By Coding Grace in Newsletter — Jul 1, 2020

Coding Grace July 2020 Newsletter

Hope you are all well. Now we are in Phase 3 of re-opening the country, let's enjoy the rest of our summer while still keeping safe.

🧵If you want to make your own masks, do try and make one, even hand-stitching without need of sewing machine. It's worth it and level up on sewing skills is always good to have! I am still not scared of my sewing machine anymore from my past experience with it.

🛠Are you working on a project, share it with us, I'm happy to have you as a guest blog. Drop me an email at contact@codinggrace.com.

💖I'm keeping this here, as it's so important. 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.

I spoke at a Berlin online conference called Enthusiasticon on Sat June 6th. It was a fantastic experience. All talks are 10 minutes long on different tech topics that are fun and exciting. I gave a high level overview of my Print your own adventure game (no code). I would recommend you speak next year, they are so welcoming, and nice long, proper lunch break. Pity I had packet losses during my talk, it took me a week to set up and I practiced loads as it was my first international talk!
👆Pic above is me practising my talk by recording myself on OBS and replaying recordings of myself to see if I'm looking at the camera, if I am within 10 minutes, etc. I've a white screen set up behind me. I was very nervous on the lead up to it (my talk was in the afternoon, the waiting for my turn was the worst). 😰🦋But practicing really helped, and talk itself went well. 🙌

Vicky's Enthusiasticon talk | Slides

🌈 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

#GoingFar Mentorship Programme
Shout out for Talita Holzer behind #GoingFar Mentorship is a beta programme for diverse migrant professionals living in Ireland, which will initially run for 3 months. They will match participants with experienced mentors based on their needs, who they will meet (in person or virtually) for 1 hour once a month for the duration of the programme.
They will launch this programme in August, when they will have a virtual kick-off for participants to meet their mentors and have their first mentoring session

📍Where am I this month?
Ok, I'll still be at home. But I'm embarking on making podcasts for two organisations, it's a new area for me, hopefully I'll be able to share in the next newsletter.
I'll be running virtual PyLadies Dublin meetup this month, it might be live-streamed (depending if things don't go wrong like last time 😅). I'll also be attending to EuroPython 2020 Online conference this month, plus I'm on the comms team.

📖READ, 🎦WATCH, 🎧LISTEN
Morphed from the monthly 📚Reading list this month. If you have something to share in our reading list, drop me an email.

We are also on dev.to, it's a platform for devs to post what they are up to, and we are cross-posting to it ourselves. We are open to folks share articles with us, and if you are also on the platform, please follow us. If you want to contribute, I will send you the key to join us.

Any enquiries (incl. CFPs, announcements, etc), you can drop me an email at contact@codinggrace.com.

Finally, I hope everyone stay healthy and safe. #WearFaceMasks 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 Mentors: #GoingFar Mentorship Programme
Interested in supporting the migrant community? Let Talita Holzer know.

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.

Any organisers who want to announce their CFPs or looking for speakers, drop us an email and we will include in the next newsletter.

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.

(Online) Women CyberSecurity Society - Dublin: Cybersecurity Conversations
When: Sat Jul 4, 14:00 - 16:00 GMT+1
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-CyberSecurity-Society-Dublin-Ireland/events/frhxrrybckbgb/

(Online) #GoingFar: Cultivating an anti-racist culture: it will take all of us.
When: Thu, 9 July, 18:00 - 20:00 IST
Details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/cultivating-an-anti-racist-culture-it-will-take-all-of-us-tickets-110095582852

(Online) Tech Women Dublin: Critical Components for Digital Transformation in Government
When: Tuesday, July 14, 18:00 20:00
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Tech-Women-Dublin/events/271599049/

Girl Develop It, Cork: Code & Coffee
When: Wed Jul 15, 18:30 - 19:30 @ Republic of Work, Cork
Details: https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-KtPOQaae/events/bnqblrybckbtb/

(Online) PyLadies Dublin July Virtual Event: AI: Intro to Explainability by Naomi Freeman
When: Tue Jul 21, 18:30 - 19:30
Details: https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/271327497/

(Online) Cybersecurity Conversations
When: Saturday, August 1, 14:00 - 16:00
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-CyberSecurity-Society-Dublin-Ireland/events/frhxrrybclbcb/

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.

A few in-person events are starting to appear, so I've started to list them below:-

MON JUL 06

Bring Your Laptop, Work on Code, it's TOG's Open Coding Night!
🕖19:00 | 📍TOG Hackerspace | Details

TUE JUL 14

Wave Hackers Experimental Music Group.
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | 📍TOG Hackerspace | Details

MON JUL 20

Bring Your Laptop, Work on Code, it's TOG's Open Coding Night!
🕖19:00 | 📍TOG Hackerspace | Details

WED JUL 22

Work on 3D modeling, laser cutter, 3D Printer projects at TOG's CAD Night
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | 📍TOG Hackerspace | Details

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/

WED JUL 01

ODSC Dublin Data Science: Webinar: "State-of-the-art Named Entity Recognition in Spark NLP"
🕛12:00 - 13:30 | Details

PHP Dublin: July 2020 - Get, Set ... STOP!
🕕18:00 - 20:00 | Details

Rush Dublin July Remote Meetup
🕡18:30 - 20:30 | Details

Wordpress Dublin: Managing Clients and Projects
🕗20:00 - 21:30 | Details

THU JUL 02

Cassandra Workshop Series! FREE 8 week Cassandra course
🕗 08:00 - 10:00 | Details
Every week on Thursday until August 27, 2020

Silicon Drinkabout Belfast: Startup Community drinks - ONLINE NOW!
🕕18:00 - 19:00 | Details

ODSC Dublin Data Science: Accelerate the AI/ML Lifecycle with an Open Source Platform
🕕18:00 - 19:00 | Details

MON JUL 06

So You want to be an Azure Architect Expert - IaaS
🕐13:00 - 14:00 | Details

PyData Remote Summer MeetUp
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details

TUE JUL 07

Test Heads Dublin: The Funny Things That Happened On The Way From QA to Devops
🕕18:00 - 20:00 | Details

ODSC Dublin Data Science: An Introduction to Event Data Modeling in Cloud Data Warehouses
🕕18:00 - 20:00 | Details

1GAM Galway Meetup!
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | 📍The Portershed | Details

WED JUL 08

Clojure Ireland: Concurrency in Clojure (July 2020 Online)
🕕 18:00 - 19:00 | Details

Python Ireland Meetup: A day only has 24 +/- hours
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details

TOG: Online Only Craft Night, Knitting, Sewing and Art, Open to All...
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details

THU JUL 09

Python Ireland & NxNW tech joint Meetup
🕕18:00 - 20:00 | Details

SAT JUL 11

Dublin Linux Community: Coffee Meetup
🕛12:00 - 15:00 | Details

TUE JUL 14

ODSC Dublin Data Science:Putting Machine Learning Models into Production on MPP Platforms
🕕18:00 - 19:00 | Details

FRI JUL 17

Dublin AI Developers Group: Free virtual workshop: Build Image Classifier in Tensorflow.js
🕠17:30 - 19:30 | Details

WED JUL 22

TOG: Online Only Craft Night, Knitting, Sewing and Art, Open to All...
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details

Subscribe to Coding Grace Newsletter