List of hackathons in Ireland in 2015

The CoderDojo Foundation recently relaunched Zen as a new open source community platform! We are hosting a Coding hackathon to show you how to contribute to this opensource community platform! About Zen This new system allows CoderDojo community members (Mentors and Champions) to fully manage their Dojo activities like  issuing tickets to individual Dojo events, posting in forums, editing and setting up profiles etc. The system is completely open source. Below are some of the really cool community features: - A forum for community members - A forum especially for youths over 13 years of age - An improved Dojo listing where you can book tickets to a Dojo event - Profiles for individual community members where you can showcase your skills and the Dojo you belong to We're using some cutting edge open source technology for the system: - NodeJS - AngularJS - PostGreSQL - Mozilla Open Badges - Jenkins About the hackathon If you're interested in developing for this open source project please come along to our Hackathon in the Dropbox offices, in Dublin! On the day there will be 2 streams, a coding stream and a translation stream. Coding Stream We will cover how to get set up for development and open your first pull request! Don't worry about having / not having lots of experience, we will have experienced developers present to help you, and we have a list of issues that are "suitable for beginners"! This is an ideal opportunity to: - Showcase your development skills on an open source repository. Employers love to see open source activity on Github so it is an easy way to prove your skills. - Learn from experienced developers in the tech industry. The system was developed by a leading NodeJS development house, NearForm - Learn how the peer coding reviews and deployment processes work in a real world scenario. Translating Stream We are also looking for people to help us translate the community platform. If you are fluent in any forgien language we would love your help on the day. We are using Crowdin to translate the community platform. More details about helping translate on the day can be found here. This is an ideal opportunity to: - Showcase your language skills - Contribute to a open source community project that impacts youth all around the world! What you will need: Your Own Laptop and charger You don't need to be an expert, but you will need to be familiar with javascript. Resources View repository here https://github.com/CoderDojo/community-platform where you can see issues and the Readme if you’d like to get started pre-workshop. Where can I contact the organiser with any questions? If you have any questions please feel free to contact us directly via: info@coderdojo.com If you are interested in contributing to the platform outside this event, we are always looking for developers to help out, get in touch via the mailing address above. A special thank you to Dropbox for providing the venue of this event! Looking forward to seeing you there!

Universal Design offers the opportunity to create graduates whose attributes will enable them to participate in a global economy and contribute to the social and cultural development of their own communities. The Centre for Excellence in Universal Design, in conjunction with ITB, ITT and DIT as part of the Technological University for Dublin Alliance (TU4Dublin) will host a two day conference consisting of a series of workshops, keynote speakers, exhibitions and a 24 Hour Universal Design Hackathon. The conference will showcase the "best in class" teaching practices of Universal Design from Ireland and internationally and provide educators with practical skills and resources to start teaching Universal Design today!

Join us on the 11th & 12th of November for the official GMIT Hackathon. GMIT, Registration Room 347 Prizes Collaboration Talks Games Food  Two days to create an app, connect with other devs, have fun and win some prizes. Last years prizes included phones, tablets and XBox live memberships! Speakers include Microsoft, HP, Bank of Ireland and professioanls involved in the startup community in Galway.  And of course the real networking will be in the pub on Thursday night.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Stemettes invite you to a celebration of women in STEM. The event will be hosted by Events Stemette, Charlotte Pascual.  What? Why? Despite the thousands of women already working in Ireland's Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) fields, there exists a lack of young talent in the pipeline. Join us to hear from a diverse panel as they share their somewhat surprising career paths and provide tips to those students who are contemplating their future careers and job options. The event promises to provide a fantastic opportunity to meet and network with STEM professionals and discover new opportunities over light refreshments in a relaxed atmosphere.  Who? The event is aimed at girls and students of all ages. Under 16's must be accompanied by a parent/guardian. When? 11 – 2pm, Saturday, 7 November 2015 Where?  Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Central Park Block D, Leopardstown, Dublin 18 Directions: By car: From the city centre: Head northeast on St Stephen’s Green/R138 toward Hume St, Slight right onto Merrion Row/R138, Slight right onto Pembroke Street Lower/R138, Turn left onto Leeson Street Lower/R138, Continue onto Stillorgan Rd/N11/N31 for 1.8km, Turn right onto Brewery Rd/N31, At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto Leopardstown Rd/N31/R113. From Dublin airport: Drive towards the M1/Dublin road, Take the first exit southbound, remain on the M50 until you reach junction 14 (approximately 30 mins). By public transport: Luas Green Line: The “Central Park” LUAS green line stop is a two-minute walk from the office. The green line goes from St. Stephen’s Green (city centre) to Brides Glen. The journey takes about 20 minutes from the city centre. Our Impressive panel will include: Laura Tobin - an experimental physics graduate, a graduate of the TCD-UCD Innovation Academy and is currently a PhD candidate in optical engineering at University College Dublin.   