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WWCode Newsletter 6.11.14

UPDATES & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Big Welcome to WWCode Reno/Tahoe! Check them out on Twitter too!

NYC, NY: June 27th – 28th: Learn how to invest in start-ups with 37 Angels Bootcamp apply here

June 24th: SF, CA: Startup Weekend and Google Developer Groups want to see you at Pitch Night 50% off with discount code “PNLADIES”

APPLAUD HER

WWCode Hong Kong Co-Founders Michelle Sun and Karen Farzam were featured in TechNode

WWCode CEO Alaina Percival was a guest speaker at College of The Canyons Beyond Barriers Conference

#WWCode SF members Brittany Martin, Jamie McKenzie and Melanie Gin + Chris Yancey won the SF Smart Money Hackathon

Khara Muniz and Veronica Cannon are leading WWCode Reno/Tahoe as City Directors

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Recently named as one of Forbes most promising companies, Guidespark is hiring for a Ruby on Rails Engineer. If you are interested in helping revolutionize how employers engage with employees apply here

Passionate about building mobile apps and have experience with Java or Objective-C? Firebase is hiring a Mobile Developer Advocate. apply here .

CALENDAR OF EVENTS **Bolded text indicates new additions**

JUNE

June 12: College Park, MD: Apache Accumulo Summit

June 14: SF, CA: Android & iOS Bootcamp: 6 Classes

June 14th: Oakland, CA: Level The Playing Field's Level The Dance Floor  Event

June 14th: LA, CA: Big Data Camp LA

June 14th: New York City: Come learn Scratch, HTML & CSS and more

June 14th – 15th: SF, CA: FREE Tix: 24H Hackathon: Hack A New Driving Experience

June 16th: SF, CA: Cloudant Con: Delivering Data to a Smarter World 50% off with “CCPARTNER_WWC”

June 17th: New York City: Spark Workshop with Terraly Inc.

June 19th – 22nd: New York City: Lesbians Who Tech 25% off with discount code LWTWWC

June 19th: SF, CA: Why You Should Speak At Technical Conferences

June 20th: New York City:Generate Conference 30% off with discount code “WWC30”

June 21st: SF, CA: Small Biz Dev Hackathon

June 21st: Mountain View, CA: Javascript Single Page Applications Workshop 40% off discount with 40-OFF-WWC

June 21st – 22nd: New York City:NUI Central Kinect for Windows Hackathon 2014

June 21st – 22nd: SF, CA DebugDC: Growathon for Immigration Reform

June 21st - 22nd: Toronto, Canada: AngelHack Toronto Limited # of free tix with code “WWC” First come, first serve

June 23rd – 25th: SF, CA: Cloud DevCon $200 off with WWC

June 24th – 26th: Santa Clara, CA Velocity 20% discount with  “WWC20”

June 27th: SF, CA: gSchool's Open House

June 28th: Riverside, CA: RivCodes Civic Hackathon

JULY & BEYOND

July 3, 5 & 6: Toronto, ON: ALERT PowerOf50 Hackathon

July 7th – 18th: Boston, MA: Boston University Summer Workshop – Storytelling with Data

July 9th – July 10th: New York City: DevCon5 HTML and Mobile App Conf 20% off with WomenWhoCode

July 15th – 17th: Chicago, IL: Mobile + Web DevCon

July 25th: Belo Horizonte, Brazil:BH Conference 2014 15% off with discont code FIH2014

September 8th: SF, CA: I Love APIs Conference

September 13th – 14th: Raleigh, NC: NCDevCon – Web and Mobile Conference

September 17th – 19th: St. Louis, MO: Strangeloop 2014 $50 off with discount code “WHC”

October 15th: Austin, TX: InnoTech Austin

October 21 – 22: Atlanta, GA: Venture Atlanta

WWCODE NETWORK GROWTH

San Francisco 5,838

Tel Aviv, Israel: 1,322

Boulder/Denver, CO: 767

Austin, TX: 461

Seattle, WA: 448

New York, NY: 400

London 382

Washington, D.C.: 371

Atlanta, GA: 345

Toronto, ON: 257

Boston, MA: 235

Belfast, Ireland: 225

Sydney, Australia: 199

Bangalore, India: 172

Los Angeles, CA: 146

Dallas, TX: 146

Santiago, Chile: 144

Waterloo, ON: 116

Recife, Brazil: 104

Colima, Mexico: 83

Hong Kong 83

Jerusalem, Israel: 56

Tampa, FL: 49

Stamford, CT: 48

Belo Horizonte, Brazil: 44

Kingston, Jamaica: 44

WWCODE CALL TO ACTION

Please support WWCode by providing yourfeedbackvia a short survey. Thanks for helping us better serve and support you!

