By Coding Grace in Newsletter — Mar 13, 2020

Coding Grace Mar 2020 Newsletter

Put a spring in your code 👩‍💻

It maybe a Leap year, but March officially marks it spring time and... International Women's Day!

Happy International Women's Day (month)! To all the folks who runs and support women, thank you, it takes a community to make a difference, and let's shout out to all the wonderful people.
With covid-19 virus causing havok everywhere from travels, schools, work and even the various meetups and conferences due to restrictions to public access to various venues, there has been a lot of chatter from various organisers of events big and small to host virtual meetups/conferences. So keep an eye out, this situation has already brought in changes allowing folks who are able to work from home, and take care of the kids (if their schools are closed temporarily), and better use of our technologies to meet virtually. Organisations like PyLadies are organising virtual conference. What do you think? Would you attend virtual events? BTW, I've included a few virtual events of interest below. Enjoy! 😊

🤔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.

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

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.

Hope everyone stay healthy and safe, and let's hope the Covid-19 virus will start going away.

Thanks,

/// Vicky

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

Event Information: 2020 Teen Turn Summer Programme Launch
Friday, March 20, 2020 1:00 pm

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

AnitaB.org Open Source: Google Summer of Code
Starts: Mon Mar 16, 2020

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

Google Summer of Code
Students can register and submit their applications to mentor organizations. All proposals must be submitted by March 31, 2020 19:00 (Irish Standard Time).

PyLadies (Global)
Looking for speakers for their virtual conference on Sat Mar 28th.

ShipItCon 2020
Deadline: Tue Mar 31, 2020

OWASP Dublin
Call for Speakers for their monthly meetups. Please note: Dates for speakers will be notified approximately 3 - 4 weeks before the event.

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

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

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

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

[VIRTUAL] Systers Techtalks: Using Machine Learning And Deep Learning For Information Extraction
When: Mon Mar 16 - Online
Details: http://www.cvent.com/events/systers-techtalks-using-machine-learning-and-deep-learning-for-information-extraction/event-summary-8541bac81e4949b8bfcf3ec8001777b0.aspx#

[VIRTUAL] AnitaB.org Dublin Meet and Greet online webinar
When: Thu Mar 19 - Online
Details: http://www.cvent.com/d/ynqw09

Wikimedia Community
Ireland Meetup

Wikipedia editing hackathon!
When: Sat Mar 21 @ TOG Hackerspace
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-Community-Ireland-Meetup/events/269230527/

[VIRTUAL] PyLadies Remote International Women's Month Lightning Talks
When: Sat Mar 28 - Online
Details: https://ti.to/pyladies/womensmonthtalks

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/

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

WTM Belfast 2020
When: POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Details: https://womentechmakersbelfast.com/index.html

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.

⚠️NOTE: Due to covid-19, please check the event page for latest updates to see if they are still going ahead.

Back Next Month

No list of events this month as most will likely be cancelled due to recent statement from the Taoiseach and the Health Dept.

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