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

Summer is officially here, and it's longer days with hopefully a good mix of rain and sunshine that we can head out but also not feel too bad being at home during lockdown.

I've been working on a few things the past month, it was chance to skill up and learn new things. 😊

• Finishing off the code for my ongoing Maker project (Raspberry Pi, Adafruit's mini thermal printer, Circuit Python): Print Your Own Adventure Game
• Digital drawing, inking and colouring a cartoon character from scratch with Procreate on my iPad
• Making a 20 second countdown time with Adafruit's Circuit Playground Express and Circuit Python
• Making my own zine to accompany my above mentioned "Print Your Own Adventure Game". 😊

I'm still making fabric masks on and off, and getting better using the sewing machine.

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

BTW, don't forget the 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, the Covid-19 Cloth Face Masks for All Ireland Facebook group, and 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. 💪🏼

PyCon Online is happening right now. Talks, tutorials from the last couple of weeks are up. Things to watch out for:

• Hatchery: Beginners Data Workshop for Minorities (This event will be held remotely on May 9th and May 16th, 2020!) - Register here
• Hatchery: Mentored Sprints (This event will be held remotely on May 17th, 2020!) - Register here

🌈 Your Support 🌈
🤔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.

📍Where you will find me this month?
Ok, I'll be at home 😆 till at least May 18th (from latest government announcements), but I'll be giving a lightning talk at this month's PyLadies Dublin about my Maker project, "Print your own adventure game" with Raspberry Pi, thermal printer, arcade buttons and all controlled with Circuit Python. So I hope to see you at PyLadies Dublin on Tue May 19th at 18:30.

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

• 1 Million Women in STEM
• Women in AI: Female Pioneers in Computer Science You May Not Know
• [Podcast] Suzi Krupa joined Bernie Goldbach in a Zoom conversation about "interacting" in this era of social isolation.
• [WWCodePython] Learn Deep Learning with Python - Lung condition classification with CNNs
• [Tutorial] Data Science in Visual Studio Code
• [Tutorial] Python in a container (Visual Studio Code)
• 10 Books Data Scientists Need to Read During Lockdown
• [Video] !!Con West 2020: Naomi Saphra - Get Hooked On Neural Net Inspection! That was a pun!
• [Video] PyCon Online 202: Talk: Lorena Mesa, Elaine Wong, Mariatta - 9 Years of PyLadies: Lessons Learned and What Comes Next
• JetBrains Academy for learning code launches for free during COVID-19 pandemic | TechCrunch

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.

Finally, we've only a couple of weeks till restrictions are slowly lifted and hopefully in time we will have more in-person events (ref: Irish Government's roadmap)

In the meantime, I 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.

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.

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.

Ladies That UX Belfast: LTUX WINE & SHARE
When: Wed May 6, 18:00 to 19:00 GMT+1 via Zoom
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Ladies-that-UX-Belfast/events/270354857

Ladies That UX Belfast: "A little less Unicorn, a little more Chameleon, please"
When: Thu May 7, 08:00 - 09:00 GMT+1
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Ladies-that-UX-Belfast/events/270290351/

Leanne Pittsford, Founder and CEO of Lesbians Who Tech & Allies, sits down with Arlan Hamilton, Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital
When: Thu May 7, 12:00 PT / 15:00 EST
Details: https://lesbianswhotech.org/squad-series-arlan/

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

Bytes n' Brew Online ☕️💻
When: Thu May 14, 08:00 - 09:00
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Belfast/events/270331977/

Women in DevOps: Pride in DevOps: LGBTQ+ Inclusive Workplaces
When: Thu May 14, 20:00 - 21:30 GMT+1
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-in-DevOps/events/270335937/

AnitaB.org Presents Intro to Open Source
When: Fri May 15, 17:00 - 18:00 GMT+1
Details: https://www.meetup.com/AnitaB-org-Dublin/events/270242212/

PyLadies Dublin Virtual May Meetup
When: Tue May 19, 18:30 - 19:30 IST
Details: https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/dclgvlybchbzb/

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 MAY 05

1GAM Galway Meetup!
When: 19:00 - 21:00 GMT+1 | Details

WED MAY 06

Ethical Fashion Hackathon
https://ethicalfashioninitiative.org/hackathon

Dublin AI Developers Group: Google online tech talk: Big Data Analytics with Apache Beam
When: 18:00 to 20:00 GMT+1 | Details

Dublin In-Memory Computing Meetup: Conquer Application Performance Challenges with In-Memory Computing
When: 18:00 - 19:00 GMT+1 | Details

Rust Dublin: May Remote Meetup
When: 18:30 GMT+1 | Details

Online Tog Science Fiction Bookclub
When: 19:00 IST | Details

THU MAY 07

3DCamp Dublin: Eirmersive Launch Party in VR
When: 17:00 - 19:00 GMT+1 | Details

Why R? Webinar - Advanced Data Preparation for Supervised Machine Learning
When: 19:00 IST | Details

WED MAY 13

Leaders of Tech: Stripe's Head of Cards, David Schreiber about Coopetition, and strategic partnerships, synergies, and innovation when scaling in Europe.
When: 15:00 IST | Details

THU MAY 14

Why R? Webinar - Humanitarian Data Analysis with R
When: 19:00 IST | Details

SAT MAY 16

GDG Galway: DevParty - UK & Ireland
When: 16:30 - 18:30 GMT+1 | Details

WED MAY 20

Mobilize #8 - Virtual Meetup
When: 18:15 - 19:15 GMT+1 | Details

FRI MAY 29

iNOG::15v Live
When: 16:00 - 18:00 GMT+1 | Details

SAT MAY 30
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SUN MAY 31

What the Hack: #HackBack
https://what-the-hack.co/#hackback