Join us for the December meet-up at Morgan Stanley!
Please note photographs may be taken at this event and shared on social media.
Everyone must sign up to attend by December 10th, unfortuantley, anyone not signed up will not be admitted.
Schedule:
18:00-18:30 Networking
18:30-19:00 Suzanne Lee, Immersive Scotland 2019 and Beyond
19:00-19:30 Sarune Savickaite, Using Virtual Reality to understand individual perceptual differences
19:30-20:00 Trying our XR experiences
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https://glasgowarvr.co.uk/events
Ticket URL changed:
http://glasgowarvr.eventbrite.com/
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Wed 11th Dec 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)
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Wed 11th Dec 2019 8:00pm (Europe/London)
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Code of Conduct:
Glasgow AR/VR is an event intended for education, networking, and community. To ensure it is a welcoming and friendly environment for all, attendees, speakers, organisers, and volunteers at any Glasgow ARVR meetup are required to conform to the following Code of Conduct. Organizers will enforce this code throughout the meetup and meetup-related social event
Ground Rules
We want the discussion to be as interesting, useful and productive as possible. Without some rules in place we risk the conversations going off topic and people feeling attacked. To get the most out of the event we’d ask everyone to comply with the following rules:
No arguments directed at people – only at ideas and opinions. Disagreement should be respectful.
Listen to the whole of others’ thoughts – actually listen, rather than just running over your own response in your head.
Respect the group’s time. Try to keep your comments reasonably short and to the point, so that others have a chance to respond.
Consider all comments seriously, and try to evaluate them fairly. Others’ ideas and comments may change your mind, or vice versa: it’s important to be open to that.
If someone disagrees with you then evaluate both positions, and only continue to argue for yours if you continue to believe it’s right. Our discussions are about learning, so try to be open to disagreement rather than defensive.
Everyone is responsible for following the ground rules, and should help uphold them where they feel able to do so. The organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the meetup.
Harassment Free Meetup:
Glasgow AR/VR is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference [without a refund] at the discretion of the conference organizers. Harassment includes, but is not limited to:
Verbal comments that reinforce social structures of domination related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion.
Sexual images in public spaces
Deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following
Harassing photography or recording
Sustained disruption of talks or other events
Inappropriate physical contact
Unwelcome sexual attention
Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behaviour
Enforcement
Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. If a participant engages in harassing behaviour, event organisers retain the right to take any actions to keep the event a welcoming environment for all participants. This includes warning the offender or expulsion from the meetup [with no refund]. Event organisers may take action to redress anything designed to, or with the clear impact of, disrupting the event or making the environment hostile for any participants. We expect participants to follow these rules at all event venues and event-related social activities. We think people should follow these rules outside event activities too!
Reporting
If someone makes you or anyone else feel unsafe or unwelcome, please report it as soon as possible. Harassment and other code of conduct violations reduce the value of our event for everyone. We want you to be happy at our event. People like you make our event a better place.
Disclaimer
The ground rules are based on Code Craft's Ground Rules. The anti-harassment policy is based on the example policy from the Geek Feminism Wiki created by the Ada Initiative and other volunteers.
We often use User Stories to break down our big ideas into reasonable, valuable chunks. What many people don't know is how to then manage these stories. What order do we tackle them in? How do we know where we are?
Enter User Story Mapping.
In this workshop, you'll learn how to collaboratively create a User Story Map that'll help you navigate through even the toughest pieces of work.
We have a Code of Conduct. To attend our events, you must accept the ideas and actions within it: https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Glasgow/about/
This month we’ll have a speaker (details TBC) to kick us off with a short talk, followed by Lean Coffee. This is an opportunity for you to ask all of your burning questions about Lean, Agile, and modern work. If you have any topics, questions, or ideas, bring them along and get help/feedback from the community.
We have a Code of Conduct. To attend our events, you must accept the ideas and actions within it: https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Glasgow/about/
Lean Agile Glasgow - Amazing talks and lots of variety happe
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Calum Shepherd: @calumshepherd
Avoiding ’banana skins’
Using some simple methods, it's possible to avoid those painful moments where everyone is on the same page - until they're not. Avoiding 'banana skins' is a short talk to help with creating clear direction for, and alignment across, your digital products.