Want to help us?Donate hereto help us launch in 50 cities by the end of this year

Looking for WWCode in your city? Check out this link often to see if we have a network in your city  – we are always expanding. (this includes only our networks on Meetup)

**E-mail us if you have an update for consideration at [email protected]** 

Cheers,  Alaina

Women Who Code Inc. | CEO and Board Chair

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Google’s Gender Disparity Highlights the Need for Continued Efforts

Alaina Percival, Women Who Code CEO and Board Chair

Google released some rather damning statistics last week, giving the world insight into their diversity numbers, or more precisely lack there of. I’ve been hearing rumors for a while that this information was coming out and that it wasn’t going to be pretty. Now that I’ve seen the hard figures for myself I’m saddened, but at the same time I view them as a benchmark and look forward to seeing the impact that Women Who Code can have on the situation moving forward.  

Women are not a minority, and make up 50% of the overall population. However according to the report they only hold 30% of the overall jobs at Google, and account for only 17% of the technical work force. While these numbers are troubling they aren’t really unexpected, and are indicative of a wider problem across the entire computer science industry. In an independent community report looking at tech companies with over 100 employees it was found that only three organizations, ThoughtWorks and New Relic, had more than 17% of females on staff. Unfortunately this is a problem that’s systemic, starting in our universities where only 18% of computer science degrees are earned by women. While these numbers are embarrassingly bad, the first step to fixing a problem is admitting that you have one. Google has not yet succeeded in bridging the gender gap in its own organization, but by releasing this information it has made a public commitment to improve. My hope is that this is only the beginning, and that their leadership will inspire other companies to release their employment numbers, as well as more information about disparities in salary and promotions.

  While I am saddened, I don’t find this information disheartening. In fact I find it inspiring. And it only goes to show the vital importance of organizations like Women Who Code, Code2040, and the Level Playing Field Institute, who are working hard to increase the number of talented engineers who come from underrepresented groups. It is only through our continued efforts that we will see these numbers improve.

Alaina Percival is CEO and Board Chair of Women Who Code, a global non-profit dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers. The organization provides an avenue into tech, empowers women with the skills needed for professional advancement, and provides environments where networking and mentorship are valued. Women Who Code has executed more than 700 events around the world, garnered a membership exceeding 12,000, and has a presence in 14 countries.

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Women Who Code Newsletter 5/29/2014

  WWCoders – 

Please see our newsletter for this week below. Enjoy and thank you for your continued support!

UPDATES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

GirlDevelopIt has announced their summer series. If you want to learn web development or know a female that does, sign up here

WWCode Volunteer Needed: We are looking for a UX Designer to help build our mentorship app on Android. email [email protected] if interested

Free tickets: June 3rd: Be Your Own Hero Conference enter to winhere

Free tickets: June 3rd - 4th: GLAZED con: The Dawn of the Wearable Economyenter to winhere

Free tickets: June 16th: Cloudant Con: Delivering Data to a Smarter World enter to winhere

Free tickets (first come first serve): June 24th: Lookout's Google I/O Party

APPLAUD HER:

WWCode Executive Director Zassmin Montes de Oca won the Lumosity Hackathon

WWCode San Francisco Meetup Group Founder and WWCode NYC member Sasha Laundy was featured in Business Insider's 100 Most Influential Women In Tech on Twitter

WWCode Atlanta member Kylie Stradley is now a full time software developer at Big Nerd Ranch

WWCode Atlanta member Astrid Paris is now Director of UX at Great Parents Academy

WWCode CTO Michele Titolo is now a Software Engineer at Reddit

WWCode SF members Liza Gere and Lesley Bell won the AWE hackathon

  EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES:

Many WWCoders have had success finding great jobs utilizing Hired.com It’s a free service, give it a try!

