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Talks

Upcoming Talks

Aberdeen Python User’s Group January 8th 2020

Poetry in Python

Held at Code Base One, Aberdeen.

An introduction to Poetry, a Python tool to manage packaing and dependecy management that is really quite beautiful.

Past Talks

DevOps Notts August 21st 2019

Test Driven Infrastructure with Molecule

Held at Rebel Recruiters, Nottingham.

A talk and demonstration of Test Driven Infrastructure development using Molecule to control Docker, Ansible, TestInfra, and an assortment of linting tools.

Tech Nottingham July 9th 2018

Held at Antenna, Nottingham 18:30.

Everything is terrible. How can we change that? In this talk we will discuss how speculative fiction magazines can publish fiction & articles to a global audience in a way that is accountable to their readers.

We will also discuss ways in which we can look at and implement policies and technologies which allow us to be technologists who are accountable for the harm their work may cause and posses the tools to slow the emergence of what the writer Bruce Sterling calls the “Gothic Hi-Tech”; a world in which technology is brilliant but everything is dying.