CROWING SESSIONS
We are just a small group of people that like to share knowlodge about subjects directly or indirectly related with technology.
What makes us different from the others? Hm nothing... And to be honest that's not the goal.
Our goals?
Create network(s) of people(s); share knowledge that can/may/could help to improve ourselves or our companies or our communities or even the world (hmm hmm hmm); show that IT (such a buzzz word) is not just lines of code, coffee, cigars, internet and robots; learn new things; and finally have a fun, nice, good and relaxing time.
How this works?
As said before nothing special (you will found a lot of places doing this) and it can work in two modes: remote or in-person.
Remote mode: is more or less a simple and informal "live podcast" where we invite a guest to talk about a specific subject and after that there's a debate/discussion/question if the audience is willing to participate of course (nothing is mandatory, people are free and motivated to do so) :)
In-person events: the structure is similar to remote but there's an advantage... we provide pizza, beer, bananas, peanut butter and that goodies that you like so much :P
How did this starts?
Start in 2018, in a small company, in a small city - Leiria, Portugal - because it was missing a "safe" place for the tech geeks to share their knowledge, frustrations, problems, etc...
We start by doing the regular "meet ups" (it's a brand so word needs to be split) but after two years, pandemic appear and... we had to change the game. In the end, turns out to be good because we could reach more people in a more confortable way.
Remote sessions start as "Geek sessions" and as an internal project - if you want check more in here - but since this name is broadly used by a lot of people/groups/companies we decided to changed to Crowing Sessions, in "homage" to the symbol of Leiria city, and because the crow is also a representation of vision and wisdom.
Philosophy, Digital era
Do you ever wonder if the technology you're working on matters?
Do you get asked to work with or build
technology that doesn't align with your values? With the world you want to live in?
What is technology,
really, and why does it matter?
Through Daniel's journey, we will explore the different layers of meaning around technology, the healthy and
unhealthy ways in which he has seen it implemented, and his current living question:
How can technology
support a healthy society?
Linguistic, Digital era, Cultural
Preserving, discovering and exploring the immaterial cultural heritage in the digital era
Accessibility, Health, Aging, Usability
Accessibility, User Experience and Usability. How do they overlap and how to get the best of it
OCR, Images
A showcase of his own master degree thesis
Gamification
A very interactive presentation about the importance of gamification in many areas
Introduction to elasticsearch and some pros VS cons
Demo of a VUE application with Elasticsearch
Briefly exposing python misconceptions in usage/application and short introduction to django
How to migrate a project database from SQL to a NoSQL database
Using kibana with logstash in a real scenario
Showcase of infrastrucute applied in some clients by Mediatree
Daniel Mulroy is an engineer born into a family of artists in California. After starting and running two successful technology-based service businesses in America for over 10 years, in 2018 he co-founded an enterprise SaaS product in Paris, focused on distributing thought-provoking content to help employees and managers grow into better people and better professionals.
Daniel is also an accomplished drummer, an enthusiastic snowboarder, scuba diver, and horseman.
When he's
not launching new features or debugging an existing one, he can be found in jazz clubs, or travelling around
Europe and the Americas to experience everything our beautiful planet has to offer.
PhD in Informatics at University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Master in Informatics and Mobile Computing by the School of Technology and Management of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, and Bachelor in Informatics Engineering by the same school.
Focuses his research work on digital accessibility motivated by the idea that for people with disabilities, technology isn't just a facilitator, it is what makes it possible. That's why he thinks his work is as broad as possible and merges it with mainstream research and software development.
Since 2020, he's been working as an Accessibility Consultant at Maieutic Access and from December of 2015 to the Present date, as a researcher at Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal.
His knowledge goes from security of information (data transmission, data storage and digital certificates), programming languages (C, PHP, C#.net, Java, HTML, SQL, among others), databases to Informatics' Networks.
He also has several publications about usability, user experience, web usability, human-machine interaction, design thinking, ergonomics, augmented reality.
Jonatan is a wild programmer and a super math teacher
Trained linguist with a background in language documentation and field research. Her main research interests lie in European endangered languages and in the connection between documentary data and language revitalisation.
Fell in love with Minderico, a language spoken in Minde, municipality of Alcanena, about 20 years ago. Born in Batalha, Leiria, many years ago, her father went to work for Minde and brought her a small book with a few words in Minderico. Since then, she has tried to learn and investigate more about the language. Minderico was the main reason why she specialised in endangered language documentation.
Nowadays, is head Archive Support and Development Officer at the Endangered Languages Archive (SOAS University of London) and co-found and head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation (CIDLeS) - a non-profit institution founded in January 2010 in Minde (Portugal) by a group of national and international researchers.
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation (CIDLeS) aims to improve and deepen research in two linguistic areas: language documentation and linguistic typology. Besides the documentation, study and dissemination of European endangered and minority languages, CIDLeS is also engaged in the development of language technologies for scientific and didactic work on lesser-used languages.
From http://cidleseu.de13.fcomet.com/our-mission/mission-statement/
As Digital Archivist, at SOAS University of London, she manages the full project lifecycle of language documentation materials at the archive end (ingestion, evaluation and processing of materials and formats, curation, upload, access setting, catalogue display). Also diagnoses and troubleshoot problems with data and metadata, reviews and approves data management plans, prepares and administrate legal documentation around deposits, organises and trains lexicography and semantics, video conversion, linguistic and metadata software (e.g. ELAN, FLEx, Arbil, CMDI Maker), metadata and data management workflows, and digital archiving.