By Vicky Twomey-Lee in Newsletter — 02 Mar 2026

🌸 Coding Grace March & April Newsletter

🌱 It's spring time! Our March & April newsletter includes news, announcements, diversity in tech events, CFPs and more.

🌱 It's spring time! Vicky, here. I was talking to someone over the weekend who drove back to Dublin from the country yesterday and saw lambs in the fields. It's been quite awhile since we saw blue skies after one of the longest stretches of rain we ever had. Yay to days getting longer and warmer.

✨ So a fresh new start, I've been busy with Train the Creative Trainer workshop (by Creative Skillnet) and nearly wrapping up with Creative Learning Course by NCAD. I'm looking forward to applying these skills and bringing even more creative aspects to my outreach and advocacy work with Coding Grace. And to keep including the A (Arts) in STEM → STEAM.

🎤 Mick and I recently attended the inaugural Godó Gaedhealach meetup (Godot Ireland) representing GameCraft, and Vicky gave a talk about what GameCraft is about and its community. Due to people enquiring on when we will be running the next game-making event, 🤞we hope to plan one near the end of the year. If you like to get involved, run a game jam, host it, or want game-making event in your area, talk to us at info@gamecraft.it.

🙋 On the subject of game-making, there's call for participation from IMIRT - The Irish Game Makers Association and Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland who have recently partnered with Alex Kotsos created a Competency Framework for the Games Industry.

We’re looking for advice from people of all levels and from all backgrounds. No role is too obscure! You don’t have to be in Ireland to contribute. Please note that the fruits of this project will be made publicly available to anyone across the world who would like to make use of it.

Submit your interest

🔖 And if you are a woman in games, Women in Games recently released their Women in Games Manifesto 2026 "to reflect the current state of the industry".

It outlines 14 reasons why gender equality in games matters, highlighting the connection between who makes games and whose stories, perspectives, and experiences are represented. The Manifesto positions fairness and inclusion as essential to the long-term creativity, sustainability, and cultural impact of the industry.

Check out their manifesto

💖 Speaking of women in games, we are big fans of Brenda Romero who's been a great proponent in supporting the Irish game dev scene, and wonderful inspiration if you are getting into the world of games. There's a kickstarter for a documentary about Brenda by Theresa Loong. If you want to support it, the closing date to back it is Sat, March 21 2026.

More info about the Kickstarter

💪 This month is International Women's Day (month), and UN's theme this Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls.
There will be lots of events happening this month, take a look at the diversity in tech events we curated below (⬇⬇⬇ scroll to the end ⬇⬇⬇). A couple to highlight:-

💖 A quick shout out to Women TechMakers Belfast IWD event that will be taking place on Saturday March 7. More information can be found here >>>

🔔 A reminder that Techstars Startup Weekend Women Dublin 2026 will be taking place on Mar 20th-22nd. Good luck to everyone taking part. More details can be found here >>>

🛟 Coding Grace is a non-profit and we are volunteers running all the activities from curating events listings, running this newsletter, advocating diversity in tech through events, speaking engagements, and collaborations. As a registered company, our main expenses which includes accountancy fees, bank fees, and zoom.

💖 If you want to be involved with Coding Grace, there are different ways from offering to mentoring 🧑‍🏫, collaborating 🤝, help spreading the word about us 💬, and financial contributions 🤲.

🙏 Ways to help us: Open Collective | ko-fi

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🌈 Dublin City PPN - Community Partner, we are also members.

💬 We are planning to move away from Discord, but for now, to keep the conversation going, join us on our Discord server: https://discord.gg/PVNQcpH4gq

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🎤 PyLadies Dublin: Call for Proposals

PyLadies Dublin are looking for speakers, workshops, and collaborations for 2026.
Some of the various things you can submit:-
⚡️ Lightning Talks
💻 Workshops
🎤 Show & Tell
⚙️ Maker activity
💟 Other ideas for an event

Any questions, or looking to sponsor/host our event, email: dublin@pyladies.com

Submit your Proposal