https://blog.codebar.io/tags/diversity-and-inclusion/Recent content in Diversity-and-Inclusion on codebar BlogHugoenTue, 02 Jan 2024 15:01:53 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/2023-year-in-review/Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:01:53 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/2023-year-in-review/2023 marked a momentous occasion for codebar as we celebrated our 10th birthday! A decade, aka 3650 days, dedicated to fostering inclusivity and accessibility in tech education. This milestone was a t…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/codebar-and-ft-go-gold/Mon, 22 May 2023 10:47:38 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/codebar-and-ft-go-gold/The FT, one of the world’s leading news organisations, have been huge supporters of codebar for many years, first hosting one of our workshops all the way back in 2016. And now, we are so excited to r…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/codebar-festival-2023-wrapped-the-first-hybrid-edi/Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:26:32 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/codebar-festival-2023-wrapped-the-first-hybrid-edi/A group shot from the in-person event on Saturday 11th March Our annual codebar Festival returned earlier this month with some fresh updates to the programme! We saw 700 of our community members come…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/2022-things-are-on-the-up/Tue, 20 Dec 2022 12:38:56 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/2022-things-are-on-the-up/This year saw many of our workshops return to in-person, we saw the launch of four new chapters around the world and our first virtual only chapter, and the launch of our very first Impact Report. Oh,…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/the-future-of-virtual-workshops/Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:19:51 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/the-future-of-virtual-workshops/Screenshot from a recent codebar Bristol virtual workshop If the pandemic taught us anything it was that virtual events were amazing. You were able to get access things from the comfort of your sofa t…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/we-re-back-uncodebar-8/Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:40:56 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/we-re-back-uncodebar-8/We’re back — uncodebar 8 September 2022 saw the return of our annual unconference uncodebar! Group shot from uncodebar. Taken by Eddie Jaoude We were so thrilled to be welcoming our community to the G…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/codebar-festival-2022-wrapped/Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:37:30 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/codebar-festival-2022-wrapped/We can’t believe codebar Festival is over for another year! Time really does fly when you’re having fun. codebar Festival is our jam-packed, 100% virtual, 3-day event that happens every March…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/2021-review-growing-against-all-odds/Fri, 17 Dec 2021 12:05:48 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/2021-review-growing-against-all-odds/This year has taught us that the human spirit is persevering, as it is inspiring. We entered the year with some uncertainty after an eventful 2020…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/get-to-know-a-series/Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:29:13 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/get-to-know-a-series/Get to know a … series is a new lunchtime talk series where we’ll be chatting with people who code in their job role. We want to expose our community to the huge variety of roles possible that involve coding…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/codebar-festival-2021-wrapped/Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:25:10 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/codebar-festival-2021-wrapped/We can’t believe it’s been a month since codebar Festival already! HOW! Time really does fly. codebar Festival was our jam-packed, 100% virtual, 3-day event that happened in March…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/careers-at-compare-the-market/Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:28:55 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/careers-at-compare-the-market/Ahead of our career panel, we sat down with our 4 panelists from Compare the Market to get to know them a little more…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/makers-scholarship/Mon, 15 Feb 2021 13:12:03 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/makers-scholarship/Applications for this scholarship have now closed. We are extremely excited to announce that Makers are giving 6 of our community members the opportunity to complete their Bootcamp for free…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/year-in-review-2020/Mon, 21 Dec 2020 04:54:55 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/year-in-review-2020/2020 has been a challenging but ultimately rewarding year for codebar. We have achieved a few milestones this year that we have been working towards for a while, like becoming a registered charity…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/introducing-codebar-festival/Fri, 11 Dec 2020 14:42:19 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/introducing-codebar-festival/We are extremely excited to announce codebar Festival, a new 3-day 100% virtual event where each day will have a different focus; coding, career, and wellbeing…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/happy-7th-birthday-codebar/Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:10:57 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/happy-7th-birthday-codebar/7 years…WOW! We’re not entirely sure how that happened or where time has gone. On Wednesday 23rd October 2013 we ran our very first codebar workshop in London…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/rianne-mccartney-software-engineer/Wed, 26 Aug 2020 12:50:20 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/rianne-mccartney-software-engineer/Rianna is a software engineer at Gousto; the food box delivery service. She started attending codebar as a student in August 2019, before deciding to do the