By Coding Grace in Newsletter — Jun 2, 2020

Coding Grace June 2020 Newsletter

Summer time is really here, hope you are keeping cool.

Sun is out and we are in Phase 1 on relaxing of lockdown restrictions, hope folks are enjoying the extra kilometres stretching your legs in the lovely weather.

Since last month, I've been trying to keep busy.

Finally put up my blog of my journey from n00b to not being afraid of the sewing machine making fabric masks.
Working on my new Maker project, generating art from data obtained from Circuit Playground Express and output it to TFT screen.
Got my Grrrlzine Fair zine making kit, started creating first couple of pages based on my current obsession - Animal Crossing New Horizon*.
*Do you play? Ping me and maybe we should meet each other virtually on ACNH!

What are you working on? Share with us and I'll mention it in the next month's newsletter, email contact@codinggrace.com.

🌈 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.

What do you want us to run?

🤲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. Support Coding Grace

📍Where you will find me this month?
Like last month, I'll still be at home, but I'll be giving a 10 minute talk (variation of my PyLadies Dublin talk on my Maker project, Print your own adventure game" with Raspberry Pi, thermal printer, arcade buttons and all controlled with Circuit Python.) at EnthusiastiCon.

📚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.

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.

WWCode CONNECT Digital
When: Fri Jun 5 - Sun Jun 7
Details: https://connectdigital.womenwhocode.dev/

Women CyberSecurity Society Dublin: Cybersecurity Conversations
When: Saturday, June 6, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM GMT+1
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-CyberSecurity-Society-Dublin-Ireland/events/frhxrrybcjbjb/

Women Who Co-work Dublin: Virtual Coffee Morning
When: Mon Jun 8
Details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/virtual-coffee-morning-with-womenco-tickets-103427624810

WOMEN TECH GLOBAL CONFERENCE 2020
When: Wed Jun 10 - Fri Jun 12
Details: https://www.womentech.net/women-tech-conference

PyLadies Dublin Virtual June Meetup
When: Tue Jun 16, 18:30 - 19:30 IST
Details: https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/270123006/

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/live-blog-part-2-virtual-tech-events-during-covid-19-2020-6-1/

WED JUN 03

Rust Dublin: June Remote Meetup
When: 18:30 - 20:30 IST | Details

THU JUN 04

DSF Lunch & Learn – Visualising location data with KeplerGL Jessica Willis
When: 13:00 - 14:00 GMT+1 | Details

IxDA Dublin remote event of 2020 🎊 - Changing Perspectives!
When: 18:40 - 20:20 IST | Details

DubJUG - Microservices Comparison
When: 19:00 - 21:00 GMT+1 | Details

FRI JUN 05

Dogpatch Labs - First Fridays for Startups
When: 10:00 - 14:45 IST | Details

Irish Tech Society: Webinar Series #1 - 'Facing The Fear Of Failure'
When: 17:00 - 18:30 GMT+1 | Details

FRI JUN 05
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SUN JUN 07

Dublin.AI - Remote Hackathon
When: 3-day hackathon | Details

MON JUN 08

PyData Ireland Virtual Meetup #4
When: 19:00 - 21:00 GMT+1 | Details

WED JUN 10

Python Ireland Meetup
When: 18:30 - 21:30 GMT+1 | Details

UX Belfast: From insights to action
When: 19:00 - 20:30 GMT+1 | Details

Online Only Craft Night, Knitting, Sewing and Art, Open to All... Online
When: 19:00 - 21:00 GMT+1 | Details

THU JUN 11

Wild Code School: Online Tech Workshop - HTML/CSS/JS - Create your own MEME generator!
When: 16:00 - 17:00 GMT+1 | Details

ODSC Dublin Data Science:Lower Your Deep Learning Deployment Costs Without Making Sacrifices
When: 19:00 - 20:00 GMT+1 | Details

FRI JUN 12

What is the OWASP Top 10 ... and why does it matter?
When: 13:00 - 14:00 GMT+1 | Details

TUE JUN 16

ODSC Dublin Data Science: Webinar-Workshop: "Avatars in Zoom for All!"
When: 16:00 - 18:00 GMT+1 | Details

WED JUN 17

Online Tog Science Fiction Bookclub
When: 19:00 - 20:00 GMT+1 | Details

Dublin Data Science: Seeing the Light with Refactoring and Testing: A guide for the data professional
When: 19:00 - 20:30 GMT+1 | Details

WED JUN 24

Wikipedia Editing and Pizza, at TOG Dublin</a>
When: 19:00 - 21:00 GMT+1 | Details

Online Only Craft Night, Knitting, Sewing and Art, Open to All... Online
When: 19:00 - 21:00 GMT+1 | Details

Summer time is really here, hope you are keeping cool.

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