Navis is hiring for multiple engineering positions. If you have a passion for C++, Front End, and Java  apply here

  CALENDAR OF EVENTS:  

*bolded text indicates a new addition*

MAY 2014:

May 29th: SF, CA: SF's Power Women Of Eventbrite, Modcloth, and One Kings Lane $5 discount with code “womenwhocodePERKS2”

May 31: London, UK: Children's Hospital Hackathon, free hacker pass

May 31 – June 1: Austin, TX: Hack for Change

May 31 – June 1: (SF, LA, Kansas City, Austin, Bangalor, Dallas, and many more) National Day of Civic Hacking

JUNE, JULY & BEYOND

June 1st – 3rd: SF, CA:  WITI Summit $200 off w/ WOMEN

June 2nd – 6th: Colima, Mexico: Magma Conf 15% WomenWhoCode

June 3rd – 4th: SF, CA:GLAZED con: The Dawn of the Wearable Economy 40% discount with code “glazed_wwc”

June 3rd: SF, CA: Be Your Own Hero Conference

June 6th - 8th: SF, CA: Smart Money Hackathon Tix $10 before June 1st

June 7th: SF, CA: Intro to HTML/CSS by Girl Develop It

June 7th - 8th: SF, CA HP IDOL OnDemand Hackathon

June 7th – 8th: Hamburg, Germany: Geekettes Hackathon

June 11th: Austin, TX:  MakerSquare front-end course

June 14th: Oakland, CA: Level The Playing Field's Level The Dance Floor  Event

June 16th: SF, CA: Cloudant Con: Delivering Data to a Smarter World 50% discount

June 17th: New York City: Spark Workshop with Terraly Inc.

June 19th – 22nd: New York City: Lesbians Who Tech 25% w/ LWTWWC

June 21st – 22nd: SF, CA DebugDC: Growathon for Immigration Reform

June 21st - 22nd: Toronto, Canada: AngelHack Toronto Limited # of free tix with code “WWC” First come, first serve

June 23rd – 25th: SF, CA: Cloud DevCon $200 off w/ WWC

June 24th – 26th: Santa Clara, CA Velocity 20% WWC20

July 9th – July 10th: New York City: DevCon5 HTML and Mobile App Conf 20% off with WomenWhoCode

July 15th – 17th: Chicago, IL: Mobile + Web DevCon

July 25th: Belo Horizonte, Brazil:BH Conference 2014 15% off with FIH2014

October 21 – 22: Atlanta, GA: Venture Atlanta

September 8th: SF, CA:I Love APIs Conference

  WWCode NETWORK GROWTH

San Francisco 5,694

Tel Aviv, Israel: 1,266

Boulder/Denver, CO: 751

Austin, TX: 430

Seattle, WA: 421

New York, NY: 349

London 344

Atlanta, GA: 320

Washington, D.C.: 324

Toronto, ON: 244

Boston, MA: 220

Belfast, Ireland: 214

Sydney, Australia: 191

Bangalore, India: 171

Santiago, Chile: 141

Dallas, TX: 136

Los Angeles, CA: 125

Waterloo, ON: 106

Recife, Brazil: 99

Colima, Mexico: 78

Hong Kong 76

Jerusalem, Israel: 56

Tampa, FL: 43

Stamford, CT: 42

Belo Horizonte, Brazil: 39

Kingston, Jamaica: 24

  WWCode CALL TO ACTION:  

Have a positive experience with us? Tell us about it by answering our short survey

Want to help us?Donate hereto help us connect 5 million women in tech by 2019

***If you have an update for consideration for future newsletter(s) please summarize it in 140 characters or less and email it to [email protected] with “update for newsletter” in the subject line***

Cheers, Alaina Women Who Code Inc. | CEO and Board Chair Facebook | Twitter

    Women Who Code (WWCode) is a global non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring women to pursue and excel in technology careers. The organization tripled in size in 2013 and now has 11,000+ members spanning 14 countries. To date, WWCode has produced more than 700 events worldwide and boasts a growth rate of nearly 1,000 members per month.

