This month we have a couple of short talks and will have some discussion afterwards.
Lucy Burns
Kanban in the kitchen
Have you ever been overwhelmed with your domestic to-do list? Are your children a study in chaos? Come and learn how you can use domestic kanban to change your life forever. Remember - kanban is for life, not just for software.
Hilary Brownlie
Details TBC
Thanks to Ofgem for hosting us!
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Speaker - Ricardo Sueiras - Cloud Evangelist at AWS
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardosueiras/
We are delighted to host our 2nd event of the year.
As Amazon has transitioned to the cloud, it moved from a monolithic architecture and waterfall based development model to a service oriented architecture based on an agile and devops methodology. Ricardo will discuss Amazon’s move to the cloud, the development and growth of Amazon Web Services (AWS), and how the devops model is implemented within AWS. Amazon’s customer focused methodology combined with devops and a flexible scaling infrastructure has allowed Amazon and AWS to significantly accelerate innovation and the delivery of new products and features.
Agenda:
18:00 - 18:30 - Refreshments, Pizza and Networking
18:30 - 19:15 - Ricardo Sueiras - DevOps At Amazon
19:15 - 20:00 - Q&A and discussions about what the group members would like to see for future events.
The first UK WordPress conference of the year is taking place in Glasgow!
The whole day conference will include 12 talks in 2 tracks on a range of topics related to WordPress development, design and business. Doors will open at 8:30am and the closing remarks will be at 4:30pm.
Please refer to https://2020.glasgow.wordcamp.org/schedule/ for the full schedule.
Tickets cost only £20.00 and provide access to the event, delicious lunch and snacks, a conference t-shirt and an after-party in venue in the city centre.
Delighted to post the draft agenda for the next AWS User Group Glasgow Meet Up on Wednesday 29th January 2020.
We will have two speakers on the night, please RSVP if you intend to come along to help make sure we have food and drinks for everyone.
The main themes of the evening will be recapping on the news and announcements from AWS re:Invent 2019 and diving deeper into some of the new product announcements and a look at AWS Deep Racer in the flesh.
Agenda:
18:15 – 18:30 : Door Opens, Food, Refreshments and Networking
18:30 – 19:15 : Finlay MacRae, Glasgow AI
“Finlay” will introduce us to the world of AWS Deep Racing
Overview: It looks really cool but what is exactly reinforcement learning, the principle behind the AWS Deep Racer, in this talk we will be introduced to the RL concept and explore the console training environment, plus there will be some news around getting involved with AWS Deep Racer going forward too
19:15 – 19:30 : Break
19:30 – 20:45 : Craig Muir, AWS Glasgow User Group
“Craig Muir” will present an AWS reCAP of the AWS re:Invent2019
Overview: Dive into the big and not so big announcements from AWS re:Invent 2019 and deep dive into some of the launch announcements as well, such as Amazon Auroa Machine Learning, AWS Data Exchange, AWS Transit Gateway Inter-Region Peering and Amazon VPC Ingress Routing
20:45 - 21:00 : AOB, Next Meet Up Agenda, Good Night, Pub.
Sponsors:
Thanks to Skyscanner for letting us use their office, supplying refreshments and help on the night.
Is digital surveillance creating a culture of self-censorship?
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In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed the scale of surveillance by corporate and government bodies on the data we generate online every time we simply browse, post on social media, buy things, talk to family and friends, publish and research. What that might say about our patterns of behaviour, personality, beliefs and ideas are of great interest to many who might seek to make predictions and influence. How does this level of actual or perceived digital surveillance affect behaviour? Have writers now become less willing to research and discuss certain topics?
In 2018, Scottish PEN in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde, published a report, Scottish Chilling: Impact of Government and Corporate Surveillance on Writers, which sought to address this question. Based on a survey of 118 writers in Scotland, this ground-breaking study looked at the question of self-censorship among writers and what limitations that placed on their work. This not only affects their own freedom of enquiry and expression. But it also has huge implications for the range of topics and ideas that readers can access to better understand the world around them and fight against the growing tsunami of fake news.
Guest speakers will be the report authors: Nik Williams (Project Manager, Scottish PEN), David McMenemy (Lecturer in Information Science at the University of Strathclyde, and Deputy Director for Postgraduate Teaching) and Dr Lauren Smith (University of Edinburgh).
Join us for a fascinating evening of talks and discussions that will explore how free we now are to research, explore and express ourselves in a world where more and more of what we click is being watched.
Linux command line basics for beginners (no set-up necessary)
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Informal and relaxed meeting in the quiet lounge of Avalon bar on Kent Road. You'll need a laptop to take part.
Aimed at absolute beginners. We'll show how to securely connect to a server then we'll work through Bandit, an adventure game set in the command line that progresses step-by-step from the basics to common programs and beyond.
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.
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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.
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For our final event of the year, we've decided to go break out the classic Lean Coffee format. Whatever level of experience you have, this event is for you!
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.w
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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/
Doors open at 6pm. Speaker from 6:30. The speaker has yet to be confirmed. We'll let you know as soon as we can.
Sandwiches will be available.
MEANWHILE...
Before this event, there's WORDCAMP GLASGOW 2020.
https://2020.glasgow.wordcamp.org/
Note the date -- Saturday 8 February 2020
Note the location -- Project Ability, 103 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HD
Note the time -- 10am to 4pm
Note the price -- £20
(price includes entrance, speakers, lunch, tea & coffee, t-shirt)
WordCamp is a one day conference that lets you meet up with other WordPress users, developers, designers etc. There will be some seriously good speakers and many great opportunities to immerse yourself in all things WordPress.
Please
If you have never been to a WordCamp, or even heard of a WordCamp then look here for an explanation about what WordCamps are all about.
https://iamahmedkhalifa.com/blog/what-is-wordcamp/
Are you a member of an underrepresented or marginalised group?
Have you always wanted to become a tech conference speaker?
Let 2020 be the year that you make that dream a reality!
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This months facilitators are Marc Burgauer and Chris McDermott. Both Chris and Marc are independent coaches currently working with Registers of Scotland.
Workshop
Introduction to Wardley Mapping
In this workshop, you’ll learn about maps. Real maps that allow you to orient yourself and chose direction, but for organisations, instead of a landscapes.
You’ll learn about Wardley Mapping, a way to visualise a shared understanding of your context to provide the situational awareness necessary for choosing a strategy to satisfy a need.
Marc and Chris will teach you why Wardley maps are so powerful and together well map a business problem. You’ll then be given a scenario and, in groups, will get the chance to build your own maps.
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For our first event of the year, we'll be running a workshop. Details will follow soon, but you won't want to miss this opportunity to learn about a great Agile practice.
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