Thanks to Symantec and All the Tech Things
for sponsoring Pi-Tops v2. We now have 4 in total for our upcoming events and collaborations. ❤️❤️❤️

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Summer time is really here, hope you are keeping cool.

Sun is out and we are in Phase 1 on relaxing of lockdown restrictions, hope folks are enjoying the extra kilometres stretching your legs in the lovely weather.

Since last month, I've been trying to keep busy.

Finally put up my blog of my journey from n00b to not being afraid of the sewing machine making fabric masks.
Working on my new Maker project, generating art from data obtained from Circuit Playground Express and output it to TFT screen.
Got my Grrrlzine Fair zine making kit, started creating first couple of pages based on my current obsession - Animal Crossing New Horizon*.
*Do you play? Ping me and maybe we should meet each other virtually on ACNH!

What are you working on? Share with us and I'll mention it in the next month's newsletter, email contact@codinggrace.com.

🌈 Your Support 🌈

🤔We are still interested in finding out what you are interesting in learning, especially now that we are indoors and would be a great opportunity to learn new skills.

What do you want us to run?

🤲We mentioned this in our newsletter last month. We want to try and make Coding Grace sustainable, our huge expense is our accountant each year. So we are trying out Open Collective and we are open to donations from individuals and corporates. We are not-for-profit and it's wholly volunteer-based running it.

Support Coding Grace

📍Where you will find me this month?
Like last month, I'll still be at home, but I'll be giving a 10 minute talk (variation of my PyLadies Dublin talk on my Maker project, Print your own adventure game" with Raspberry Pi, thermal printer, arcade buttons and all controlled with Circuit Python.) at EnthusiastiCon.

📚Reading list this month. If you have something to share in our reading list, drop me an email.

PyBoy: GameBoy Emulator Written in Python
Niamh Campbell spoke to Sapphire Duffy, director at @WWCodeBelfast and software engineer at homegrown NI tech firm @Kainos Software
Twitter thread: Hey #gamedev, can you think of any innocent phrases in jobs/career pages that instantly raise a red flag for you on company culture? Mine would have to be, "Work Hard. Play Harder."
Female Space Science Heroes Featured in New Interactive App
JetBrains: Python Developers Survey 2019 Results
53 Python Interview Questions and Answers
Say it forward now: “When a girl’s interested in anything, her enchantment must be nurtured. When a girl wants to support a cause, as a society, mustn’t bash her idea.”~ Huong
The UX Insights – Series about conversation about design & communities (you can watch replay)
[Resource] Design resources for developers
[Resource] Hero Images & 20 Free Places To Find Them
[Podcast] Naomi Freeman on Empathy in Software
Ireland Together with: Talita Holzer, CEO at waytoB (Interview)

Big shout out to allthetechthings.com where we pulled information about Diversity/Grants and Call for Papers from around Europe.

Any enquiries (incl. CFPs, announcements, etc), you can drop me an email at contact@codinggrace.com.

Finally, we've only a couple of weeks till restrictions are slowly lifted and hopefully in time we will have more in-person events (ref: Irish Government's roadmap)

In the meantime, I hope everyone stay healthy and safe. #StayAtHome and #WashYourHands is ever so important right now, let's get through this together. 😷🧼

Thanks,

/// Vicky

🛠 If you want me to run workshops, drop me an email at contact@codinggrace.com.

Call for Action: Volunteers for UseR! 2021 in Dublin
If you are interested in being on the bidding team for Dublin, contact Kevin O'Brien.
Details: https://www.r-project.org/useR-2021_call.html

I'm interested

UN Global Call to Creatives

The United Nations has issued an open brief - Global Call to Creatives. There is no deadline.

For the first time, the UN is launching an Open Brief to Creatives everywhere to help spread public health messages in ways that will be effective, accessible and shareable. Together we can flatten the curve.

More details

OWASP Dublin
Call for Speakers for their monthly meetups. Please note: Dates for speakers will be notified approximately 3 - 4 weeks before the event.

Submit your Talk

IxDA Dublin
IxDA Dublin are looking for speakers for their monthly events.

Details

We are looking for lightning talk speakers/demos for our upcoming monthly meetups.

Submit

🌈What workshop would you like us to run next?🌈

FEEDBACK

@_caitriona created this awesome Women in Tech events listings, contributions welcome.

