This is a cooperative effort organized by She’s Geeky to share a booth at the SXSW Interactive Conference.  You can find us at booth 219. Astia astia.org Astia is a unique organization whose mission is to propel women’s full participation as entrepreneurs and leaders in high-growth businesses, fueling innovation and driving economic growth. Astia provides [...]

Several women who are working on Dare 2 Be Digital attended She’s Geeky last weekend. They are looking for volunteers. This one-day event, held February 27th from 9-4 on the Foothill College campus in Los Altos Hills, is designed to provide middle school and high school girls with a better understanding of what a career in [...]

Ok I declare it here – Female Geek Week is the last week of January in SF.  Why? Cause there are two great events happening. Girls in Tech is hosting a day long traditional conference on January 26th in downtown San Francisco. Speakers include: Leah Culver; Product Manager, Six Apart Poornima Vijayashanker; Senior Software Engineer, Mint.com Sandy [...]

Different tech communities are taking different approaches to addressing the issues around increasing women’s participation. There are many experiments one of them is the Python Community Conference offering Financial Assistance Grant for Women to attend its 2010 conference. The application deadline is tomorrow. Financial aid for PyCon 2010 has just gotten even better. Because of [...]

She’s Geeky is primarily an unconference that brings different women in Science Technology Engineering and Math groups together in various cities across the country.   In this spirit of collaboration we are working with several different women in tech groups to have a joint booth at SXSW.  So far there are 4 groups along with She’s [...]

My blog for Friday is up and running. Here’s the link: http://con-techie.com/index.php/con-techie-blog/138-girls-get-their-nerd-on-at-shes-geeky-dc Loved seeing you all there and I hope to see you in the Bay Area! Amelia

Kaliya Hamlin submitted a panel proposal to SXSW entitled “What Guys are Doing to Get More Girls in Tech!” The point of the panel is to get past the a dynamic that has been seen a few times when trying to address the issue of women in tech – women in tech say there is [...]

Fri, Sat, Sun  January  29-31, Mountain View. REGISTER HERE Who is invited? Are you a woman? Are you a Geek?  This event is for you!  We invite women from a diverse array of technological fields and those doing technology within non-technical fields.  This includes: Entrepreneurs Coders / Programmers Open Source & Standards Advocates Nonprofit Technology [...]

We are really pleased to announce She’s Geeky DC. It will be Friday and Saturday November 13 & 14th, 2009 at NCLR, 1126 16th Street, N.W. Register Here We have an amazing DC based organizing team Andrea Baker, Kety Esquivel, Allyson Kapin,  Amy Senger,  Shireen Mitchell along with the She’s Geeky home base organizers – [...]

We need your ideas for geeky symbols for our t-shirt!  The graphic will be of a large image made-up of lots of smaller icons. This links to an example of the type of piece we are creating. Please send us your ideas for generic Geeky symbols we should include or if you have any particularly [...]