[dundee] Tech Meetup in Dundee

Paul Sutherland newsonthegrapevine at gmail.com
Wed Mar 27 22:37:00 UTC 2013 

It pains me to admit that I was impressed with the Surface Pro. Would I buy
one - maybe, but only to liberate it!  It's windows and my religion forbids
me.

My employer has given me a windows phone and I find certain aspects of it
frustrating.

I have never found the perfect platform whether it is windows, mac or linux.
But I gave up on windows a long time ago ­ I will never forgive them for
ie6.

Paul
From:  Brian Davidson <brian at bcd.me.uk>
Reply-To:  Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Date:  Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:12:39 +0000
To:  Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject:  Re: [dundee] Tech Meetup in Dundee

Glad you had fun! Did Kenny manage to convert you to Windows 8 and Surface
Pro? I have since discovered it was Ryan Cormack that had attended one of
your meetings previously.

The scheme we're trying to kickstart in Dundee is called Code Club,
everything you need to know can be found at http://www.codeclub.org.uk/

My employer (brightsolid) in conjunction with the DCA will be funding a
trial over the next school term to be hosted at the DCA on I think Thursday
evenings, I'll confirm that and let you guys know.

The lessons are given using an application called Scratch, which if you've
not heard of is a programming language developed by a group at MIT aimed
specifically at educating children in programming. http://scratch.mit.edu

For older kids there's potential to use YoYo's GameMaker and there's been
talk of Python but the pilot is Code Club curriculum and age group 9-11

If anyone is interested in getting involved let me know and I'll pass on
your details :)

Cheers,
-Brian



On 27 March 2013 19:30, Paul Sutherland <newsonthegrapevine at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> Thanks for Tuesday night's event I enjoyed that. I thought the individual
> stand format worked well.
> 
> Can you post info on the young coders training scheme you discussed? In
> particular the curriculum you will follow.  I think subscribers to the list
> and members of the Society would be interested in joining your pool of
> volunteers so it would be good to spread the word.
> 
> Well done on that initiative and how far you have progressed and good luck
> when it starts.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> 
> From:  Brian Davidson <brian at bcd.me.uk>
> Reply-To:  Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Date:  Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:56:51 +0000
> To:  Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject:  Re: [dundee] Tech Meetup in Dundee
> 
> No worries, yes we did have a talk about a surgical training tool developed
> for the iPad by a team of surgeons and developers. That was last October I
> think. We've got some awesome stuff in the works for the coming year too.
> 
> From memory, our talks have been...
> 
> Dare to be digital demos
> STAR technologies talking about their hardware and software being used in
> space tech - this was an awesome talk!
> Chris van der Kuyl talking about his vision of the tech community in Dundee
> Andy Cobley did a talk on Cassandra performance/clustering on Raspberry Pi
> Rod Burns did a talk on "The Internet of Things" - before it became a buzz
> phrase ;P he also talked about Code Club and why teaching kids to code is
> important
> Jean Nehme talked about his vision for the application of technology in
> education and how he's applying that by releasing Touch Surgery
> Mike McQuaid gave a talk about the work he does on the Homebrew package
> manager for OS X
> Macro Micro Studio folks from DJCAD Architecture Masters gave a talk about
> home automation
> Bert McDowell gave a talk on his career in games from a working stiff to
> founding his own studios and releasing games for iOS independently
> Freeformers came up from London to talk a bit more about what it is they do
> training people to code and Code Club (we do like encouraging Code Club -
> we're actually working with some folks to get it started up in Dundee. Give me
> a shout if anyone is interested in helping out with this, Enhanced Disclosure
> is needed but will be paid for.)
> Richard Higgs the Managing Director of brightsolid and entrepreneur gave a
> talk on things he wishes he'd known before getting started in business as well
> as a pre-announcement of the IDEA Scotland Center opening in Dundee backed by
> brightsolid, DC Thomson and Abertay.
> 
> Then last month we mixed it up a little, it was more of an open forum
> discussing what people were working on and what people were thinking about the
> format, we took that feedback and came up with what we are trying this month.
> 
> There is one talk but there will also be stands with people demoing their
> work, hopefully it'll encourage more discussions and just all round more
> things to see. Kenny (one of the organisers) will be demoing his plethora of
> Windows devices - Surface RT, Surface Pro and Nokia Lumia 920. The talk is by
> Grant Richmond who will be talking about his new project and has promised an
> interactive presentation.
> 
> See you on Tuesday!
> 
> 
> On 22 March 2013 19:32, Paul Sutherland <newsonthegrapevine at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Brian. I missed that post unfortunately.
>> 
>> I can't recall your colleagues name but when we chatted he had lined up an
>> impressive selection of talks. Did you guys have a talk about cutting edge
>> surgical software recently?
>> 
>> What other talks have you had?
>> 
>> I am sure some of the guys would be interested in doing some talks. There has
>> been great variety done over the past year or so in the burgh. I have enjoyed
>> all I managed to attend.
>> 
>> Looking forward to Tuesday, catch you then
>> 
>> Cheers 
>> 
>> Paul 
>> 
>> 
>> On 22 Mar 2013, at 18:16, Brian Davidson <brian at bcd.me.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello! I posted the first or maybe second event to this group way back in
>>> June last year but I never came along to a meeting so maybe one of the other
>>> organisers did (There's me, Andy Cobley, Ryan Cormack and Kenny Lowe).
>>> 
>>> Anyway this month we're planning something a little different with one talk
>>> plus a couple of stands for people to demonstrate some of their work. If you
>>> guys have anything you'd like to show or if anyone is up for speaking just
>>> give me a shout and we can sort something out.
>>> 
>>> It's now fairly consistently sold out or near enough every month and we
>>> always hold it on the last Tuesday of the month.
>>> 
>>> Hope to see some more of you guys there :)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 22 March 2013 16:13, Ryan Ward <ry.ward91 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I go, I have a ticket too.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 22 March 2013 15:58, Paul Sutherland <newsonthegrapevine at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 22/03/2013 01:24, Gordon Gray wrote:
>>>>>> Next Tuesday in Dundee University's Queen Mother Building
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://techmeetup.eventbrite.co.uk/ <http://techmeetup.eventbrite.co.uk/>
>>>>>> 
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>>>>> Thanks for posting this.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I remember one of the organisers came along to a Society meeting and he
>>>>> said he would post details but I can't recall it was done.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is anyone else thinking of going, I have booked a ticket.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Paul
>>>>> 
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-Brian 
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