We will have talks introducing CMS and a guide to getting started in Umbraco and Wordpress from our speakers Carole and Carme.
Carme Mias is a freelance web developer from Glasgow. She has been using WordPress since 2012 and is currently co-organiser of the WordPress Glasgow meetup.
Carole Logan is a senior web developer from Glasgow. She is an Umbraco MVP and organiser of Glasgow Umbraco User Group.
Ladies of Code: Introduction to functional programming with Clojure
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What is functional programming? How is it different from other programming styles such as object-oriented?
In this session, we’ll talk through functional programming fundamentals with examples in the language Clojure. We’ll get into a practical session to learn more of Clojure so bring your laptops! Don’t worry if you don’t know any Clojure, we’ll be there to help you work through. Setup information will be provided in due course.
We're back after a wee break over summer! Join us for a session on Raspberry Pi from Alison (details below) and general catch up.
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Introduction to the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is a small single-board computer for students, hobbyists, artists and hackers. The latest version, the Raspberry Pi 3, costs only about £30, and comes with built-in wi-fi and Bluetooth. In this talk, I will show how you can download the latest version of the Raspbian operating system, and get started with the Raspberry Pi. I will then demo a number of projects that the Raspberry Pi can be used for, including a web server, a home media centre, a time-lapse video camera, and a fully functional Amazon Alexa speaker. We’ll then aim to have a hands-on session, where people can get into small groups, and try some simple programming on a Raspberry Pi. If you already have experience with the Raspberry Pi, feel free to get in touch with me in advance of the talk, and let me know what you’ve already done.
Alison Aird, Software developer at Pulsion Technology
Have you been dreaming about VR since you were wee, or are you wondering what all the fuss is about? Either way there’s no ignoring virtual reality right now. The good news is you don’t need to spend loads of money on special hardware to give it a go. With a simple cardboard viewer you can turn your smartphone into a VR headset and step into another world. So how would you like to make your very own world and get right inside it?
In this workshop I’ll introduce some open source technologies for building VR experiences that run in the browser on a smartphone or any of the VR platforms available today. Then you’ll get started on hacking your own reality! Along the way you’ll learn some fundamental principles that apply to developing VR experiences on any platform.
All you need to bring is a laptop and a smartphone. If you already have a viewer or headset then you can bring it along, but don’t worry if you don’t as we will provide some viewers for you to use. You don’t need to know anything about web development or any particular language as we’ll be starting pretty much from scratch. However, if you’re already a VR expert then we would still love you to come along and help somebody else get started!
Cat Hawker is a senior web developer at the BBC in Glasgow.
We're very excited to kick off our 2017 meetup series with a speaker session on creative coding.
We'll be hearing from some amazing developers who have married their creativity and code to make extraordinary things.
Dennis and Debbie Club
Dennis and Debbie Club was established in late 2014 by the German-born and Glasgow-based artists Dennis R. and Debbie M.
D&D work digitally with open-source software, creating CGI animations, video installations and VR apps.
Claire Quigley
Claire Quigley has been involved in running CoderDojo Scotland since it started in 2012. One of her aims there has been to encourage more young people to engage with coding, particularly girls.
One approach to this was running sessions where coding was introduced as a tool for creating something. For example, music or interactive fiction.
In this talk she’ll describe a couple of these sessions, and chat about her experiences with other cool (and sometimes strange) uses of code.
Dr Julie R. Williamson- University of Glasgow
"Playful Interaction with Spherical Displays in Public Spaces"
I am a lecturer in HCI at the University of Glasgow. I am part of the Glasgow Interactive Systems Group (GIST), leading the Public and Performative Interaction theme within GIST. My research focuses on how people use technology in public spaces and how interactive technologies can be designed given the “performative” aspects of using technology in public. My current research looks at playful interfaces for public spaces the use embedded interaction, large format displays, and whole body input.
Over the past two years, I’ve completed a series of playful and performative deployments in public spaces using spherical displays. Spherical displays are compelling interactive devices, and we’ve used this hardware as the centre-piece of collaborations with artists, designers, and musicians. During this talk, I will discuss these creative projects and how code and art can come together to create beautiful, playful, and immersive experiences.
We're very excited to kick off our 2017 meetup series with a speaker session on creative coding.
We'll be hearing from some amazing developers who have married their creativity and code to make extraordinary things.
Dennis and Debbie Club
Dennis and Debbie Club was established in late 2014 by the German-born and Glasgow-based artists Dennis R. and Debbie M.
D&D work digitally with open-source software, creating CGI animations, video installations and VR apps.
Claire Quigley
Claire Quigley has been involved in running CoderDojo Scotland since it started in 2012. One of her aims there has been to encourage more young people to engage with coding, particularly girls.
One approach to this was running sessions where coding was introduced as a tool for creating something. For example, music or interactive fiction.
In this talk she’ll describe a couple of these sessions, and chat about her experiences with other cool (and sometimes strange) uses of code.
We're very excited to kick off our 2017 meetup series with a speaker session on creative coding.
We'll be hearing from some amazing developers who have married their creativity and code to make extraordinary things.
Dennis and Debbie Club
Dennis and Debbie Club was established in late 2014 by the German-born and Glasgow-based artists Dennis R. and Debbie M.
D&D work digitally with open-source software, creating CGI animations, video installations and VR apps.
We're still looking for speakers so if you've got a project or story that you'd like to share then email us [masked].
Claire Quigley
Claire Quigley has been involved in running CoderDojo Scotland since it started in 2012. One of her aims there has been to encourage more young people to engage with coding, particularly girls.
One approach to this was running sessions where coding was introduced as a tool for creating something. For example, music or interactive fiction.
In this talk she’ll describe a couple of these sessions, and chat about her experiences with other cool (and sometimes strange) uses of code.
To get in to the Christmas spirit we will have a festive themed meetup :)
We will be giving back to the open source community we benefit from all year by contributing to projects, have a look here: 24 Pull Requests
Bring along your laptop if you can and we can do some pair programming to hopefully make some pull requests! Don't worry if you don't have any open source experience, we will have some experienced contributors that can give some advice. Some info on contributing here.
We will have some festive food and drinks to fuel the coding and some time for a catch up too.
We're excited to announce the first session of our speaker series covering all things Open Source.
We'll have three brilliant speakers who'll talk about their experiences with range of open source technologies and will answer any burning questions you have on the topic! Our speakers are:
Carole Logan - Senior Web Developer at Equator and mentor at CoderDojo.
Jelmer Snoeck - Backend Developer at Lost My Name.
Final speaker TBA
We still have one speaker spot open so if you'd like to share your experience of open source then email us: [masked].
We're excited to announce the first session of our speaker series covering all things Open Source.
We'll have three brilliant speakers who'll talk about their experiences with range of open source technologies and will answer any burning questions you have on the topic!
We still have one speaker spot open so if you'd like to share your experience with open source then email us: [masked].
We're excited to announce the first session of our speaker series covering all things Open Source.
We'll have three brilliant speakers who'll talk about their experiences with range of open source technologies and will answer any burning questions you have on the topic!
Speakers to be announced shortly. We have one speaker spot open so if you'd like to share your experience with open source then email us: [masked].
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