Doing it Right: Harvey Mudd’s Gender-balanced CS Program
What is Harvey Mudd doing so right, you ask? Well, we’ll tell you: Since 2006, the percentage of female computer science majors has more than tripled, to about 40 percent. This is because of revolutionary changes in the program designed…
27th Workshop!
We’ve taught over a thousand women in 27 workshops across the country, and inspired women in the Python and Scala communities to begin doing the same. Right on! Last weekend at Engine Yard San Francisco, 39 students learned how to…
Seattle RailsBridge – Growing, Growing!
Seattle RailsBridge has been gaining great momentum – the women’s outreach workshops are growing in size, sponsorship*, and community support. A couple of weeks ago, we held the second Seattle RailsBridge workshop, which had 25 students and 20 teachers/TAs. Sonia,…
Taller en Español en SF
(English translation) Este fin de semana se ha celebrado el primer Taller en Español en San Francisco, en la Mitch Kapor Foundation. Carmen Díaz Echauri (@cucurucho), Directora del Spanish Language Outreach, fue la catalizadora que hizo esto posible. Carmen enseña…
Spanish Language Outreach Workshop in SF
(Spanish Translation) This weekend, we held our first Spanish-language Outreach workshop, at the Mitch Kapor Foundation in San Francisco. Carmen Díaz Echauri (@cucurucho), Director of Spanish Language Outreach, was the driving force behind making this happen. Carmen teaches Sandra Vilaro…
OSCON: Start a Workshop, Change the World
Ilen Zazueta-Hall, our new Director of Leadership Development, will be speaking at OSCON next week (7/28). Ilen has worked with us since workshop #2 to make workshops happen and has figured out how to turn a loose collection of engineers…
Scala Outreach Workshop
This guest post is contributed by Asheesh Laroia (@asheeshlaroia). Based in the Boston area, Asheesh works on the OpenHatch open source outreach project and outreach events like the Boston Python Workshop for women and their friends. She met Scalathon organizer…
Riding Rails in South America
One of the objectives of the RailsBridge Open Workshops is diversity, so I asked Carmen Díaz Echauri to write in Spanish about her experience leading a small workshop when she traveled back to her hometown. Read the original blog in…
Marchando sobre Rieles
(english translation) Uno de los objetivos del RailsBridge Open Workshop es la diversidad, asi que basado en eso, Sarah Allen me pidió que comparta mi experiencia en espanõl sobre un pequenõ tutorial que dicté en mi ciudad natal. A continuación…
Inspiring Women Leaders
The Opensource Women’s Leadership event on January 28th was a real treat. Many thanks to our hosts She’s Geeky and the Bohemian Loft. Our sponsors, Pivotal Labs, Engine Yard, TrueCar, Enphase Energy, Balsamiq, Harvest, and Captain Recruiter provided dinner and…