Hello, I'm the founder of <a href="https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/</a> mentioned in the events tab.<p>We are a open site listing tech events around Scotland. Open means anyone can add an event, like a wiki. We can import data from suitable open sources, and most importantly we have many Open Data feeds. Our data is reused many times by many different people and sites.<p>We are about to celebrate our 4th birthday, and are the main listings site in Scotland. There is a great community around, and we are proud to be part of that (we are based in Edinburgh). Our software is Open Source to!<p>Give me a shout if any questions,
Thanks,
James
What it is:<p>Freely editable google spreadsheet with information on where tech is happening in Scotland. Currently lists >300 companies and 90 groups/events.<p>What it's not:<p>- A startup/VC map.<p>Challenges:<p>- getting people to add/curate existing content (current theory: I think people browse mostly on phones, and can't edit without installing the Google Sheets app), as I can't put a lot of time into it.<p>- better quality categorisation of companies<p>- finding dev teams within organisations like local government<p>- identifying what's missing (my gut feel is there's easily another 300-1k companies to add, but most existing entries have come through business directories or searches on twitter for "developers/python/java/etc near me").<p>How it began:<p>The wikipedia article on Silicon Glen is short and out of date.<p>I was finding out about companies geographically near me in similar industries that I just wasn't coming across unless they were hiring.<p>I heard of Eden Shochat, who successfully crowdsourced the Israeli startup scene in a Google spreadsheet.
Not sure this is relevant but it might be helpful to people looking for a similar project like this to work on:<p>Heres a curated tech calendar for Dublin, Ireland.<p><a href="https://www.startupdigest.com/digests/dublin" rel="nofollow">https://www.startupdigest.com/digests/dublin</a><p>The Dublin startup commissioner just launched this is week as well:<p><a href="http://www.techireland.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.techireland.org/</a><p>Basically a database of the Irish tech scene.
Really cool list. I'm founder of RookieOven - <a href="https://rookieoven.com" rel="nofollow">https://rookieoven.com</a> - a coworking space for tech startups in Glasgow based in a Victorian shipyard.<p>If anyone is ever in Glasgow and looking to meet the local community feel free to pay us a visit.
Very proud to see the medical company I work for listed here, and not even by me.<p>Optos was acquired last year by Nikon, and we're going strong and expanding into new tech for devices we're releasing this year and next.<p>We're hiring a few positions right now if shooting lasers into people's eyes to <i>save</i> their sight is your kind of thing: <a href="http://www.optos.com/en-GB/About-us/Careers/Europe/" rel="nofollow">http://www.optos.com/en-GB/About-us/Careers/Europe/</a>
On this topic, is anyone in the Glasgow area doing anything cool with Golang? I'm looking to dive in and wondering if there is any kind of local community around it - travelling to Edinburgh for meetups is inconvenient to say the least!
There's also a list of Edinburgh-based software companies on <a href="http://www.nobugs.org/deved/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nobugs.org/deved/</a>, though the last update was 2015-09.
Very cool! I've been looking for something like this for a while in hopes that I could get a better feel for the tech industry through Scotland. I lived there for 7 years during middle school and high school and I'm always flirting with the idea of heading back. Sadly my EU residency lapsed, making it a little more difficult (not that it would help for much longer..).<p>It would be great to have more sorting options, particularly if I wanted to get back to the Granite city :).
I'm building something similar for Romania: <a href="http://www.it-events.ro/" rel="nofollow">http://www.it-events.ro/</a> (very early stage ATM).
How do we add to the list? The Companies page doesn't seem to be editable.<p>Perhaps you should consider adding the data to a simple WordPress site. I'd be happy to set that up for you on my server.
What's the point of this thread? Honest question.<p>I have the feeling it is pointless keeping such map from the perspective of Brexit. Soon Scotland will be off of Eu, and all these businesses will be facing very different realities in short time. I would refrain make business with companies with whom I'd face more taxes or red tape just because their countries would left the EU.<p>So what are we trying to do here? Explore more the Scottish market? The soon-to-be limited UK market?<p>I am lost. Could someone explain it to me?