🎉 Happy 2023! Coding Grace's Jan/Feb Newsletter
✨ Happy New Year to all new and existing subscribers to our first bi-monthly newsletter of year on Substack after moving over from Revue. Don’t forget you can read the archive of our past newsletters which I have ported over Substack as well.
💖 It’s also Nollaig na mBan, while there’s not many diversity in tech events happening today, there’s other events happening around the country.
🐦 While the birdshpere is still a right mess, we are still on it, but you can also find us on Mastodon: mastodon.ie/@codinggrace
😘 Please do recommend who to follow, we are starting to build up our list again.
📓 If you have missed it, WITS Ireland published some highlights from Gender Equality Index 2022 which “is a tool to measure the progress of gender equality in the EU, developed by EIGE” and don’t forget to 👇check below👇 about opportunities for STEM undergrads by Tyndall National Institute and IPIC.
👩💻 Good news for those who develop in Swift or want to get into it, the framework it’s built on will be rebuilt in Swift will be Open Sourced.
The Foundation framework is used in nearly all Swift projects. It provides both a base layer of functionality for fundamentals like strings, collections, and dates, as well as setting conventions for writing great Swift code.
Foundation is being rewritten with Swift and will be developed as an open source community effort. @illian explains:
— Swift Language (@SwiftLang) 4:33 PM ∙ Dec 9, 2022
👉 Accessibility (A11y) should not be forgotten, came across this for Microsoft users:
You can (and should) add alt text to other documents besides HTML, including Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and more. @Microsoft has put together a resource on how to add alt text to files made using Microsoft products.
— Accessibility Awareness (@A11yAwareness) 2:38 PM ∙ Dec 12, 2022
A11y applies everywhere, including social media like posting to Mastodon. For those new to Mastodon platform, please use alt text and if it’s use “content warning” to hide the image, it doesn’t have to be content sensitive, but it will hide the image for those who don’t want it loaded when viewing their timeline.
🎧 Change Catalyst has a podcast called “Leading With Empathy & Allyship Show” which I just added to our 📚Reading List (*Note: Goes to an external notion site, we are still trying to find a better way to pull together this list and embed it somewhere).
📢 Open Doors Initiatives along with TU Dublin launched “Entrepreneurship for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers” course which starts this Jan 25th and Applications for the course will close soon on January 11th.
💼 With all the current news of tech layoffs still happening, keep an eye out for local companies that are still hiring.
#IrishTechHiring2022
— TechIreland (@techireland) 8:56 AM ∙ Jan 5, 2023
We are delighted that a number of Irish #startups and #scaleups are still hiring and are looking for talented professionals.
#VisionR @teckroofficial and @MintTekCircuits are among the innovation-driven companies currently #hiring. For more info, DM us.
👏 Great news last month and huge congrats to the two winners of EU Prize for Women Innovators: Dr Ciara Clancy (founder and CEO of Beats Medical) and Niamh Donnelly (co-founder and CRO of Akara Robotics).
Leo Clancy has commended the “calibre of women entrepreneurs emerging from Ireland” following the announcement that two talented and inspiring Irish women entrepreneurs are winners in the EU Prize for Women Innovators 2022.
— Enterprise Ireland (@Entirl) 11:34 AM ∙ Dec 8, 2022
Find out more: rebrand.ly/EUInnovators
👀 Check out Diversity in Tech events listing below as there’s upcoming female founders events happening around Ireland.
🎉 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT, we want to welcome onboard fourTheorem as our sponsor this year! ❤️
❤️ Thanks to Symantec and All the Tech Things for sponsoring Pi-Tops v2. We now have 4 in total for our events and collaborations.
🌈 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 2023-01-06. ❤️ 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?
- Nov 14: Attended Dublin City Public Participation Network Plenary
- Nov 17: Hosted Women in Technology and Science (WITS) Ireland Coffee Morning
- Nov 26: Attended WITS Ireland AGM
- Dec 1: Hosted Women Who Code Dublin x Inclusio meetup
📍 Where am I this month & next?
- Jan 17: Hosting PyLadies Dublin Jan 2023 virtual meetup
- Feb 21: Hosting PyLadies Dublin Feb Meetup. See meetup for updates.
New year, exciting new courses! We are delighted to launch the new #entrepreneurship course with @WeAreTUDublin for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers! This free online course begins 25th January, so don’t delay and apply by 11th January: tudublin.ie/explore/news/e…
— Open Doors Initiative (@OpenDoorsToWork) 12:12 PM ∙ Jan 3, 2023
@path2_prog
🔈 Tyndall National Institute and IPIC are offering a generous, competitive paid Summer Fellowship Programme for undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
— WITS Ireland (@WITSIreland) 10:00 AM ∙ Dec 9, 2022
🗓️ Closing date is 31st Jan 2023.
🔗 For more, click here: tinyurl.com/38r93c8r
🎤 Let us know if you are looking for speakers or know of amazing events/confs that are looking for guest speakers.
📢 PyLadies Call for Speakers
Normally on the 3rd Tue every month
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) Women Techmakers Belfast: Women in Leadership with Sally Helgesen @ Urban HQ
- Thu Jan 12, 2023 (18:00)
AwakenHub: 2023 Baby... New Year New You
- Tue Jan 17, 2023 (17:00)
(Online) Techstars Startup Weekend Women Dublin Online Networking
- Tue Jan 17, 2023 (17:00)
(Online) 🎉 PyLadies Dublin Jan 2023 Meetup
- Tue Jan 17, 2023 (18:30)
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 (16:30)
🌈 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.
🌈 And as we leave what was a challenging 2022, here’s to a brighter, stronger and exciting 2023. So here’s to learning a new technologies, starting a new job, jumping onto a new startup venture, making new connections, whatever your next milestone will be. 💪
Our next newsletter will be in March, if you have announcements, events, opportunities for our Mar-Apr Newsletter, drop us an email at contact@codinggrace.com.
💖 One final thing, I’ll be attending The Guilty Feminist on Jan 24 @ The Sugar Club, if you are going, I’ll see you there!
Cheers,
/// Vicky 🐱🏳️🌈🦄