Coding Grace Jan 2021 Newsletter
Happy New Year to you all! 🎉🎉🎉
🌈 I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday break, and are raring to go and kickstart 2021 with gusto and vitality. Bring on new ventures, skills to learn, new connections and continued well-being to all.
✌️I'm continuing to maintain a list of Irish virtual tech events as the coronavirus is still affecting many around the world, and slow roll-out of vaccinations, it's going to be awhile before we have in-person events, maybe last quarter of this year? One can only hope.
Are you a member of an underrepresented or marginalised group?
Have you always wanted to become a tech conference speaker?
Let 2021 be the year that you make that dream a reality!
Sign up for a workshop in your region on Saturday, January 23rd 2021.
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.
🤔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.
🌈 Your Support 🌈
Last year, we wanted to try and make Coding Grace sustainable, our largest expense is our accountant each year. We are happy to continue using 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.
🆕 Did you know that we have set up a page on Github Sponsors?
You can read about it if you are curious on how this platform supports the open source community (projects, organisations like ours, etc) via github.com/sponsors.
Huge thanks to our supporters who contributed to our Open Collective fund in 2020. Every little counts as we really appreciate it. Above is the screenshot of our supporters via opencollective.com/coding-grace.
📍Where have I've been (remotely) last month?
- Co-hosted Christmas Decorations Competition with Dublin Maker, TOG Hackerspace and Benchspace Cork
- Attended Diversity in Tech Awards: Winners' Webinar
- Attended FEWN The Next Normal... Wonnderwomen of 2021!!
- Attended WITS Ireland AGM 2020
- Attended Pyjamas Conference
📍Where am I this month?
- Tue Jan 19: Hosting PyLadies Dublin
- Mid-late Jan: Hosting info session for ASSESSMAKE21 (Erasmus+)
📖READ, 🎦WATCH, 🎧LISTEN
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.
- Gladys West: the hidden figure who helped invent GPS (via The Guardian)
- 2020 State of the Octoverse - Github report
- 50 Women in Startups get €50k funding from Enterprise Ireland
- Announcing the PSF (Python Software Foundation) Diversity and Inclusion Work Group
- I took FSFE to court. This is my story by Malina Galina
- How to Undo Mistakes with Git
- Software Insights: Python
- Software Insights: Rust
- Dev.to 2021 Reading List
- buttonbuddy.dev: 🛠Accessible button generator
- [Video] Women in DevOps: 2020 – A year in review with JFrog
- [Podcast] IT'S HER GAME By Dominika Szot
Any enquiries (incl. CFPs, announcements, etc), you can drop me an email at contact@codinggrace.com.
Finally, I know I'm repeating myself every month, but I hope everyone stay healthy and safe.
Thanks,
/// Vicky
🛠 If you want me to run workshops, drop me an email at contact@codinggrace.com.
Facebook Return to Work: Production Engineer Out of the workplace for more than 2 years? Check out Facebook return to work scheme.
📢Any organisers who want to announce their CFPs or looking for speakers, drop us an email and we will include in the next newsletter.
We are looking for lightning talk speakers/demos for our upcoming monthly meetups.
EuroPython needs your help
The team are working out the format for this year’s online conference and would like your feedback to help make a better experience.
PSF Scientific Working Group Call for Grant Requests
- Submit proposals to https://www.python.org/psf/grants
- 1st batch of grant requests considered on January 15th, 2021
🎉 First PyLadies Dublin Meetup of 2021 with imagiLabs 🇮🇪
When: Tue Jan 19 2021, 18:30 - 19:30
https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/274721060/
Women in DevOps meets SOD.AI: Exploring the world of DataOps
When: Thu Jan 21 @ 18:00 - 20:00 GMT
https://www.meetup.com/Women-in-DevOps/events/275120154/
global diversity CFP day (Europe)
When: Sat Jan 23, 2021
https://www.globaldiversitycfpday.com/
WWCode Belfast: Careers and Staying Current in Cyber Security: An Evening With Contrast Security
When: Mon Jan 25, 18:00 - 19:30
https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Belfast/events/275558055/
WWCode Belfast: Bytes n' Brew Online ☕️💻
When: Thu Feb 4, 08:00 - 09:00
https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Belfast/events/lhkkvryccdbgb/
PyLadies Dublin Feb'21: Automatic multiclass news classification w/ DL and NLP
When: Tue Feb 16 2021, 18:30 - 19:30
https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/275124258/
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.
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://codinggrace.com/news/jan-2021-irish-virtual-tech-events-listings-2021-1-6/
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SAT JAN 09
Coffee&Code Belfast: React Study Group (beginner friendly) - 0/2
🕙10:00 - 12:00 | Details
Dublin Code Mentoring
🕒15:00 - 17:00 | Details
TUE JAN 12
Test Heads Dublin: Online Experimentation: Listening to your customers
🕕18:00 - 19:30 | Details
Cork|Sec 91
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details
WED JAN 13
Python Ireland Monthly Meetup
🕡18:30 - 20:30 | Details
The Games Co-Op: Jan-ClaudeVanDamme-uary
🕖19:00 - 23:00 | Details
Ministry of Testing Belfast: Agile Tester Toolkit - Make an Impact with Julia Pottinger
🕗20:00 - 21:00 | Details
THU JAN 14
Bring Your Laptop, Work on Code, it's TOG's Open Coding Night! - Online Only
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details
Why R? Webinars - Using R for human microbiome analysis with Prof. S. Holmes
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details
FRI JAN 15
Newry Digital: Informal Lunch and Learn session
🕛12:00 - 13:00 | Details
SAT JAN 16
Coffee&Code Belfast: React Study Group (beginner friendly) - 1/2
🕙10:00 - 12:00 | Details
Dublin Code Mentoring
🕒15:00 - 17:00 | Details
MON JAN 18
Why R? Webinars : "Introduction to R in PowerBI " with Nujcharee Haswell
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details
TUE JAN 19
Remote campus presentation - Learn coding from home!
🕓16:00 - 17:00 | Details
WED JAN 20
TOG Hackerspace: Online Only Craft Night, Knitting, Sewing and Art, Open to All... Online
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details
Newry Digital: Lessons learnt building a custom analytics solution for my website
🕢19:30 - 21:00 | Details
SAT JAN 23
Python Ireland: Speakers Coaching Session
🕘09:00 - 11:00 | Details
UX Cork: User case to leverage quantitative data through qualitative research.
🕚11:00 - 12:30 | Details
Dublin Code Mentoring
🕒15:00 - 17:00 | Details
TUE JAN 26
11th Cork.Net Meetup - ASP.NET Core Health Checks
🕖19:00 - 20:00 | Details
Social Enterprise StartUps – Celebrating Social Entrepreneurs
🕖19:00 - 20:30 | Details
WED JAN 27
Online only Wikipedia Editing evening
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details
THU JAN 28
Why R? Webinars
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details
Bring Your Laptop, Work on Code, it's TOG's Open Coding Night! - Online Only
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details
SAT JAN 30
Dublin Code Mentoring
🕒15:00 - 17:00 | Details
TUE FEB 02
1GAM Galway Meetup!
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details
WED FEB 03
Clojure Ireland: Real-world systems in Clojure
🕡18:30 - 19:30 | Details
TOG Hackerspace: Online Only Craft Night, Knitting, Sewing and Art, Open to All... Online
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details
Ministry of Test Belfast: Quality Engineering - Anne-Marie Charrett
🕗20:00 - 21:00 | Details
Drupal Limerick Meetup
🕗20:00 - 22:00 | Details
THU FEB 04
Why R? Webinars
🕖19:00 - 21:00 | Details