Open Tech Calendar

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CodeCraft Book Club

For our February event, we are holding our now annual Book Club meetup. Bring along something that you want to tell others about in the realm of software, work, or a related field.

The text can be any length or format – a book, news article, or a blogpost (or even a podcast!). We recommend that the chosen texts are non-fiction as it keeps the conversations more grounded.

Our aim is to encourage everyone to share ideas that have inspired them, and hopefully help with narrowing down worthy reads to put on your 2020 reading list.

The format will be talking about your chosen text in small groups, and changing those groups after a while so you get to hear what everyone has to say.

https://www.codecraftuk.org/events/2020/01/book-club

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/codecraft-book-club-night-tickets-92244191861

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CodeCraft

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.

Open Space

We’re trialling a different format for this month’s event: open-spacing it! In other words, we are inviting you to come with:

* a problem you need to solve
* a feature you want to implement
* a kata you wish to run through
* a language/tool you are passionate about and would like to share
* a language/tool you are curious about and would like to practice
* or an open mind to pair with someone on something new

The actual topics will be decided on the day: we will start with a marketplace for people to share their ideas and organise ourselves around the topics of interest.

6pm for 6.30pm start.

Thu 20th Feb 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 20th Feb 2020 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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

Mentoring: A Guided Conversation

August is a month when graduates usually join companies, which makes it a great time to think about mentoring. But we don’t only mentor graduates! Mentoring happens at every level, and it does not always have to work top-down. Having a mentor can usually help with career progression (for both mentee and mentor) but those relationships don’t always work out.

This will be in our usual format of Guided Conversations. The conversation will cover what mentoring is, different types and styles of mentoring, how to mentor effectively, and what the benefits/downfalls are amongst other important questions.

Guided conversations are a friendly way to have a structured yet lightweight discussion around a topic. A guide will make sure we stay on track, and offer questions to spark the conversation. It doesn’t matter if you’re new to the industry, or whether you’re experienced, you may be able to ask just the right questions to unlock key insights for others, whilst listening in and learning for yourself. We’ll explain the format and make sure everyone keeps up with the discussion.

https://www.codecraftuk.org/events/2019/08/mentoring-guided-conversation

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mentoring-a-guided-conversation-tickets-66814061657

Thu 15th Aug 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

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Code Craft

We discuss, demonstrate and debate how to write well-structured, malleable software

We meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month

We are a nomadic meetup: the location (within Glasgow) changes every month. We try to run in office spaces around the city, but occasionally meet in a pub; there is no expectation or pressure to drink alcohol when we do soself. We’ll explain the format (Guided Conversations), and make sure everyone keeps up with the discussion.

Thu 15th Aug 2019 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Thu 15th Aug 2019 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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

Professionalism

With fake news and emissions tests in the headlines the ethics of software development are being called into question. Software is increasingly affecting people's lives and, with the internet of things and driverless cars, it's no longer confined to the virtual world. Our industry is on the brink of challenges which will be very disruptive and very unpleasant and which will test us as we’ve never been challenged.

Doctors, lawyers, architects and engineers all face a similar challenge regarding the consequences of their actions and have professional certifications and codes of conduct.

In this session we will be discussing what it means to be a recognised professional and what steps, as industry, we can take to move in this direction. Join us at 6pm in FanDuel's offices in Glasgow to take part in the discussion.

https://ti.to/highland-fling/professionalism/

Thu 23rd Feb 2017 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 23rd Feb 2017 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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http://thehighlandfling.com/code-of-conduct.html