codebar is a non-profit initiative that facilitates the growth of a diverse tech community by running regular 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.
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.
Doors open at 6pm for our talk to start at 6:30pm.
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Tim Nash from 34SP will be here to provide some practical security tips to help you protect your site and its contents. He'll then introduce us to penetration testing (pentesting) whereby you can use some tools of the hacking trade to test your own site for its vulnerabilities.
It should be a fascinating insight and something we can all benefit from.
Scotland Fintech Festival - Castlight Financial Talk Data Science
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Scotland Fintech Festival - FinTech Scotland - https://www.fintechscotland.com/scotland-fintech-festival/
Scotland Fintech Festival will take place in September 2019 between the 9th and the 27th across Scotland.
The festival will contain conferences, meet-ups, morning breakfast sessions, evening networking events and much more.
Scotland Data Science & Technology Meetup are delighted to have David Tracy – Chief Analytics Officer at Castlight Financial speaking at our event. We will be announcing our second speaker asap.
David is responsible for ensuring Castlight’s products leverage the latest state-of-the-art data science techniques, and for creating innovative new products to help lending institutions and consumers take advantage of the new opportunities afforded by open banking, by giving them the tools they need to make better financial decisions.
David has built and led data science teams in the UK and internationally, most recently founding and developing the data science team at web-based fantasy sports company FanDuel, where he mechanised advanced methods of data modelling to predict the behaviour of its 6 million registered users. David has also worked widely across the UK and Europe’s insurance sector at Kwik-Fit Insurance, Ageas and Tesco Bank. During his time in the analytics department at Tesco Bank he was responsible for using data science to support the marketing function by building tools to forecast consumer behaviour and develop evidence-based “what-if” scenario modelling.
Presentation 2 - TBC
Agenda:
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM: Networking
7:00 PM – 7:30 PM: David Tracy - Chief Analytics Officer - Castlight Financial
7.30 PM – 7.45 PM: Q & A Session
7:45 PM – 8:15 PM: TBC
8:15 PM – 8:30 PM: Q & A Session
8.30 PM - 9.00 PM: Networking and Drink
Share your story: New speakers night @ Lean Agile Glasgow
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We all have a story to share, something we are super passionate about.
One of the greatest things about the Agile community is how much we can and do learn from each other.
At Lean Agile Glasgow, we love to encourage the sharing of stories and experiences. We hope we can provide a safe place for people to do this amongst their peers.
So, we are running a night just for anyone who haven't had the chance to share their stories before.
Maybe you want to get in to speaking at conferences, maybe you want to challenge yourself to speak publicly for the first time, whatever your reasons, this is your stage.
We'll give each storyteller max 10 minutes.
If you want to share your story, contact one of the organisers on meetup or on twitter (@LeanAgileGLA)
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 hear from Peter Aitken, founder of Global Diversity CFP day with his session 'Deliberate, Directed, Positive ACTION!'
Following Peter's talk we will have an opportunity as a group to think about the stories we have to share and whether that might grow into a talk at a conference one day.
We'll also be giving you news about our upcoming new speakers night later in the year. For anyone who hasn't spoken at an event before, this would be a fab opportunity to share your story in front of a friendly crowd.
Look forward to seeing you there!
Deliberate, Directed, Positive ACTION! - Peter Aitken
How can you include, welcome, provide support, safety and a confidence boost to people from underrepresented and marginalised groups that are absent from your community/workplace?
Deliberate, Directed, Positive ACTION!
This talk will chart the journey, and learnings, of Global Diversity CFP Day which has the sole aim of encouraging underrepresented and marginalised people to take to the conference stage.
Starting with half a dozen workshops in 2016 focussed on two conferences based in Edinburgh, Scotland, this exploded into a 53 workshop, tech wide, world wide movement on a single day in 2018!
Thanks to Swipii for hosting our July event. As always places are limited, so please only sign up if you are able to make it.
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 week we will try something new by using Clojure(script) to create a GUI for our game (minesweeper). In the previous session we made a Clojure version of minesweeper but is no fun playing the game through the REPL, so we will try to make it better by creating a GUI.
#Location
Skyscanner is based on 155 St Vincent Street. It is a Glass / Steel building with big copper square round the entrances. There are two entrances but Skyscanner is only in 155, the one further up the hill of St Vincent Street.
#Registration
When registering on the day you will need to provide your full name & email address.
#Food & drink
Food & drink will be provided!
# Next two dates for the dojo:[masked].2019
# How the event works
After we have decided on some challenges for the evening, we break into small groups (2-4 people) and see how far we can get. After about 90 minutes we get together and share what we have learnt, showing code and demo's of it in action.
# Requirements
If you have a laptop with a working Clojure environment please bring it along. As we arrange ourselves into small groups, if you don't have a laptop you can still join in.