WWCode CONNECT Digital
When: Fri Jun 5 - Sun Jun 7
Details: https://connectdigital.womenwhocode.dev/

Women CyberSecurity Society Dublin: Cybersecurity Conversations
When: Saturday, June 6, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM GMT+1
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-CyberSecurity-Society-Dublin-Ireland/events/frhxrrybcjbjb/

Women Who Co-work Dublin: Virtual Coffee Morning
When: Mon Jun 8
Details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/virtual-coffee-morning-with-womenco-tickets-103427624810

WOMEN TECH GLOBAL CONFERENCE 2020
When: Wed Jun 10 - Fri Jun 12
Details: https://www.womentech.net/women-tech-conference

PyLadies Dublin Virtual June Meetup
When: Tue Jun 16, 18:30 - 19:30 IST
Details: https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/270123006/

Women in Tech Dublin
When: Thu Oct 15 - Fri Oct 16 @ Convention Centre Dublin
Details: https://www.women-in-tech-dublin.com/

WTM Belfast 2020
When: POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Details: https://womentechmakersbelfast.com/index.html

Women Who Code Remote Events
When: Various Dates
Details: https://www.womenwhocode.com/digital

Women Who Cowork Dublin Coffee Mornings
When: Every Mon @ 09:30
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Co-work-Dublin-Jelly

Women Who Cowork Dublin Virtual Cocktail Party
When: Every Fri @ 17:00
Details: https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Co-work-Dublin-Jelly

In case your are curious, I go through meetup, eventbrite and other places each month to curate events of interest for this newsletter, it takes a lot my time. If you find that this is not useful, let me know. In the meantime, after each newsletter, I'll post more updates on CodingGrace.com blog and do feel free to share events in the comments.
BTW, Startup Digest Dublin also has a great listings of events happening in Dublin.
Want me to include an event? Email me at contact@codinggrace.com.

⚠️NOTE: Due to covid-19, please check various event pages for their latest updates to see if they are still going ahead.

                                        Back Soon
                                    

                                        No list of in-person events this month as most are now virtual events, see next section 👇
                                    

ℹ️ I've been keeping a live list of virtual tech events with focus on Irish-hosted events. You can find the live blog (as long as we need it) via https://www.codinggrace.com/news/live-blog-part-2-virtual-tech-events-during-covid-19-2020-6-1/

WED JUN 03

                                        Rust Dublin: June Remote Meetup

When: 18:30 - 20:30 IST | Details

THU JUN 04

                                        DSF Lunch & Learn – Visualising location data with KeplerGL Jessica Willis

When: 13:00 - 14:00 GMT+1 | Details

IxDA Dublin remote event of 2020 🎊 - Changing Perspectives!

When: 18:40 - 20:20 IST | Details

DubJUG - Microservices Comparison

When: 19:00 - 21:00 GMT+1 | Details

FRI JUN 05

                                        Dogpatch Labs - First Fridays for Startups

When: 10:00 - 14:45 IST | Details

Irish Tech Society: Webinar Series #1 - 'Facing The Fear Of Failure'

When: 17:00 - 18:30 GMT+1 | Details

FRI JUN 05

-

SUN JUN 07

                                        Dublin.AI - Remote Hackathon

When: 3-day hackathon | Details

MON JUN 08

                                        PyData Ireland Virtual Meetup #4

When: 19:00 - 21:00 GMT+1 | Details

WED JUN 10

                                        Python Ireland Meetup

When: 18:30 - 21:30 GMT+1 | Details

UX Belfast: From insights to action

When: 19:00 - 20:30 GMT+1 | Details

Online Only Craft Night, Knitting, Sewing and Art, Open to All... Online

When: 19:00 - 21:00 GMT+1 | Details

THU JUN 11

                                        Wild Code School: Online Tech Workshop - HTML/CSS/JS - Create your own MEME generator!

When: 16:00 - 17:00 GMT+1 | Details

ODSC Dublin Data Science:Lower Your Deep Learning Deployment Costs Without Making Sacrifices

When: 19:00 - 20:00 GMT+1 | Details

FRI JUN 12

                                        What is the OWASP Top 10 ... and why does it matter?

When: 13:00 - 14:00 GMT+1 | Details

TUE JUN 16

                                        ODSC Dublin Data Science: Webinar-Workshop: "Avatars in Zoom for All!" 

When: 16:00 - 18:00 GMT+1 | Details

WED JUN 17

                                        Online Tog Science Fiction Bookclub

When: 19:00 - 20:00 GMT+1 | Details

Dublin Data Science: Seeing the Light with Refactoring and Testing: A guide for the data professional

When: 19:00 - 20:30 GMT+1 | Details

WED JUN 24

                                        Wikipedia Editing and Pizza, at TOG Dublin</a> 

When: 19:00 - 21:00 GMT+1 | Details

Online Only Craft Night, Knitting, Sewing and Art, Open to All... Online

When: 19:00 - 21:00 GMT+1 | Details

Want me to include a conference in the coming months?
Email me at contact@codinggrace.com.

