This may be of some interest to the Python people in Dublin next week: *Wednesday 16th* presentations about Blockchain:
Join Wikimedia Ireland Community in the Science Gallery Paccar Theatre for an evening of presentations about Blockchain. Come and learn about the technology which keeps Bitcoins secure and discover why a privacy technology is the key to Open Data and the future of contracts. Tickets (free) here: http://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-Community-Ireland-Meetup/events/225184920/ *Thursday* *17th* hands-on workshop the following evening: Bring your laptop to the* Blockchain Workshop <https://ti.to/tcube/blockchain-dublin-meetup-workshop-1>* being hosted at Tcube in Temple Bar following evening! Speaking Wednesday at the Science Gallery on the 16th will be: • Casey Kuhlman - CEO and co-founder of Eris Industries <https://erisindustries.com/>. Lawyer and software engineer with experience in legal process management, smart contracts, and decentralized autonomous organizations. @compleatang <https://twitter.com/compleatang> • Rachel O'Dwyer - Lecturer and research fellow in the School of Computer Science and Statistics. The founding editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Interference <https://ti.to/tcube/www.interferencejournal.com>. Leader of the Dublin Art and Technology Association <https://ti.to/tcube/www.data.ie>. Curator of the Openhere conference and festival. Member of the peer-to-peer foundation who coordinates the P2P academic research network. @Rachelodwyer <https://twitter.com/Rachelodwyer> • Ingo Keck - Data analytics and machine learning expert. Also physicist, ex-lecturer for statistics and blockchain hacker. Co-founder of Open Knowledge Ireland <http://openknowledge.ie/>. @ingo_keck <https://twitter.com/ingo_keck> The presenters will be moderated by Denis Parfenov - Open Knowledge <https://okfn.org/> Ambassador and Advisory Council Member. Open Data Ireland community <http://openknowledge.ie/projects/open-hospital-waiting-list/> leader. Founder of ActiveCitizen <https://www.scribd.com/activecitizen> initiative and co-founder of Open Knowledge Ireland <http://openknowledge.ie/>. @prfnv <https://twitter.com/prfnv> The meetup is being hosted by: Science Gallery <https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/>whose current exhibition is SECRET <https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/secret/>, Nothing to See Here. A Free exhibition exploring the future of surveillance, espionage, and privacy. Wikimedia Ireland Community <http://wikimedia.ie>, we share the purpose of Wikimedia Foundation: "to encourage the growth, development and distribution of multilingual, educational content, and to provide the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge", with a focus on activities taking place in Ireland. http://wikimedia.ie Open Data Ireland community <http://openknowledge.ie/projects/open-hospital-waiting-list/>, we encourage and participate in a variety of initiatives to improve accountability in government and industry, increase public transparency, empower communities to identify and solve problems, provide a platform for new services and products, promote innovative ways to improve services, and measure the impact of policies. -Eugene -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
