Coding Grace Mar 2021 Newsletter
#ChooseToChallenge
It's March and officially it's spring time! 🐣🌸
That also means that this month will be quite a busy month as it's International Women's Day on March the 8th. Their theme this is year is #ChooseToChallenge.
Here's a couple from Coding Grace:-
- Tackle interviews (especially technical ones) process by companies by giving support to both interviewers and those who are applying for jobs. There must be a better way! 💡
- Continue to make events and content inclusive and diverse by encourage others to participate and support them on this journey. 🤝
OR how about taking part in DEV's #SheCoded annual celebration. "For the fifth year in a row, we’re collecting stories from the women and allies in our community to put a spotlight on the need for gender equality and the accomplishments of women in this field we all love".
Here's my entry, and looking forward to seeing yours! Get involved >>>
🌈 So what is your #ChooseToChallenge?
Take a pic, share it with @CodingGrace & @womensday. And don't forget to include #IWD2021 as well.
"Raise your hand high to show you're in and that you commit to choose to challenge and call out inequality."- International Women's Day
"We want to give coding superpowers 🦸♀️ to girls around the world so that they can grow up to be inventors, entrepreneurs, and change-makers thriving in our digital society - using technology to shape the future and solve problems that they are passionate about."
❤️Shout out to our friends at imagiLabs and thanks for the discount to Coding Grace members and friends for their online store. Enjoy!
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.
🤔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.
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 to date. 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?
- Tue Feb 16: Hosted PyLadies Dublin
- Sat Feb 29: Spoke on PoC in Diversity Panel at SISTEM 2021
Annual Irish intersoc technical conference attended by over 200 students. It's been a privileged to speak about PoC in Tech panel and on the shoulders of giants!
(Source (right): Tweet)
📍Where am I this month?
- Wed Mar 3: Hosting Dublin Maker's Town Hall
- Mon Mar 8: Attending Accenture's Women on Walls at DCU unveiling
- Wed Mar 10: Attending Smart Balbriggan Community Webinar
I haven't made up my mind on IWD events, so many to choose from, I hope to see you there!
📖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.
- Women's History Month: 13 Women Leading the Way in Tech
- DEV Zines
- Introducing MaZine Learning, Zines about Machine Learning by Jen Looper
- Raspberry Pi blog: Closing the digital divide with Raspberry Pi computers
- microBlocks - MicroBlocks is a blocks programming language for physical computing inspired by Scratch. It runs on microcontrollers such as the micro:bit, Calliope mini, AdaFruit Circuit Playground Express, and many others.
- [Video] Wendy Carlos explains the science of synthesizers in a 1970 BBC interview (via Boingboing)
- Facebook’s Julie Zhuo On Navigating The Leap From Individual Contributor To Force Multiplier (by Julie Zhuo via Pluralsight)
- [Video] Laura Kampf talks to Adam Savage and Norm Chan of Tested
- iWish survey results - An opportunity to better understand what influences and motivates young girls about STEM in Ireland
- [Book] Everyday Superheroes: Women in STEM Careers
- MagPi Magazine - Month of Making (free download this month)
- The MagPi Interview: Tanya Fish
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.
EuroPython are looking for volunteers for this year's online conference. The conference will take place on Jul 26 - Aug 1. For more information, click on the button below.
📢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.
💪 I've been keeping a live list of virtual tech events with focus on Irish-hosted events. It's been very, very time consuming, and that also includes 100s of link checking per newsletter each month. 😓
💡 Therefore I've finally made a site that curates these events, and you can find all of March's events at this new site. The site is an 11ty site (Nunjucks and TailwindCSS) and deployed via netlify. There's nothing fancy about it, it lists tech events and diversity in tech events around Ireland and Northern Ireland.
🌈 If you want to add an event, you can submit a PR or or an issue on github, Or you can email me at contact@codinggrace.com.
🙃 I'm going to try something different this month and not list the events here as I keep missing events that are announced after the newsletter.
👇I will however keep the list of diversity in tech events.
