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 [...]
Posts Tagged "Sarah Mei"
Awesome DevChix Speakers At Fluent Conference (May 29-31 in San Francisco)
May 26, 2012 – 6:00 am
Here are awesome women developers who will be speaking at O’Reilly Fluent Conference (May 29-31 in SF). By Sarah Allen (Founder, Blazing Cloud) The O’Reilly Fluent Conference 2012 in San Francisco on May 29-31 has an incredible line up of speakers. The conference is generously supporting DexChix and other community projects with booth space. Come [...]
Racism and Meritocracy
November 19, 2011 – 6:00 pm
By Eric Ries (Contributing Writer, TechCrunch) Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you can’t have missed the recent dust-up over race and Silicon Valley. Like almost every discussion of diversity and meritocracy in this town, it turned ugly fast. One side says: “All I see is white men. Therefore, people like Michael Arrington must [...]
Women Who Code: First Lightning Talks Event Videos Posted!
November 18, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Elaine Tsai (Organizer, Hack Nights for Beginners) Women Who Code (WWCode) held our first lightning talks event on Tuesday, October 25. The event was filled with excitement, involvement, and proof that there are plenty of women interested in programming, hacking, and all things related to changing the gender gap in the tech industry. With [...]
The Impact of Twitter on RailsBridge (Learning Ruby on Rails)
November 8, 2011 – 7:10 am
By Jennifer Lindner (Organizer, RailsBridge & Freelance Open Source Developer) Twitter not only helps facilitate organizing across the world, they invest in their local community by hosting RailsBridge workshops in their San Francisco office. We’re doing it. We’re teaching each other technology. Not how to use it: how to build it. We’re teaching and learning [...]
Female Founders to Follow (Women 2.0 Startup Weekend Mentors)
November 4, 2011 – 7:05 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 Startup Weekend (November 18-20, 2011 in San Francisco, CA) will host 150 hackers, designers, business and marketing people to build early-stage startups in 54 hours. Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011 MENTORS and their ventures: Sasha Laundy (Founder, Women Who Code) Sasha loves helping others learn [...]
Notes From the Classroom: Assisting Teaching High School Girls Ruby on Rails
August 6, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Anna Billstrom (Developer, Momentus Media) I spent the day TA’ing for my friend’s class. Sarah Mei taught an Intro to Ruby class for 6 hours to 12 high school senior girls. They were in a 4-day intense engineering stay-away camp, that they’d done for four successive years. They take girls freshman year, and the [...]
Female Startup Founders, Female CTOs And Technical Co-Founders (Oh My!)
May 24, 2011 – 1:28 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This morning at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, Julia Hu (Co-Founder & CEO of Lark) got engaged while presenting her startup onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC — her boyfriend inserted a proposal slide into her deck. Meanwhile, attendees at the National Center for Women in Technology annual summit were [...]