Elle Loughran  - Elle Loughran is a 6th Year student who was recently appointed to the Youth Panel of the British Science Association and named a global youth leader in nanotech by the Emerging Technologies Hub. She participated in Outbox Incubator over the summer and blogs about life, education and STEM at frizzyroselle.eu Prof Christine Loscher - Prof Christine Loscher completed her PhD in Immunology at NUI, Maynooth in 2000 and was awarded a Health Research Board Fellowship to pursue her postdoctoral studies at Trinity College Dublin. She leads the Immunomodulation Research Group at DCU. She holds several leadership roles in DCU including Director of the Health Technologies Research. In 2014 she was named in Silicon Republics top 100 Women in STEM and currently serves on the National Committee for Athena SWAN in Ireland. Dr Shannon Chance - Dr. Shannon Chance is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Dublin Institute of Technology, following 15 years at Hampton University where she was a tenured Professor of Architecture. Shannon has also taught as an adjunct professor at The College of William and Mary and has served as a lecturer at Virginia Tech. Shannon is a licensed architect with two degrees in architecture from Virginia Tech and a Ph.D. in Higher Education from William and Mary.  Andrea Fagan - Andrea was originally a Natural Science graduate from Trinity College Dublin. Re-skilled in software development, Andrea now works as a python developer on the Counterparty Credit Risk Technology team in Bank of America. She is also involved in the Python Ireland organisation, responsible for the annual PyCon event and Meetups throughout the year. Andreea Popa - Andreea is a Software Engineer at Microsoft. She has been working for Microsoft for one year and is part of the Office team. She studied in Germany at an international university and then moved to Dublin. While in college Andreea worked as a Teaching Assistant for two years. She enjoys diversity and is very passionate about attracting and retaining women in tech. Dr Shirley Gallagher - Shirley is an Analytical chemist with expertise in environment and sustainability. She studied science and holds a PhD from the University of Ulster. Dr Gallagher has worked in scientific roles in a number of different jobs. She has refocused the learned society Environmental Sciences Association of Ireland and co-founded Enviro Skillnet in 2007. She is self-employed and has been involved with a number of ‘green’ projects over the past fifteen years. Shirley is the owner of Syspro: Systems for Progress Ltd.  ‘Mystery Man’   Hosted and supported by: Bank of America is one of the world's leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses, large corporations and governments with a full range of financial and risk management products and services. The company serves clients through operations in more than 40 countries globally. Bank of America Merrill Lynch is the marketing name for the global banking and markets businesses, offering an integrated and comprehensive set of products and services across Global Corporate and Investment Banking and Global Markets and serving the needs of corporate, institutional and government clients, combining the best of local knowledge and global expertise. The company is a long-established participant in EMEA with a presence since 1922. At Bank of America Merrill Lynch, technology underscores everything we do. From trading and research applications, sales, trade processing and risk management to portfolio management, payment services, security analytics and relationship management, being at the cutting edge of technology is essential to the success of our company. _____________________________________________________________________________  About the Stemettes - We're running a series of panel events, hackathons and exhibitions this year for girls from 9 years old right up to female university students. We'd like to show them amazing women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics careers.  Twitter - http://twitter.com/stemettes Facebook - http://facebook.com/stemettes Website - http://stemettes.org

All details on speakers and schedule is here: http://gdg-dublin.appspot.com You are able to choose "à la carte" when will you come. Please take a ticket for each parts if you want to be with us for the whole weekend but if you prefer you can choose for example to come on Friday evening and then back to thye hackathon on Sunday. Please be accurate as we have limited places and we want to reduce the number of no-show (you know who you are! :-)). FAQs The name on the registration/ticket doesn't match the attendee. Is that okay? No, it has to be the person attending, tickets are not transferable. What are my transport/parking options getting to the event? On street parking is limited and not free in the streets around Google. Best to use public transport or Dublin Bikes (Station on Barrow Street). Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? We will need to scan it so either have a printout or the EventBrite app/PDF/Email on your phone ready to be scanned. Where is it? In Google office on Barrow Street. 

