By Coding Grace in Newsletter — Aug 4, 2020

Coding Grace Aug 2020 Newsletter

Hope you are all well. I can't believe it's August. Some in-person activities are starting up again, even co-sharing spaces are opening up for their members. I'll keep you up-to-date of events of interest (in-person and virtual) each month. If I'm missing out on anything, let me know.

This is a great segue to an initiative referred by a friend from a women in tech whatsapp group I'm in, they provide online dancing classes promoting physical and mental health with diverse instructors, they are planning in-person classes again, so check then out via https://www.godanceforchange.com/linktree/ - a good way to shoo away that covid-19 WFH isolation.

And don't forget the wear your mask when out and about, and wash your hands.

🧵Speaking of masks, 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! Here's my past experience with it. However I did find a new pattern for a more summer friendly to breath mask. See my video of my attempt as a newbie sewer.

Vicky trying out new summer-friendly breathable DIY mask pattern. Instructions via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCNISyG6_SY&t=1s

🛠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.

😓BTW, I've started to notice that Irish events listings by organisers on meetup and eventbrite are getting non-Irish events mixed in, so shifting through them takes a wee bit more time. But I hope the curated list of mainly Irish Tech and Diversity in Tech events we have in our monthly newsletter (and our live blog) is of use to you until we figure out how/when we can run our own workshops.

This month, I've been making podcasts for Dublin Maker, I've never made one before but I have experienced editing audio. Distribution platforms was a whole new thing for me, I've picked Buzzsprout as our distributer, definitely the easier approach.

As I've been doing a lot of podcast recordings during the day as well as speaking live at events and hosting live streams (e.g. PyLadies Dublin), my other half prompted me to make an ON AIR sign to let him know when I'm recording. As we have various components that are not used, so I used Pimoroni's Ubercorn LED panel with Pi Zero. I've wrote the 1st part of the project here: https://dev.to/whykay/using-pimoroni-ubercorn-and-pi-zero-for-my-on-air-sign-1l5g

The big one in July was EuroPython which was held online, although I ended up attending a few talks on Friday. I have to give a huge shout out and round of applause to the EuroPython 2020 Online team, all volunteers, for running a very smooth conference held on Discord and talks given via Zoom. 👏👏👏
Keep an eye out on their Youtube channel for this year's talks. Looking forward to having them in Dublin in 2021, and hope we have a handle on this pandemic by then.

Finally, I also was on then panel as part of Science Gallery's Science Learning webinar: Equity, Access & Coronavirus with my Maker Advocate hat on.

🌈 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 am I this month?
I'm not going anywhere, still WFH. I'll still be running virtual PyLadies Dublin meetups, and the live-stream went well last time.

📖READ, 🎦WATCH, 🎧LISTEN
Morphed from the monthly 📚Reading list this month. If you have something to share in our reading, podcast or video 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: PyCon Africa Data Workshop
Cheuk has asked for help as they have 100+ applications for the data workshop. Looking for people with Python and data experience.
When: Sun Aug 9

Why R? Dublin - Call for Participation & Expressions of Interest
A series of Why R? events are planned around Ireland. If you would like to get involved, please get in contact.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Women Who Code Belfast: Bytes n' Brew Online ☕️💻
When: Thu Aug 6, 08:00 - 09:00
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Belfast/events/lhkkvrybclbjb/

PyLadies Dublin Aug Virtual Event
When: Tue Aug 18, 18:30 - 19:30
Details: https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/271722192/

WITS Ireland: Salary Negotiation Workshops
When: Tue Aug 18/Aug 25 /Sep 1, 20:00
Details: https://witsireland.com/news/salary-negotiation-workshops-august-2020/

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

(Online) Women CyberSecurity Society - Dublin: Cybersecurity Conversations
When: Sat Sep 5, 14:00 - 16:00 GMT+1
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-CyberSecurity-Society-Dublin-Ireland/events/frhxrrybcmbhb/

(Online) Women in Tech Dublin
When: Fri Oct 16 - Tue Oct 20
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: http://womenwhocowork.ie/events

Women Who Cowork Dublin Virtual Cocktail Party
When: Every Fri @ 17:00
Details: http://womenwhocowork.ie/events

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 AUG 17

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

WED AUG 26

Farset Labs: Explain Like I'm 5, With BCS Northern Ireland
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | 📍Farset Labs | Details

MON AUG 31

Bring Your Laptop, Work on Code, it's TOG's Open Coding Night!
🕖19:00 | 📍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/live-blog-part-3-virtual-tech-events-during-covid-19-2020-7-31/

TUE AUG 04

Victor Rodrigues: Monitoring Refrigerated Trucks using IoT Central and Power BI
🕚11:00 - 12:00 | Details

1GAM Galway Meetup
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details

WED AUG 05

Startup: Building your team – How to recruit (Online free event)
🕟16:30 - 18:00 | Details

Rust Dublin August Remote Meetup
🕡18:30 - 20:30 | Details

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

THU AUG 06

The Math(s) Fix: Question Time with Conrad Wolfram
🕓16:00 - 17:00 | Details

FRI AUG 07

Azure Dublin Meetup: IoT Series - Overview of IoT Services
🕐13:00 - 14:00 | Details

SAT AUG 08

Dublin Visual Change Makers: Sketch note taking
🕑14:00 - 15:15 | Details

MON AUG 10

Azure Dublin Meetup: Blockchain Series - Introduction to Blockchain and Blockchain on Azure
🕐 13:00 - 14:00 | Details

TUE AUG 11

Cork|Sec 86
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details

Cloud Computing Dublin: Zero Trust Security for Cloud
🕗20:00 - 21:00 | Details

WED AUG 12

Python Ireland Monthly Meetup
🕡18:30 - 20:30 | Details

THU AUG 13

Dublin Tech Talks: Lunch and Learn about Machine Learning Projects Development with Bojan Furlan
🕐13:00 - 14:00 | Details

FRI AUG 14

Azure Dublin Meetup: IoT Series - Connecting IoT device to Azure
🕐13:00 - 14:00 | Details

MON AUG 17

Azure Dublin Meetup: Blockchain Series - Quorum on Azure Blockchain
🕐13:00 - 14:00 | Details

TUE AUG 18

Artificial Intelligence Northern Ireland: AI NI 14
🕕18:00 - 19:00 GMT+1 | Details

WED AUG 19

AI in Action Dublin: AI in Action Virtual Meetup: NLP Series #2
🕓16:00 - 17:30 | Details

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

FI AUG 21

Azure Dublin Meetup: IoT Series - Setting up IoT Edge device
🕐13:00 - 14:00 | Details

MON AUG 24

Azure Dublin Meetup: Blockchain Series - Hyperledger on Azure Blockchain
🕐13:00 - 14:00 | Details

FRI AUG 28

Azure Dublin Meetup: IoT Series - Creating you first Azure IoT Central App
🕐13:00 - 14:00 | Details

MON AUG 31

Azure Dublin Meetup: Blockchain Series - CORDA on Azure Blockchain
🕐13:00 - 14:00 | Details

MON AUG 31

Azure Dublin Meetup: Blockchain Series - CORDA on Azure Blockchain
🕐13:00 - 14:00 | Details

TUE SEP 01

1GAM Galway Meetup
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details

WED SEP 02

Clojure Ireland: Real-world systems in Clojure
🕡18:30 - 20:30 | Details

Newry Digital: Serverless First
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details

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