We welcome attendees who are currently (or soon to be) leading and managing technical teams. The community-led events will feature talks, networking and refreshments in the safe and inclusive environment that you've come to expect from The Lead Developer.
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Wed 12th Feb 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)
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Wed 12th Feb 2020 8:45pm (Europe/London)
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The Lead Developer Meetup is a safe and inclusive event. By attending, you agree to our code of conduct: https://conduct.theleaddev.com
We have access to the CodeClan vending machines but you might want to bring your own drink/sandwich/salad. There is a nearby Sainsbury's on West Port/Lady Lawson St junction. There will be some social time, technical (python) question time, maybe a presentation or two (short) and planning for the forthcoming sessions.
This is a very casual and welcoming meetup - come along to code in company, chat about learning to code or coding in general and learn from other people over a beverage of your choice.
All languages and levels of experience welcome, you don't have to be a beginner and you also don't have to know anything yet to come along!
There's no structure for this event, it's just for socialising and learning - drop in for however long you like.
We will have a table reserved at the back of Akva so just ask for the coding meetup when you arrive.
This is a very casual and welcoming meetup - come along to code in company, chat about learning to code or coding in general and learn from other people over a beverage of your choice.
All languages and levels of experience welcome, you don't have to be a beginner and you also don't have to know anything yet to come along!
There's no structure for this event, it's just for socialising and learning - drop in for however long you like.
We will have a table reserved at the back of Akva so just ask for the coding meetup when you arrive.
This 1 day hands-on training course will teach you how to manage PostgreSQL/PostGIS databases, focusing on administrator topics such as database install, configuration, optimisation, assigning roles and user management.
Course Outline
Module 1: PostGIS Introduction
Module 2: Getting Started with PostgreSQL and PostGIS
Module 3: PostgreSQL and PostGIS Installation
Module 4: Spatial Database Design
Module 5: Database Administration
Module 6: Data Management
Module 7: PostgreSQL Scalability
his 1 day hands-on training course will teach you how to manage PostgreSQL/PostGIS databases, focusing on administrator topics such as database install, configuration, optimisation, assigning roles and user management.
Course Outline
Module 1: PostGIS Introduction
Module 2: Getting Started with PostgreSQL and PostGIS
Module 3: PostgreSQL and PostGIS Installation
Module 4: Spatial Database Design
Module 5: Database Administration
Module 6: Data Management
Module 7: PostgreSQL Scalability
An introductory course for those wanting to learn how to load and manage spatial data within PostGIS (PostgreSQL spatial extension). Topics cover geometries, projections, loading data, spatial querying and data visualisation.
Course Outline
Module 1: PostGIS Introduction
Module 2: Overview of SQL
Module 3: Introduction to Spatial Databases
Module 4: Spatial Data Loading Tools
Module 5: Spatial Data in PostGIS
Module 6: Spatial Querying
Module 7: Visualising PostGIS Data
This one day course provides an intensive overview QGIS. The course is designed for experienced users of desktop GIS software who are looking to switch from another GIS package to QGIS, or learn about the features and functionality of the latest long term release of QGIS.
Course Outline
Module 1: Selecting and Filtering Data
Adding data
Joining tables
Expression builder
Select by location
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.
Join us on 28 November for The Scottish Tech Startup Awards 2019 to recognise our community’s successful innovators and celebrate their contributions 🎉
We'll be kicking things off at 7pm at The Jam House, Edinburgh with some casual networking 👋🏽
Come dressed in your best 80s & 90s gear - or however you feel comfortable 👚
Grab a welcome drink with your peers and enjoy some delicious canapés 🍸
Find out the winners at the Awards ceremony starts which starts at 8pm 🏆
We'll have some retro entertainment on the night so you can dance the night away and celebrate with your team until we wrap things up before midnight.
This month Gordon McLachlan will be joining us to talk to us about 'Why you need luck to run a successful digital agency!' – Life is not a meritocracy and running a successful digital agency is no exception. Find out how luck plays a role in both running a business and navigating our personal lives.
Gordon is the Managing Director and co-founder of Primate. He has over 15 years experience. He's passionate about digital and business transformation. And, indifferent towards monkeys, apparently!
To get more of a flavour of who he is you can check out his thoughts on: 'What Japan can teach us about business'; and whether 'To be or not to be honest' on Medium here: https://medium.com/@GordonMcLachlan
Gordon's agency is not a WordPress centric one, but his some of his experiences could apply to one. – Like all our talks there should be something useful for everyone, regardless of background or experience.
Organisers and regular meet up attendee's will be on hand to answer questions, offer help and advice on any WordPress related issues you may have. We can't promise you solutions, but someone should be able to supply a compass!