We are collecting all our kata solutions here, take a peek at what we've done so far (https://github.com/glasgow-clj/dojofun)
# Discussions
We’ll be discussing the meetup on the london-clojurians mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/glasgow-clojurians-group/)
If you want to know how to run your own dojo or get an idea of what dojos are like you can read more at http://otfrom.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/faq-how-much-do-i-need-to-know-before-i-come-to-the-dojo/
# Background
Clojure is a JVM language that has syntactically similarities to Lisp, full integration with Java and its libraries and focuses on providing a solution to the issue of single machine concurrency.
Its small core makes it surprisingly easy for Java developers to pick up and it provides a powerful set of concurrency strategies and data structures designed to make immutable data easy to work with. If you went to Rich Hickey’s LJC talk about creating Clojure you’ll already know this, if not it’s well worth watching the Rich Hickey “Clojure for Java Programmers” (http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/clojure-for-java-programmers) video or Stuart Halloway “Radical Simplicity” (http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/radical-simplicity) video.
We've all heard rumours. New shiny features are coming to PHP in November. With the recent publication of the alpha release, let's see the features in more detail and take them for a spin (maybe).
This month we hear from Peter Aitken, founder of Global Diversity CFP day with his session 'Deliberate, Directed, Positive ACTION!'
Following Peter's talk we will have an opportunity as a group to think about the stories we have to share and whether that might grow into a talk at a conference one day.
We'll also be giving you news about our upcoming new speakers night later in the year. For anyone who hasn't spoken at an event before, this would be a fab opportunity to share your story in front of a friendly crowd.
Look forward to seeing you there!
Deliberate, Directed, Positive ACTION! - Peter Aitken
How can you include, welcome, provide support, safety and a confidence boost to people from underrepresented and marginalised groups that are absent from your community/workplace?
Deliberate, Directed, Positive ACTION!
This talk will chart the journey, and learnings, of Global Diversity CFP Day which has the sole aim of encouraging underrepresented and marginalised people to take to the conference stage.
Starting with half a dozen workshops in 2016 focussed on two conferences based in Edinburgh, Scotland, this exploded into a 53 workshop, tech wide, world wide movement on a single day in 2018!
Thanks to Swipii for hosting our July event. As always places are limited, so please only sign up if you are able to make it.
Here's an opportunity.
Are you new to WordPress or is there a problem you've been having with your existing WordPress website or blog?
If you have a WordPress site and you've got a bug or there is something you are not quite sure how to do, come and meet the WordPress professionals who may be able to help you, or at least point you in the right direction.
If you are a WordPress professional and can spare a couple of hours every 3 months, come along to give some guidance to people who are learning or are stuck and need advice.
Please note that the organising team expects all advice to be given for free and in good faith but, if something is too big to fix there and then the WordPress professional will have the right to say so.
* Networking *
A meeting point for WordPress developers and web designers looking for their next project or collaboration and for people who have a project and would like to meet a WordPress professional.
This week we will try something new by using Clojure(script) to create a GUI for our game (minesweeper). In the previous session we made a Clojure version of minesweeper but is no fun playing the game through the REPL, so we will try to make it better by creating a GUI.
#Location
Skyscanner is based on 155 St Vincent Street. It is a Glass / Steel building with big copper square round the entrances. There are two entrances but Skyscanner is only in 155, the one further up the hill of St Vincent Street.
#Registration
When registering on the day you will need to provide your full name & email address.
#Food & drink
Food & drink will be provided!
# How the event works
After we have decided on some challenges for the evening, we break into small groups (2-4 people) and see how far we can get. After about 90 minutes we get together and share what we have learnt, showing code and demo's of it in action.
# Requirements
If you have a laptop with a working Clojure environment please bring it along. As we arrange ourselves into small groups, if you don't have a laptop you can still join in.
We are collecting all our kata solutions here, take a peek at what we've done so far (https://github.com/glasgow-clj/dojofun)
# Discussions
We’ll be discussing the meetup on the london-clojurians mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/glasgow-clojurians-group/)
If you want to know how to run your own dojo or get an idea of what dojos are like you can read more at http://otfrom.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/faq-how-much-do-i-need-to-know-before-i-come-to-the-dojo/
# Background
Clojure is a JVM language that has syntactically similarities to Lisp, full integration with Java and its libraries and focuses on providing a solution to the issue of single machine concurrency.
Its small core makes it surprisingly easy for Java developers to pick up and it provides a powerful set of concurrency strategies and data structures designed to make immutable data easy to work with. If you went to Rich Hickey’s LJC talk about creating Clojure you’ll already know this, if not it’s well worth watching the Rich Hickey “Clojure for Java Programmers” (http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/clojure-for-java-programmers) video or Stuart Halloway “Radical Simplicity” (http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/radical-simplicity) video.
