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Queer Code Glasgow - Introduction to the Raspberry Pi

Queer Code Scotland is a new meetup bringing together LGBTQ+ people with an interest in technology.

Speaker: Alison Aird

"The Raspberry Pi is a small single-board computer for students, hobbyists, artists and hackers.

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 show how it is very easy to set up interactive projects, even with no prior electronics knowledge, using an add-on "Sense" board that can be programmed with Python.

I will demo a number of projects using the Raspberry Pi, including a retro gaming system, a web server, a time-lapse video camera, a Pi-powered Amazon Alexa speaker, and a robot. We’ll then aim to have a hands-on session, where people can get into small groups, view the demos in more detail, and optionally, try some simple programming on a Raspberry Pi."

Code of conduct: https://queer-code.org/coc

Food and drink will be provided, and there will be a chance to chat and network before and after the talk. Thanks to Skyscanner for hosting us and providing the refreshments!

Accessibility info

The venue is wheelchair accessible, and there is no ramp or stairs from the street to the seminar space on L4. The lifts do not announce floor numbers, but there is a screen on the left hand side of the lift that shows the floor number and destination floor. The door have push buttons to open them. The toilets large enough for a wheelchair, have grab rails, cord alarms and lowered sinks.
If you need further information on accessibility, you can contact John McMahon, john.mcmahon@skyscanner.net

https://www.meetup.com/qcscot/events/268071192/

https://www.meetup.com/qcscot/events/268071192/

Tue 4th Feb 2020 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Tue 4th Feb 2020 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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RookieOven Drop In Day

Join us at the RookieOven Drop In Day to get help from experts in the Scottish startup community. Our drop in days run on the first Friday of the month, and anyone is welcome to come along to find out more. This month we're taking the Drop In Day on tour to the Skyscanner offices on St Vincent Street.

We're opening our doors for the day so that you can get first-hand advice from members of the community, including:
Andrew Farquhar and Anoop Joshi from Skyscanner's legal team
Andrew Sloane from Accelerated Digital Ventures
Claire Foss from Waterfall PR
Stuart Mackay from Grant Thornton
Anders Jensen from Lawrie IP
Michael and Chris from Add Jam
Ray Calder from Scottish Enterprise

Whether you're confused by data protection and legal agreements, looking to get your first bit of press coverage or you want to know more about investment and finances, we've got someone on hand to offer advice. It's the perfect opportunity to learn more about the RookieOven community and the Scottish tech scene.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rookieoven-drop-in-day-may-tickets-60265369342

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rookieoven-drop-in-day-may-tickets-60265369342

Fri 3rd May 2019 10:00am (Europe/London)

Fri 3rd May 2019 4:00pm (Europe/London)

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We are delighted to confirm a new date for this event which was postponed due to a severe yellow weather alert. We look forward to seeing you on November 7th

EVENT DETAILS

Come and meet engineers from Skyscanner. Based in Glasgow City Centre and rated by Glassdoor as one of the UK's coolest offices.

With an average of 70M+ monthly unique users, Skyscanner is growing rapidly. We have the products that people love to use and offer deep technical complexity associated with scaling this volume globally.

Cloud Operations and Data are key to delivering and scaling a service which delights 70M+ monthly unique users globally.

Sharing more insight on these aspects of our technical journey; past, present and future and answering your technical questions are ….

William Fairbrother (Engineering Manager, Cloud Operations)

John Ewing, (Principal Engineer, Data)

Skyscanner Glasgow - towards World Class Engineering at Scale (New Date)

We are delighted to confirm a new date for this event which was postponed due to a severe yellow weather alert. We look forward to seeing you on November 7th

EVENT DETAILS

Come and meet engineers from Skyscanner. Based in Glasgow City Centre and rated by Glassdoor as one of the UK's coolest offices.

With an average of 70M+ monthly unique users, Skyscanner is growing rapidly. We have the products that people love to use and offer deep technical complexity associated with scaling this volume globally.

Cloud Operations and Data are key to delivering and scaling a service which delights 70M+ monthly unique users globally.

