Coding Grace General Information

👩‍💻🧑‍💻👨‍💻 Coding Grace are a group of developers based in Ireland who love to code, do other geeky and crafty activities. Some of us code full-time, or just for fun (or both). We have people who are part of other technical user groups such as PyLadies Dublin, Women Who Code Dublin, and more.

🌈 We provide diversity-friendly workshops and events in an environment for developers and aspiring developers mentored by diverse instructors from the industry.

🥰 We try to ensure our events are diverse, and encourage under-represented folks who want to mentor and facilitate these technical sessions to help out, it's not that scary after all!

🤔 It doesn’t matter if you are learning or mentoring, gaining confidence to ask questions, helping others, which results in everyone learning from each other gives females in this field the encouragement to further their careers, attend technical conferences, or even give a technical talk at one.

❤️ We aim to provide a support network for people from all backgrounds and hope our outreach will help bring those who are interested in code development together and learn from one another.

🏢 We are a registered company limited by gaurantee (CLG), Coding Grace Foundation CLG. We are a not for profit company, none of the directors and members of Coding Grace Foundation CLG receive any shares. Any contributions through donations, events, etc. goes back into the adminstration of the company, e.g. the accountant and bank fees.

ℹ️ Our company number is: 568940

🤲 If you are interested in supporting us, more info in "How you can get involved"

• 🌈 Administration, mentoring and promoting our activities as well as newsletter and live blog of events are all done voluntarily as we are a not-for-profit.
🧾 As we are a registered company, we still have to pay fees like business bank charges and accountant's fees (they do the books for our financial year end and handle any other revenue-related enquiries). The latter is not cheap.
• 🤲 By supporting us, we can also support other local tech community groups, especially those who don't have a bank account.

You can:-

• Volunteer Mentoring
• Advisor to help us figure out how to help the community (and maybe solve all of the world's problems!)
• Facilitate or host Workshops/Events
• Form a new local Coding Grace chapter in your local area.
• Join our board of directors representing your area of expertise or area and help make a change. You have to be active and ready to roll up your sleeves. Be warned that there will be paperwork to be completed, signatures, etc. and will be dealt with by our accountant.
• Are you an existing group? We are open to collaboration as well? Drop us a line and let's chat!
• If you feel you still like to contribute but any of the above doesn't suit, you can do so via Open Collective or Github Sponsors. (See below for more info)
• If you are a company, drop us a line and have a chat on how your company can contribute to Coding Grace Foundation.

There are 2 ways you can contribute to Coding Grace Foundation which can help alleviate expenses from accounting and bank charges.

1. Open Collective

A great service to help communities like ours to accept contributions transparently. Here's a hu-uge ❤️ to our Open Collective supporters below.

2. Github Sponsors