A curated list of awesome inclusive events/projects/initiatives for women in the tech area.
This section contains all specifics meetups/events.
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ClojureBridge aims to increase diversity within the Clojure community by offering free, beginner-friendly Clojure programming workshops for women.
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We are women in the #golang community. From Tweeter
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Duchess is a global organization for women in Java technology, currently with members in over 60 countries. Duchess provides a platform through which women who work with Java can connect with each other and get involved in the greater Java community.
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js-girls is a 1-day workshop for girls who want to learn Javascript, one of the most popular languages for web development.
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Js4Girls - Loc:
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A brazilian iniciative to provide FREE classes of javascript for women in a Man-Free environment.
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We aim to provide a friendly environment for women who are learning to code, supported by a community of experienced female mentors. Node Girls runs free 1 day Node.js workshops.
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We want to inspire women to fall in love with programming. We organize free Python and Django workshops, create open sourced online tutorials and care about curating amazing first experiences with technology.
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An international mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community.
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We're an inclusive, global user group providing a support network within the PHP community.
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Workshops are a free and fun way to get started or level up with Rails, Ruby, and other web technologies. Our events focus on increasing diversity in tech, so that people of all backgrounds can feel welcome and comfortable in our industry.
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Multinacional community to give tools for girls and women to build their ideas.
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Getting more women into Open Source!
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Ladies that UX is a monthly meet up that creates a welcoming, transparent community of women that work in UX, who positively promote and teach each other.
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The first XX+UX event was held at Google HQ in October 2013, where attendees created “story cards” that represented themselves or their journey into UX.
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Byte Girl - Loc:
Byte Girl is a non-profit and open event organized by volunteers focused on female public who likes tech. It has the goal of developing the women empowerment.
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Code Girl - Loc:
Event for women with papers and classes to inspire the female public to the tech area.
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League of Women Coders (formerly Ladies Who Code, est. June 2011) is a grassroots collective that focusses on coding, hacking, and learning together. We’re like a book club for superhero women coders. You’ll find us championing free software, debating the best uses for ternary operators, defending against trolls, sharing what we know, and supporting each other in every way we can.
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The global technology entrepreneurship program for girls. Students work in teams to develop mobile app “startups” to solve real problems in their communities.
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Women Who Code - Loc:
Women Who Code (WWCode) is a U.S. based 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers. We connect amazing women with other like minded amazing women around the globe who unite under one simple notion – the world of technology is much better with women in it.
Initiatives that have the goal to prepare women for a tech career.
Projects that have any kind of Academy/Summer Camp in its activities.
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A year-long tuition-free intensive program for women transitioning into software development. One of the most comprehensive developer training programs available: seven months of full-time classroom instruction plus five months of on-the-ground training (in an internship).
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App Camp For Girls is a place where girls can put their creative powers to work, designing and building apps, while learning more about the business of software and being inspired by women mentors in the field.
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To increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology.
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Chicas Poderosas is a community working to bring Latina women in the Americas into the forefront of digital journalism. Through events, meetups and mentoring, Chicas aims to engage more women in developing news applications, producing interactive content, and integrating new tools into their newsrooms.
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Code First Girl - Loc:
Girls runs free part-time coding courses for young women across the UK, from St Andrews to Southampton. Most courses are run as University chapters, with graduate courses run in London.
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Microsoft is proud to offer technology programs that target youth. This one-day event, held at multiple Microsoft locations worldwide, is designed to provide high school girls with a better understanding of what a career in technology is all about.
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DIY (“Do-It-Yourself”) Girls’ mission is to increase girls’ interest and success in technology, engineering and making through innovative educational experiences and mentor relationships. DIY Girls develops and implements educational programs and events designed to encourage engagement with technology, promote self-confidence and support aspiration to technical careers.
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Girl Can Code - Loc:
The Girls Can Code is an internship that takes place in 3 different cities and is the perfect opportunity to meet other girls motivated by the programming and to progress together, each at its own pace. The internship will include programming exercises and some lectures given by women working in computer science.
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Girl Develop It - Loc:
Girl Develop It is a nonprofit organization that provides affordable programs for adult women interested in learning web and software development in a judgment-free environment.
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GIT is a global non-profit focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of girls and women who are passionate about technology. Our aim is to accelerate the growth of innovative women who are entering into the high-tech industry and building successful startups.
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We are a national nonprofit organization working to close the gender gap in the technology and engineering sectors.The Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program is a 7-week intensive computer science course that embeds classrooms in technology companies and universities.
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Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than Stanford and UC Berkeley each year.
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Ladies Learning Code - Loc:
We are a not-for-profit organization with the mission to be the leading resource for women and youth to become passionate builders - not just consumers - of technology by learning technical skills in a hands-on, social, and collaborative way
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We are a nonprofit dedicated to reducing — and, we hope, ultimately eliminating — the gender gap in technology occupations. We hold workshops and an annual entrepreneurial summer camp aimed at giving middle-school girls hands-on experience with different kinds of technology and enable them to interact with women who have carved out successful careers in technology fields.
Projects where an open source organization is behind it.
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The Debian Women project was founded in May 2004. We seek to balance and diversify the Debian Project by actively engaging with interested women and encouraging them to become more involved with Debian.
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Fedora Women is a project designed to connect and assist women who are interested in using and contributing to Fedora.
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KDE Women is a group of women in the KDE community. We are here to help increase the number of women in Open Source and to support each other.
