Coding Grace's Sep/Oct Newsletter
🍂 Autumn has arrived and so has the long awaited sunshine! Events and conferences are busy around this time of year, so hold on to your seats!
🍂 Autumn has arrived and so has the long awaited sunshine! Events and conferences are busy around this time of year, so hold on to your seats!
🤳 We are still on birdsite, but here’s a reminder that we are also on 🐘 mastodon.ie/@codinggrace
What a summer, and I’m not talking about any washouts. Although I wasn’t in Prague helping out in-person with EuroPython in July, I was virtually there in spirit (and remotely). I certainly learnt a lot being on the EuroPython Society Board and the conference crew this year, and delighted to contribute to the refresh of EuroPython Society’s Code of Conduct, attended the Code of Conduct Enforcement Training and being part of the Financial Aid team!
If you are curious, here’s EuroPython 2023’s Code of Conduct Transparency Report.
🤩 So a huge thanks for the community spirit and experience. 🥰
💖 If you haven’t heard, I’m one of the organisers of the inaugural global online PyLadies conference called PyLadiesCon (their announcement)
There’s a call for proposals open at the moment (English, Español, Português, Français, and 中文) till Sept 10th. It’ll be great to have folks from Ireland and Northern Ireland speak at the conference. Apply here »
🏆 A bit closer to home, I’m delighted to be invited as one of the judges for Diversity in Tech Awards this year.
Dr Norah Patten will be keynoting at the event. It’s on Sep 27 at the RDS, and you can find more info at diversityintechawards.online.
I was delighted to hear Dr Norah Patten keynoting at the recent ShipItCon at the Mansion house, and I was somehow ended up manning a Maker table encouraging people to custom create ShipItCon’s new mascot, Squishy! I was also the judge for the best one (no pressure 😅). I was also promoting Dublin Maker and TOG Hackerspace.
Some amazing entries and congrats to the winner! I’m looking forward to being involved with the Maker table next year!
🎪 On to Maker-related news… Dublin Maker took place on Sat Sep 2nd at the fabulous Richmond Barracks. 👏 Congrats to the team and all the Makers who took part, and thank you to Dublin Maker for bringing the sunshine that day! You can check out their official photos via dublinmaker.ie/photo-2023.
The TechFoundHer community are buzzing with sharing resources from startup programmes, events, links to articles, and books. Books are so popular that folks have started a book club, and for their inaugural event they have invited the author or Building Moonshots, Tamara Carleton!
📚 On the topic of book clubs, any interesting 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.
There’s a #KoFiChallenge right now, and we are participating to help raise funds to cover our admin expenses. 👇👇👇
🙏 And a huge thanks to our regular Open Collective contributors. 🙏
More ways to help us:- Open Collective | Patreon | ko-fi
📍 Where have I’ve been (remotely) last 2 month & recently?
- Jul 12: Attended TechFoundHer - AWS Lunch & Learn Workshop for Start-ups @ AWS Ireland
- Jul 17 - 23: Attended / Involved remotely: EuroPython 2023
- Aug 2: Attended FINOS DEI SIG monthly meeting
- Aug 15: Hosted PyLadies Dublin in-person meetup @ TechMeetup.space
- Sep 1: Attended ShipItCon @ Mansion House
📍 Where am I this month & next?
- Sep 12: Attending TechFoundHer Lunch & Learn - Law for Start-ups @ Mason Hayes Curran
- Sep 23: Co-Hosting Cork Game Jam
- Sep 19: Hosting PyLadies Dublin Sep Meetup @ Stripe
- Oct 1: Attending EuroPython Society AGM (Online)
- Oct 17: Hosting PyLadies Dublin Oct Meetup @ Phorest Salon
#WaiPRACTICE - Call for Participants
More info about #WaiPRACTICE »
SheGen3.0 - Applications open for Autumn
AwakenHub officially launched SheGenerate, the first ever island of Ireland accelerator lite programme in November 2021 aimed at very early stage women founders.
We’re back with SheGenerate3.0 (our third intake) which will run from October 2023 until June 2024 to include a series of online workshops, community events, big sister sessions and engaging with fellow cohort across an 8-9 month period.
They’ve info sessions, check eventbrite for more info of upcoming sessions.
👉 Closing Date: Monday Sep 18 (5PM)
Awaken Angels
AwakenHub wants to democratise the investor landscape for women investors and founders across Ireland by establishing a women founded community with predominantly women investors supporting women led startups across the island of Ireland. Interested? Check out their site to see how you can register your interest to be an angel investor or as a potential early stage founder looking to raise pre-seed investment.
🎤 Let us know if you are looking for speakers or know of amazing events/confs that are looking for guest speakers.
📢 NIDC 2023 Call for Workshops and Villages
NIDC is a conference for the tech community
🗓️ Conference date: Sat 21st October 2023
📍 ICC Belfast (Waterfront Hall)
📢 PyLadies Call for Speakers
Normally on the 3rd Tue every month either in-person or remote.
Topics (Python-related or Python adjacent) can include: Core Python, creative tech, testing, career, libraries, all things data, frontend, backend, SRE, etc.
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.
(Online) SheGenerate Information Session
- Between Mon Sep 11 - Tue Sep 19
(In-Person) TechFoundHer Lunch & Learn - Law for Start-ups @ Mason Hayes Curran
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 (12:30)
(In-Person) Women in Technology: Breaking Tech Barriers @ Lanyon Plaza West Tower
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 (17:30)
(In-Person) PyLadies Dublin Sep Meetup @ Stripe
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 (18:30)
(In-Person) WTM Belfast Book Club Launch!
- Thu Sep 21, 2023 (17:30)
(Online) AwakenHub: Wonder Women at the Forefront of AI
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 (17:00)
(In-Person) Women in Tech: Moving Up in Tech @ Black Box Belfast
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 (18:00)
(In-Person) Diversity in Tech Awards 2023 @ RDS
- Wed Sep 27, 2023 (18:00)
(Online) Women Who Code Belfast: Bytes n' Brew Online ☕️💻 - Breakfast
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 (08:00)
(Online) TechFoundHer Bookclub: Building Moonshots with author Tamara Carleton
- Mon Oct 2, 2023 (18:00)
(Online) Ladies that UX Belfast: Discover Design Operations
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 (18:00)
(In-Person) PyLadies Dublin October Meetup - 10th Anniversary Special @ Phorest Salon
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 (18:30)
🌈 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 bi-monthly newsletter will be in November, if you have announcements, events, opportunities for our November-December Newsletter, drop us an email at contact@codinggrace.com.
Cheers,
/// Vicky 🐱🏳️🌈🦄