Loads of news on Arduino, the Web summit, Start-up weekend and Adult Python workshops below so read on to find out what is going on in and around Coderdojo Limerick in the next few weeks.  Arduino Arduino uses software and microprocessor kits to allow kids to build and programme their own digital device in a fun and interactive way. At Coderdojo Limerick we have several of these kits and are offering the chance for some of our ninjas to have a go. Because the number of kits we have are limited we will have to ask anyone who is interested to please book their place through Eventbrite (click on the link below). There will be a 7 week run so if you do not get a chance to sign up for this session please don't worry, we can sign you up for the next one. Those who complete the 7 weeks will be eligible for their yellow belt if they wish.  Web Summit The Web Summit is Europe’s largest tech event and will take place in the RDS on November 3rd, 4thand 5th (last time it will be held in Dublin). Congratulations to Grace and Hollis who will be representing Coderdojo Limerick at the Coderdojo stand. Best of luck to you both and enjoy J  Startup Weekend Startup Weekend Limerick is a competition where people with business ideas have 54 hours to develop a business from scratch and present a pitch to a team of judges (a bit like the MegaDojo hackathon). The organisers have kindly offered us a few tickets for ninjas aged 12+ to the closing event on Sunday 22nd November where the teams will be pitching their business ideas. Can anyone interested email limerick@coderdojo.com  Adult Python Workshop Any adults who are interested in taking part in a Python class please let us know at limerick@coderdojo.com   Please make sure to scroll down and Book your Ticket for this weeks Coderdojo by clicking on the “Attend Event” button at the bottom of this email in order to alleviate the queues on Saturday morning. For all the latest news from Coderdojo check out this link and Coderdojo.com Book your place for this Saturdays Coderdojo below and we look forward to seeing you all there,  The Limerick Coderdojo team     Very Important: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   To satisfy insurance, health and safety, and child protection requirements, it is necessary that members under 13 have a parent or a named responsible adult present for the full duration of their stay.  So that we can know who is responsible for each young member, we require a supervisor reserved ticket with the name of the person staying with the young member.   Members will not be allowed into rooms until 11am and we ask that you be there on time so that we can minimise the disruption caused by members arriving late. (Please let us know by email in advance if you will be late).   Tidy up will start at 1.45pm and while we encourage parents to be there at this time, we ask that you do not take away any members until all the rooms are back to the way they were when we arrived. LIT are now using the rooms every Monday morning so this is important.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   What you need to bring: A packed lunch. If you have one, a laptop. A parent! (Very important if you are under 13). If you have not done so already please make sure and fill out the registration form available here. Please print, sign and return the email you receive on your first visit to the dojo. We accept people all the time, so if you want to start just book your place and turn up on the day; the existing members help bring you up to speed. Contact details: Email: limerick@coderdojo.com Twitter: @coderdojolim

Build the Future of Work with DAQRI Smart Helmet This one-of-a-kind event brings together developers, designers, and industrial experts to imagine use cases and build apps for the world’s most advanced augmented reality wearable: the DAQRI Smart Helmet. Learn from globally recnognized hardware and software experts and build apps for the industrial use cases the DAQRI Smart Helmet was made for. Join a team, collaborate, prototype and win prizes: together we are creating the Future of Work.   The Event  This summer, we launched our first-ever DAQRI Smart Helmet Hackathon. It was an awesome experience for both our product teams the the community, so we’ve decided to do it again. Our goal is to expand the global community that is empowered to make applications for this unparalleled platform, and also to share the continuous advances being made in all aspects of our work.  