Software developer Kate Richardson will be talking about her work as a Software Developer at JUST EAT, where she works in one of the API teams, writing the code that underpins their front end website.
Photo courtesy of Iconphotomedia Ltd
Find out more info on our next dinner page
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Samantha Payne, recently shortlisted for the Women in Business’s ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ award and runner-up in Intel’s international ‘Make it Wearable’ competition presents Open Bionics.
Open Bionics, based inside the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, uses 3D scanning and 3D printing to innovate the prosthetic industry.
The young startup aims to radically reduce prosthetic fitting times, prosthetic cost, and innovate design for amputees across the world.
This event is kindly hosted by Infineon at their office near Bristol Parkway on 18th feb – 6:30pm for 7pm start.
More info on our next dinner page: bristol.girlgeekdinners.com/next-dinner/
We’ve now switched from Eventbrite to Meetup for our events – please sign up here: www.meetup.com/Bristol-Girl-Geek-Dinners/events/220330559
Thursday 15th January 2015. The Porter, Bath.
We were very excited to have kicked off Girl Geek’s 10th Birthday year with a hands-on workshop on data hacking from the team at Bath:Hacked.
There was a drinks reception from 6.30pm to catch up with fellow Girl Geeks and welcome new faces to the group. Followed by a presentation, dinner and a hands-on workshop.
Knowing how to glean useful insights from data is becoming an increasingly important skill to have. Leigh Dodds from the Open Data Institute, who also plays an instrumental role in Bath:Hacked events, delivered a presentation and practical workshop on ‘hacking data’ to give us a taster of what’s involved in a typical ‘hack’, the skills involved and how to get started.
The one day event is a community focused conference for Ruby developers of all skill levels. There will be talks from some of the Ruby community’s favourite speakers from around the world, including Linda Liukas, founder of Rails Girls and Saron Yitbarek, founder of CodeNewbie.
The conference will take place in Bath’s Assembly Rooms on Friday 13th March and, since we’re running it as a non-profit event, tickets are just £99 + VAT with 10% of sales being donated to Shelter. Please visit the website for more details, including our Code of Conduct and accessibility statement.
Happy new year! Our 2015 programme of events kicks off with a talk about women in software engineering with Rabeb Othmani, a software engineer working currently for Microsoft as part of the MixRadio client development team.
The event is sponsored by ClusterHQ and will be hosted at their shared workspace at the Engine Shed in Bristol. ClusterHQ are hiring, so this is the perfect opportunity to come and check them out if you are interested in a new career for the new year!
More details on our Next Dinner page
Sign up here: geek-event-39.eventbrite.co.uk
Bath Girl Geeks joined the amazing team at Bath Hacked for their weekend Hack Event on 1st and 2nd November 2014.
The Hack used open data available from the local authority as a basis for the weird and wonderful creations of the weekend! Including Eat a Food for when you cannot decide what to eat in the beautiful city of Bath!
For many of us it was our first Hack, whilst others dove straight in with their developer and coding skills. It was an amazing opportunity for us Girl Geeks to learn more about hacking open data and the end-to-end process of building an application for easy consumption of data.
A few photos from the event
We’ve decided to take a break from hosting events over the summer and start up again in September so do let us know if you have an idea for a host, venue or speaker as we’re always looking for new ideas and inspiration.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Maria Felice who has really held the group together over the last year or so whilst some us were off having babies or exiled in Germany. I don’t think the group would have survived without you! Maria has almost finished her PhD and is off to start a job in Coventry. Hopefully she will make it to our September event but if not we wish you lots of luck in the future and do come and join us whenever you are in Bristol.
Girl geeks might be taking a break but there are lots of other great geeky events going on in Bristol over the next couple of months – if you don’t want to go on your own get on our Facebook page and find a buddy to go with you – we’re a friendly approachable lot! You can also find details of other events and opportunities on the Facebook page.
Just Eat have just opened a new office and are having a Bristol Developer meetup This Friday (July 25th) with food and drinks.
Swiftly followed by a Hackathon on Saturday 26th July.
Brightpearl have two coding events going on:
Bristol Java meetup at Brightpearl – Tuesday August 5th 7pm
Testing and CI meetup with PHP SW at Brightpearl Wednesday August 20th 7pm
Codefirst girls are looking for instructors/assistants to help out with the program. These people will need to be able to teach HTML, CSS and Javascript. Knowing Ruby on Rails will be a plus! They will need to commit to 2 hours every week for 4 weeks – more info: www.codefirstgirls.org.uk
If you have any similar events running over July and August please share them on our FB page or tweet us and we’ll see you all again in September. Thanks for your continued support!
Bristol Girl Geek Dinners
Bath Girl Geeks joined Bristol Girl Geeks on March 2014 at the Engine Shed in Bristol
There was a special guest appearance by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Minister for Women and Equalities.
Thursday 27th March 2014
We will be running a joint event with Bristol Girl Geeks @ the Engine Shed in Bristol http://www.engine-shed.co.uk/ (location 2 minute work from Bristol Temple meads Station); More details coming soon………
Saturday 14th June 2014 (Raising money to support Bath City Farm)
Bath Girl Geeks will be running a Tech/Apps/Creative Workshop @ Bath City Farm http://bathcityfarm.org.uk/community-events/
We are looking for volunteers that would be able to support this event on the day, as well as helping to run workshops for children from the age of 10 to 16 years old. This will be a family event where children will have the opportunity learn more about Tech/Apps and Design.
Please contact us if you would like to volunteer for this event; [email protected]
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