I spent an afternoon in Parliament last week speaking to MSPs about the local tech ecosystem. Many thanks to Gordon Guthrie for organising. I emphasised the role of grassroots technical communities to the success of the “startup” and business ecosystems, how we can develop and attract talent, and what the needs of those meetups are (venues and sponsorship mostly!). If you would like to be involved with future civic-tech initiatives then give Gordon a follow on Bluesky, or keep an eye out for announcements in future bulletins.

Last week in content from around the Scottish community:

• The Data Lab streamed CHRoMA: Addressing Accessibility in Cultural Heritage Mapping touching on Colour Vision Deficiency
• Daniel streamed working on Nuxt v4
• Sarah posted a tutorial on using Github Desktop
• Edinburgh UX streamed their meetup on the UX of Tamagotchi and Game Experience Design
• William (organiser of DundeeScript) posted on React vs Vue: a Principal Engineer’s Perspective
• Duncan wrote that Services are verbs combined with nouns
• Simon wrote on the Freeagent blog about coding with AI
• Owain wrote about attending Umbraco MVP Summit in Odense
• Invest Glasgow produced an information site and video about Glasgow’s Smart Things clusters

In jobs and opportunities:

• Sonos are recruiting for both Senior and Junior DevOps Engineers in Glasgow
• Waracle are recuiting for a range of roles (Flutter, React Native, Fullstack, QA)
• Chris posted a contract job for a friend in our Discord #jobs channel

Looking further ahead it’s the GlasgowJS Summer Social on July 15th and the EdinburghJS Summer Social on July 22nd. Please do RSVP if you fancy coming along!