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It is a women-oriented Linux community. It is designed to provide both technical and social support for women Linux users, although men are encouraged to help and contribute
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The Ubuntu Women Project was founded in 2006 and aims to foster Women contributors and community involvement through mentoring and inspiration. The Ubuntu Women Team has many projects with which we attempt to boost the visibility of women within all areas of Ubuntu, and we invite you to help out.
Conferences that brings the subject.
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Ela Conf Loc:
A safe, inclusive tech leadership conference and community for adult (18+) women (cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people to connect with and empower one another.
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Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is the world's largest gathering of women technologists. It is produced by the Anita Borg Institute and presented in partnership with ACM.
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Lady Talks - Loc:
Women talking technology for themselves. Transgender people, transvestites and non-binary are also welcomed.
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Lesbians Who Tech is a Community of Queer Women in or around tech (and the people who love them).
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The unConference for women geeks of all kinds to share, connect, network, learn, inspire and have lots of fun.
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SheSharp - Loc:
A greek community of people dedicated to promote women's engagement with technology & science. Its main activities consist of free workshops, meetups open to anyone interested, as well as partnerships with other tech communities and local chapters of Thessaloniki.
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The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is a not-for-profit educational and service organization that empowers women to succeed and advance in the field of engineering, and to be recognized for their life-changing contributions as engineers and leaders. It promotes the anual conference for women engineer.
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WECode - Loc:
WECode is "the largest student-run Women in Computer Science conference, held at Harvard University each February. Our mission is to expand the skills, network, and community of technical women worldwide. We bring together women over the course of two amazing days to share ideas and conversations on technology and innovation." Live at https://live.cs50.net/wecode on February 27 and February 28.
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WITI is the premier global organization helping tech-savvy women attain their professional goals. WITI organizes events and summits for women.
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Organizers of the yearly Women Who Tech TeleSummit, with talks by women in technology, startups, and social media. Creators of the #Women2Follow hashtag on Twitter.
Online communities and groups.
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Code Girls - Loc:
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Enthusiastic group of Ladies with a focus on web-technologies who want to learn to code, need support in coding, or simply want to understand how the web is made. They meet regulary every two weeks. Everyone is welcome.
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Lambda Ladies is an online community for anyone who identifies as a girl or woman and is interested in functional programming. Complete beginners are welcome.
Projects with mentoring opportunities.
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Chick Tech - Loc:
We facilitate hands-on technology-centric events to empower, support, and increase the confidence of women and girls. Through our events, we build community, empower participants to see themselves as leaders, and provide networking and mentoring opportunities in the rapidly growing high tech industry.
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It is a resource for connecting all women, including women of color and transgender women, to open source projects that are welcoming, inclusive, and appreciative of diversity in their contributors. The site features a directory for finding mentors and pair partners as well as a curated list of open source projects with codes of conduct.
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It is a social enterprise that empowers women to make their mark on the technology industry. we believe that when women are equally represented in technology development, we accelerate innovation for those who need it most.
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Honor. Celebrate. Inspire. We believe that open source is the future of technology—and that it's time to recognize the contributions women are making.
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The Ada Awards are an initiative of the Digital Leadership Institute, a Brussels-based international NGO with a mission to bridge the gender gap and digital divide worldwide. The Awards aim to recognise outstanding girls and women in tech, and the organisations who support them in Europe, Africa and beyond.
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The mission of CallbackWomen is to radically expand gender diversity at the podium of professional programmers' conferences. Call for proposals (CFPs) are shared via Twitter.
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Code it Like a Girl - Loc:
It is a digital media collective that creates content intended to inspire people who self-identify as female to follow their dreams. From technology news and how-to’s to remarkable stories of people all around the world, articles on feminism or just whatever we feel like talking-writing-filming about, we’ll be sharing our POV on anything that can be proven empowering, valuable, informative or entertaining to our audience.
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IGNITE features stories of women and girls who are leading and innovating in science, technology, engineering and math. The project also highlights the gender gap in technology and advocates for women and girls’ increased access to and control of technologies.
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Made with Code is an initiative launched by Google on 19 July 2014. Google aimed to empower young women in middle and high schools with computer programming skills. It revolves primarily around providing online activities for young girls to learn coding on its website.
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PrograMaria - Loc:
PrograMaria is an initiative to involve more girls and women with Tech and Programming area. The content production and events are produced under three pillars: Inspire, Discuss and Learn.
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The Womoz Blog. Program updates and news from the women and mozilla project.
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Code Girls Documentary about girls who code and develop app ideas for the Technovation Challenge address issues in their community and try to solve problems through the use of technology.
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She started it Meet five young women determined to pursue their start-up dreams. She Started It is a documentary by Nora Poggi and Insiyah Saeed following Stacey Ferreira, Thuy Truong, Brienne Ghafourifar, Sheena Allen and Agathe Molinar over the course of 2+ years, illuminating the ups and downs these entrepreneurs face in building new businesses.
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She++ The Documentary The Documentary (12 min: TV-14 DL; Releasing April 1, 2013) introduces the world of technology by following the stories of smart, creative, and trailblazing good girls gone geek
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Outreach Program for Women Outreach Program for Women has been helping women (cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people get involved in free and open source software. It provided a supportive community for beginning to contribute any time throughout the year and offered focused internship opportunities twice a year with a number of free software organizations.
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Women in Tech Women in Technology is a commercial organisation committed to assisting suitably qualified and experienced women in their search for career opportunities in information technology.
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PowerToFly Connecting women with jobs that actually lead to work-life balance. Specializing on the remote work for women. In addition to job board it contains information about time-management, self-efficacy etc.
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