Calum is a Strategist and Product manager and has been inspiring me for years.
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Martin Bate: @MR10BB
Agile, punk, community and rebellion.
After Lean Agile Scotland 2017 Mike Hill tweeted, “The agile movement is skilled at rebellion and community”. It was at that moment I realised why I felt at home here.
As someone who played music in the Do-It-Yourself Punk scene of the 1990’s I could see many of the same structures, behaviours and philosophies mirrored in our Agile community. The question in common is, “how do we create something, ethically, with the minimum amount of waste?”
So, if the approaches and human behaviours of a collective that spanned continents can be seen mirrored in our community today, are there more cautionary lessons to be learned from what happened next?
Martin is a candid scrum master who was crazy enough to give me a job once. Then he quit 2 weeks later....
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Brendan Forbes: @BrendanForbes7
Army to agile.
Background, organisational structures, transferable skills, and planning tools. How one Platoon Sergeant used his combat skills to navigate organization agility.
Brendan's story is really amazing. He won me over in an interview drawing his parallels between the army and agility. I'm really looking forward to this talk.
This month we’ll have a speaker (details TBC) to kick us off with a short talk, followed by Lean Coffee. This is an opportunity for you to ask all of your burning questions about Lean, Agile, and modern work. If you have any topics, questions, or ideas, bring them along and get help/feedback from the community.
We have a Code of Conduct. To attend our events, you must accept the ideas and actions within it: https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Glasgow/about/
"You work with them day in, day out. You even spend the majority of your waking life with them. But how much do you trust them? And how much do they trust you?
Andy will discuss some of his observations from taking distrusting/dysfunctioning teams, through to teams that you’d trust with your life and theirs with yours.
We’ll also look at how teams can build better, trusting relationships with external stakeholders and teams; on top of fostering a more open and trusting culture within the team.
Andy has worked as a Scrum Master, Product Owner and Agile coach in a number of multinational companies, spanning different industries. In each of these roles a high level of trust has to be earned with the other team members and the external stakeholders.
The three pillars of Scrum focus on collaboration, transparency and adaptation, which all rely on trust. So why not see how it can be improved?
If you are part of a team looking to create a higher level of internal trust or to improve the way your team is seen, these tips and topics could help you."
We have a Code of Conduct. To attend our events, you must accept the ideas and actions within it: https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Glasgow/about/
Doors open at 6pm for our talk to start at 6:30pm.
This talk is suitable for relative beginners on WordPress.
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Elementor Pro is one of the main players in the Page Builder market.
Angela Wassell is a freelance graphic designer who has been using Elementor professionally for a while and will talk us through her experiences with it.
If you came to our Beaver Builder presentation back in September, here is a chance to make a comparison.If you didn't, then it's an opportunity to see how Elementor is being used in the real world and ask Angela some questions about it.
We look forward to seeing you here.
This month we’ll have a speaker (details TBC) to kick us off with a short talk, followed by Lean Coffee. This is an opportunity for you to ask all of your burning questions about Lean, Agile, and modern work. If you have any topics, questions, or ideas, bring them along and get help/feedback from the community.
We have a Code of Conduct. To attend our events, you must accept the ideas and actions within it: https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Glasgow/about/
This month we’ll have a speaker (details TBC) to kick us off with a short talk, followed by Lean Coffee. This is an opportunity for you to ask all of your burning questions about Lean, Agile, and modern work. If you have any topics, questions, or ideas, bring them along and get help/feedback from the community.
We have a Code of Conduct. To attend our events, you must accept the ideas and actions within it: https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Glasgow/about/
This month we’ll have a speaker (details TBC) to kick us off with a short talk, followed by Lean Coffee. This is an opportunity for you to ask all of your burning questions about Lean, Agile, and modern work. If you have any topics, questions, or ideas, bring them along and get help/feedback from the community.
We have a Code of Conduct. To attend our events, you must accept the ideas and actions within it: https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Glasgow/about/
This month we’ll have a speaker (details TBC) to kick us off with a short talk, followed by Lean Coffee. This is an opportunity for you to ask all of your burning questions about Lean, Agile, and modern work. If you have any topics, questions, or ideas, bring them along and get help/feedback from the community.
