• How to conduct a technical interview
• My experiences writing a book for O’Reilly
• Coding, pair programming, web dev
• Health and longevity information
• ideas and experience about working collaboratively
• Art-to-Part process (how to be a MAKEr),
• get your IT helpdesk under control,
• how to write papers for conferences,
• how to write a book,
• rooting a color nook (android),
• apps vs traditional programming model,
• backyard veggies,
• hydroponic veggies,
• heirloom veggies,
• permaculture,
• master gardener program of UCDavis
• Ways to increase participation of women in open technology and culture
• Social justice and tech
• Possibly making a new programming language
• django,
• beekeeping
• Android stuff
• Cassandra a small introduction and experience in my organization with it.
• Could also share my interest in the Pleo as a teaching platform in robotics.
• programming,
• arduino,
• gimp
• Introduction to User Experience Design;
• Designing for Complexity
• Experience building technology for nonprofits
• How technology and cloud computing can be used to end poverty
• Navigating the IT world being a woman and a technical lead
• bio-optics simulation,
• machine learning,
• signal processing,
• web development,
• life as a phd (pre and post graduation), finding a job,
• how to start a women’s group at work
• I would like to talk about the importance of the presence of women on teams tasked with solving business and technology problems. Women consumers are the primary audience for most online products and the majority of entrepreneurial tech teams have a very low representation of women, if at all. In my mind, there is a huge opportunity out there for she’s geeky attendees. Let’s change it together.
• If there are folks interested in talking about service oriented architecture design and providing platforms, i’d love to hear about it. I can speak broadly about single sign on and SAML protocol in Identity Management.
• How museums conserve tech artifacts,
• building a game museum
• Organizing a study series for women learning the Python programming language.
• Yes – I’d love to share and compare visions for the future of science
• Cracking the Coding Interview: Advice for Mastering the Software Engineering Interview
• How to Get that Job at Google — Or Any Great Tech Company
• I’d love to discuss diversity, particularly as it relates to tech conferences
• Collaborative support; how to motivate and enable a community of developers to add their best insights to documentation, forums, and other resources.
• I would like to share our new program ZERO1 GARAGE, where principles of artistic creativity will be applied to real world innovation challenges. We are a non profit in the Silicon Valley dedicating to working with art and technology to shape the future.

What are you hoping to learn at She’s Geeky?

• What is going on in the industry
• Technical information
• Meet people and talk about web dev, feminism, etc
• How to promote my health and longevity conference
• what women find helps them when aiming to work together
• Inspiration and community
• hoping to network with folks and make some more friendships with other geeky women
• Increase my circle of geeky friends!
• More about open tech/culture outside of open source
• awesome stuff
• I don’t have a particular goal in mind other than to hear/talk about a lot of interesting things that people are doing and I might like to pursue/try.
• Ladies & Tech rule!
• What other geeky women are involved in and any opportunity for collaboration.
• mostly to meet other women in technology!
• I don’t know yet!
• mapping,
• programming,
• beekeeping, other things I haven’t even thought of
• Lots of new things!
• Development strategies for apps for phones and tablets.
• New gaming,
• career,
• writing,
• building,
• coding things.
• Technology trends, new perspectives & networking
• Networking and how women are shaping the way tech companies think today
• What’s new trend in IT field for women?
• Issues other tech leads face in a male dominated IT world,
• latest in neuroscience, photography, IT.
• I’d like to find a CTO to join me in business plan development.
• big data, other biotech computation groups
• What women are doing in technology,
• where there passions lie,
• what their goals are,
• how they are currently using their technical background,
• what their vision of the future is,
• how they are solving problems,
• what challenges they face.
• cool stuff
• I’m always surprised and delighted at what i learn!
• I hope that there are some Personal Data Ecosystem sessions.
• Find volunteers and people interested in the future of a museum for video, console, arcade, platform and computer games.
• I want to learn how to become more geeky, and to forge connections with other geeky women.
• What women are doing to fulfill their desires and careers and contributions to work, family, society and themselves
• Networking with other women in the tech/geek community
• I’m looking forward to meeting new women and hearing about their experiences as lady geeks.
• A lot
• I’m mostly hoping to meet new people
• Collaborative support; how to motivate and enable a community of developers to add their best insights to documentation, forums, and other resources.
• Im interested in learning about how women are taking risks in the technology sector.

What issues and topics would you like to discuss with women working Technology and other Geeky fields.

