T-shirts, YET AGAIN.
Are we really doing this again? I just tried to register (as a speaker) for an upcoming tech conference. One that prides itself on its woman-friendliness, no less: they have an anti-harassment policy,...
View ArticleMaiden, mother and linkspam (6th December, 2011)
The Ada Initiative is holding an AdaCamp in Melbourne, Australia on January 14 for everyone interested in supporting women in open tech and culture, from wikis to open government to digital liberties...
View ArticleQuick Hit: a GF approach to events
I help plan technical events at the Wikimedia Foundation. I think we’ve improved in making them more welcoming and inclusive over the course of my time there. We just recently filled to capacity on...
View ArticleShould Geek Girl Dinners be “Girly”?
This is a guest post by Hannah Little. Hannah is a PhD student in the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Before moving full-time into academia, Hannah spent some time...
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When a link and a spam love each other very much (26 March 2014)
A couple of quick announcements to start us off: applications to attend AdaCamp Portland (June 21–22, ally skills track June 23) are open the call for submissions to another issue of Model View Culture...
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The effect of linkspam on man-in-the-moon marigolds (29 March 2014)
Events, fundraisers and such: Bring the Lesbians Who Tech Summit to New York!, ticket pre-sales to fund an event June 19–22, closing in just a few hours. Women in Tech Panel Event in New York City |...
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The linkspam instinct (24 May 2014)
Announcements etc: Long Hidden, a Kickstarter-funded anthology of spec fic centering marginalised characters, is now available for purchase. Registration for Solutions Summit 2014: Women in Science...
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Solicitation on flipping the script
This is a guest post by April Wright. April is a graduate student in evolutionary biology at the University of Texas at Austin. When she’s not crunching data at her computer, she teaches courses for...
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Quick hit: Free travel grants for women to attend EuroBSDcon 2014 in Sofia,...
Google is offering 5 grants for women in computer science (either working in or studying it) to attend EuroBSDcon 2014 — the main European conference about the open-source BSD family of operating...
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Quick Hit: Toward a !!Con Aesthetic – new essay at The Recompiler
Over at The Recompiler, I have a new essay out: “Toward A !!Con Aesthetic”. I talk about (what I consider to be) the countercultural tech conference !!Con, which focuses on “the joy, excitement, and...
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