WWCode Belfast: Bytes n' Brew Online ☕️💻
When: Thu Mar 4, 08:00 - 09:00
https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Belfast/events/lhkkvryccfbgb/
Iconic Offices Virtual Events: International Women’s Day Balancing Work & Self-Care a Year into Lockdown
When: Thu 4 Mar 2021 (11:00)
https://www.meetup.com/iconic-offices-virtual-events-meetup-group/events/276380116/
Ladies that UX Belfast: A Very Social Gathering
When: Thu 4 Mar 2021 (18:00)
https://www.meetup.com/Ladies-that-UX-Belfast/events/276395851/
Dogpatch Labs: First Fridays for Startups (International Women's Day): Welcome to Ireland’s Startup Ecosystem
When: Fri 5 Mar 2021 (09:00)
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/welcome-to-the-irish-ecosystem-female-founders-spotlight-tickets-141418449389
Dogpatch Labs: First Fridays for Startups (International Women's Day): Mentoring - Registration required
When: Fri 5 Mar 2021 (10:00)
https://dogpatchlabs.com/first-fridays-for-startups/march-05-2021/
Dogpatch Labs: First Fridays for Startups (International Women's Day): NDRC Lunch & Learn
When: Fri 5 Mar 2021 (12:00)
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/ndrc-lunch-and-learn-tickets-141418479479
Dogpatch Labs: First Fridays for Startups (International Women's Day): Changing the Face of AgTech Fireside Chat with Bethany Deshpande
When: Fri 5 Mar 2021 (13:00)
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/3ywivina/register
Dogpatch Labs: First Fridays for Startups (International Women's Day): Bootstrapping vs Funding Your Startup Educate with Amanda Greenberg
When: Fri 5 Mar 2021 (14:00)
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/auaggarg/register
I am remarkableworkshop #IamRemarkable InternationalWomens Day 2021 IWD2021
When: Sun 7 Mar 2021 (16:00)
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/i-am-remarkableworkshop-iamremarkable-internationalwomens-day-2021-iwd2021-tickets-141351771955
Version 1 NI International Women’s day Event (Care, Share and Inspire)
When: Mon 8 Mar 2021 (12:00)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/version-1-ni-international-womens-day-event-care-share-and-inspire-tickets-142220412081
Women in AI: The Future of AI and You
When: Mon 8 Mar 2021 (12:00)
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-future-of-ai-and-you-tickets-141191965971
Indeed: International Women's Day x Women@Indeed
When: Mon 8 Mar 2021 (13:00)
https://www.indeedevents.com/en-ie/iwdxwomenatindeed-dublin-030821/
Accenture's Women on Walls at DCU unveiling
When: Mon 8 Mar 2021 (13:00)
https://www.dcu.ie/womenonwalls/registration
IWD: Comedy and Communication
When: Mon 8 Mar 2021 (19:00)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/iwd-comedy-and-communication-tickets-139954482625
Women in Privacy Kickoff Zoom with Emerald de Leeuw
When: Tue Mar 9, 18:00 - 19:30
https://www.meetup.com/women-in-privacy/events/274429654/
WITS Reads - Discover Together (Book Club)
When: Tue Mar 9, 20:00
https://witsireland.com/news/wits-stemminist-book-club-may-june-2020/
WITS Female Leadership Series 2021 Session 3 Engineering
When: Wed 10 Mar 2021 (12:00)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wits-female-leadership-series-2021-session-3-engineering-tickets-142523420387
Celebrating International Women's Day 2021 with WITS and WiSTEM TUD
When: Thu 11 Mar 2021 (12:00)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrating-international-womens-day-2021-with-wits-and-wistem-tud-tickets-142896835281
GTech Starter #ChoosetoChallenge Panel Discussion
When: Thu 11 Mar 2021 (18:00)
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/tech-starter-choosetochallenge-panel-discussion-tickets-141000832285
Google celebrates: International Women's Day with Student
When: Mon 15 Mar 2021 (13:00) - Tue 16 Mar 2021 (14:45)
https://events.withgoogle.com/student-iwd2021/
Tech For Good Dublin: Tech 4 Good App Challenge 2021: Workshop 1 – App Design and Inspiration
When: Tue 16 Mar 2021 (19:00)
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/tech-4-good-app-challenge-2021-tickets-141951848801
WWCode Belfast: Bytes n' Brew Online ☕️💻
When: Thu Mar 18, 08:00 - 09:00
https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Belfast/events/lhkkvryccfbxb/
WITS Female Leadership Series - Session 4 Science
When: Wed 24 Mar 2021 (12:00)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wits-female-leadership-series-session-4-science-tickets-142542952809
Tech For Good Dublin: Tech 4 Good App Challenge 2021: Workshop 2 – App Development and Launching
When: Tue 30 Mar 2021 (19:00)
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/tech-4-good-app-challenge-2021-tickets-141951848801
WITS Female Leadership Series 2021- Session 5 Cyber Security
When: Wed 31 Mar 2021 (12:00)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wits-female-leadership-series-2021-session-5-cyber-security-tickets-142545867527
PyLadies Dublin April Meetup
When: Tue Apr 20 2021, 18:30 - 19:30
- Bias in NLP:Using linguistics and computer science to improve AI/ML fairness by Alina Zhiltsova
- Automating social media content with Python & Mako by Lais Carvalho
https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/276397145/
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