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Format of the night:
* 6pm - 6:30pm: Arrival
* 6:30pm - 7:30pm: Presentation from Gordon + Q&A
* 7:30pm - 9:00pm: WordPress Q&A + food & drinks till close.
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We will be ordering in pizzas and will do our best to make sure we have something for everyone. Please let one of our organisers know though if you have any specific dietary requirements.
How to build a Startup in Silicon Valley with Dea Wilson, CEO of Lifograph
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Want to know how to build a tech startup in Silicon Valley? Then join us for us for a Global Fireside Chat with Dea Wilson, CEO of Lifograph
Dea Wilson is a great example of a woman living the American Dream as a result of ambition, hard work and perseverance. In this Global Fireside Chat, host James Shoemark, CoFounder and CEO at The Startup Race will be interviewing Dea and drawing our her story of how she traveled to America from Romania, settled in Silicon Valley and is now building Lifograph - The Wiki of People, into a massive success.
GET YOUR TICKET HERE! http://bit.ly/LofE-Dea
Watch our Teaser Interview here https://youtu.be/e2rl8chgnpA
LATEST UPDATE - The Lifograph team added 3.5 million profiles to the platform in just one month!
NOTE: Now you can take part in Lifograph's Crowdfunding campaign here https://wefunder.com/lifograph?
AGENDA
18:30 Check-In and Networking at Amazon Development Centre with free beer and pizza :-)
19:00 Global Fireside chat and discussion with Dea Wilson (Amazon Chime link required)
20:00 Networking in Edinburgh
20:30 End of event
ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER
Dea is the Founder of Lifograph - The Wiki of People - an online networking platform that connects businesses and professionals based on their needs, skills, interests and real-life relationships.
She is a serial entrepreneur, member of the Wharton Alumni Angels, Tech Angels and Founder of Silicon Valley Incubator. Her investment interest is in consumer, mobile and SaaS startups. Dubbed Ms. Silicon Valley, Dea is what people call a super-connector, her expansive network including the Who's Who in startups, venture capital, technology, entertainment, etc.
Dea has been featured and interviewed in many media publications including Entrepreneur Media, Silicon Valley Business Journal, Yahoo Finance, Investor Business Daily, TheNextWeb, ProTV, National TV, etc.
As an Executive Director at The VC Network and LifographTV, Dea interviews many prominent VCs, angels, executives and founders in Silicon Valley and tech.
WHO IS THIS EVENT FOR?
Aspiring Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurial students
Founders who want to find a CoFounder
Entrepreneurs who want to raise investment
ABOUT THE VENUE
The local event in Edinburgh will be held in Amazon's Development Centre. Please ensure you get the right ticket to ensure you are on the guest list and arrive at 6:30pm to have enough time to get through security. Every attendee will need to sign Amazon's Non Disclosure Agreement.
PARTICIPATING ONLINE?
Want to take part in this Global Fireside wherever you may be in the world?
Be sure to get the Online ticket and you will receive the Amazon Chime link via email.
The Online event will run 7:00 - 8:00pm UK time/11:00 - 12 Noon Pacific Coast Time
About the organisers of The League of Entrepreneurs Edinburgh
The League of Entrepreneurs Edinburgh was Founded in April 2015 by James Shoemark and Michael Clouser who are CoFounders and Directors at The Startup Race
James Shoemark is a Serial Entrepreneur, and also runs the Angel Investor Meetup in Scotland.
Michael Clouser is a CoFounder and CSO at The Startup Race and Serial Entrepreneur as well. A former venture capitalist in the US, Mike was also with the Edinburgh-Stanford Link and co-founded the Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club (E-Club). He also organized and coordinated the Scotland-Silicon Valley Link.
Check out our guide, resources and global community of Entrepreneurs and Investors here: https://thestartuprace.com/the-league-of-entrepreneurs/
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WHIT? (What's Happened in IoT?): A catch up of recent IoT news and developments since the last meetup.
Open Forum: members are invited to make announcements, share news, seek project collaborators, promote their IoT events, and request topics for future Meetups.
18:30 - 18:50 Paul Wealls (ADLINK)
Paul Wealls, ADLINK Product Manager and IoT evangelist, will be discussing the power of machine vision and ADLINK use cases that have delivered numerous benefits to ADLINK customers and partners - Machine Vision palletising, worker safety, agriculture and quality control.
Paul will be sharing insight into the challenges and requirements to be successful with machine vision and how Edge computing enables the technology and customer requirements. There will also be a sneak peek at an exciting new ADLINK product enabling you to learn how to build models and deploy to the device which is scalable and of high quality deployable standard.
