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.
Whiskers, ears and Puppy Dog Tails: finding out what animal pictures are made of
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Welcome to the October meetup for the PyData Edinburgh group!
We'll have our regular update on the PyData world, lightning talks and our main speaker this time is Mike, talking about using Machine Learning for recognising animal pics.
Doors open at 1815, make sure you've clicked attend to reserve your place!
TALK DETAILS
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Whiskers, ears and Puppy Dog Tails:
Finding out what animal pictures are made of
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Presenter: Mike Moran
Mike Moran (http://www.houseofmoran.com/) is an Engineer at Skyscanner and an amateur Data Scientist.
Description:
Mike is working with https://twitter.com/carrotcodes on improving https://www.adoptanimals.io/ by applying facial identification techniques to animal pictures. Come along to find out how these work and how we’re using them.
Warning: may contain gratuitous amounts of cute animal pictures.
LIGHTNING TALKS
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Lightning talks are a tradition of PyData so let's keep it rolling! They have to be strictly 5 minutes talks, about any topic Python and/or data! Please bring one along. No slides required but if you have some bring them on a mem stick. They're good fun and a great opportunity to share what you know/learn with all of us.
LOGISTICS
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Please RSVP here!
1815: Doors open, drinks & networking
1845: Talks start - welcome & community announcements followed by our main speaker, then lightning talks.
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), Wood Mackenzie (https://www.woodmac.com) and Canon Medical (https://research.eu.medical.canon)
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.
BILHack #1 - Digital Identity and Blockchain Hackathon
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The inaugural BILHack will be held in Edinburgh at the Universitiy's Merchiston Campus across the 29 and 30 of September 2018.
The Blockpass Identity Lab is a multi-year research collaboration between the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University, and Blockpass IDN, a self-sovereign digital identity and KYC compliance solution provider.
The lab invites participants from all backgrounds to come together and build things related to 'digital identity' and/or blockchain or other distributed ledger technologies, identifying use-cases and prototyping applications for these emerging and revolutionary advances.
The Sketch team are coming to Edinburgh for Design It; Build It on the 12th November and we want to hang out with you!
Some of the team behind Sketch will be attending dibi — a one-day conference for UX designers and web developers in Edinburgh and we’re also hosting our own meetup/after party later that evening!
We’re meeting in Akva, a gorgeous venue on Fountainbridge, at 7pm to eat, drink and talk shop with the local design community.
Sketch founder, Pieter Omvlee and Lead Product Designer Chris Downer will be sharing some insights about creating design tools, working remotely and, of course, giving you a sneak peek of some upcoming features.
Many of these records are of innocent people. Something needs to change.
Police Scotland also hold 300,000 DNA profiles and 400,000 fingerprint records.
The Scottish Government has proposed a Biometric Data Bill that would enhance oversight of biometric data in Scotland.
Join Open Rights Group for a discussion on enhanced oversight of biometrics in Scotland.
Do the proposals go far enough?
Will the public have more power over the use of their biometric data?
What should the public look out for in the proposals and how can they support enhanced oversight?
We will be joined by John Scott QC, author of the Independent Advisory Group report on the use of biometrics in Scotland. John will discuss what he has learned as a result of the report, his attitude towards biometrics in the criminal justice space, and what the future may hold.
All are welcome, you don't need to be an expert in computer science (or forensic science!). You just need to care about the effect technology has on your human rights.
Edinburgh 2600 meetings are similar to those held around the world. Hackers, crackers, geeks, hats of any colour, technology enthusiasts, hacktivists, and other like-minded folks are most welcome. We do not judge anyone and everyone has something to contribute, no matter their level of expertise.
Note that whilst the meetup itself starts at 6pm, talks generally kick off around 7pm in the upstairs room.
Edinburgh 2600 meetings are similar to those held around the world. Hackers, crackers, geeks, hats of any colour, technology enthusiasts, hacktivists, and other like-minded folks are most welcome. We do not judge anyone and everyone has something to contribute, no matter their level of expertise.
Join us for another set of lightning talks! We'll have talks on different topics around the Go programming language from our members lasting between 10-15 minutes with time for questions after each.
