My activities tracker for community contributions in 2020

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 am associated with…

• Azure Data Community where you can local user groups.
• Brightside Mentoring where I am a mentor for young adults.
• Data Relay where I have previously helped in Bristol.
• Fabric & Power BI 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 am 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.