Keeping safe, well and connected during social/self-isolation

It's an extraordinary time we are going through, our everyday lives are completely disrupted the last three weeks, and we are adapting.

To all the folks on the frontline from various industries keeping the country ticking on, they deserve our hugest support and recognition. 👏👏👏

There are volunteer groups who from took initiative from the first official announcement from the government about social isolation and call to action like Open Source Ventilator Project and the Covid-19 Cloth Face Masks for All Ireland Facebook group. I recently joined the 3D Printing Ireland Facebook group who are printing face shields for frontline health workers. If you have a 3D printer or know of folks/organisations who can get involved, do join in the various volunteer efforts. 💪🏼

Also, just heard that Bank of Ireland is providing €1m in emergency funding for communities impacted by Covid-19. If there's info like that, let me know and I'll share it far and wide.

Coding Grace was part of a diversity in games programme called ReFig:Network in Play in conjunction with GameCraft Foundation and NUIM, and last month we launched the ‘Decoding and Recoding Game-Making Events for Diversity, Inclusion and Innovation’ manual (PDF).

🤔We are still interested in finding out what you are interesting in learning, especially now that we are indoors and would be a great opportunity to learn new skills.

🤲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.

• [Video] CodeCraftCast: The Imposter Syndrome
• micro:mag - issue 7
• [Talk/Video] !!Con West 2020 - Erin Rose Glass: def tech_liberation(): teaching agency in a programmed world!
• [Talk/Video] !!Con West 2020 - Packages but in 3D!
• [Talk/Video] !!Con West 2020 - Muppets, dance costumes, & Spore
• Oldie by goodie - The History of Top Programming Languages from 1965 to 2019!
• Twitter call to action by Camille Donegan: List of Creation / Co-Creation tools available in VR
• A simple accessibility check list for people without accessibility concerns to look at when reviewing games
• Tracy Keogh, one of the founders of the GrowRemote movement in Ireland, shares her thoughts on the new working reality for many businesses and their employees amidst the Covid-19 outbreak.
• MIT Full STEAM ahead - a collection of resources that MIT is putting together for teaching and learning online during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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. #StayAtHome and #WashYourHands is ever so important right now, let's get through this together. 😷🧼

Thanks,

/// Vicky

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

Mary Mulvihill Awards 2020
Entries invited on the theme 'Our Scientific Heritage'. €2000 top prize.
Deadline: Midnight 30 April, 2020 (IST)
Details: https://marymulvihillaward.ie/

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

UN Global Call to Creatives The United Nations has issued an open brief - Global Call to Creatives. There is no deadline.

For the first time, the UN is launching an Open Brief to Creatives everywhere to help spread public health messages in ways that will be effective, accessible and shareable. Together we can flatten the curve.

🌈What workshop would you like us to run next?🌈
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ShipItCon 2020
Deadline: Mon May 4, 2020

Ladies that UX Dublin Call for Mentors
Upcoming Ladies that UX Mentorship looking for mentors.

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.

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

Girl Develop It: Code & Coffee
When: Wed Apr 15, 18:30 - 19:30
Details: https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-KtPOQaae/events/bnqblrybcgbtb/

Disrupt/ING Business Digital Festival
When: Mon Apr 20 - Fri Apr 24
Details: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disrupting-business-digital-festival-waiting-list-tickets-101408874674

Tech Inclusion Global Summit: The Next Wave of Leadership
When: Tue May 12, 16:00 - 19:00
Details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-inclusion-global-summit-the-next-wave-of-leadership-tickets-89354564909

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

Women Who Code Remote Events
When: Various Dates
Details: https://www.womenwhocode.com/digital

Women Who Cowork Dublin Coffee Mornings
When: Every Mon @ 09:30
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Co-work-Dublin-Jelly

Women Who Cowork Dublin Virtual Cocktail Party
When: Every Fri @ 17:00
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Co-work-Dublin-Jelly

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 various event pages for their latest updates to see if they are still going ahead.

Back Soon

No list of in-person events this month as most are now virtual events, see next section 👇

ℹ️ I've been keeping a live list of virtual tech events with focus on Irish-hosted events. You can find the live blog (as long as we need it) via https://www.codinggrace.com/news/covid-19-and-changes-how-tech-communities-handle-events-and-conferences-2020-3-14/

TUE APR 07

Republic of Work Lunch and Learn Speaker Series: The Politics of Artificial Intelligence
Time: 13:00 | Details

WED APR 08

Python Ireland April Meetup
Time: 18:30 | Details

THU APR 09

Online Wild Talk - Clean Code
Time: 14:30 | Details

Wild Code School: Online Tech Workshop - Build your first React App
Time: 17:00 | Details

SAT APR 11

Google chatbots / Google Assistant and intro to Google Cloud serverless
Time: 14:00 | Details

TUE APR 14

Wild Code School: Online Tech Workshop - HTML/CSS/JS - Let's make pixel art!
Time: 17:00 | Details

Codú Community: Contributing to OSS - Let's get contributing
Time: 18:00 | Details

WED APR 15

TOG: Online Craft Night, Knitting, Sewing and Art
Time: 19:00 | Details

TOG: Online Electronics Night substitute meetup
Details

THU APR 16

Wild Code School: Online Tech Workshop - PHP for Beginners
Time: 17:00 | Details

TUE APR 21

Wild Code School: Online Tech Workshop - HTML/CSS - Add 'Learn To Code' To Your To-Do List!
Time: 17:00 | Details

THU APR 23

Wild Code School: Online Tech Workshop - Python for Beginners
Time: 17:00 | Details

TUE APR 28

Wild Code School: Online Tech Workshop - Starting with HTML/CSS
Time: 17:00 | Details

WED APR 29

TOG: Online Craft Night, Knitting, Sewing and Art
Time: 19:00 | Details

THU APR 30

Wild Code School: Online Tech Workshop - Data Analysis for Beginners
Time: 17:00 | Details

FRI APR 24
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SUN APR 26

Global Online Startup Weekend Unite to Fight Covid-19
More details:
https://covid.startupweekend.org/