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Hello, I’m the Edinburgh-based dev behind this and the events data source site.

Scotland has a great tech scene, with many events, many companies including two "unicorns", and several community hubs that do a great job of pulling the community together.

This site is meant to be an easy and quick access site that lists data from and points to other sources - we really want to encourage more Open Data, well, everywhere really. I’m looking for more sources of data that hopefully will appear soon.

On which note, I know there was another Scotland site recently - they have a list of companies and we are talking to them to see how we can incorporate that data into this to.

Our events are sourced from https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/ which I also run - anyone can add events, you don’t have to be the organiser to do so. Everything is versioned - like a Wiki. And data can be exported in several different ways.

While Open Tech Calendar is celebrating it’s 4th birthday today, this site has just launched - so any feedback or constructive criticism welcome. Post here or email hello at techin dot scot.

Thanks, James

ps. The tech for this site is a bunch of PHP scripts. They grab data from API’s, make static files, upload them to AWS S3 from where AWS Cloudfront serves them - so we are already practicing the Open Data standard we want to promote! Meanwhile, Open Tech Calendar is a Open Source PHP app.

<3 you so much! Thanks for working to promote Scotland's tech scene :)