Sharing more insight on these aspects of our technical journey; past, present and future and answering your technical questions are ….

William Fairbrother (Engineering Manager, Cloud Operations)

William will discuss how our Cloud Operations Team has developed to operate at scale to support a rapidly growing service.

John Ewing, (Principal Engineer, Data)

Every decision in Skyscanner is driven by complete, timely and accurate data. John will share our experience of building and scaling our Data platform to ingest 700,000 messages and 400,000 metric datapoints every second

https://www.meetup.com/Skyscanner-Glasgow-Tech-Talks/events/255474953/

https://www.meetup.com/Skyscanner-Glasgow-Tech-Talks/events/255474953/

Wed 7th Nov 2018 8:30pm (Europe/London)

Wed 7th Nov 2018 10:30pm (Europe/London)

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Skyscanner Glasgow - our journey towards World Class Engineering at Scale

Come and meet engineers from Skyscanner. Based in Glasgow City Centre and rated by Glassdoor as one of the UK's coolest offices.

With an average of 70M+ monthly unique users, Skyscanner is growing rapidly. We have the products that people love to use and offer deep technical complexity associated with scaling this volume globally.

Cloud Operations and Data are key to delivering and scaling a service which delights 70M+ monthly unique users globally.

Sharing more insight on these aspects of our technical journey; past, present and future and answering your technical questions are ….

William Fairbrother (Engineering Manager, Cloud Operations)

William will discuss how our Cloud Operations Team has developed to operate at scale to support a rapidly growing service.

John Ewing, (Principal Engineer, Data)

Every decision in Skyscanner is driven by complete, timely and accurate data. John will share our experience of building and scaling our Data platform to ingest 700,000 messages and 400,000 metric datapoints every second

NOTE: Meetup RSVP may not guarantee attendance!

Capacity is limited at the event, so we will be emailing all attendees RSVPed nearer the event to confirm their attendance

https://www.meetup.com/Skyscanner-Glasgow-Tech-Talks/events/254819234/

https://www.meetup.com/Skyscanner-Glasgow-Tech-Talks/events/254819234/

Tue 9th Oct 2018 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 9th Oct 2018 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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Code Kata

For our June event we are going to be running a coding Kata. The exercise will involve working in pairs and following strict ‘Clean Code’ standards (including TDD) to implement your solutions, there is of course no right answer and we will be discussing the results at the end.

Please bring along your laptops!

Skyscanner have kindly volunteered to host us at their Glasgow offices on St. Vincent Street, so you will need to sign-up to get on the list: CodeCraft Kata Sign-Up

We’ll be letting people in from around 6:30pm, but no entry will be possible after 7pm, so please be sharp!

Details: CodeCraft Kata
Date - Thursday 16th June 2016
Time - 6:30pm, for 7pm event start
Location: Skyscanner Glasgow offices, 151-155 St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5NW

http://www.codecraftuk.org/events/2016/06/code-kata

https://ti.to/codecraftconf/codecraft-lift-kata

Thu 16th Jun 2016 6:30pm (Europe/London)

CodeCraft

Thu 16th Jun 2016 7:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 16th Jun 2016 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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http://www.codecraftuk.org/code-of-conduct.html

Double Bill: Advanced Web Deploy / Building Android Apps with Xamarin

Pieter Gheysens presents: Advanced Techniques for Web Deploy (msdeploy) to simplify the deployment of web applications

Gill Cleeren presents: Building your first real-world Android app using Xamarin in just 60 minutes

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/double-bill-advanced-web-deploy-building-android-apps-with-xamarin-tickets-19804056466?aff=otc

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/double-bill-advanced-web-deploy-building-android-apps-with-xamarin-tickets-19804056466?aff=otc

Thu 10th Mar 2016 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Thu 10th Mar 2016 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Episode #2. Workshop

In the first of our workshop based meetings, we'll show you how to take your existing code base and craft a development environment with Docker.