If you want to experience the world’s first wearable Human Machine Interface and build apps for the most sophisticated display and sensor hardware for augmented reality, this event is for you.   Agenda DAQRI Smart Helmet is powerd by next generation computer vision, has an industrial grade IMU, HD 3D depth sensor, and thermal camera and is controlled via gaze tracking and voice recogntion. At this Hackathon, you’ll learn hands-on about its open source enabling technology, sensors, development platform, SDK and APIs so you can build apps for the Future of Work.    Friday October 30th:   5:30pm – 6:00pm: DAQRI Smart Helmet Demonstrations, Networking & Snacks 6:00pm – 6:30pm: Learning How Augmented Reality Works at Work – Gaia Dempsey, Managing Director, DAQRI International 6:30pm ­­­– 7:30pm – From Zero To App In 60 Minutes, Rob Quigley, Solutions Development Lead, DAQRI 7:00 – 7:30pm: Participant 60 Second App Pitches 7:30-8:00pm: Form Teams, Mentors Assigned 8:00-9:00pm: Demos Re-Open 9:00-12:00am: Space Remains Open for Teams  Saturday October 31st:    9:00am – 9:30am: Coffee and Networking 9:30am –10:00am: Incorporating Computer Vision and Visual Inertial Navigation into Your App, Philip Lamb, Chief Open Source Architect, DAQRI 10:00am – 10:30am: Working with Melon, the Wearable EEG Brain Computer Interface, Dr. Stefanie Hutka, Neuroscientist, DAQRI 10:30am –11:00am:  The Evolution of Three.js, the Open Source 3D Rendering Engine for Augmented Reality – Jerome Etienne, Lead Developer, DAQRI 11:00am – 11:30am: Sensors, Computer Vision, and Augmented Reality, David Moloney, Founder & CTO, Movidius 11:30am – 1:00pm: Work in Teams 1:00pm-2:00pm: Lunch 2:00pm-7:00pm: Work in Teams 7:00-8:30pm: Team Pitch Coaching 8:30-12:00am: Space Remains Open for Teams  Sunday November 1st:    9:00am – 9:30am: Coffee and Networking 9:30am – 10:00am: Contextual Data Visualisation with Wearable Augmented Reality – Stephen Keegan, Engineering Manager, DAQRI 10:00am – 10:30am: Augmented Reality UI Revealed, Andrea De Carolis, Senior Developer, and Raul Portales, Senior Developer, DAQRI 10:30am –1:00pm: Work in Teams 1:00pm – 2:00pm: Lunch 2:00pm – 5:00pm: Work in Teams 5:00 – 6:00pm: Finger Food & Drinks 6:00 – 7:00pm: Team Presentations to Panel of Judges 7:00 – 7:30: Closing Thoughts: Where Are Augmented Reality Wearables Going? – Phil Greenhalgh, R&D Director, DAQRI Labs 7:30-8:00pm: Judges Review & Prizes Awarded to Winners    What To Expect   The Atmosphere Hackathons are full of energy because they offer a chance to engage in the thrilling challenge of rapidly brainstorming, validating and prototyping new ideas. You’ll meet smart, creative people and stretch your brain making amazing things together. There will be delicious food & drink, fun hardware prizes, and great opportuntities to meet with technical mentors and other developers interested in augmented reality hardware and software.  The Experience As a participant, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from expert presentations, pitch ideas, form teams, get support from expert mentors, and immediately put to work the new SDKs, functions, and APIs you’ve learned. Each team will have a dedicated DAQRI mentor to help connect you with the right resources, as well as listen to your feedback about and ideas about how to improve the developer experience. Senior DAQRI technical leadership will be in attendance and looking for great developers, designers, sales leaders, and industrial experts interested in job opportunities in the augmented reality space. Ground Rules  You don’t need to attend with a team – in fact we expect that most people will meet and form teams the day of the event. Teams should be made up of 6 people or less. To make it fair to everyone, pre-formed teams that do plan to attend together must register as a group ahead of time. There will be a dedicated section of the competition with separate prizes for this group. Entries will be submitted for consideration through your team’s presentation on the final day of the Hackathon. Judges will also be walking around during throughout the event and you are encouraged to tell them about your project. Entries will be evaluated based on the following criteria: Value and utility of the chosen use case Potential for real-world implementation and adoption Originality in concept and approach Completeness of prototype/mockup/demo Come prepared to learn, collaborate, and have fun!

