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March 27th, 2012 by spam-spam
“Diversity in practice: How the Boston Python User Group grew to 1700 people and over 15% women” (video, 41 minutes) starring Asheesh Laroia and Jessica McKellar of OpenHatch.How do you bring more women into programming communities with long-term, measurable results? In this talk we’ll analyze our successful effort, the Boston Python Workshop, which brought over 200 women into Boston’s Python community this year. We’ll talk about lessons learned running the workshop, the dramatic effect it has had on the local user group, and how to run a workshop in your city.
“In 1943, Euphemia Lofton Haynes became the first ever black woman to receive a PhD in mathematics, at the age of 53.” A Pi Day celebration.“Some things to think about before you exhort everyone to code”: Miriam Posner reminds other digital humanities professionals that there are structural obstacles to women getting tech skills.Results from the Women and Wikipedia survey 2011.Empathy and community: “You’re making someone else’s life worse because you don’t want to make the smallest change to your own.”“I hate feeling like this – like being me is somehow a hindrance to my career.” From “You’re not like the rest, and that is okay – Letter to My Young self” by DNLee.Feminism and hackerspaces.I will not learn Rails:“I’m certainly not against using the right technology for the job. But Rails is no longer the only framework of its type, and if I have a choice, I’d rather not be part of a community which seriously thinks dick jokes are hilarious.”
Dr. Jennifer Widom, Chair of the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, discusses crafting and teaching her fall intro to databases class, which about 60,000 students took online. “A particularly noteworthy student named Amy became an absolute folk hero: Over the duration of the course Amy answered almost 900 posted questions.”The GNOME Outreach Program for Women: deadline for application, April 6.A sad farewell to astrophysicist Susan Niebur, and to veteran astronaut Janice Voss.You can suggest links for future linkspams in comments here, or by using the “geekfeminism” tag on delicious or pinboard.in or the “#geekfeminism” tag on Twitter. Please note that we tend to stick to publishing recent links (from the last month or so).
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ConFigures:
March 30th, 2012 at 4:54 pm
http://raganwald.posterous.com/a-womans-story is about a black Canadian woman whose mother fought to get her into a good school, who became a programmer analyst … 50-60 years ago! Good story, well told!
James:
March 31st, 2012 at 6:31 am
http://www.cultofmac.com/157641/this-creepy-app-isnt-just-stalking-women-without-their-knowledge-its-a-wake-up-call-about-facebook-privacy/
pfctdayelise:
April 1st, 2012 at 5:59 am
a photo of ladies buying comics
btw this was a great roundup. I really liked Haley Mlotek’s article. Wish more things for women weren’t afraid to say yes, we’re feminist.
Victoria Gaile:
April 4th, 2012 at 4:32 am
Check out this great collection of historic photos of women scientists (h/t AASWOMEN).
Shauna:
April 5th, 2012 at 10:26 am
Poetry about women scientists.
John:
April 12th, 2012 at 10:58 am
Cambridge University hosts first European ‘maths Olympiad’ for girls