We'll be meeting at Milnes bar on Hanover St at about 6:30pm. There *should* be Python logo printouts on the table if you need to find us.
There's *no minimum skill level* for coming along! If you like talking about Python or related technologies, and you're interested in meeting like-minded people and finding out what they're up to, just turn up! If you'd like to be introduced to some people, ask for me - Mark Smith - and I'll be happy to introduce you to some people with similar interests.
This is our monthly informal gathering - just turn up, grab a drink, sit down and start talking UX! If you haven't been before you'll find us on the right as you come in, opposite the bar.
Check out our new discussions board! Feel free to post anything here that you think will be of interest to the group e.g. thoughts/questions related to UX, details of relevant events, local job postings etc.
The Ethics of IT and AI: When we can do it, should we do it?
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Chris Rees, President of the BCS, will speak about his presidential theme, Ethics, and the practical issues that confront us in IT when ethical considerations arise. He will point out the relationship between ethics and Making IT Good for Society. He will discuss how and when ethics should be considered, the obstacles to doing so, how they may be overcome and how the Institute can help members in such situations. He will then focus on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the ethical problems that this fast developing technology raises.
About the speaker
After St. Andrews University, Chris joined IBM in 1966 in a technical support role. He then moved to the USA with National CSS Inc, a pioneer in virtual systems. Returning to the UK, he joined Logica, where he held a number of management roles, ultimately Managing Director of Logica Software Products Ltd.
In 1986 he joined Touche Ross Management Consultants (later Deloitte Consulting) as a Partner. His assignments included the Fraud Audits of privatisation share issues and acting as Programme Director for the Gas Industry Domestic Competition Pilot.
In October 1996, he co-founded Charteris. He led consulting engagements for clients including National Air Traffic Services (NATS), UNESCO and Centrica. He led Charteris’ Expert Witness practice for many years. He retired in 2015.
A Chartered Fellow of the BCS, he co-founded the Financial Services Special Interest Group, FINSIG. He chairs the Ethical and Spiritual Development Panel of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists.
The Docker Edinburgh meetup takes place at Codebase, in their Event Space, which is accessible from the entrance on 38 Castle Terrace. The Meetup will run from around 18h30 to 20h00, with further discussion afterwards in the pub! Cloudsoft will be sponsoring the meetup, and pizza and beer will be provided.
Please let us know what sort of speakers or topics you would like to see at future Meetups, or if there are alternative formats like lightning talks that would prefer.
We're always looking for new speakers, so please get in touch if you have something you'd like to present about Docker or the wider DevOps community!
Speakers
TBC
Discussion
Current Schedule
18h30 - Pizza and beer (thanks, Cloudsoft)
19h00 - First Talk
19h30 - Second Talk
20h00 - Discussion continues at an appropriate external venue...
We are currently arranging the speaker, stay tuned...
Meetup @ 6pm (speaker starts @ 6:30pm)
As always everyone is welcome, we have beginners and we have developers in our group, so please do come along regardless or your WordPress knowledge!
The social gathering we have after the talk has been very beneficial for people to meet others interested in WordPress and even get tips and recommendations not associated with the topic of the night.
Product Up is a new informal pub meetup in Edinburgh dedicated to product managers and people who are passionate about building quality products. Following the success of the first meetup, we are making it a regular thing!
Come along, meet other product people and chat over a drink. Grab your free ticket now and don't forget to invite your product buddies. We look forward to seeing you!
• Important to know
We want to create a comfortable and relaxed environment for our attendees so we would appreciate it if you could refrain from directly selling products/services or do recruitment at our events. It's fine if deals/transactions come out naturally from conversations.
Product Up is an informal pub meetup in Edinburgh dedicated to bringing together the product community in Edinburgh. Whether you are a Product Manager, UX designer, Engineer or work in Sales/BD and you are passionate about creating fantastic products - ProductUp is for you.
We started the meetup whilst working as Product Managers when we realised that there is no informal place to share product war stories, discuss challenges and keep track of all the amazing developments happening in Edinburgh.
We meet monthly and as outlined, it’s a completely informal meet up so the discussions are entirely open. We have no speakers as this is all about you and giving you a chance to meet and talk to everyone in the community.
The meetup is free to attend, so invite your product friends. Come along for the beer, stay for the great product discussions!
• Important to know
We want to create a comfortable and relaxed environment for our attendees so we would appreciate it if you could refrain from directly selling products/services or do recruitment at our events. It's fine if deals/transactions come out naturally from conversations.