• learning ruby,
• native plants,
• urban farming,
• sewing,
• diy
• Event promotion and marketing using web tools and social media
• startups
• Data Viz,
• Design,
• WordPress,
• UX, UI,
• Info Architecture,
• Non-profits
• Data Analysis,
• Data Mining,
• Visualization,
• Big Data,
• Machine Learning,
• Research Methodologies. (Tools, study groups, self teaching methods, resources, etc.)
• professional growth,
• how to work with different personalities,
• how to strike work/life balance… the typical stuff
• Career growth – breaking next level in the glass ceiling.
• women in the workplace,
• interview tips,
• starting a business
• Developing technologies and apps with women-friendly motivational architectures.
• Non profits
• Collaboration,
• crowd-sourcing and social networking tools used by them and what works for them.
• work, life, networking,
• how to join open source communities
• I would like to find a female technical co-founder to start a company.
• startups,
• learning to code,
• making geek connections,
• geeky crafts
• The difficulty of getting financial support for a non-profit in a new industry without a tradition of giving.
• I’d like to hear how to engage women to contribute more within the male-dominated tech industry.I also would love to talk about meshing finance/economics with technology, and how to elevate both fields.
• Science (basic research)
• Mobile
• Career development and product management
• Open
• start-up ideas
• Green technology,
• art and innovation,
• arduino and processing

To register, visit http://women2.org/conference2012 and save 10% with discount code “SHESGEEKY”.

Women getting inspired and the growth of vital networks are a key deliverables of our events. 

Without inspiration, places to re-energize, and networks that support them, women who have done the hard work of developing their skills to work in STEM often drop out after just a few years in their respective fields. There are many approaches to improving the situation of women in STEM fields. Increasing retention rates is our focus.

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 technology is all about.  During the event, students interact with members of the industry to gain exposure to careers in business and technology and to get an inside look at what it’s like to work in technology. This exciting event provides girls with information about technology and business roles, thought-provoking exercises, and interesting hands-on experience. By participating in the Dare 2B Digital event, young women can find out about the variety of opportunities available in the high-tech industry and can explore future career paths. You will be making it possible for these girls to have a great, positive experience with technology that could help to mold their future.

The workshops are hands on and there will be instructors for 25-30 girls.  They also want to have  proctors for every 5-6 girls to help out.

Proctoring is: supporting a hands-on class by working with the one or two instructors in the classroom. Proctors help participants (girls) to be successful in their activities in the class. Proctors can just ‘show up’ on class day / time if their time is constrained.

If proctors would like to do more preparation they can:
1) request to proctor a specific session – session list is
2) request that the instructor send the session info to them in advance
3) listen to a recorded train-the-trainer session
4) attend a train-the-trainer session on the day before (Fri, Feb 26) two sessions am 10am – 11:30 or
1:30 to 3:00

Want to get involved?  We are looking for volunteers to help in many areas! And in case you were wondering – we want to also demonstrate diversity in our volunteers so we want to emphasize that everyone is welcome. There are various roles and time commitments to accommodate schedules:

Directional Sign Setup: Place signs the morning of the event directing traffic to the correct parking areas.

Parking Attendants: Positioned at the parking lot entrance and along the walk to the registration area, direct people where to go, and make sure that the girls have their signed waivers with them.

Morning Greeters: Assist with Check In, Distribution on Name Tags and Interacting with Early Arrivals

Lunch Monitors: Ensure everyone is fed and happy.  Answer any questions the girls may have.

Group Leaders: After the general sessions, the students will be divided into groups. The group leader will escort the students to the technology sessions.

Lab Assistants / Proctors: We will have a number of Technology Sessions. Each hands-on session will have a lead presenter. Additional volunteers are needed to assist with hands on activities.

Room Monitors: Ensure rooms are secure and that we don’t run into any problems with hardware being left unattended.

End of Day Dismissal: An important part of the day – You can help by collecting surveys and handing out t-shirts.

Cleanup After Event: After the event, we will need help taking down signs, putting classrooms back in order if anything was moved, and making sure that we leave the campus at least as clean as it was when we got there.

Pre-event Setup: (3 hour Commitment on Feb 19th from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM) These folks will be responsible for helping setup for the event including stuffing bags, rolling shirts, etc.

Please send an email to our volunteer coordinator at dare2bdigital@gmail.com to let us know in which roles you are interested and for which days you can participate. Also make sure to let us know if there is anything that you would not like to do so we can make sure you are doing something you enjoy.