19:00 - 19.30 Dave Leitch (Brewnode)
Brewnode is a fully automated brewing system written in Node.JS and running on a Raspberry Pi. The many sensors and actuators necessary to control the process all publish their data to the internet, allowing the brew to be monitored live and subsequently analysed. Dave will explain why and how he decided to build this in his garage. There will be a live brewing session during the talk and hopefully some beer to follow.
19:30 - 21:00 NETWORKING & DRINKS
Chat some more with the group, and hopefully sample Dave's beer!
Join an informal conversation about organising for fairer working conditions in the Edinburgh Tech Sector. This includes discussion about pay, benefits, equality, work culture, mental and physical health, etc - all ideas welcome. We should have some flyers on the tables so you can find us.
Don't worry about signing up with Meetup if you're not already - just come along, no need to RSVP.
This is a very casual and welcoming meetup - come along to code in company, chat about learning to code or coding in general and learn from other people over a beverage of your choice.
All languages and levels of experience welcome, you don't have to be a beginner and you also don't have to know anything yet to come along!
There's no structure for this event, it's just for socialising and learning - drop in for however long you like.
We will have a table reserved at the back of Akva so just ask for the coding meetup when you arrive.
This is a very casual and welcoming meetup - come along to code in company, chat about learning to code or coding in general and learn from other people over a beverage of your choice.
All languages and levels of experience welcome, you don't have to be a beginner and you also don't have to know anything yet to come along!
There's no structure for this event, it's just for socialising and learning - drop in for however long you like.
I'll bring a paper meetup sign so you can find me on the day.
This is a very casual and welcoming meetup - come along to code in company, chat about learning to code or coding in general and learn from other people over a beverage of your choice.
All languages and levels of experience welcome, you don't have to be a beginner and you also don't have to know anything yet to come along!
There's no structure for this event, it's just for socialising and learning - drop in for however long you like.
We will have a table reserved at the back of Akva so just ask for the coding meetup when you arrive.
This is a very casual and welcoming meetup - come along to code in company, chat about learning to code or coding in general and learn from other people over a beverage of your choice.
All languages and levels of experience welcome, you don't have to be a beginner and you also don't have to know anything yet to come along!
There's no structure for this event, it's just for socialising and learning - drop in for however long you like.
We will have a table reserved at the back of Akva so just ask for the coding meetup when you arrive.
► Venue security 👮
All attendees need to provide their full names in advance. Also, you will need to bring some form of photo ID to show on the day - something like a passport, driving licence, or work ID would be grand.
► Recording 🎥
The event will be recorded. Let the organisers know, if you don't want to be included in the pictures or videos. Some of them will be used on our social media channels.
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► Sponsors
Lloyds Bank
https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/careers/
@LBGCareers
biggles at large
https://biggles.io/
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► The Talks 🎤
👉Talk 1: Extreme 3D (Holo)Graphic Processing with Node.js
We will present Holoxica's flagship Holoviewer technology built using fully open source NodeJs tools and frameworks including NWJS/NodeWebkit and ThreeJS/WebGL.
When most people think of 3D graphics or animation frameworks, they tend to go for well-known gaming frameworks like Unity or Unreal Engine. Although these are proprietary and free to use for smaller projects, they are not open and require licenses for commercial use. Scripting languages like python and NodeJs are not normally associated with high performance graphics processing. NWJS (aka NodeWebKit) is a framework bundling Chromium, NodeJS and an embedded V8 compiler for near-native performance. It is aimed at making apps using web technologies including HTML5, CSS3, and WebGL. ThreeJS is one of the best open source 3D graphics framework built on WebGL. We show that industrial strength apps can be built with these open frameworks, with all the advantages afforded by Node. This includes fast turnaround for rapid prototyping to build MVPs. A particular bonus is cross-platform compatibility (across Windows, Mac & Linux) with source protection via the NWJC compiler for native binaries. Holoviewer is high performance with millions of polygons rendered at 60 fps with 45 views per frame (up to 2700 renders per second). We will demonstrate our graphics app running on the latest Looking Glass 3D light field display; as well as digital holograms that were generated using Holoviewer.
About Holoxica:
Our vision is to “Solve 3D”. Holoxica is a tech company specialising in disruptive holographic 3D solutions from motion video displays to static images. Our tech does not need any head gear where 3D images appear in mid-air, viewable naturally, just like "Star Wars". We have an experienced team delivering on extreme hardware, software and 3D graphics projects. We offer 3D light-field displays capable of showing colour motion video, as well as static digital holograms. We can convert any kind of 3D digital data into a hologram. Our technology is positioned beyond current AR/VR and can be a direct replacement for this. The main uses are in professional applications are in medical imaging, scientific data visualisation, engineering design, architecture and construction.