Product Up is a new informal pub meetup in Edinburgh dedicated to product managers and people who are passionate about building quality products. Following the success of the first meetup, we are making it a regular thing!
Come along, meet other product people and chat over a drink. Grab your free ticket now and don't forget to invite your product buddies. We look forward to seeing you!
• Important to know
We want to create a comfortable and relaxed environment for our attendees so we would appreciate it if you could refrain from directly selling products/services or do recruitment at our events. It's fine if deals/transactions come out naturally from conversations.
To be decided but will normally be one or more of:
• Short/Lightning Talks
• Agile Game/Workshop
• Lean Coffee - a structured but agenda-less meeting, the participants decide what to discuss using http://leancoffee.org (http://leancoffee.org/) format.
To be decided but will normally be one or more of:
• Short/Lightning Talks
• Agile Game/Workshop
• Lean Coffee - a structured but agenda-less meeting, the participants decide what to discuss using http://leancoffee.org (http://leancoffee.org/) format.
To be decided but will normally be one or more of:
• Short/Lightning Talks
• Agile Game/Workshop
• Lean Coffee - a structured but agenda-less meeting, the participants decide what to discuss using http://leancoffee.org (http://leancoffee.org/) format.
To be decided but will normally be one or more of:
• Short/Lightning Talks
• Agile Game/Workshop
• Lean Coffee - a structured but agenda-less meeting, the participants decide what to discuss using http://leancoffee.org (http://leancoffee.org/) format.
PyData Edinburgh - Search and Recommendation Engines
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Welcome to the third meetup for the PyData Edinburgh group!
We look forward to welcoming you all to a new venue - Wood Mackenzie, who have kindly invited us to use their great facilities.
We'll have our regular update on the PyData community, lightning talks and we're delighted to have Joan Figuerola join us from SpecifiedBy to give our main talk - sharing some insights into search and recommendation engines.
We look forward to seeing you there - doors open at 1815, make sure you've clicked attend to reserve your place!
TALK DETAILS
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Introduction to Search and Recommendation Engines
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Presenter: Joan Figuerola
Joan Figuerola Hurtado is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at SpecifiedBy - a small start-up that connects architects with building product manufacturers. His work ranges from front-end Javascript development to building complex data processing pipelines. He's always on the lookout for technical solutions that create great user experiences accomodated for resource constrained companies.
Description:
The talk will cover the basic building blocks for building search and recommendation engines. We will share our one person journey building SpecifiedBy’s information retrieval systems.
The talk will cover the following topics:
- Crawling, structuring and storing data.
- Search engines: architectures, resources and evaluation.
- Recommendation engines: architectures, resources and evaluation.
- QA
Each section will cover introductory content and also present a few issues that we faced as we improved our information retrieval systems. Hopefully you will take away relevant insights.
LIGHTNING TALKS
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Share your stories! Share your successes & failures! Share your hints & tips! Whether you are a beginner or an expert, we want to hear from you.
Lightning talks have been really popular at other PyData meetups, so let's get the ideas flowing in Edinburgh!
No need for slides (bring them on a memory stick if you do have some though) and no need to be an expert speaker!
Just sign up on the evening: anything goes (within reason!) and no more than 5 minutes long — we'll be bringing the alarm clock!
LOGISTICS
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We've kindly been invited to use the great facilities at Wood Mackenzie— please note all attendees MUST sign up to the Meetup to be admitted.
Doors open at 1815 with refreshments.
Talks kick off with an update on news relating to the PyData community at 1845.
And we'll end the evening with pizza and more refreshments, wrapping up by 2100.
SPONSORS & REFRESHMENTS
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As always, we couldn't do this without our sponsors help to provide a venue and drink & pizzas — Cathcart Associates (https://www.cathcartassociates.com) and Wood Mackenzie (https://www.woodmac.com)
CODE OF CONDUCT
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The PyData Code of Conduct governs this meetup. ( http://pydata.org/code-of-conduct.html ) To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or the behavior of anyone at a PyData meetup, please contact NumFOCUS Executive Director Leah Silen (+1 512-222-5449; leah@numfocus.org) or the group organizer.
To be decided but will normally be one or more of:
• Short/Lightning Talks
• Agile Game/Workshop
• Lean Coffee - a structured but agenda-less meeting, the participants decide what to discuss using http://leancoffee.org (http://leancoffee.org/) format.
To be decided but will normally be one or more of:
• Short/Lightning Talks
• Agile Game/Workshop
• Lean Coffee - a structured but agenda-less meeting, the participants decide what to discuss using http://leancoffee.org (http://leancoffee.org/) format.
