Love, love, love... your code! 🥰

It's Feb and there's 29 days this year!

One more extra day to leap (year) into something new, and play with fun tech. That's what I'm hoping to do, I'm currently writing a text-based adventure game that you can play and print with a mini-thermal printer depending on what buttons you clicked. And this is a project I'm hoping to get ready for Berlin Makerfaire in April. I hope to document my wee journey as a novice Maker. For those who don't know, my background is coding, so creative tech, here I come! 💪🏼

I was at BT Young Scientist last month demoing paper circuits at Fingal County Council stand, it was none stop answering questions on this cheap and cheerful project that you can make at home, school, libraries, anywhere! Dublin Chinese New Year Festival asked me to show people how to make Chinese New Year greeting cards and make them light up with paper circuits for two days. Huge thanks to Michael Twomey for helping me.

And most recently I was at iWish giving a lightning talk about my journey to where I am today to secondary school students at the RDS. I really recommend folks to get involved with iWish next year!

Good Luck!

Looking forward to having a chat with the students this afternoon in the entrepreneur zone. #IWish2020 #BeTheChange #DiversityInTech

— whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (@whykay) February 3, 2020

🤔Help us see what you want to learn this year, we will try and organise workshops for you all.

🤲We mentioned this in our newsletter last month. We want 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.

Shout about about the following events that's happening this month. Be sure to check them out.

📢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

📢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

📢Join us for a cup of tea ☕

Richmond Barracks want to hear about your ideas for its programme. They are particularly interested in hearing from "makers", "crafters" and "fixers". So you might want to knit, sew, stitch, work with wood, wool, etc. Come along and let them know! RSVP: engage@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie

• Tuesday 11th February, 10:30 - 12:00
• Wednesday 12th February, 18:00 - 20:00
• Friday 14th February, 14:00 - 16:00

📍Upcoming events I'll be at:

• Thu Feb 6: 3DCamp Dublin @ Workday
• Mon Feb 10: TechFoundHer @ WeWork Charlemont Exchange
• Tue Feb 11: Teach Léi @ WeWork Dublin Landings
• Wed Feb 12: Men Sheds Maker Drop in @ Richmond Barracks
• Fri Feb 14: Maker Drop in @ Richmond Barracks
• Tue Feb 18: PyLadies Dublin @ Qualtrics
• Tue Feb 25: CHAT - Smart Cities and Smart Homes
• Sat Feb 29: PyCon Limerick

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

• Public sector women’s leadership development programme open for applications
• System2020: A project in motion stays in motion
• The Book of Secret Knowledge
• Women in STEM drawings by Semarhy Quiñones
• What can our next Government do for women in STEM?
• Derry’s new tech event is seeking start-up pitches from women

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.

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

School of Artificial Intelligence Scholarship
Starts: Mon Mar 16, 2020

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

🌈What workshop would you like us to run next?🌈
FEEDBACK

ShipItCon 2020
Deadline: Tue Mar 31, 2020

IxDA Dublin
IxDA Dublin are looking for speakers for their monthly events.

WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2020
The World’s Flagship Event for Developers in Berlin. See their website for what's covered for speakers.
Deadline: Sat Feb 15, 2020

We are looking for lightning talk speakers/demos for our upcoming monthly meetups.

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

The Agile Mindset: Geek Girl Dinners January 2020
When: Thu Feb 6 @ Dogpatch Labs
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Ireland-Girl-Geek-Dinners/events/268165333/

WomenTech Dublin 2020 [Partner Event]
When: Thu Feb 6
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Dublin-Startup-Founders-101/events/267819674/

TechFoundHer Launch
When: Mon Feb 10 @ WeWork Office Space Charlemont Exchange
Details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/techfoundher-launch-tickets-90239144711

Tech Léi

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

PyLadies Dublin @ Qualtrics
When: Tue Feb 18 @ Qaultrics
Details: https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/dclgvlybcdbxb/

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

Coffee & Chat with Ladies Tech
When: Sat Feb 22 @ Hook & Ladder, Sarsfield St, Limerick
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Limerick-Software-Development-Meetup-Group/events/268178733/

Community Hub for Accessible Technology CHAT

CHAT - Smart Cities and Smart Homes
When: Tue Feb 25 @ DCC Civic Offices, Wood Quay
Details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/chat-smart-cities-and-smart-homes-tickets-91276220633

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

Girl Develop IT, Cork: Code & Coffee
When: Wed Feb 26 @ Republic of Work, Cork
Details: https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-KtPOQaae/events/bnqblrybcdbzb/

Facebook’s #SheMeansBusiness
When: Fri Feb 28 @ Facebook
Details: https://internationalwomensdayshemeans.splashthat.com/

Dublin
Tech Talks

Celebrating International Women's Day
When: Tue Mar 3 @ Dogpatch Labs
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Dublin-Tech-Talks/events/266982511/

Hack For Her Hackathon
When: Sat Mar 7 @ PwC
Details: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hack-for-her-hackathon-tickets-89103608291

Women in Business: Using Technology to enhance employee experience
When: Thu Mar 12 @ The Shelbourne
Details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/women-in-business-using-technology-to-enhance-employee-experience-tickets-86916392269

IWD International Women's Day Event at GDG Cloud Dublin
When: Tue Mar 31 @ Google Barrow Street
Details: https://www.meetup.com/GDG-Cloud-Dublin/events/268351269/

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.

