Scottish founders! Join CodeBase's Fireside Chat: Investment landscape, what VCs look for in investment opportunities, cultivating investor relations.
🎉Free to attend, open to all, drinks and nibbles
Wed 24th April, 6pm, The Raging Bull, Edinburgh

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Lovely to be in Edinburgh today and to hear from Màiri McAllan regards Techscaler annual report 📈

Just look at those number - amazing🥳

Awesome to see this working & making a difference for so many companies & individuals 😃

Very proud to be part of this as a mentor ❤️

NEWS: Students have spoken out against the £68,000 pay rise received by Principal Sir Gerry McCormac during UCU industrial action and student accommodation rent increases.

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🚂 We're giving away four pairs of tickets to Model Rail Scotland again! Just follow us and RT this post to enter before 1500 on 15 Feb 2024.

There's four pairs to win and the show takes places at the SEC from 23-25 Feb.

T&Cs: scotrail.co.uk/model-rail-sco…

Pizza Crunch 🍕

Exciting announcement: Applications are now open for our Women in Business programme 🎉 Are you a woman with child(ren) or caring responsibilities considering starting your own business? This free training programme is designed specifically for you! Apply: buff.ly/47tkmas

It's a new year and I'm hiring three new teams as part of the engineering team I run in the Scottish Government.

Engineering Manager, Senior Software Engineer, and Software Engineer are live. Associate Software Engineer roles will be posted once the teams are established. 1/5

Only 3 days remain if you'd like to get your hands on GlowStitch LEDs, machine sewable crafting LEDs! Like and share for a chance to be chosen for a free GlowStitch kit in the mail. Will choose a winner in three days time!
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Open source/data peeps. I am presenting at #SOOCon24 next year about using GitHub Actions with Open Data and I’m keen to show off some examples as case studies.

Do you know of any projects you’ve worked on or seen out in the wild that involve GitHub Actions and open data?

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It’s been a wonderful year and it’s a Wonderful Life 🥳 Merry Christmas from Ping Creates!

#WeArePing #Christmas #HappyHolidays

Fab initiative from Biome Collective ❤️ calling all Scotland-based digital creatives from underrepresented or marginalised groups!

Hey Scottish founders - get in touch with David 🎉👏🏼

Another killer session with Dominic (Mr. Hackathon) Norton from CodeBase discussing low code, no code and artificial intelligence and their impact on development.
#SGW23

It’s Halloween! Don’t have nuggetmares 😱
#WeArePing #SGW23 #Halloween #SuperStretchyChickenLegs

We're delighted to announce Ping Creates as a sponsor of #SGW23 🎉 👾

“Scottish Games Week is the calendar event for anyone with an interest in the games, creative and tech industry. It’s not to be missed!”

Learn more: buff.ly/3rWRQ2s

Fantastic to be in Redwood City for ⁦CMX⁩ Summit with ⁦Dr Kelly Gardner⁩ and ⁦Anaïs Guillemaud (she/her)⁩ So much to learn and share about growing a startup up community ⁦CodeBase⁩ ⁦Techscaler⁩

Our Saturday morning Games Club is back starting this Saturday 23rd Sept and has moved to Duncan Place!

We get together in-person and online to hang out, play and make our own games with art, sound and code, supported by a team of creative tutors & game designers.

Annual birthday holiday with a hot tub, in the countryside with Jason Wagner 🎉❤️

Some lovely eventsy roles opening up at CodeBase in Stirling and in Glasgow! Two really lovely teams and a brilliant organisation to work for! Happy to chat if you'd like to know more!

An outsider's view of the Scottish Startup Ecosystem. My latest mini blog at linkedin.com/pulse/outsider…