To be decided but will normally be one or more of:
• Short/Lightning Talks
• Agile Game/Workshop
• Lean Coffee - a structured but agenda-less meeting, the participants decide what to discuss using http://leancoffee.org (http://leancoffee.org/) format.
To be decided but will normally be one or more of:
• Short/Lightning Talks
• Agile Game/Workshop
• Lean Coffee - a structured but agenda-less meeting, the participants decide what to discuss using http://leancoffee.org (http://leancoffee.org/) format.
To be decided but will normally be one or more of:
• Short/Lightning Talks
• Agile Game/Workshop
• Lean Coffee - a structured but agenda-less meeting, the participants decide what to discuss using http://leancoffee.org (http://leancoffee.org/) format.
League of Entrepreneurs presents tech entrepreneur Mike Ramsay from TiVo
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Come along for an exciting, dynamic and inspiring entrepreneurial event with an exclusive guest speaker all the way from Silicon Valley - Mike Ramsay CoFounder and former CEO at TiVo.
Hangout with like-minded Entrepreneurs and Startup Founders from around the world and meet people to help build your startup or even find a startup to join as a CoFounder, Investor, Mentor, Adviser or Intern.
ALSO:
- Share startup war stories
- Gain information on funding opportunities
- Discover ways to increase your chances of success
GETUP AND PITCH!
You will also have an opportunity to tell the group what your idea is and ask for help in finding cofounders, funding or support.
AGENDA:
18:30 Check-In
19:00 Fireside chat with Mike Ramsay from TiVo
19:30 'Get up and Pitch' and Ask for CoFounders, Advice or Funding
20:00 Meetup Melee (talk to potential cofounders, people you can help)
Hovercraft ! a text-orented slide creation framework
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This month, Kris will be presenting "Hovercraft! - Merging `convenience` and `cool`!"
Hovercraft! is a framework for creating slides using reStructuredText , compiling to impress.js compatible output - all that is needed to display the slides then is a browser!
Having your slides defined as pure text allows the entire project to be version controlled and automatically processed, and rendering in a browser means no office software is necessary on the presenter machine, removing any compatibility issues.
Its output supports a presenter area with notes and previews, as well as 3D effects, pan + zoom, just like any modern slide creation and presentation suite.
If you have never been to one of these meetings, just know that it's friendly and informal - grab a pint or a soda, come ask questions, get help with open source software and Linux, or simply rant & rave!
There will also be a Linux laptop on hand for a quick show and tell for anyone who is curious, and you can also bring your own laptop to troubleshoot Linux, or try Linux on your own laptop - without installing it.
The meeting will be in the back room of the Southsider pub, West Richmond Street, Edinburgh from 7:30pm, with a brief introduction to Linux, open source and free software for any newcomers.
Open Knowledge Meet-ups are friendly and informal evenings for people to get together to share and argue all areas of openness. Come and join discussions around open knowledge and open data -- from politics and philosophy to practicalities of theory and practice. Information about some of our past meet-ups can be found at scot.okfn.org.
Lightning talks confirmed so far:
- Sally Kerr (Edinburgh Council)
- Patricia McClay (Barclays Eagle Lab)
- Paul Bradley (SCVO)
- Allan Lloyds (Product Forge)
- Christopher Stone (Edinburgh Napier University)
- Ingi Helgason (Edinburgh Napier University)
- Oluwaseun Bamgboye (Edinburgh Napier University)
Glasgow April Half-day Session: Come Experience Code - 28th April
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Get a flavour for our coding courses
Learn the basics of how we teach programming at CodeClan and try your hand at writing some code of your own at our half-day taster session.
If you're thinking about a career in tech but aren't convinced that you have the ability to code, this is the perfect taster session for you! We've designed this interactive taster session specifically for people thinking about learning to code through our 16-week intensive course.
What you'll experience
An intro to programming
To do programming you need to understand what it is, right? We’ll talk through some of the basics of programming, exploring fundamental concepts developers use to write software and web applications.
Our “try before you buy” code along
Get coding with our instructors! The best way to learn is by doing. Get a feel for the programming languages we teach at CodeClan by taking part in a code-along. We’ll go through some of the basics of what a language is and write a program together from scratch.
Perfect for
Novice programmers & people interested in a career in tech
Anyone interested in our 16-week coding course
Anyone who has attended our info session and wants to experience coding before applying
Event details
10am to 1pm
Lunch provided
Cost: £20
Book your place
The cost of the session is £20, but this fee will be reimbursed if you are accepted on to our 16-week course after attending this session.
