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… Continue reading »
Sep
12
Announcing She's Geeky DC Nov 13-14
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 –… Continue reading »
Jul
21
Geeky icons needed for T-shirt design
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… Continue reading »
Jul
19
Save the Date Jan 29-31 – She's Geeky Bay Area
Save the DATE! – Friday January 29th to Sunday January 31st. We will be back at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. We are working on getting early registration up (you can add your e-mail in the side bar if you want to be notified when it opens). We are working to find venues… Continue reading »
Jul
18
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference 2009
In 1994 Dr Anita Borg and Dr Telle Whitney co-founded the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women in Computing Conference. They have since had eight conferences with more than 7400 attendees and over 1000 scholarships awarded to students. Together with Association on Computing Machinery (ACM) these conferences “offer opportunities for mentoring, motivation, networking, technical and… Continue reading »
Jul
16
Inspiration from Women of Vision 2009 Keynote Speaker Padmasree Warrior
On April 30, 2009 the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology honored three influential women who have made significant contributions to technology with their Women of Vision award. The recipients were: · Innovation Award: Yuqing Gao, Senior Manager, IBM Research, IBM · Social Impact Award: Jan Cuny, Program Director, National Science Foundation · Leadership… Continue reading »
Jul
08
Her Code: Engendering Change in Silicon Valley report and video launched
Pascale Dianie from Orange Labs hosted a great event yesterday evening to launch Her Code: Engendering Change in Silicon Valley a video and published report about women in technology. I annouced to the crowd gathered that we have a tenative date for the next Bay Area She’s Geeky for the last weekend of January and… Continue reading »
Mar
20
Northern Virgnia Facilitator
Update: We have postponed the NoVA / DC Area She’s Geeky until some time in the Fall. I would like to introduce everyone to Jean Russell. She has been a good friend and ally for several years since I met her at Recent Changes Camp in Portland Orgeon in 2006. She has an extensive background … Continue reading »
Mar
02
Thank You for Making the Third She's Geeky an Amazing Event
The next events will be in Boston and DC. Please e-mail us at info@shesgeeky.org if you are interested in participating in those events. We have collected a lot of information about our last event: Read blog posts about the She’s Geeky conference here. Please add yours if we missed it. If you do a search… Continue reading »
Feb
01
On the Brand of "She's Geeky"
The West Coast She’s Geeky conference was amazing in so many ways. There is so much I could say…and I will in the next few days. I wrote this post after someone was tweeting following the conference about wanting to hold a ‘She’s Geeky’ lunch, and realized that I need to share something important about… Continue reading »