DRESS CODE: Casual, but remember that you are acting as a role model to the girls in attendance. All volunteers will have a name badge, and will be given t-shirt at the event to make them easy to spot. In order to make sure you get a shirt your size, please register as a volunteer as soon as possible.

Many, Many Thanks!

Schedule for girls:

• 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.   Check-in
• 9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.  Welcome
• 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Opening Keynote
• 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Workshop
• 12:00 p.m. – 12:50 p.m. Lunch
• 1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.   Workshop
• 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.   Snack
• 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.   Closing Keynote/Giveaways

Speakers include:

• Leah Culver; Product Manager, Six Apart
• Poornima Vijayashanker; Senior Software Engineer, Mint.com
• Sandy Jen, Co-founder & VP Engineering, Meebo
• Rebecca Parsons, CTO, ThoughtWorks

She’s Geeky the following weekend will offer a great opportunity to continue the conversations begun on Tuesday the 29th.

Girls in Tech Presents: The Catalyst Conference

January 26th, 2010

Commonwealth Club, San Francisco

The Catalyst Conference presented by Girls in Tech catalyzes the career development of women working in high-tech. By offering high-level keynotes and discussions from successful women at the top of their game alongside workshops led by experts in innovation and collaboration the Catalyst Conference enables & propels women to take the next step whether they’re launching a venture making waves in the corporate world looking to join an innovative startup or building their online and digital-media media brand. Our 2010 theme is “Curiosity” which we believe is essential for inspiration innovation and driving change.

Who Attends the Catalyst Conference?

Professionals in high-technology sectors attend Girls in Tech’s Catalyst Conference to share concrete technology tools and tactics meet energetic leaders and entrepreneurs and develop their business ventures. We bring together women at the top of their industries & those leading their first ventures to discuss successes and strategy. Approximately 350 passionate creative women will come together January 26 to fuel new relationships and ideas.

Financial aid for PyCon 2010 has just gotten even better. Because of some very generous donations from the community, we are adding a second grant fund called the Financial Assistance Grant for Women. This fund is geared specifically toward helping women who are interested in using Python in their research, school work, careers or other avenues. It includes help with:

• registration
• tutorials
• lodging
• transportation

The existing Python Software Foundation Grant will continue to be funded at the same level and can provide assistance for:

• registration
• lodging
• transportation

Please see here for details & instructions. The deadline for applications is December 18, 2009.

Update – Astia, Women Who Tech, Digital Sistas and NCWIT have also joined in.

Update – CodeChix and GirlsInTech have joined the booth.

If you run a women in tech group group and want to be a part of the booth please contact us info@shesgeeky.org and we will get in touch with you with details.

Each group is chipping in a small amount of money so we can all afford to have a presence at the event together.  Each group will have their logo on a banner, a logo, link and blurb in a “meta-brochure” that will cover all of the different groups in the booth & the ability to put out group specific brochure-ware. You don’t have to have anyone from your group in attendance at SXSW to participate. Contributing to the both does not cover your admission to the conference.

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

This panel will be moderated by Kaliya but consist of men who not only agree there is an issue that need to be addressed with the lack of women in technical fields and particularly in fields where women’s participation is significantly lower then the graduation rates or the percentages found in the corporate sector.

This is the description submitted:
Many tech fields have a low percentage of women. If you are a guy do you wonder what you can do about it? Learn about successful strategies and proactive approaches for supporting women you work with and participate in community with. We will even cover some well-intentioned efforts that have gone awry.

We hop to answer these questions on the panel:

1. How many women by percentage participate in different technical fields?
2. Why does it matter that they are underrepresented in these fields?
3. What are the cultural norms that men and women have about performance and self-promotion?
4. What is Male Programmer Privilege?
5. What can a guy do who has a sister that is math/science inclined but being steered away from the field?
6. How have the men on the panel improved things in their workplaces?
7. How have the men on the panel addressed the challenges that arise in open communities? (that is where you don’t have a boss that fires people for inappropriate behavior/comments)
8. What are the qualities of a workplace that is friendly for women?
9. How to go beyond tokenism in workplaces, communities and conferences?
10. How to encourage women more?

We need to find some good men to populate this panel. Kaliya has some in mind but this is an opportunity to discover some guys that are doing great things that should be highlighted.  I invite you to nominate guys you know or if you are a guy and want to raise your hand – I welcome that too.  SXSW wants to know who is on the panel by the end of November.  After She’s Geeky DC we will go through the submissions and decide who should be on the panel.

Comments below or e-mails to info@shesgeeky.org are the best two ways to submit information.