We have a Code of Conduct. To attend our events, you must accept the ideas and actions within it: https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Glasgow/about/
This month we’ll have a speaker (details TBC) to kick us off with a short talk, followed by Lean Coffee. This is an opportunity for you to ask all of your burning questions about Lean, Agile, and modern work. If you have any topics, questions, or ideas, bring them along and get help/feedback from the community.
We have a Code of Conduct. To attend our events, you must accept the ideas and actions within it: https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Glasgow/about/
This month we’ll have a speaker (details TBC) to kick us off with a short talk, followed by Lean Coffee. This is an opportunity for you to ask all of your burning questions about Lean, Agile, and modern work. If you have any topics, questions, or ideas, bring them along and get help/feedback from the community.
We have a Code of Conduct. To attend our events, you must accept the ideas and actions within it: https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Glasgow/about/
CodeYourFuture Scotland, Information for new Volunteers Meet-Up
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The Scotland Data Science & Technology community are delighted to support CodeYourFuture community in Scotland. This event will provide information on how you could help as a volunteer.
They are a non-profit organisation supporting refugees and disadvantaged individuals with the dream of becoming developers.
In their journey of interrupted lives, unfinished studies and integration challenges, many of these individuals yearn to update their tech skills, but lack learning opportunities.
Please see details below, can you register here please -
A information and induction evening for people wanting to volunteer for us!
About this Event
Nice people of Scotland - we need you!
We welcome those who want to join the CodeYourFuture community in Scotland to attend our information and induction event for new volunteers. There will be a couple of short presentations designed to give you a better idea of what we do and how you can help out. There will be summaries of all the different tasks volunteers carry out - from teaching coding to important non-tech jobs like outreach and soft-skills coaching. Volunteers of all backgrounds are welcome!
If all spaces are gone, please email scotland@codeyourfuture.io to express your interest in volunteering and we will try to induct you in another way as soon as possible!
"Why we need Data Architecture and data Governance."
We are lucky to have some of the most advanced talks and presentations within Data Science and Machine Learning take place at our events. This talk will go into detail about the foundations that need to be put in place before we can sustain the most advanced techniques in Data Science.
You'll be forgiven for mistaking this disturbing new documentary for a sci-fi film!
The Great Hack uncovers the dark world of data exploitation through the compelling personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal.
Our free screening of this groundbreaking Netflix documentary will be followed by a panel discussion.
Join us for a short talk by one of our members, Gordon Martin, on Scuttlebutt (https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/) followed by an “onboarding session” - a workshop that'll help you get setup and using Scuttlebutt with a fun, themed scenario to demo it's features and show how things work in practice.
We'll role play 'social networking during the zombie apocalypse with petrol generators and Wi-Fi' :)
Two talks: Confronting the AdTech Leviathan & Digital Rights Post-Brexit
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Join the Open Rights Group Campaigns Manager, Mike Morel, in a two part presentation & discussion.
CONFRONTING THE ADTECH LEVIATHAN
Advertising technology (AdTech) systems broadcast the public’s personal data to thousands of companies who use it to track users across the internet and build sophisticated profiles. After being declared unlawful under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a reckoning is coming. Learn how the shadowy AdTech ecosystem works and how its abuses are being exposed and challenged.
BREXIT'S EFFECTS ON UK DIGITAL RIGHTS
Leaving the EU will have profound effects on how the UK experiences the digital world. Some rules governing online activity will no longer apply while others will remain intact. This talk will take a closer look at the digital facts we’ll face post-Brexit. Learn how new international agreements could affect digital privacy, mass surveillance and speech online and what we need to do to safeguard our rights in uncharted territory. We’ll also discuss ways to quiz candidates about digital rights in the event of a general election.
Membership not required and the event is free to attend. No prior knowledge or involvement in previous ORG campaigns necessary to attend.
Venue - Hays, Glasgow City Centre
Please access Hays from the Blythswood Street entrance. Reception will be on the first floor, with the talk delivered in the boardroom.
codebar is a non-profit initiative that facilitates the growth of a diverse tech community by running regular free programming workshops.