  Can you solve leading industry problems in the Internet of Things (IoT) space? Can you foresee future societal and sustainability trends and work towards them? Can you work with a multi-disciplinary team to solve those problems? Can you work to a deadline? Do you like pizza? If your answer is “Yes” to the above questions sign up today and come participate in the IoT Enterprise Challenge. The Challenge will take place in the new DIT Grangegorman campus in Dublin on Friday October 30th. Present on the day will be some of the leading Small Medium and Large Enterprises in the IoT space with genuine problems they need resolved. IoT is a growing area of interest for many companies, it is anticipated that this space will be an underpinning element for most jobs in most sectors in the near future. *Please note, by agreeing to attend the IoT Enterprise Challenge you are agreeing to our below terms and conditions. There are four IoT Challenges; we would like you to pick your favourite on the day. They are: Environmental conditions in a built environment can impact people's performance and social perceptions. How can early warning systems be used to mitigate environmental risks?   If you could track and trace everyone who comes into a park or forest for recreation purposes, what mobile app would you create so the park owners could understand their customers behaviours and deliver an amazing experience?    Imagine an agrarian based community where every field is monitored with sensors for water, sunshine, rainfall, wind and soil data. With learning and predictive software, what gains can be made in the choice of crops or trees that are suitable for the soil now, as it will be and how rotation patterns can be positively changed?   What if you could locate and track people and objects within an educational institute. What sort of innovative applications or solutions would you suggest that could directly impact students and faculty collaboration and productivity?   Receive free access to Bluemix, the new cloud application development tool from IBM. Learn how to turn your idea into a reality. Gain some great experience with real issues that you can wow your future employers with. Win some cool stuff. Do you have what it takes? (Did we mention the pizza?) Sign up today!                                                                                                                                             FAQs Is there anything I should do prior to the event? Yes, you should ensure you have registered for your free trial on Bluemix before the event. You should also spend some time on the platform so that you are acquainted with the layout. This will help you win some prizes on the day! You will receive an email one week prior to the event with instuctions on how to access your free Bluemix account. Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event? This is a strictly over 18's event, please bring your student card or some form of ID on the morning. What are my transport options getting to the event? The best way to get to the event is by public transport. The campus is serviced by many Dublin Bus and regional bus routes. It is also just a 10 minute walk from the Smithfield stop on the Luas Red Line. Please see the above map for more details. Is my registration/ticket transferrable? No, only those who register can attend the event Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? Yes, please print out your ticket from Eventbrite and bring it with you on the day. The name on the registration/ticket doesn't match the attendee. Is that okay? No, the ticket must match the attendee  What can/can't I bring to the event? You should bring a laptop to the event and any other hardware you feel may be useful. You are not permitted to bring any work you have created already to the event.   Terms & Conditions  As an attendee of the IoT Enterprise Challenge you agree that the artefact(s) presented was created using original work by you or a member of your team and that none of it was substantially copied, wilfully or otherwise, from any other source and that any work used does not infringe on another's intellectual property of a third party. The IoT Enterprise Challenge is not responsible for the protection of the Intellectual Property (IP) created or presented at the IoT Enterprise Challenge from theft or intentional damage of any kind. The organisers and judges retain the right to invalidate an entry if there is any suspicion that a piece of work violates any of the expectations laid out in Section 1 and 2. An entrant's work and intellectual property shall remain the property of the author with the acknowledgment to the fact that the organisers are not and never shall be in a position to defend this right from infringement or duplication. The IoT Enterprise Challenge is not responsible for the collection and distribution, evenly or otherwise, of prizes awarded for participation in an IoT Enterprise Challenge though may assist in delivery where necessary. Sponsors of the IoT Enterprise Challenge retain the right to change the advertised prizes and/or challenges and briefs at any time before the start of a IoT Enterprise Challenge competition. By submitting an entry to the IoT Enterprise Challenge, the entrant agrees that the submitted work may be used in promotional material arranged by the IoT Enterprise Challenge organisers and partners for, but not limited to, future events and hackathons. By attending the IoT Enterprise Challenge, the entrant agrees that any photos or videos taken of the entrant at the IoT Enterprise Challenge may be used in promotional material arranged by the IoT Enterprise Challenge organisers and partners for, but not limited to, future events and hackathons Registered participants of the IoT Enterprise Challenge agree that the organisers are not liable for any loss of work or data due to power, network, hardware or software failure or malfunction and that any loss or lack of work that would be entered for the IoT Enterprise Challenge will only be considered by the judges if the idea of the artefact is clearly communicated.