WED FEB 05

Tech Won't Build It Ireland: Monthly discussion: Technology and Politics in Ireland
Where: A4 Sounds @ 19:00 - 21:00

FRI FEB 07

First Fridays for Startups
Where: Dogpatch Labs @ 10:00 - 14:50

THU FEB 06

OWASP Dublin - Introduction to Threat Intelligence & SOC lessons learned
Where: Deloitte @ 18:30

Irish VR and 3D Camp Meetup
Where: Workday @ 18:30

Dublin Data Science: Workshop on Bootstrap Methods
Where: Chaplins Bar, Hawkins St, D2 @ 19:00

MON FEB 10

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

Singlepoint - workshops: Interviewing for Frontend Jobs
Where: Morgan McKinley @ 18:00

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

TUE FEB 11

AWS Dublin Meetup - MACHINE LEARNING - Feb 11th, 2020
Where: Button Factory, Temple Bar

Maker project advice + tinkering + 3D Object Scanning @ dlr LexIcon
Where: dlr LexIcon, Dun Laoghaire @ 18:00

Cork|Sec 80
Where: An Spailpin Fanach @ 19:00

WED FEB 12

Python Ireland Monthly Meetup
Where: ACIA @ 18:30

THU FEB 13

Ministry of Testing Cork: February Meetup - Embracing Change: From Tester to Quality Coach
Where: Bank of Ireland Workbench, Patrick St, Cork @ 18:30

THU FEB 13
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FRI FEB 14

HackFastFashion
Where: Dogpatch Labs

SAT FEB 15

Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam - Science Festival Special 2020
Where: School of Maths and Physics Teaching Centre, Queens University, Belfast

GDG Galway: Firebase Study Jam
Where: Galway Technology Centre @ 15:00

TUE FEB 18

Getting started with Raspberry Pi & Arduino with Dr. Jake Rowan Byrne
Where: LexIcon Lab, dlr LexIcon @ 18:00 - 20:00

MON FEB 17

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

WED FEB 19

Tech Space: Working as an individual and team
Where: Puppet, Befast @ 18:00 - 20:00

ODSC Data Science: Leveraging Public Datasets and APIs using Python
Where: Harvey Nash @ 18:00

UX Cork
Where: Bank of Ireland Workbench, Patrick St, Cork @ 18:30

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

TechWontBuildIt Dublin: You can't say that! Policing the long tail of public opinion on Facebook
Where: TU Dublin Bolton St @ 19:00

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

THU FEB 20

GDG Galway: Hash Code 2020
Where: Galway @ 17:30

NuCode Dublin #1
Where: The Tara Building @ 18:00

Limerick Games Developers February Meetup
Where: Wickham Tap, Limerick @ 19:00

SAT FEB 22

Data Science and Engineering Club: Mastering Data Science Engineering
Where: Starbucks Leeson St, D2 @ 09:30

FRI FEB 21
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SUN FEB 23

Startup Weekend Gorey: Greentech
Where: The Hatch Lab, Gorey

MON FEB 24

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

February DevOps Galway Meetup
Where: Portershed @ 18:30

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

TUE FEB 25

Cork Software Crafters: Hands-on session: CI/CD non-breaking changes exercise
Where: Forcepoint, Cork @ 18:15

FameLab Dublin 2020
Where: The Sound House, Eden Quay @ 19:00 - 22:00

WED FEB 26

PyBelfast: Python Kickoff!
Where: Farset Labs @ 18:00 - 20:00

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

THU FEB 27

Half Day Apache Kafka Workshop - Dublin
Where: Radisson Blu Royal Hotel @ 12:00 - 17:00

Dublin Tech Talks: Talking with Informatica
Where: Informatica Ireland @ 18:00

Limerick AI - (Applications & Games) Software Development:( NLP - The BERT Model ) : A talk by Donal Byrne
Where: Bank of Ireland Workbench, O'Connell St, Limerick @ 18:30

SAT FEB 29

Air Quality Sensor Kit Workshop - Afternoon Session
Where: TOG Hackerspace @ 15:00 - 18:00

MON MAR 02

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

TUE MAR 03

1GAM Galway
Where: The Portershed, Galway @ 19:00

WED MAR 04

Dublin's Third Hack && Tell!
Where: Zalando @ 18:30

Clojure Ireland (March 2020 Edition)
Where: Check meetup @ 18:30

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

THU MAR 05

Blockchain Connect - March 2020
Where: Dogpatch Labs @ 11:00 - 19:30

Dublin Applied Mathematics
Where: Riot Games @ 18:30

TUE MAR 10

Getting Started with Raspberry Pi & Arduino with Dr. Jake Rowan Byrne
Where: LexIcon Lab, dlr LexIcon @ 18:00 - 20:00