Community activities tracker for 2020
- community
- 2020-12-31
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February
- Organised the inaugural Data South Wales User Group event at the University of South Wales.
May
- Volunteered at #DataWeekender v1
June
- Hosted “Taking the Scary out of Scala” with Anna Maria-Wykes at Data South Wales User Group online.
July
- Hosted “Database DevOps Anti-patterns” with Alex Yates at Data South Wales User Group online.
- Hosted “Chaos Engineering for SQL Server” with Andrew Pruski at Data South Wales User Group online.
- Hosted “Spark Showdown - Databricks VS Synapse Analytics” with Simon Whiteley at Data South Wales User Group online.
August
- Hosted “Deep Learning, Python” with Terry McCann at Data South Wales User Group online.
October
- Volunteered at #DataWeekender v2
- Volunteered at SQLBits 2020
Community Links
Links to events, groups and initiatives I'm associated with...
- Azure Data Community where you can local user groups.
- Brightside Mentoring where I'm a mentor for young adults.
- Data Relay where I have previously helped in Bristol.
- Data South Wales where I am an organiser.
- Data Toboggan where I regularly moderate. They also have a meetup group.
- #DataWeekender where I am a member of the organising committee. We also have a meetup group.
- SQLBITS where I am one of the Orange SQLBITS helper army.
- STEM Learning where I'm a STEM ambassador.
- Jigsaw Thornbury who hosts our code club for children and young people with additional needs or disabilities.
- DigiLocal who give marginalised young people the opportunity to discover and develop their digital talents.