  MegaDojo We hope everyone had a fantastic time at MegaDojo. This was our biggest event to date and it didn’t disappoint. There was loads going on throughout the day with 100s of kids taking part in workshops, the incredible Stephen Howell and his dancing (digital) cat, Mags & Susan’s bots, the drone, 3d printing, sensors for food, film screenings and Sean’s explosions. A big thank you to our youth mentors and the parents who volunteered to help us on the day. You guys were brilliant. The planning for MegaDojo 2016 has already started and we look forward to making it bigger and better You can find a full report and photos on www.coderdojomidwest.com   Web Summit The Web Summit is Europe’s largest tech event and will take place in the RDS on November 3rd, 4thand 5th (last time it will be held in Dublin). The CoderDojo Foundation is looking for some ninjas to come a present their projects on one of these days. If you are interested in applying, please emaillimerick@coderdojo.com ASAP for more details. Please include your name, a brief description of your project and the day(s) you can attend.   Startup Weekend Startup Weekend Limerick is a competition where people with business ideas have 54 hours to develop a business from scratch and present a pitch to a team of judges (a bit like the MegaDojo hackathon). The organisers have kindly offered us a few tickets for ninjas aged 12+ to the closing event on Sunday 22nd November where the teams will be pitching their business ideas. Can anyone interested email limerick@coderdojo.com   Adult Python Workshop If there are any adults interested in taking part in a series of beginners Python programming workshops, can they email baz@coderdojo.com to express interest    Please make sure to scroll down and Book your Ticket for this weeks Coderdojo by clicking on the “Attend Event” button at the bottom of this email in order to alleviate the queues on Saturday morning. For all the latest news from Coderdojo check out this link and Coderdojo.com Book your place for this Saturdays Coderdojo below and we look forward to seeing you all there,   The Limerick Coderdojo team   Very Important: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   To satisfy insurance, health and safety, and child protection requirements, it is necessary that members under 13 have a parent or a named responsible adult present for the full duration of their stay.  So that we can know who is responsible for each young member, we require a supervisor reserved ticket with the name of the person staying with the young member.   Members will not be allowed into rooms until 11am and we ask that you be there on time so that we can minimise the disruption caused by members arriving late. (Please let us know by email in advance if you will be late).   Tidy up will start at 1.45pm and while we encourage parents to be there at this time, we ask that you do not take away any members until all the rooms are back to the way they were when we arrived. LIT are now using the rooms every Monday morning so this is important.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   What you need to bring: A packed lunch. If you have one, a laptop. A parent! (Very important if you are under 13). If you have not done so already please make sure and fill out the registration form available here. Please print, sign and return the email you receive on your first visit to the dojo. We accept people all the time, so if you want to start just book your place and turn up on the day; the existing members help bring you up to speed. Contact details: Email: limerick@coderdojo.com Twitter: @coderdojolim

The CoderDojo Foundation recently relaunched Zen as a new open source community platform! We are hosting a Coding hackathon to show you how to contribute to this opensource community platform! About Zen This new system allows CoderDojo community members (Mentors and Champions) to fully manage their Dojo activities like  issuing tickets to individual Dojo events, posting in forums, editing and setting up profiles etc. The system is completely open source. Below are some of the really cool community features: - A forum for community members - A forum especially for youths over 13 years of age - An improved Dojo listing where you can book tickets to a Dojo event - Profiles for individual community members where you can showcase your skills and the Dojo you belong to We're using some cutting edge open source technology for the system: - NodeJS - AngularJS - PostGreSQL - Mozilla Open Badges - Jenkins About the hackathon If you're interested in developing for this open source project please come along to our Hackathon in Dogpatch Labs, the top tech start up hub in dublin! On the day there will be 2 streams, a coding stream and a translation stream. Coding Stream We will cover how to get set up for development and open your first pull request! Don't worry about having / not having lots of experience, we will have experienced developers present to help you, and we have a list of issues that are "suitable for beginners"! This is an ideal opportunity to: - Showcase your development skills on an open source repository. Employers love to see open source activity on Github so it is an easy way to prove your skills. - Learn from experienced developers in the tech industry. The system was developed by a leading NodeJS development house, NearForm - Learn how the peer coding reviews and deployment processes work in a real world scenario. Translating Stream We are also looking for people to help us translate the community platform. If you are fluent in any forgien language we would love your help on the day. We are using Crowd In to translate the community platform. More details about helping translate on the day can be found here. This is an ideal opportunity to: - Showcase your language skills - Contribute to a open source community project that impacts youth all around the world! What you will need: Your Own Laptop and charger You don't need to be an expert but you will need to be very familiar with javascript. Resources View repository here https://github.com/CoderDojo/community-platform where you can see issues and the Readme if you’d like to get started pre-workshop. Where can I contact the organiser with any questions? If you have any questions please feel free to contact us directly via: info@coderdojo.com If you are interested in contributing to the platform outside this event, we are always looking for developers to help out, get in touch via the mailing address above. A special thank you to Dogpatch Labs for providing the venue of this event! Hope to see you there!