Our goal is to enable underrepresented people to learn programming in a safe and collaborative environment and expand their career opportunities. To achieve this we run free regular workshops, regular one-off events and try to create opportunities for our students making technology and coding more accessible.
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http://codebar.io
Ticket URL changed:
https://codebar.io/workshops/1515
Start changed:
Thu 28th Nov 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)
End changed:
Thu 28th Nov 2019 8:00pm (Europe/London)
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Europe/London
Venue changed:
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Is Virtual changed:
No
Is Physical changed:
Yes
Code of Conduct changed:
Our events are dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of our members in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any of our events, including talks, workshops, parties, Twitter and any other online media. Members violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event and any future events at the discretion of the organisers.
Join us for a day of discussions, debates and action. Hear some of the world’s leading experts on data and democracy, free expression and digital privacy.
ORGCon is hosted by the Open Rights Group. We challenge the government’s mass surveillance programme, protect free expression online, and push for better digital privacy protections.
In collaboration with SICSA Cyber Nexus (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance) programme, ORGCon Scotland will hear from the following speakers:
Jim Killock, the Executive Director of the Open Rights Group
Patrick Harvie MSP, Co-leader of the Scottish Green Party.
Aggelos Kaiyyas, University of Edinburgh
Lesley Allen, Strategic Lead Digital Identity Scotland
Robert Clubb, Improvement Service)
Heather Burns, COADEC fellow, data privacy expert
Basil Manoussas, Napier University forensics expert
Tatora Mukushi, Scottish Human Rights Commission
Clare Connelly, Faculty of Advocates
Liz Aston, Scottish Institute for Policing Research
Daniel Winterstein, CEO of Good Loop
Michael Veale, Lecturer in Digital Rights and Regulation at University College London
Maria Wolters, Senior Reader in Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Catherline Lai, Senior Researcher, Institute for Language and Computation, University of Edinburgh
Walid Magdy, Lecturer, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
Pascal Crowe, Data and Democracy Project Officer at ORG
Kami Vaneia, Lecturer in Cybersecurty and Privacy, University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics
View the full agenda here:
https://scotland.openrightsgroup.org/orgcon-scotland-2019-programme
With a mixture of thought provoking panels and activity-based sessions you are guaranteed to come away with new skills and new perspectives.
Check out this video from ORGCon held in London in July this year to get an idea of what to expect:
https://youtu.be/3YzW2OQ7w9U
Tickets are free and available here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/orgcon-scotland-tickets-72209004075
See you there!
Location:
School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
10 Crichton Street
Edinburgh
EH8 9AB
Mike Morel: Discussing Current and Future Open Rights Group Campaigns
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Join the Open Rights Group Campaigns Manager, Mike Morel, in a discussion about current and future campaigns.
Membership not required and the event is free to attend. No prior knowledge or involvement in previous ORG campaigns necessary to attend.
Venue - Hays, Glasgow City Centre
Please access Hays from the Blythswood Street entrance. Reception will be on the first floor, with the talk delivered in the boardroom.
We are a software crafters meetup. We discuss, demonstrate and debate how to write well-structured, malleable software.
While we respect and encourage lean agile methodolgies, we are here to discuss the craft of developing software, not managing the process around development.
Our events are on the 3rd Thursday of every month, but we encourage you to follow us on Twitter to find out about changes to dates, venues, or additional events.
We are a software crafters meetup. We discuss, demonstrate and debate how to write well-structured, malleable software.
While we respect and encourage lean agile methodolgies, we are here to discuss the craft of developing software, not managing the process around development.
Our events are on the 3rd Thursday of every month, but we encourage you to follow us on Twitter to find out about changes to dates, venues, or additional events.
We are a software crafters meetup. We discuss, demonstrate and debate how to write well-structured, malleable software.
While we respect and encourage lean agile methodolgies, we are here to discuss the craft of developing software, not managing the process around development.
Our events are on the 3rd Thursday of every month, but we encourage you to follow us on Twitter to find out about changes to dates, venues, or additional events.
