Fellow Irregular Julia French is helping to to put together the "She's Geeky (un)conference" in Mountain View, CA, October 22 and 23rd.
What is She's Geeky?
The She's Geeky (un)conference will provide an agenda-free and friendly environment for women who not only care about building technology that is useful for people, but who also want to encourage more women to get involved.
It is designed to provide women who self-identify as geeky and who are engaged in various technology-focused disciplines with a gathering space in which they can exchange skills and discuss ideas and form community across and within disciplines.
Our goal is to create an open space forum for women in tech to come together to:
- 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 field.
This is an unconference so it will have an agenda created by the people who attend.
Source: She's Geeky - HomePage
So what can you expect?
She's Geeky will include women working in:
- Open Source
- Web 2.0
- Biotech
- Hardware companies
- Enterprise IT
- The Nonprofit Technology Sector
- Portals
- Search Engines
- Social Networking Sites
- Research for and about technology/people
- Startups generally
- Product building/management in large organizations
- Robotics
- Gaming
- Mobile
- Using the tools of the Web (like blogging).
- Technical Writing
- Your definition of geekiness (if you don't see it here add it)
She's Geeky is for:
- Women of all ages who self identify as geeks. You don't have to code. You can like and use the tools.
- Women who care about the issues facing women as they work in or around technology development.
- Women who are passionate about building technology that's useful for people and believe that the presence of geeky women in our industry leads to more opportunity, a more supportive and civilized environment and better technology goals for all.
With our current ramp up to SAP TechEd at the moment I understand some of the pressures of organizing and arranging and also of the "unknown" factors surrounding (un)conferences.
All the best Julia on an awesome event and I look forward to following the blog activity!
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