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Linkspamming the night away (11th May, 2011)

May 13 in Boston: A project-driven introduction to Python for women and their friends (unfortunately now gone to “waiting list only” status). An open letter to the Australian SF community: However,...

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Linkspam isn’t saying no… (13th June, 2011)

Talk on June 15 at Melbourne University: Dr Cathy Foley, 100 years later: has anything changed for women in science?: This talk will look at what is the status of women in science in Australia, report...

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Have a nice cup of hot linkspam (2nd July, 2011)

Railsbridge Rails Outreach Workshop for Women & Friends, Ed. Español July 22-23 (San Francisco): One of the objectives of the Rails Bridge Open Workshops is diversity, with that in mind we…...

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More is different

This is a guest post by Brianna Laugher. Brianna is a software developer who appreciates significant whitespace. She is also known around the web as pfctdayelise. I have spent the past weekend in...

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I’m too pretty to linkspam (2nd September, 2011)

Another old project moved (copied) to the GF wiki: Mary imported the Women in FLOSS bibliography she originally wrote for LinuxChix and added some new material. Add all material you know of related to...

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Linkspamming backwards in high heels (17th September, 2011)

The Haecken miniconf at linux.conf.au is running for the sixth time on 16th January 2012, in Ballarat, Australia. Their call for participation is open until September 30, and they are especially...

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T-shirts, YET AGAIN.

Are we really doing this again? I just tried to register (as a speaker) for an upcoming tech conference. One that prides itself on its woman-friendliness, no less: they have an anti-harassment policy,...

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Maiden, mother and linkspam (6th December, 2011)

The Ada Initiative is holding an AdaCamp in Melbourne, Australia on January 14 for everyone interested in supporting women in open tech and culture, from wikis to open government to digital liberties...

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Quick Hit: a GF approach to events

I help plan technical events at the Wikimedia Foundation. I think we’ve improved in making them more welcoming and inclusive over the course of my time there. We just recently filled to capacity on...

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Should Geek Girl Dinners be “Girly”?

This is a guest post by Hannah Little. Hannah is a PhD student in the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Before moving full-time into academia, Hannah spent some time...

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When a link and a spam love each other very much (26 March 2014)

A couple of quick announcements to start us off: applications to attend AdaCamp Portland (June 21–22, ally skills track June 23) are open the call for submissions to another issue of Model View Culture...

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The effect of linkspam on man-in-the-moon marigolds (29 March 2014)

Events, fundraisers and such: Bring the Lesbians Who Tech Summit to New York!, ticket pre-sales to fund an event June 19–22, closing in just a few hours. Women in Tech Panel Event in New York City |...

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The linkspam instinct (24 May 2014)

Announcements etc: Long Hidden, a Kickstarter-funded anthology of spec fic centering marginalised characters, is now available for purchase. Registration for Solutions Summit 2014: Women in Science...

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Solicitation on flipping the script

This is a guest post by April Wright. April is a graduate student in evolutionary biology at the University of Texas at Austin. When she’s not crunching data at her computer, she teaches courses for...

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Quick hit: Free travel grants for women to attend EuroBSDcon 2014 in Sofia,...

Google is offering 5 grants for women in computer science (either working in or studying it) to attend EuroBSDcon 2014 — the main European conference about the open-source BSD family of operating...

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Quick Hit: Toward a !!Con Aesthetic – new essay at The Recompiler

Over at The Recompiler, I have a new essay out: “Toward A !!Con Aesthetic”. I talk about (what I consider to be) the countercultural tech conference !!Con, which focuses on “the joy, excitement, and...

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