We'll aim to cover a variety of platforms, including: Python, PHP and dotNet.

http://www.meetup.com/DockerGlasgow/events/228198169/

Thu 11th Feb 2016 7:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 11th Feb 2016 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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React.JS

ReactJs is the new hotness for creating maintainable, composable UIs. In the session, we will cover what ReactJS is, how it works, and what advantages to you have an .Net developer working with it. This session assumes you are comfortable with web technologies, most of the Gang of Four design patterns, and cursory knowledge of declarative functional coding.

The Speaker

Chris Canal currently works as Platform Lead of an enterprise React app, and has 15 years experience as a full-stack Senior .Net Developer/Architect.

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/reactjs-and-the-net-developer-tickets-19150243895?aff=otc

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/reactjs-and-the-net-developer-tickets-19150243895?aff=otc

Wed 25th Nov 2015 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Wed 25th Nov 2015 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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You must RSVP here: http://goo.gl/forms/vXQQedwUpz

Skyscanner, the leading travel search company, are hosting the event and will have some of their own staffers present so feel free to come and meet them.

The event will feature a presentation by Wilkin Lee, Honor Sales and Marketing Manager, covering Honor and their soon to be released range of Android devices. Wilkin will also explain how Honor as a brand differentiates itself from Huawei and what to expect in the near future.

So join us for an evening with light refreshments and plenty of Android enthusiasm and geekery.

Note: this event is also happening in Edinburgh the day before (7th April). Event details can be found at https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/2698-ediaug-april-2015-meet-up

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EdiAUG April 2015 meet-up (Glasgow edition)

You must RSVP here: http://goo.gl/forms/vXQQedwUpz

Skyscanner, the leading travel search company, are hosting the event and will have some of their own staffers present so feel free to come and meet them.

The event will feature a presentation by Wilkin Lee, Honor Sales and Marketing Manager, covering Honor and their soon to be released range of Android devices. Wilkin will also explain how Honor as a brand differentiates itself from Huawei and what to expect in the near future.

So join us for an evening with light refreshments and plenty of Android enthusiasm and geekery.

http://ediaug.org

http://goo.gl/forms/vXQQedwUpz

Wed 8th Apr 2015 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Wed 8th Apr 2015 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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THE TALK

What could possibly go wrong when a Pole and a Frenchman enter an English office? Well, for a start you get servers called Churchill, Wałęsa and de Gaulle. In the presence of such characters it’s no wonder that a revolution was started. The country entered by the noble man was agile (with a capital A) and so were they (but not with the same a).
An autonomous collective of courageous and fearless geeks gathered along in a freshly created duchy of perpetually horded meeting rooms and joined forces into an unstoppable mob of programming.

Their sight: the land of agile orthodoxy. Their weapon: asking why (usually at least five times). Their plan: No Kan-, no -Ban, but a sacred map of all their capabilities and tasks, the Panopticon.

How many pits of success have they already conquered? Will their valiant march to sustainable delivery arrive at the pinnacle of realised business value?

THE SPEAKER

Sebastien Lambla has been involved in software development since receiving his first web browser, back in the days of Netsape Navigator 1.2. After a few years of hacking on javascript, he turned his attention to the .net platform, on which he would spend the next few years building software in many companies. From 2006, Sebastien has been running Caffeine IT, a consultancy helping clients from all over Europe implement first-grade and innovative solutions. Keen Open-Source promoter, Sebastien has created multiple high-profile open-source projects that are in use in many Fortune 500 companies, including OpenRasta, at a time the most popular resource-oriented framework on .net. Long-time advocate of the ReST architectural style and resource-oriented computing, Sebastien has delivered over the years new platforms leveraging the architecture of the web, from small independents to Fortune 500s.

THE TALK

What could possibly go wrong when a Pole and a Frenchman enter an English office? Well, for a start you get servers called Churchill, Wałęsa and de Gaulle. In the presence of such characters it’s no wonder that a revolution was started. The country entered by the noble man was agile (with a capital A) and so were they (but not with the same a).
An autonomous collective of courageous and fearless geeks gathered along in a freshly created duchy of perpetually horded meeting rooms and joined forces into an unstoppable mob of programming.