Makers 14 week Bootcamp…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/virtual-codebar/Wed, 13 May 2020 15:01:04 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/virtual-codebar/We won’t mention the big C word in this post, as we’ve heard it enough already but let’s say it’s kept us on our toes here at codebar. Ever since our first workshop venue canceled on us at the beginning of March we’ve had to adapt…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/codebar-the-charity/Mon, 06 Apr 2020 09:12:52 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/codebar-the-charity/That’s right, after 14 months of lots of paperwork and legal conversations we are very happy to announce that codebar is now a registered charity 🎉🎉🎉…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/ruth-baker-makers-fellow/Mon, 29 Apr 2019 19:23:49 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/ruth-baker-makers-fellow/Ruth is a Makers Fellow, transforming her career from science publishing to software development. She built her tech skills through open resources and by attending codebar events in London, and is now a moderator for virtual codebar.https://blog.codebar.io/posts/community-partner-at-delta-v-conference/Tue, 29 May 2018 09:18:47 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/community-partner-at-delta-v-conference/A huge thanks to team Delta V — Jo, Perry and Simon for their generous support and inclusion of codebar in their inaugural conference.https://blog.codebar.io/posts/linh-nguyen-my-graduate-software-engineer/Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:13:22 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/linh-nguyen-my-graduate-software-engineer/Linh is a long-time codebar student who has just started her software engineering career as a Graduate Software Engineer at ASOS.https://blog.codebar.io/posts/introducing-the-codebar-job-board/Mon, 07 Aug 2017 09:27:42 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/introducing-the-codebar-job-board/codebar has been running for 4 years now and frequently we get asked ‘Do you help students get jobs once you’ve taught them to code?’. There have been a number of instances where a codebar student has found a job through us…https://blog.codebar.io/posts/year-in-review-2016/Sun, 22 Jan 2017 14:06:18 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/year-in-review-2016/Another busy year has come to an end, and we think it’s time to reflect on all the things we achieved in 2016. It was been a really good year for us at codebar.https://blog.codebar.io/posts/a-note-on-the-different-london-codebar-chapters/Sun, 27 Nov 2016 13:05:13 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/a-note-on-the-different-london-codebar-chapters/Since it’s humble beginnings 3 years ago, codebar London has expanded into the thriving community of learners and coaches we know today with over 2000 people subscribed to our Central London chapter alone.https://blog.codebar.io/posts/south-london-codebar/Fri, 04 Nov 2016 10:54:28 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/south-london-codebar/Last Wednesday saw 24 students and 12 coaches attend the first ever South London codebar at Pact Coffee HQ.https://blog.codebar.io/posts/introducing-our-new-visual-identity/Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:33:14 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/introducing-our-new-visual-identity/The eagled eyed of you might have noticed that in the past few weeks we have been slowly updating assets on our site, our social media channels, and other platforms. We have added new logos and icons, background images, improved copy, and have a fresh new colour palette.https://blog.codebar.io/posts/bath-ruby-2015/Mon, 22 Aug 2016 11:33:35 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/bath-ruby-2015/If you happened to be in Bath last Friday, 13th of March, you would have seen a host of Ruby developers from the UK and beyond descend upon the ancient city for the first ever Bath Ruby Conference.https://blog.codebar.io/posts/scotlandjs-2016/Mon, 13 Jun 2016 08:49:58 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/scotlandjs-2016/Thursday June 2nd 2016 was a very sunny day, I had definitely overpacked and overdressed. It must’ve been 20˚C+ and I was in … Edinburgh. I had flown in from London the day before to attend ScotlandJS.https://blog.codebar.io/posts/2015-year-in-review/Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/2015-year-in-review/2015, a sensational year for us here at codebar, has reached its end. Throughout this time we opened a number of new chapters, run many great events, grew our community by almost 120% and facilitated over 100 workshops across 8 of our chapters.https://blog.codebar.io/posts/euruko-2015/Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/euruko-2015/Salzburg and the Sound of Music are traditionally inseparable, but there was little traditional about the sound of music in the Salzburg Congress hall in the middle of October.https://blog.codebar.io/posts/responsive-day-out-3/Fri, 26 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/responsive-day-out-3/Friday 19th June was a brilliant day, partly because of the glorious sunshine and partly because 12 codebar Brighton students spent the day at the 3rd and final Responsive Day Out ‘The Final Breakpoint’ thanks to ticket giveaways from the lovely people at Clearleft.https://blog.codebar.io/posts/mind-the-code/Wed, 17 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/mind-the-code/On Saturday 4th June we organised Mind the Code, a day dedicated to mindfulness. Our aim was to run a slightly different event to anything we have ever ran before, where the day consisted of talks, workshops and yoga.https://blog.codebar.io/posts/clojurebridge-london/Tue, 05 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/clojurebridge-london/On Saturday April 18, Kriszta, Jarkyn, and Denise took part in London’s first-ever Clojurebridge workshop, hosted at uSwitch’s sunny offices in Southwark.https://blog.codebar.io/posts/kickstart-your-development-career/Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.codebar.io/posts/kickstart-your-development-career/On the 16th of March 2015 a small group of aspiring developers came together at the GoCardless offices in London for an evening event on how to Kickstart Your Development Career.