By Coding Grace in Newsletter — Sep 1, 2020

Coding Grace Sep 2020 Newsletter

Happy September! Looking forward to all those lovely autumn colours.

Even though it's quiet with Coding Grace activities, the Irish tech community are as busy as a bee. The virtual events will be hanging around more until further notice, or at least find a way to get on with things in a safe and manageable fashion during Covid-19. I'm sure missing in-person events, but let's keep doing what we are doing, keeping everyone safe and support our local Irish tech community organisers by attending and speaking at their events. 💪

Monthly Regulars

🛠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.

🌈 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, nearly got the hang of it. 😊

I'm planning to see if I can run a CircuitPython Day (09/09/2020) in collaboration with Python Ireland and PyLadies Dublin. If you are interested in getting involved, drop my an email at dublin@pyladies.com

📖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.

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

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?🌈
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.

Pyjamas Conf 2020
A conference where you can wear your pajamas and give a talk!
Conference Date: Sat Dec 5, 2020
Conference Details: https://pyjamas.live/
Talk Deadline: Sat Sep 5, 2020

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.

(Online) Women Who Code Belfast: Bytes n' Brew Online ☕️💻
When: Thursday, September 3, 08:00 09:00 GMT+1
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Belfast/events/lhkkvrybcmbfb/

(Online) Irish Computer Society: Women4IT Online Breakfast Meeting
When: Fri, 4 September, 11:00 – 12:00
Details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/women4it-online-breakfast-meeting-tickets-118283889297

(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) Diversein: Launch Event and Webinar: Inclusive Intelligence
When: Tue, September 8, 13:00 - 13:30
Details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-event-and-webinar-inclusive-intelligence-tickets-116658128603

(Global) Ada's List: Life Right Now: Working from home in a pandemic
When: Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 16:00 - 18:00 BST
Details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/life-right-now-working-from-home-in-a-pandemic-tickets-116796446315

(Online) PyLadies Dublin Sep Meetup: Building Conversational Bot using Twilio & Python
When: Tue Sep 15, 18:30 - 19:30
Details: https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/272547215/

Girl Develop It, Cork: Code & Coffee
When: Wed Sep 16, 18:30 - 19:30 @ Republic of Work, Cork
Details: https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-KtPOQaae/events/bnqblrybcmbvb/

(Online) Women Who Code Belfast: Bytes n' Brew Online ☕️💻
When: Thursday, October 1, 08:00 09:00 GMT+1
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Belfast/events/lhkkvrybcnbcb/

(Online) Engineers Ireland: Women in Engineering: Strategies for Advancing Your Career
When: Tue, Oct 6 - Thu, Oct 8
Details: https://www.engineersireland.ie/Events/event/6947

(Online) Women in Tech Dublin
When: Fri Oct 16 - Tue Oct 20
Details: https://www.women-in-tech-dublin.com/

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.

🛑 Check back
next month

Looks like in-person events are restricted, will keep an eye out and come back in Oct for updates.

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/virtual-tech-events-live-blog-part-4-september-edition-2020-8-31/

TUE SEP 01

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

WED SEP 02

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

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

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

THU SEP 03

Machine Learning Dublin: The John McCarthy AI Summer School
🕐13:00 - 17:00 BST | Details

DublinR: Why R? Webinar: Reproducible research with workflowr with John Blischak
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details

FRI SEP 04

Dogpatch Labs: First Fridays
10:00 - 12:00: Digital 1-on-1 Mentoring
12:30 - 13:30: Lightning Talks:The Future of In-Store Experience
13:45 - 14:45: Keynote: How Pointy brought 1% of US retailers online
Details: https://dogpatchlabs.com/first-fridays-for-startups/sept-4th-2020/

Tangent | Trinity's Ideas Workspace: LaunchBox 2020: Demo Day - Online!
🕛12:00 - 15:15 | Details

FRI SEP 04
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SUN SEP 06

What The Hack: Blockchain and The World Food Supply
Details: https://what-the-hack.co/blockchain-and-the-world-food-supply/

SAT SEP 05

Dublin Code Mentoring: Free code mentoring - For all levels
🕒15:00 - 17:00 | Details

MON SEP 07

Bring Your Laptop, Work on Code, it's TOG's Open Coding Night! - Online Only
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details

WED SEP 09

Science Gallery Dublin: Citizens' Think-in on Artificial Intelligence
🕛12:00 - 13:15 | Details

Analytics at Speed Dublin: Streaming Visualisations in kdb+
🕐13:00 - 14:00 | Details

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

THU SEP 10

GDG Galway: DevParty - Cloud NEXT Extended
🕕18:00 - 20:00 | Details

Why R? Webinar: Data Science for Social Justice with Sydeaka Watson
🕖19:00 - 21:00 GMT+1 | Details

SAT SEP 12

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

Dublin Code Mentoring: Free code mentoring - For all levels
🕒15:00 - 17:00 | Details

TUE SEP 15

The Polymath Bash!
12:00 - 14:00 | Details

THU SEP 17

Why R? Webinar: Colin Gillespie
19:00 - 21:00 | Details

SAT SEP 19

Dublin Code Mentoring: Free code mentoring - For all levels
🕒15:00 - 17:00 | Details

MON SEP 21

Bring Your Laptop, Work on Code, it's TOG's Open Coding Night! - Online Only
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details

SAT SEP 26

Dublin Code Mentoring: Free code mentoring - For all levels
🕒15:00 - 17:00 | Details

WED SEP 30

Scala Meetups Dublin: Big Data Pipeline Recipe for Scala Developers
🕖19:00 - 20:00 | Details

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

Wikimedia Ireland: Wikipedia Editing and Pizza - open to all
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details

SAT OCT 03

Dublin Code Mentoring: Free code mentoring - For all levels
🕒15:00 - 17:00 | Details

WED OCT 07

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

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