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She's Geeky
Kaliya’s doing an unconference for women working in technology called She’s Geeky. Here’s the goals:
- Exchange skills and learning from women from diverse fields of technology.
- Discuss topics about women and technology.
- Connect the diverse range of women in technology, computing, entrepreneurship, funding, hardware, open source, nonprofit and any other technical geeky fields.
If you’re a woman working in technology and would like to attend or just find out more, go read Kaliya’s blog entry for more details.
Posted by windley on September 21, 2007 10:16 AM
Comment from TuxGirl at September 21, 2007 6:05 PM
(adding comment here, since Kaliya's blog seems to want me to log in before commenting (and how in the world do i convince this to do a newline??))
I don't intend this to come off as offensive, but I don't understand the point of this. Why do we need a conference (or un-conference) just for female geeks? Why is it that, sometimes people seem to think that a geeky girl can only be mentored by another girl? Why do some places try to create "support groups" for women in technology?
All of this seems really unnecessary to me. The fact that I'm female and the fact that I happen to be a software developer are completely orthogonal facts. Yes, there have been times where I've met resistance, but that doesn't mean I need a support group, or that I need to go spend time with an all female group of software devs. In all honesty, I probably ran into more resistance toward my choice of fields from females than I did from males.
I guess I just don't see the point...
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