

TechWontBuildIt Dublin: Privacy for Sale: Christmas Gifts and Surveillance
Where: Alfie Byrne's @ 19:00

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

THU JAN 23

GDG Galway: Agile, Agile everywhere
Where: Portershed, Galway @ 17:00

Limerick Games Developers January Meetup
Where: Wickham tap, Limerick @ 19:00

SAT JAN 25

Git Started! A complete beginner's guide to Git/GitHub
Where: Clockwise, Belfast @ 09:00

Skill Boost Dublin: Introduction to VR Development with Unity - VR For Beginners!
Where: VRAI, Exchange St, D8 @ 10:00 - 16:00

DUBSMARTFF- SMARTPHONE FILMMAKING CHALLENGE
Where: Fumbally Stables @ 13:00 - 15:00

TOG 11th Birthday Party
Where: TOG Hackerspace @ 19:00

MON JAN 27

Cork R-User Group: R drop-in coding sessions
Where: UCC @ 11:00

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

TUE JAN 28

Testheads Dublin: Hold The Gherkin/ Visual Testing on Mobile With Vizzy/ Intro to Mobile Testing
Where: Workday @ 18:00

GDG Dublin - January 2020 - AMP Workshop
Where: Google, Barrow St @ 18:30

Bright Club Dublin
Where: Whelan's, Wexford St

WED JAN 29

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

Game Development Ireland: First Meet & Greet
Where: The Foggy Dew @ 19:00

THU JAN 30

Belfast FP: January Meetup - Mob Programming the Advent of Code in FP!
Where: Instil Software, Belfast

Dublin Data Science: Credit Risk Modelling Talk
Where: Dogpatch Labs @ 18:45

SAT FEB 01

Why R? @ Career Zoo Limerick
Where: Thomand Park @ 10:00 - 17:00

Machine Learning with Julia @ Career Zoo Limerick
Where: Thomand Park @ 10:00 - 17:00

Data Science Learnathon: From Raw Data to Deployment @ Career Zoo Limerick
Where: Thomand Park