Topics and speakers so far:
- Douglas McCallum on maps
- Ovidiu Miron on How to write SOLID code in Golang
- TBC from Obashi
If you'd like to do a talk please get in touch with me. You can talk about anything Go related, even if it's something you're not an expert on. If you found the topic interesting enough to do a talk on, chances are we'll find it interesting too!
Pizza and refreshments will be served courtesy of our sponsors at Obashi so come along, have a bite to eat and enjoy some great talks.
The meetup is open to people of all skill levels so whether you're a beginner or an expert you will be sure to get something out of this event.
If you have any questions, please get in touch with me through meetup.com, @edinburghgo on twitter or by email at [masked].
Police Scotland holds 1,000,000+ photographs, 300,000 DNA profiles and 400,000 fingerprint records. But many of these records are of innocent people. Something needs to change.
The Scottish Government has proposed a Biometric Data Bill that would enhance oversight of biometric data in Scotland.
Join Open Rights Group for a discussion on enhanced oversight of biometrics in Scotland.
Do the proposals go far enough?
Will the public have more power over the use of their biometric data?
What should the public look out for in the proposals and how can they support enhanced oversight?
We will be joined by John Scott QC, author of the Independent Advisory Group report on the use of biometrics in Scotland. John will discuss what he has learned as a result of the report, his attitude towards biometrics in the criminal justice space, and what the future may hold.
All are welcome, you don't need to be an expert in computer science (or forensic science!). You just need to care about the effect technology has on your human rights.
Biometrics in Scotland: Is improving oversight enough?
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Police Scotland hold 1,000,000+ photographs of unconvicted individuals
They also hold 300,000 DNA profiles.
and 400,000 fingerprint records.
The Scottish Government has proposed a Biometric Data Bill that would enhance oversight of biometric data in Scotland.
Something needs to change.
Join Open Rights Group for a discussion on enhanced oversight of biometrics in Scotland.
Do the proposals go far enough?
Will the public have more power over the use of their biometric data?
What should the public look out for in the proposals and how can they support enhanced oversight?
We will be joined by John Scott QC, author of the Independent Advisory Group report on the use of biometrics in Scotland. John will discuss what he has learned as a result of the report, his attitude towards biometrics in the criminal justice space, and what the future may hold.
All are welcome, you don't need to be an expert in computer science (or forensic science!) You just need to care about the effect technology has on your human rights.
This month, we will be running a lean coffee session. Lean Coffee is a structured but agenda-less meeting where the participants decide what to discuss. You can familiarise yourself more by visiting http://leancoffee.org. It's great for both people who are new to Agile and for more experienced people so no matter your experience, please come along to join the discussions.
The event will be hosted at Amazon where there are several break out rooms to hold discussions. As ever, Amazon are kindly providing refreshments of pizza and beer and soft drinks and there will be opportunity for networking before and after the event.
Venue will open at 18:30 and sessions will begin around 19:00. Look forward to seeing you there!
Service Design
Wednesday 3rd October 2018, 6:00 pm.
Speaker: Anne Dhir, Project Director, Snook
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh.
Refreshments and networking from 6:00 pm.
Synopsis
We all work hard to deliver our projects on time, within budget, and to our clients’ satisfaction. However, how do we ensure that this hard work actually meet the real needs of users? Will we really help them achieve what they need to achieve? Will the solutions be sustainable for the organisation? And ultimately will they fit in their environment, or simply add to the stresses of day-to-day working life?
This is where Service Design comes in.
Service Design allows us to gain a deep understanding of users and make sure that services and products work seamlessly together, to deliver the organisation’s strategy. Using service design tools and methodologies we can create solutions that are respectful, seamless, holistic, sustainable and realistic.
This talk will provide a short introduction to Service Design, illustrated with case studies. Furthermore we will be “doing not talking” with plenty hands-on activities and discussions, giving you the opportunity to walk away with an understanding of design thinking.
About the speaker
Anne is a project director at Snook, an award-winning agency with offices in Glasgow and London. Coming from a background in business and data analysis, she aims to get to the bottom of problems, unearth the impact throughout the organisation, design innovative solutions and follow them through; acoss private, public, and third sectors..
Blockpass Identity Lab Conference on Digital Identity, Blockchain and Advanced Cryptography
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The inaugural Blockpass Identity Lab Conference on Digital Identity, Blockchain and Advanced Cryptography will be hosted in Glassroom at the Edinburgh Napier University Merchiston Campus on Friday the 28 September 2018.
