First newsletter of 2024
A new start and that brings us to this month's newsletter, we missed January but will give highlights of what happened the usual of what's upcoming! We will be back to bi-monthly newsletters from March onwards.
It's February and that means spring is here! 🌱
A new start and that brings us to this month's newsletter, we missed January but will give highlights of what happened the usual of what's upcoming! We will be back to bi-monthly newsletters from March onwards.
A huge thanks for folks to staying with us as we transition to Ghost as our platform, I wrote a small post about it explaining why and how excited I am using Ghost as our platform for our newsletters going forward.
Happy Brigid's Day! So many events happening around the country. Check out HerStory for list of their events, and more events if you are in Dublin.
A quick recap... we want to say thank you to everyone who joined and got involved with the Techie Table Quiz last November, the final total raised (including the matching donation from Workday) was €2874! So thank you and we look forward to another end of year techie community table quiz.
💖 If you want to get involved, drop us an email at irishgeeks@eventgeek.ie.
Save the Dates
We are delighted to announce a new series of talks delving a bit deeper into tech and are aimed at Principal Software Engineers, Systems Architects, Senior Devs, Head of Engineering. It's called Cupán Tae Conf Series.
They will be a series of virtual talks live-streamed with discussions taking place on our Discord server. We aim to have an in-person conference at the end of the year, so watch this space!
Call all creatives, GameCraft is back after a hiatus, a game-making event that is taking place at Douglas Street Campus on Fri Feb 16. It's open to everyone at all levels, and we love to see games from tabletop board games to electronics to digital games.
Coding Grace is delighted to be involved with TechFoundHer Boot Camp 2024 this year! If you are a female founder (esepecially early stage), some join us for a day of sharing and learning with amazing guest speakers. It will be held on Tue April 16th at the historic Dublin City Hall.
Sign up to TechFoundHer's newsletter as well as follow them on social media for more updates about the conference.
Máirín Murray
Máirín Murray & Vicky Twomey-Lee at Dublin City Hall announcing TechFoundHer Boot Camp
Sharing a call for participation from the amazing Lorraine Curham from Dogpatch Labs. Click on the button to apply if interested.
We are looking for all types of engineers, devs, software experts and more.
Simply fill out the form [...] and we will share your details with our startups who are hiring.
Lorraine E. Curham
And still on the topic of startups, the upcoming Techstars Startup Weekend Women Dublin is a 54 hours event where aspiring women entrepreneurs can experience startup life. It will be taking place on March 22 - 24.
🚀Get ready for another one of our exciting event coming your way in March 2024 at the stunning Accenture Song office in Smithfield!
— Swdubwomen (@swdubwomen) December 13, 2023
Let's make a positive impact together. RSVP link below⬇️https://t.co/iPD64Xn2JK
📢 Help us spread the word! #SWDW2024 #SocialInnovation pic.twitter.com/UBQRMbKmDn
⚡️ And for something a little different, this is so cool (and note there's a workaround if you are using MacOS 14. Sonoma) for folks who are playing around with CircuitPython.
🚀🌟🎉 CircuitPython Online IDE 2 Alpha has just been launched! 🎉🌟🚀
— River Wang (@River___Wang) January 15, 2024
If you're interested, try it out at https://t.co/vUiezRh2qL
I can't wait to hear your thoughts! Reply here or shoot me an email at urfdvw@gmail.com#CircuitPython
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 🤲.
🙏 And a huge thanks to our regular Open Collective contributors🙏
Donations will help with to admin fees which includes bank charges, accountancy fees, zoom subscriptions. We are doing this as volunteers, so every little helps.
🎤 Let us know if you are looking for speakers or know of amazing events/confs that are looking for guest speakers.
Codú
Niall Maher
PyBelfast
Kyle 💬 Harrison
Drop a message or comment in the ⬆️ LinkedIn post ⬆️ if you are interested in speaking at PyBelfast.
PyLadies Dublin
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.
Women in AI Ireland - Mentorship Program
Women in AI Ireland
Patch - Accelerator for 16-21yos - Applications open
We are a non-profit that supports future founders, technologists & leaders. It's a a 7 week long, all expenses paid summer programme for exceptional 16 - 21 year olds. Participants create a project/product/initiative of their own, work with 1-3 peers and get direct mentoring from world-class founders & operators. It all takes place in Dogpatch in Dublin.
⏳ Applications closes: Wed, Feb 21, 2024
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.
- (In-Person) Dublin Tech Talks: LeadHERship - Women Who Lead @ GEC
- Tue Feb 6, 2024 (10:00- 12:30)
- (In-Person) Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing Hub (FENI): Women into Industry
- Thu Feb 8, 2024 (10:00- 12:00)
- (In-Person) Thrive 2024 (Celebration of our LGBTQ+ community)
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 (16:00 - 20:00)
- (In-Person)Amazing Data Women - ESG Themed @ KPMG Ireland
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 (18:30 - 20:30)
- (In-Person) PyLadies Dublin 1st in-person meetup of 2024 @ Pinterest
- Tue Feb 20 (18:30 - 20:30)
- Awakenhub: February Community Event
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 (17:00 - 18:15)
- (In-Person) WITS Ireland: Mary Mulvihill Lecture
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 (18:00 - 20:00)
- (In-Person) Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing Hub (FENI): Women into Industry
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 (10:00 - 12:00)
- (Online) WITS Ireland: The Power of Change: Reinventing your career throughout life!
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 (12:15 - 13:00)
- (In-Person) Women Who Code Beflast: She Rocks! Awards 2024 @ Oh Yeah Music Centre
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 (19:00 - 21:00)
🌈 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.
📚 I'm still keeping tabs of articles, papers, books, podcasts, etc. The Reading list in the notion page below contains listings by month.
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💖 I would like to say thank you to everyone who have supported us by subscribing to this newsletter, spread word about what we do, collaborate with us, donated money, it has been amazing! On behalf of Coding Grace team, thank you and the community so, so much for all your support.
⏭️ Our next bi-monthly newsletter will be in Mar 2024, if you have announcements, events, opportunities for our Mar-Apr Newsletter, drop us an email at contact@codinggrace.com.
Cheers,
/// Vicky 🐱🏳️🌈🦄