Coding Grace's May/Jun Newsletter
🌻 It’s late into May already! And we are still stoked about our recent collaboration with TechFoundHer Bootcamp. Check out this issue for events and opportunities.
🤛🟢🟢😆🟢🟢🤜 I might be disappointed that Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha didn’t win at Eurovision, but I am still buzzing about our recent collaboration with TechFoundHer Bootcamp which took place at The Mansion House earlier this month to support female founders with no tech backgrounds to demystify tech and its jargon, leading tech teams, and use tech knowledge as your advantage.
🤳 We are still on birdsite, but here’s a reminder that we are also on mastodon.ie/@codinggrace
💖 A big thanks to Máirín Murray for collaborating and to everyone in the community from attendees, volunteers, champions, mentors, sponsors and many more, for realising this idea we had over coffee last autumn. TechFoundHer Bootcamp was attended by over 200 female founders at the Mansion House on Tue May 2nd. A huuuuuge thank you!
https://twitter.com/TechFoundHer/status/1653471871067668489?s=20
📸 You can find photos shared by the community via the community photo album, if you were there, we welcome more memories of the day.
💪 Keep an eye out on future collaborations Coding Grace will have with TechFoundHer, as the dust settles we will be doing more events from all the helpful and amazing attendee feedback.
📢 On a related note, Dogpatch Labs have an upcoming event to match talent to startups, it’s a call to action to “[…] all software engineers, data analysts, full stack developers, UI/UX experts, marketing gurus, sales experts, operations specialists, and anyone interested in tech startups!”
It’s part of their Women Entrepreneurs Network events. More details »
🎧 Need tips on community building tools? Megan Slater, a community Manager for CTO Craft, a business that has grown out of a community. Megan knows her stuff; and you can too.
🎞️ And check out Dublin Tech Talks podcast with Inclusio’s CEO and Founder, Sandra Healy. She has been tremendous support to my community work, and listen to her chat about Inclusio two years on from her initial appearance on Dublin Tech Talks.
Don’t forget that entries are open for Diversity in Tech Awards and deadline is 16 June. More details here»
https://twitter.com/DITAwards/status/1654089020677169153?s=20
📚 Any summer-time reads and recommendations? Useful tech resources? Interesting videos or podcasts? Let us know. We are collating them here.
SPONSOR: fourTheorem
❤️ Thanks to Symantec and All the Tech Things for sponsoring Pi-Tops v2. We now have 4 in total for our events and collaborations.
🌈 Dublin City PPN - Community Partner, we are also members.
🌈 For our long time supporters and those who contributed recently, thank you on behalf of the team.
💖 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.
Above Screenshot as of 2023-05-19. ❤️ to our supporters.
🙏 How you can support us: Open Collective | Patreon | ko-fi
🎧 Vicky here, you'll also find me releasing regular Irish Maker news roundup at irishmakerspodcast.ie.
📍 Where have I’ve been (remotely) last 2 month & recently?
- Apr 3: Attended and Spoke at Big Boost Monday @ Dogpatch Labs
- Apr 4: Attended Code of Conduct Enforcement Training (Otter Tech)
- Apr 5: Attended FINOS DEI Special Interest Group Meeting
- Apr 6: Attended Enterprise FabLab @ Creative Spark - FLAG Meeting 1
- Apr 6: Attended Women Who Code (Global) - Empower Your Community
- Apr 18: Hosted PyLadies Dublin @ LinkedIn
- Apr 25: Interview with Jess Kelly (podcast) @ Newstalk
- Apr 28: Attended Enterprise FabLab @ Creative Spark - FLAG Meeting 2
- May 2: Co-hosted TechFoundHer Bootcamp at The Mansion House
- May 12: Attended MakerMeet at ICTEdu @ TUS, Thurles
- May 15: Attended Big Boost Mondays @ Microsoft
- May 16: Hosted PyLadies Dublin May meetup @ Workday
📍 Where am I this month & next?
- May 23: Attending The Wheel Summit
- May 24: Attending CHAT - with ChildVision TechFest- Digital Literacy
- May 26: Attending “Join a Startup!” @ Dogpatch Labs
- May 31-Jun 1: Attending Dublin Tech Summit @ RDS
- Jun 7: Attending FINOS DEI Special Interest Group Meeting
- Jun 9: Poster session at Women in Data Science (WiDS) Dublin Regional Conference 2023
- Jun 12-17: Attending (virtually) Lesbians Who Tech #PrideSummit 2023
- Jun 20: Hosting PyLadies Dublin June meetup @ Digit Games Studios
📢 Dogpatch Labs: Women Entrepreneurs Network - Call for Participation
[…] all software engineers, data analysts, full stack developers, UI/UX experts, marketing gurus, sales experts, operations specialists, and anyone interested in tech startups!
📢 Dogpatch Labs: Founders
🎤 Let us know if you are looking for speakers or know of amazing events/confs that are looking for guest speakers.
📢 The STEM Passport for Inclusion: Call For Mentors
📢 PyLadies Call for Speakers
Normally on the 3rd Tue every month - specifically from July onwards.
ℹ️ Here are some diversity in tech events based in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Let us know if there’s any upcoming events we can list in our next newsletter or in diversityintech.fyi/events.
AwakenHub: SheGenerate Showcase Event & SheGenerate 3.0 News
- Tue May 23, 2023 (17:00)
(In-Person) CHAT - with ChildVision TechFest- Digital Literacy
- Wed May 24, 2023 (12:30)
(Online) Women Who Code Belfast: Bytes n' Brew Online ☕️💻 - Breakfast
- Thu May 25, 2023 (08:00)
(Online) Women in AI: WaiTUTORIAL - Decision Trees in Python
- Thu May 25, 2023 (18:00)
(In-Person) Join a Startup! @ Dogpatch Labs
- Fri May 26, 2023 (10:00)
(Online) WITS Leadership Coaching Series - Episode 2/3: Influencing with impact
- Tue May 30, 2023 (12:00)
Women In DevOps: From Data-driven to people-driven: Leading with empathy in Tech
- Wed May 31, 2023 (18:30)
(In-Person) Women Who Code Belfast: Bytes n' Brew In-Person ☕️ @ Allstate Northern Ireland
- Thu Jun 1, 2023 (08:00)
(In-Person) Race in STEM: Embracing Diversity: Paving the Way for Inclusivity in Tech @ Dublin Tech Summit
- Thu Jun 1, 2023 (13:15)
- Fri Jun 9, 2023 (09:15)
(Online) WITS Leadership Coaching Series - Episode 3/3: Resolving Conflict
- Tue Jun 13, 2023 (18:30)
(Online) WITS Reads Tuesday 13 June 2023 @ 8 pm
- Tue Jun 13, 2023 (20:00)
(In-Person) PyLadies Dublin May Meetup @ DIGIT Games Studios
- Tue Jun 20, 2023 (18:30)
(In-Person) Black Women in Tech Ireland: MENTORING NETWORKING EVENT
- Thu Jun 21, 2023 (18:00)
🌈 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.
Our next newsletter will be in July, if you have announcements, events, opportunities for our July-August Newsletter, drop us an email at contact@codinggrace.com.
Cheers,
/// Vicky 🐱🏳️🌈🦄