Code & Coffee Morning: Why you should consider a career in digital
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Join us at our first Code & Coffee Morning to hear why retraining into digital could be for you.
Things are looking bright in Scotland's digital technology sector.
Not only is the number of digital technology jobs growing, but salaries are following suit (in 2016 the average annual salary was £37,500, 30% higher than the Scottish average of £28,000).
But a digital skills gap is causing concern
The 2018 Scottish Technology Industry Survey highlighted the huge skills gap created by too few people entering the market to fill employer demand.
At CodeClan, we help more than 300 people a year retrain into digital in just 16-weeks, but the industry needs even more new recruits to continue its growth.
Hear why a career change into digital could be for you
We've invited some leading names from around Scotland's digital tech sector to each discuss in just five minutes their experience creating jobs and recruiting new staff.
Speakers will include Kelli Buchan, an expert in talent acquisition who has connections to a large number of Startups, SMEs and Blue Chip companies in Scotland, Charles Harley, CTO at Care Sourcer (the care comparison and matching website, that recently raised £8.5m in funding) and Andrew Wykes, Engineering & Customer Experience Director for Financial Planning and Retirement at Scottish Widows.
They'll explain why the industry is worth shifting into, the kind of people they're looking to hire and the type of personal and financial rewards available.
We'll also invite back CodeClan graduates to discuss their decision to retrain into digital, one of whom now works at Cultivate in Edinburgh.
You'll then have an opportunity to ask them questions in a panel discussion.
More on our speakers:
Kelli Buchan
Kelli has been working in the Technology Sector in Scotland for the last 15 years and is a highly respected recruiter who is able to attract talent to companies, advise individuals on how to progress or start a career in the technology space. She works onsite for clients and has worked at Amazon, FanDuel, Administrate, CareSourcer and many more fast growing companies. She is usually in Codebase every week and is always happy to meet people for coffee to offer advise and make introductions to companies on behalf of people looking to get into the industry.
Charles Harley
Charles graduated in 2007 from the University of Edinburgh with a BEng in Software Engineering. Since then he has worked across multiple platforms from hosted applications to native iOS and Android apps. As Head of Engineering at Kotikan, Charles helped build one of Scotland's leading mobile app agencies. Following the acquisition by FanDuel he moved into a Director of Engineering role before transitioning to Float, one of Scotland's up and coming startups, to help build the engineering team and SaaS product. Charles is currently the CTO at Care Sourcer, a care comparison and matching website.
Kate Preston
Kate is a full-stack software developer who currently works at Cultivate, having completed CodeClan’s software development course in May. Prior to starting the course Kate had been on maternity leave from her role as Admissions Manager here at CodeClan, and had previously worked in education policy.
Andrew Wykes
Andrew was appointed Financial Planning & Retirement Engineering Lead at Scottish Widows in January 2018 where he is responsible for leading the team to deliver transformational technology change across Financial Planning and Retirement, within Insurance and Wealth. FP&R Engineering requires significant transformation to simplify the platform landscape (c200 platforms) and to modernise ways of working and capabilities of the c900 colleagues to improve pace and quality whilst simplifying the IT landscape.
Come along for a coffee and a chat with our panel!
Timings
8.30 - 9.00 Arrival and coffee/tea
9.00 - 10.00 Five minute presentations and panel session
Edinburgh Half-day Session: Come Experience Code - 22nd September
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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.
We're excited to announce Mode 2 Meetup episode 12, sponsored by Cucumber!
Mode 2 is a regular meetup about IT innovation within large companies across central Scotland.
Each meetup will feature two short talks and a chance to connect with IT innovators in a relaxed environment with free beer/wine and pizza. The talks for this meetup are:
1: Dr. Sal Freudenberg, Director, Cucumber Ltd
Dr. Sal Freudenberg is Chief Being Sal Officer at Cucumber Ltd. When she’s not hacking, Sal focuses on nurturing more nimble, customer-centric and human(e) ways of working. She holds a PhD in the Psychology of Collaborative Software Development and since being diagnosed as autistic has developed an interest in neurodiversity. Through re-assessing her own traits and neurology, and considering the extra-ordinary people with whom she has worked over her 25+ years in tech, Sal is raising awareness of the benefits of having diversity in our organisations, and is helping the industry to begin to understand how to support and include every kind of brain.