Short Bio:
Dr. Javid Khan – Founder and Managing Director, Holoxica Limited
Pioneer in holographic 3D technologies for medical, scientific, industrial and commercial applications. Entrepreneur, founder and director of Holoxica Ltd, a high tech company working on holographic 3D visualisation including digital holograms and holographic video displays. Javid founded Holoxica in 2008 to commercialise the results of his research in Photonics Engineering on Holographic 3D displays at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh. Javid holds an Engineering doctorate in Photonics Engineering on Holographic 3D displays, MEng in Microelectronics/Computing, MSc in Telecoms Engineering; and an MBA in Entrepreneurship.
This is our monthly informal gathering - just turn up, grab a drink, take a seat and start talking UX! You'll find us upstairs at The Outhouse (off the top of Broughton St.) - take the stairs to the right of the bar as you enter the venue.
Each month we'll have a short talk followed by some discussion around the things that interest you most. Add your ideas to our sketchbook - http://bit.ly/2khJxvg
Timeline:
5.30pm. If you've not been before, come along and say "Hi" and find out what we're all about.
6pm. Arrive, secure drinks, chat.
6.30pm. Group announcements (job opportunities, upcoming events etc.)
This is our monthly informal gathering - just turn up, grab a drink, take a seat and start talking UX! You'll find us upstairs at The Outhouse (off the top of Broughton St.) - take the stairs to the right of the bar as you enter the venue.
Each month we'll have a short talk followed by some discussion around the things that interest you most. Add your ideas to our sketchbook - http://bit.ly/2khJxvg
Timeline:
5.30pm. If you've not been before, come along and say "Hi" and find out what we're all about.
6pm. Arrive, secure drinks, chat.
6.30pm. Group announcements (job opportunities, upcoming events etc.)
Speaker: Oliver Davies, Inviqa
Location: University of Edinburgh (LG48, Paterson’s Land, Holyrood Rd)
We will be welcoming Oliver via video conference from his base in Caerleon, Wales.
Great! You’ve built your website, and now you just need to deploy it. There are various ways that this could be done - from (S)FTP, to SCP and rsync, to running commands like git pull and composer install directly on the server which is not ideal.
As well provisioning and maintaining your server configuration and running commands, you can also use Ansible to deploy your PHP application - leveraging relevant Ansible modules such as Git and Composer, custom Ansible roles, Ansible Vault for managing secrets, and features such as idempotency out of the box to build a simple deployment playbook.
We can then extend that and make it more robust by adding Ansistrano - a port of Capistrano - which adds extra features such as storing multiple builds for each project and the ability to roll-back if needed, customising your build steps using built-in hooks, multi-stage environments and more.
I've been using Ansible and Ansistrano to deploy a variety of PHP projects - including Drupal 7 & 8, Symfony, Laravel and Sculpin, as well as basic HTML websites, and found it to be very flexible and easy to install and use, and by the end of this talk we will have a fully working deployment playbook, deploying real code onto a real server.
The talk will last from 6 pm to 7 pm and afterwards, all are welcome to adjourn to the nearby bar, Hemma, for further discussion and chat where Cathcart Associates will generously provide some refreshments.
Speaker: Jochen Lillich, Freistil IT Ltd, Dublin, Ireland
Location: University of Edinburgh (4.21 St Leonard's Land, Holyrood Rd)
We will be welcoming Jochen, fresh from his sell-out tour of WordCamp Dublin and DrupalCon Amsterdam, via video conference from his base in Ireland.
Burnout is one of the biggest threats to building an engaged team. A recent study found that 95% of HR leaders admit that burnout is sabotaging their companies' work quality and employee retention; yet there is no obvious solution on the horizon.
As a long-time IT manager in corporate and startup environments, I had to deal with burnout many times (both in myself and in team members). How can we stay sane and productive in a world of rapidly changing objectives? Well, if the answer was easy, we wouldn't have to talk about it. And yes, we really have to talk about it.
In my talk, I'm going to share my experience with building resilience in myself and my team. Regardless if you’re a manager, an employee or self-employed, you’ll learn useful practices like:
* Recognising burnout symptoms
* Breaking out of the negative belief cycle
* Contributing to a healthy company culture
* Reducing time and resource pressure
* Restoring focus
* Building healthy relationships
* Dealing with change
* Developing lasting resilience
Even though mental health is a serious topic, this is going to be a light-hearted talk. I can share quite a few funny stories — most of them about my own mistakes. I'd love to share what they taught me!
The talk will last from 6 pm to 7 pm and afterwards, all are welcome to adjourn to the nearby bar, Hemma, for further discussion and chat where Cathcart Associates will generously provide some refreshments.