Their sight: the land of agile orthodoxy. Their weapon: asking why (usually at least five times). Their plan: No Kan-, no -Ban, but a sacred map of all their capabilities and tasks, the Panopticon.

How many pits of success have they already conquered? Will their valiant march to sustainable delivery arrive at the pinnacle of realised business value?

THE SPEAKER

Sebastien Lambla has been involved in software development since receiving his first web browser, back in the days of Netsape Navigator 1.2. After a few years of hacking on javascript, he turned his attention to the .net platform, on which he would spend the next few years building software in many companies.
From 2006, Sebastien has been running Caffeine IT, a consultancy helping clients from all over Europe implement first-grade and innovative solutions.
Keen Open-Source promoter, Sebastien has created multiple high-profile open-source projects that are in use in many Fortune 500 companies, including OpenRasta, the most popular resource-oriented framework on .net, and OpenWrap, an alternative package manager for the .net platform.
Long-time advocate of the ReST architectural style and resource-oriented computing, Sebastien has delivered over the years new platforms leveraging the architecture of the web, from small independent companies to Enterprise-scale architectures.
An enticing and motivational speaker, Sebastien has delivered hundreds of talks, from small user-groups to some of the largest running European conferences.
Attentive and knowlegeable, Sebastien has also delivered hundreds of hours of training to classes of all sizes and skills, on nHibernate, ReST, web technologies, distributed architectures and many other subjects.

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Your Agile is Dead

What could possibly go wrong when a Pole and a Frenchman enter an English office? Well, for a start you get servers called Churchill, Wałęsa and de Gaulle. In the presence of such characters it’s no wonder that a revolution was started. The country entered by the noble man was agile (with a capital A) and so were they (but not with the same a).
An autonomous collective of courageous and fearless geeks gathered along in a freshly created duchy of perpetually horded meeting rooms and joined forces into an unstoppable mob of programming.

Their sight: the land of agile orthodoxy. Their weapon: asking why (usually at least five times). Their plan: No Kan-, no -Ban, but a sacred map of all their capabilities and tasks, the Panopticon.

How many pits of success have they already conquered? Will their valiant march to sustainable delivery arrive at the pinnacle of realised business value?

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/your-agile-is-dead-tickets-15871503093?aff=otc

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/your-agile-is-dead-tickets-15871503093?aff=otc

Mon 16th Mar 2015 7:00pm (Europe/London)

Mon 16th Mar 2015 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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AngularJS with Shawn Wildermuth

The Talk - Angular JS

Are you still writing your web applications using jQuery and direct DOM manipulation? It’s time to come in the light and embrace Single Page Applications. In this talk Shawn Wildermuth will walk you through creating a web app using AngularJS from scratch.

The Speaker - Shawn Wildermuth

Shawn Wildermuth is an twelve-time Microsoft MVP (ASP.NET/IIS) and is involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider, ClientDev Insider and Windows Phone Insider. You may have taken one of his more than fifteen courses for Pluralsight including “JavaScript for C# Developers” or “Bootstrap 3”. He is also the author of eight books and dozens of articles on software development. He has been seen speaking at a variety of international conferences including TechEd, Oredev, SDC, VSLive, WinDev, MIX, DevTeach, DevConnections and DevReach. He is one of the Wilder Minds at http://wilderminds.com. He can also be reached via his blog at http://wildermuth.com.

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/angular-js-with-shawn-wildermuth-tickets-11915245821?aff=otc

Wed 6th Aug 2014 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Wed 6th Aug 2014 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Glasgow Clojurians

Monthly Clojure meetup in Glasgow. We mainly work on katas and interesting problems but we also host talks occasionally. Clojure programmers of all levels are very welcome and we are happy to help absolute beginners get started with the language. Just ask Adrian (the organiser) when you come along.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/glasgow-clojurians

Thu 3rd Jul 2014 7:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 3rd Jul 2014 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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