’bout time a girl founded the next Facebook/Google/Apple. By Frances Advincula (Software Engineer, Accenture) What I love most about being an engineer is at the end of the day, I am helping build a product, something tangible and measurable. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that right now, everyone wants to learn how to program, since [...]
Posts Tagged "PyLadies"
From “n00b” To Engineer In One Year
October 3, 2012 – 8:00 am
I am joining Red Hat as a Associate Software Engineer. By Lynn Root (Founder, PyLadies San Francisco) It is my great pleasure (and squee!) to share with my friends, family, PyLadies, Twitter nerds, Women Who Code’rs, DevChixen, Systers, and everyone else that I can now say: I am an Engineer. Yes, the same person that [...]
How To Brainstorm A Conference Talk Proposal
August 30, 2012 – 10:00 am
It is not important that you haven’t spoke at PyCon or another conference before. But do prove that why you should now. Taken from Brainstorming: Writing a PyCon Proposal. By Lynn Root (Founder, PyLadies San Francisco) While this post is for PyCon, the US-based conference for Python developers, users, educators, and everyone with an interest [...]
How To Stay Focused While Being A Visible, Active Member Of The Female Tech Community
August 29, 2012 – 8:00 am
There are always interesting engineering events on the weekends in Silicon Valley, such as hackathons. By Julia Grace (Co-Founder & CTO, WeddingLovely) As the CTO of a small startup, my days are almost always spent head down, focused on our business and building our technical infrastructure. I’m writing code, fixing bugs, building features, thinking about [...]
Now I’m Really An Entrepreneur
June 6, 2012 – 10:13 am
My purpose now is to find a repeatable and scalable business model – Steve Blank’s definition of a startup. By Heather Payne (Founder, Ladies Learning Code) I’ve wanted to be an entrepreneur for a long time. Not when I was in university (back then, I wanted to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company), but [...]
Are You Aspiring To Code? Join The Club, Literally…
June 4, 2012 – 10:00 am
A conference attendee said she didn’t study computer science in school and didn’t know any code a year ago, but is now working as a full-time developer. By Melissa Tinitigan (Founder, Event Digerati) I’ve always been fascinated by technology, and I was hoping to learn more about the booming tech industry in San Francisco by [...]
Interviews With Women Teaching Women Coding
April 2, 2012 – 7:00 am
Talking with Girl Develop It, Ladies Learning Code, Web Start Women and Startlucks. By Jennifer Lindner (Organizer, RailsBridge & Freelance Open Source Developer) There’s a rapidly growing movement of women teaching women technology skills: all over the Americas, self-starting organizations are running hands-on classes to huge success. Girl Develop It, Ladies Learning Code and Web [...]
The Power Of Cooperative Outreach (Diversifying PyCon)
February 20, 2012 – 9:00 am
By Jessica McKellar (Software Engineer, Ksplice, Oracle) I want to share an email I received recently from a woman named Pam. It is a response to an email I sent to the DevChix mailing list, calling on DevChixen to attend PyCon, the largest annual Python conference, and submit posters for the PyCon poster session: “Holy [...]
PyLadies: Events, Workshops, Hackathons and Startup Kits
August 15, 2011 – 11:27 am
By Esther Nam & Sophia Viklund (Co-Organizers & Board Members, PyLadies) The PyLadies’ mission is to promote and improve the Python community through workshops, outreach and social activities. It was started by a core group of seven female Python developers who decided that calls for diversity required action, rather than… repeated calls for diversity. We [...]
Intro to Django Workshop, Hackathon (July 23 in LA)
July 12, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Esther Nam (Co-Organizer, PyLadies) The Los Angeles PyLadies are continuing their summer series of hackathons with a Django-themed day sponsored by Mahalo, in partnership with the LA Django Meetup Group. The Django web framework is a great way to learn Python while quickly building and deploying a simple and useful web application or two, [...]