"Neurodiversity"
The tech industry needs all kinds of minds - so how do we support them?
Sometimes in our keenness to collaborate we risk forgetting that teams are still made up of individuals. The diversity that helps create amazing teams and products may ironically be being drummed of us by our own practices and environments. Inadvertently creating a mono-culture when far from being a weakness, our diversity is our biggest strength.
This talk then is about embracing diversity of thinker. About making our collaborations more inclusive. About experimenting with how we can create teams, spaces and practices where people can turn up authentically and have their differences not only supported but celebrated.
2: Mike McQuaid, Senior Software Engineer, GitHub
Mike McQuaid is a senior engineer at GitHub where he works from home in Edinburgh. At GitHub he works on improving the quality of internal and external software whilst attempting to automate himself out of the job.
Outside of work, he is the lead maintainer of the Homebrew package manager for macOS, author of Git in Practice (published with Manning) and has contributed to a wide array of other open source projects including KDE and the Linux kernel.
Previously in his career he’s worked as a full stack engineer and built CI and CD at AllTrails, been an international engineering consultant and lead and trainer at KDAB, setup CI and CD as first employee and engineer at Mendeley and created high-performance network analysis tools at BT.
"How to Not Fail at Using Open-Source Software in Your Organisation"
Almost every company today uses open source software to do business (whether they know it or not). Almost every company isn’t using open source software as effectively as they could. Learn from GitHub’s Mike McQuaid about how to use open source software in your organisation without succumbing to the most common of pitfalls.
Cucumber are also going to facilitate an (optional) paired programming, cyber-dojo exercise (http://cyber-dojo.org/) that will run as people arrive from 6 sharp. If you want to take part, please bring a laptop.
Edinburgh April Half-day Session: Come Experience Code - 19th May
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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.
This one day course explores advanced techniques and processes for analysing and interpreting spatial data in QGIS. The course is most suited to delegates who already have a good working understanding of QGIS, or have attended our QGIS Beginner course.
This one day course explores advanced techniques and processes for analysing and interpreting spatial data in QGIS. The course is most suited to delegates who already have a good working understanding of QGIS, or have attended our QGIS Beginner course.
Get started with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)...This two day course covers basic GIS concepts and the application of simple techniques and processes to analyse and interpret spatial data in QGIS (open source desktop GIS). The course is most suited to delegates who are new to GIS or QGIS.
Get started with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)...This two day course covers basic GIS concepts and the application of simple techniques and processes to analyse and interpret spatial data in QGIS (open source desktop GIS). The course is most suited to delegates who are new to GIS or QGIS.
We're excited to announce Mode 2 Meetup episode 12, sponsored by Cucumber!
Mode 2 is a regular meetup about IT innovation within large companies across central Scotland.
Each meetup will feature two short talks and a chance to connect with IT innovators in a relaxed environment with free beer/wine and pizza. The talks for this meetup are:
1: Dr. Sal Freudenberg, Director, Cucumber Ltd
Dr. Sal Freudenberg is Chief Being Sal Officer at Cucumber Ltd. When she’s not hacking, Sal focuses on nurturing more nimble, customer-centric and human(e) ways of working. She holds a PhD in the Psychology of Collaborative Software Development and since being diagnosed as autistic has developed an interest in neurodiversity. Through re-assessing her own traits and neurology, and considering the extra-ordinary people with whom she has worked over her 25+ years in tech, Sal is raising awareness of the benefits of having diversity in our organisations, and is helping the industry to begin to understand how to support and include every kind of brain.
"Neural Diversity"
The tech industry needs all kinds of minds - so how do we support them?
Sometimes in our keenness to collaborate we risk forgetting that teams are still made up of individuals. The diversity that helps create amazing teams and products may ironically be being drummed of us by our own practices and environments. Inadvertently creating a mono-culture when far from being a weakness, our diversity is our biggest strength.
This talk then is about embracing diversity of thinker. About making our collaborations more inclusive. About experimenting with how we can create teams, spaces and practices where people can turn up authentically and have their differences not only supported but celebrated.
2: Mike McQuaid, Senior Software Engineer, GitHub
Mike McQuaid is a senior engineer at GitHub where he works from home in Edinburgh. At GitHub he works on improving the quality of internal and external software whilst attempting to automate himself out of the job.
