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ππΌ Hi all, I'm Vicky. I'm very involved with the Irish tech community (got started when I took over running Python Ireland from 2005 till 2016). More of a hobby coder nowadays as I do a lot of community work voluntarily like PyLadies Dublin, Coding Grace, GameCraft, Women Who Code Dublin, WITS Ireland. I'm open to collab with other user groups as well. Most of my events are for adults, although I'm happy to collab with groups that work with <18yos.
My day job is working with the Dublin Maker team as their Maker Advocate. My most memorable and rewarding role was being asked to be curator and researcher for a Science Gallery Dublin exhibition called GAME back in 2012. I still can't believe they paid me to play, read, immerse myself in the world of games, attend games festivals/confs, meet amazing people (artists, designers, coders, performers, researchers, games industry folks, etc) and worked with some very smart folks there. I learnt a whole lot and also had the most fun!
Now as Maker Advocate, I deal with everything and to audiences of all ages (very different to my voluntary tech community role).
And how I found this platform, it was because EuroPython joined recently (I'm kinda helping them out as a volunteer). So when I saw them join, I was curious and joined also and found some familiar faces here! π
So please to meet you all, and if there's any collaboration (given covid-19 has brought many people/orgs together through remote events), let me know. Any questions re. Irish tech community, organising events, diversity in tech, etc., let me know. I'm happy to help. π
"My most memorable and rewarding role was being asked to be curator and researcher for a Science Gallery Dublin exhibition called GAME back in 2012. I still can't believe they paid me to play, read, immerse myself in the world of games, attend games festivals/confs, meet amazing people..."
This sounds so dope!
Around this time period, I was living Edinburgh Scotland and remember going to a really similar exhibition... I wish I could remember the name! It's totally possible that they were related.
Anywho, welcome to DEV! I hope you dig it here. π
It was amazing! I did not in my life think that I would end up with that role (I didn't have curation or research as a skill, but I loved games, curious about how they are made). I met a lot of amazing indie games friends that way, and still friends with many to this day. Same period I started to co-run game jams as GameCraft. The community here has been great to me, so I wanted to give something back. I definitely ended up where I am via very unconventional routes after I left my role as a developer (went back to do a 1 year masters on Multimedia as I wanted to learn more about animation and interactive media, that was donkeys ago). And thanks for the kind welcome. π
Great to have you in the community Vicky
Thanks! :-)
Hi Vicky, nice to meet you! That GAME exhibit sounds fantastic!
Yeah, it was amazing to be part of it. If you are curious, they still have the link to the exhibition of what was in show at the time: dublin.sciencegallery.com/game
Excellent, thank you!
Hello and welcome from tutorialsmate ππ
Thanks for the welcome! This community has been great so far! If Iβm not careful, Iβll end up being obsessive with it! π Still figuring what Iβll be posting (including my org Coding Grace).
Hello everyone! I'm Ixchel and I'm from Caracas, Venezuela. I'm truly happy to become part of this community and looking forward to write lots of posts here. My focus is data science, so I'm deeply interested in math articles, new technologies, ML and data pre processing. I'm ready to learn!
Hello, and welcome.
Hi Ixchel! It's so nice to meet you!
Hi my name is Nazih, i started learning game development when i was 14 years, now I'm pursuing my studies in computer science
I'm currently taking the chance to learn OpenGL and C++ while enhancing my Design Patterns skills
Great to have you Nazih
Thank you Ben
Hello and welcome.
Thank you
Hi, everybody,
My name is Elena, I am Spanish, but I have been living in Frankfurt for a long time. I have returned to the program now that my children do not need me so much anymore. I like this community very much because it gives practical and useful advice.
Thank you for taking me in.
Greetings
Hi everyone! I'm Putri π . Currently building a startup with my friends, it's called Cotter (YC W20), a passwordless authentication service.
I've been working on web development for some time, and now learning about building client libraries, which I find very different from web dev! Right now learning Flutter, and I think it's awesome π.
I'm also learning about writing blogs. It's a lot of fun but also quite challenging. I see that the DEV community is really engaged and welcoming, and has great posts, so I'd love to start here and learn. Any help or feedback would be really awesome β€οΈπ©βπ». Thanks!
Welcome Putri! I think youβll fit in great here.
Thanks!
Hello there, everybody! I'm so glad to have found this community, everyone is kind and friendly and this is the first thing I notice when I join a new community. I'm Francesco from Verona, Italy and I am student at university but I had some experience with php (framework Yii) and Js as well: from jQuery to React and Angular. I'd like to gain much more experience in these languages and learn something new like React, Vue.. knowledge is power! Anyway I'm currently developing some small projects with Flutter and I'll definitely check out some posts for help when needed. Like Joel I subscribed few weeks ago but never introduced myself so here you are! Thanks for reading and a nice dev-to-day!
Hello there, I'm Ibrahim and from Nigeria, Africa and I'm so glad to have found this community. Currently want to focus on Web development, Front-end to be precise. I am very happy to join and ready to learn.
Heya!
Welcome to DEV. π
Consider following this tag:
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In addition:
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Habdul Hazeez γ» Oct 17 '19 γ» 4 min read
Hello and welcome from tutorialsmate π
Hi all! I'm Sam--web developer, novelist and former book publicist, just making a career shift into programming after graduating Flatiron School's online software engineering bootcamp :) My most recent project is a novel progress tracking app made with React and Rails, and I'm in the middle of brushing up on my CSS so I can get more hands-on with the frontend of my next app!
Really enjoying Dev so far, and looking forward to getting involved in the community!
I'll recommend the following accounts:
Alvaro Montoro
Chen Hui Jing
And the following blogs:
Welcome to the community.
Excellent, thanks Habdul! I will look into these :)
Hi Sam, it is a really cool career change! π
Hi Billy! And thanks, I'm enjoying it so far :)
Hello, I'm Said S. Juma from Dar es salaam, Tanzania. I am the web and mobile application developer. I do all my frontend development with react and mobile apps with react native, and all backends with laravel framework.
My level of coding is between expert and intermediate but i like to learn new techniques and technologies everyday, that's how i came to find out about dev.to
My personal website is simbadesign.business.site and simbadesign.co.tz where you can learn more about what I'm doing.
I do hand coding with all pure concepts i don't like copying from free templates so i always find my own solutions and create from scratch.
The knowledge I'm good at uncludes javascript and es6 reactjs, react native, linux, ssh, mac, illustrator, photoshop, css, html, php, java basic, user experience, user interface and customer care.
Hope to network with others developers here at dev.to. Cheers, SS.
Welcome Said!
Thanks
Welcome.
In addition, you have a typo in the penultimate paragraph.
Hey guys,
I'm Anna , I'm in the 12th grade and I'm really interested in coding and web development. I consider myself to be very passionate when it comes to learning new things. Although I do find it overwhelming at times, I hope that with practice and dedication I can achieve great things. Would love to hear from y'all. What inspired you to code and how has it changed your life?
Hello and welcome from tutorialsmate. ππ
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