About us
We are the first Irish PyLadies group founded in 2013. Our focus is to help more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community. Our mission is to promote, educate and advance a diverse Python community. PyLadies Dublin also aims to provide a friendly support network for women and a bridge to the larger Python world. Anyone with an interest in Python is encouraged to participate!
Please note: All our events are 18s+, if you have any questions, please email us: [dublin@pyladies.com](mailto:dublin@pyladies.com)
Interested in speaking? Apply via https://sessionize.com/pyladies-dublin-meetup
- Topics: Python, Python-adjacent technologies, things you find really exciting using Python, how you use Python in your own projects, Creative Technologies, frontend, backend, SRE, all things data, and more!
- How Long? 5 minutes up to 30 minutes. People can break out into sessions to follow up with you after your talk.
- We may record talks if in-person, but live-streams are recorded by default. All videos can be found on: https://www.youtube.com/pyladiesdublin
Code of Conduct and our main landing page: https://dublin.pyladies.com
Global PyLadies: https://pyladies.com/
Also find us here:
- Join us on our discord server: https://discord.gg/DAqBuF4bC4
- Youtube: youtube.com/pyladiesdublin
- Mastodon: @PyLadiesDub / Instagram: @PyLadiesDub / FB: @PyLadiesDublin
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pyladies-dublin
- Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/groups/14813889@N23/
Upcoming events
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PyLadies Dublin @ Liberty IT
LibertyIT, 6th floor, One LePole Square, Ship Street Great, Dublin 8, D08 E6PD, Dublin, IE✨ We are delighted to be hosted by Liberty IT this month.
🎤 Talk details will be coming soon.
📚 And thanks to Packt, we have a physical book to raffle after the talk:- Python Illustrated: Not another boring Python book, learn programming the fun way by Maaike van Putten and Imke van Putten
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🎟️ PLEASE REGISTER ON LUMA TO ATTEND: https://luma.com/pm0gpsda
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- 18:30 Event Starts
- 18:40 Welcome and Introductions
- 18:50 Talk: Learning in Public, Again by Sarah Novotny
- 19:15 Networking after
- 20:30 Event Ends
TALK DETAILS:
Title: Learning in Public, Again
(10-20 mins) I spent two decades building software communities. Kubernetes, NGINX, MySQL. And then I moved to Dublin and enrolled in a master's programme in political science at Trinity College.
People have asked me why I took a left turn away from a perfectly good career. The honest answer is that I kept running into questions my industry experience couldn't answer. How do open source communities actually function as political systems? What does "technological sovereignty" mean when the phrase shows up in EU regulation, national security strategy, and corporate marketing decks, all in the same week? Why is corporate investment in OSS not patently obvious?
I needed different tools. So I learned Python. Not the "I'll automate a spreadsheet" kind. The "I'm running topic models on 1,600 EU consultation responses to figure out who is shaping digital policy and how" kind. I learned statistics. I learned how to scrape legislative databases. I learned how to be bad at something in front of people half my age, which, if you've spent twenty years being the expert in the room, is its own special discipline.
This talk is about what happens when you decide the next interesting problem matters more than the comfort of the last solved one. It's about moving countries, going back to school, picking up a programming language for the first time in decades, and discovering that the willingness to be a beginner is a skill that compounds. Whether you're 25 and pivoting, 45 and reinventing, or anywhere in between, the capacity to start over is not a concession. It's a superpower.About Sarah Novotny
Sarah Novotny is a technology executive renowned for her pioneering leadership in open source, cloud computing, infrastructure automation, and big data.. She has led an Open Source Ecosystem and Strategy group for both Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. During her tenure at Google, Sarah played a pivotal role in expanding the Kubernetes open source project leadership and represented the company during the founding of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.At her core, she is driven by the ethos of open-source collaboration – where every line of code and every contributor interaction contributes to a greater collective purpose. She believes in fostering mutual aid and community care to build bridges across diverse coding languages and experiences.
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🎟️ PLEASE REGISTER ON LUMA TO ATTEND: https://luma.com/pm0gpsda
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💖 THANKS
Sponsors- Liberty IT: Hosting
- Packt: Raffle prize
Community Partners:
- Coding Grace
- PSF: Meetup
- PyLadies
🔍 FAQ
Note that all our events are 18s+. Although this a social event, it's a professional networking event, please refer to the Code of Conduct, e.g. behave as you would attending a work event.Q. I'm not female, is it ok for me to attend?
A. Yes, PyLadies Dublin events are open to everyone at all levels. We encourage non-female attendees to suggest a female friend/colleague to sign up to the event. So bring a friend! ✨Q. Do you have a Code of Conduct?
A. Yes, you can find it at dublin.pyladies.comQ. I am interested in giving a talk at PyLadies Dublin, where do I submit my interest, workshop, and talk details?
A. You can submit your talk details to the following form:
https://sessionize.com/pyladies-dublin-meetup🤔 Any other enquiries (e.g. getting involved, sponsoring), email dublin@pyladies.com
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