Outside of work, he is the lead maintainer of the Homebrew package manager for macOS, author of Git in Practice (published with Manning) and has contributed to a wide array of other open source projects including KDE and the Linux kernel.
Previously in his career he’s worked as a full stack engineer and built CI and CD at AllTrails, been an international engineering consultant and lead and trainer at KDAB, setup CI and CD as first employee and engineer at Mendeley and created high-performance network analysis tools at BT.
"How to Not Fail at Using Open-Source Software in Your Organisation"
Almost every company today uses open source software to do business (whether they know it or not). Almost every company isn’t using open source software as effectively as they could. Learn from GitHub’s Mike McQuaid about how to use open source software in your organisation without succumbing to the most common of pitfalls.
Cucumber are also going to facilitate an (optional) paired programming, cyber-dojo exercise (http://cyber-dojo.org/) that will run as people arrive from 6 sharp. If you want to take part, please bring a laptop.
Elm: Taming the Wild West Web using Functional Programming
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Title: Elm: Taming the Wild West Web using Functional Programming
Speaker: Rupert Smith
9th October 2018, The Outhouse pub, 7pm.
Abstract
Rupert will introduce the Elm programming language, comparing it with other well known FP languages. The strengths of FP will be examined by looking at examples of Elm programs used to build single page applications for the web. There will also be a quick tour of some of the libraries available and the people and businesses involved with Elm.
This month, Dave Jones is coming to speak to us about a gem he’s built. Picture the situation: you’ve spent time at work crafting a perfect configuration for your editor of choice. You realise there’s some programming thing you want to play with at home over the weekend, but you haven’t updated your configuration at home in months. If you’ve ever tried to copy settings you’ve careful crafted on one computer to another, you’ll recognize the problems here. Do you email them to yourself? Commit them to a version control system you have access to in both places? Ah, but how do you configure your access to the version control system?
Dave decided that he wanted an easier way and a better way, so he built it. His solution may help you, and may also be the inspiration you need to write a tool to solve a problem you’ve been having. Seems good all around no?
The UK national event for OSGeo, Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial 2019.
Includes ice-breaker event on 18th September, two full conference days (19th and 20th) and a code sprint/hackfest (21st). Gala dinner / party too.
WordPress Edinburgh Monthly Meetup - Requirements for your next WP project
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Hi All,
This month we have Steven Jones from Stomp (https://stomptheweb.co.uk/) speaking on Requirements for your next WordPress project.
Here's a short intro:
"Before you start your next WordPress project, stop. Have you got a clearly defined scope? Are your requirements well defined? What assumptions are you making? There are many reasons why projects fail - we're going to look into how to kick off your project the right way to increase the chances of success and keeping your clients happy"
Meetup @ 6pm (speaker starts @ 6:30pm)
Everyone is welcome, we have members and regular attendees who are widely varied in their WordPress Skills, beginners through to experts. Combine this with a variety of interests and backgrounds and you have a recipe for a great meetup. So please do come along regardless or your WordPress knowledge!
There is always a social side to the WP Edinburgh meetups, many attendees have found this to be of great benefit & an opportunity to meet others to share & learn on all things WordPress and beyond :)
We are currently arranging the speaker, stay tuned...
Meetup @ 6pm (speaker starts @ 6:30pm)
Everyone is welcome, we have members and regular attendees who are widely varied in their WordPress Skills, beginners through to experts. Combine this with a variety of interests and backgrounds and you have a recipe for a great meetup. So please do come along regardless or your WordPress knowledge!
There is always a social side to the WP Edinburgh meetups, many attendees have found this to be of great benefit & an opportunity to meet others to share & learn on all things WordPress and beyond :)
We are currently arranging the speaker, stay tuned...
Meetup @ 6pm (speaker starts @ 6:30pm)
Everyone is welcome, we have members and regular attendees who are widely varied in their WordPress Skills, beginners through to experts. Combine this with a variety of interests and backgrounds and you have a recipe for a great meetup. So please do come along regardless or your WordPress knowledge!
There is always a social side to the WP Edinburgh meetups, many attendees have found this to be of great benefit & an opportunity to meet others to share & learn on all things WordPress and beyond :)