ℹ️ I've moved the postponed conferences and festivals near the end after the upcoming conferences. 👇👇👇

MON JUN 01

-

WED JUN 03

                                        
VR/AR Global Summit Online

URL: https://www.vrarglobalsummit.com/online-summit

Sat JUN 06

                                        
EnthusiastiCon 2020

URL: https://www.enthusiasticon.de/

MON JUN 10

-

WED JUN 11

                                        
SaaStock Remote

URL: https://www.saastock.com/remote/

THU JUN 25

-

FRI JUN

                                        
Irish GameBased Learning Conference (Cork) 

URL: https://www.igbl-conference.com/

THU JUL 16

-

SUN JUL 19

                                        
The Festival of Curiosity

URL: https://festivalofcuriosity.ie

THU JUL 23

-

SUN JUL 26

                                        
EuroPython Online

URL: https://ep2020.europython.eu/

WED JUL 29

-

FRI JUL 31

                                        
juliacon 2020

URL: http://juliacon.org/2020/

WED SEP 09

-

THU SEP 10

                                        
Dublin Tech Summit

Where: The RDS

URL: https://dublintechsummit.com/

WED SEP 16

                                        
Cork Tech Summit

Where: City Hall, Cork

URL: https://www.itcork.ie/event/techsummitcork2020

SAT SEP 19

                                        
NI DEVELOPER CONFERENCE 2020

Where: Northern Ireland

URL: https://www.nidevconf.com

THU OCT 08

-

FRI OCT 09

                                        
UXDX

Where: RDS, Dublin

URL: https://uxdxconf.com/

MON OCT 12

-

WED OCT 14

                                        
SaaStock Dublin

Where: RDS, Dublin

URL: https://www.saastock.com/saastock/

FRI OCT 23

                                        
ShipItCon 2020

Where: The Mansion House, Dublin

URL: https://shipitcon.com/

MON OCT 26

-

WED OCT 28

                                        
Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) 

Where: Convention Centre Dublin

URL: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/embedded-linux-conference-europe/

MON OCT 26

-

WED OCT 28

                                        
Open Source Summit Europe (OSS EU)

Where: Convention Centre Dublin

URL: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-europe/

THU OCT 29

                                        
Cloud Foundry Summit

Where: Convention Centre Dublin

URL: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/events/summit/dublin-2020/

WED OCT 28

-

FRI OCT 30

                                        
KVM Forum

Where: Convention Centre Dublin

URL: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kvm-forum/

THU OCT 29

-

FRI OCT 30

                                        
<future_> <human_>

Where: Trinity Business School

Details: https://www.futurehuman.xyz

THU OCT 29

-

FRI OCT 30

                                        
Linux Security Summit

Where: Convention Centre Dublin

URL: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/linux-security-summit-europe/register/

MON FEB 15

-

FRI FEB 19

2021

                                        
Global AppSec Dublin

Where: Convention Centre Dublin

URL: https://dublin.globalappsec.org/

FRI APR 23

-

SUN APR 25

2021

                                        
OFFSET DUBLIN 2021

Where: Bord Gais Theatre

URL: https://www.iloveoffset.com

POSTPONED - DATES TBC

POSTPONED

TO

Autumn 2020

                                        
MeasureBowling (Belfast)

Where: Belfast

URL: http://www.measurebowling.org/

POSTPONED

TO

Q4 2020

                                        
FutureScope

Where: The Convention Centre Dublin

URL: https://www.futurescope.ie/

POSTPONED

TO

LATER IN 2020

                                        
RebelCon 2020

Where: Cork

URL: https://rebelcon.io/2020/03/13/rebelcon-postponed-due-coronavirus-covid-19/

POSTPONED

TO

Spring 2021

                                        
Security BSides Dublin 2020 

Where: The Convention Centre Dublin

URL: https://www.bsidesdub.ie

POSTPONED

TO

JULY 2021

                                        
EuroPython

Where: The Convention Centre, Dublin

URL: https://blog.europython.eu/post/612826526375919616/europython-2020-going-virtual-europython-2021

SUMMER 2021

                                        
Dublin Maker 2021

Where: Dublin

URL: https://dublinmaker.ie

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