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Women Who Code Newsletter 5/21/2014

    WWCoders –

Please see our newsletter for this week below. Enjoy!

UPDATES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Berlin, Germany: May 26th is the deadline to apply for School of Machines, Making & Make Believe’s Art and Tech Programs.Apply here.

San Jose, CA: May 30th is the deadline to submit your nominations (company & individual) for the Techmanity Awards.Submit here

London, UK: May 31st: Support St. Mary’s Children’s Hospital Hackathon, “Give Young Patients a Voice.” Get your free hacker pass

SF, CA: June 1st is the application deadline for Boost VC’s Summer Accelerator class.Take your startup to the next level with an investment, accelerator program, office space & housing for three months!

SF, CA: June 3rd: Support the Indiegogo campaign for the Be Your Own Hero Conference

SF, CA: August 4 – 8: Girls In Robotics Summer Camp at UC Davis is looking for speakers. E-mail Judy [email protected] for more information

SF, CA: June 15th is the deadline to submit for the User Experience Awards. Apply here.

APPLAUD HER:

WWCode D.C. member Jacqueline Kazil is a keynote speaker at PyCon Sweden

WWCode San Francisco Rails Lead Sowju Mudunuri is now a Full-Stack Software Engineer at Dot & Bo

WWCode San Francisco Meetup Group Founder and WWCode NYC member Sasha Laundy was featured in Business Insider’s 100 Most Influential Women In Tech on Twitter

WWCode San Francisco member Lisa Friedman is now an Engineer at Zendesk

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES:

Are you a strong Developer and a Runner, fitness nut, or sports enthusiast?  Come develop and innovate with us on the Nike+ platform team! Inquiries + Networking –[email protected] #SiliconForest

Advent Software, Inc. (provider of financial software) is looking for Associate Software Engineers for a new hire program in San Francisco, CA.  Apply here

TICKET GIVEAWAYS:

We have a limited number of FREE tickets for the events listed below. Please review the information carefully, fill out our interest formand we will let you know by Tuesday May 27th if you are a winner. We are fortunate enough to receive a large number of applicants, so we are only able to contact those who win.

SF, CA: June 3rd: Be Your Own Hero Conference

Santa Clarita, CA: June 1 – 3: Women In Technology Summit

Belo Horizonte, Brazil: July 26th: BH Conference 2014

CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

MAY 2014:

May 22nd: SF, CA: Solid 20% with discount code “WWC20”

May 22nd: SF, CA: Building Innovation: Wearable, Drones, Hardware Startups and Patents 20% off with discount code “wwcode”

May 22nd: SF, CA: HTML5DevConf

May 22nd: SF, CA: Couchbase Mobile Party

May 22nd: SF, CA: Award Winning UX Case Studies for the UX Awards, Portfolios & hiring

May 24th: Atlanta, GA: Build and Hack A Community Learning Hackathon

May 26th - 27th: Santa Clara, CA:AWE Hacks 2014

May 26th - 29th: SF, CA: Javascript Fundamentals: Objects, Arrays, and Functions $100.00 discount by including WWC or GDI in the comments section of the application.

May 27th: SF, CA: Hackbright: How the Internet Works

May 27th – 30th: Boston, MA AnDevCon $200 off with discount code “ANDROID”

May 28th: SF, CA: Web Security: Attack, Defend, Profit

May 28th: SF, CA: Porter Gale + Hito Unconference 2.0 50% off regular priced ticket with discount code “wwc50”

May 31: London, UK: Children’s Hospital Hackathon

May 31 – June 1: Austin, TX: Hack for Change

May 31 – June 1: (SF, LA, Kansas City, Austin, Bangalor, Dallas, and many more) National Day of Civic Hacking

JUNE & JULY 2014

June 1st – 3rd: SF, CA: WITI Summit $200 off w/ WOMEN

June 3rd: SF, CA: Be Your Own Hero Conference

June 2nd – 6th: Colima, Mexico: Magma Conf 15% WomenWhoCode

June 7th – 8th: Hamburg, Germany: Geekettes Hackathon

June 11th: Austin, TX: MakerSquare front-end course

June 17th: New York City: Spark Workshop with Terraly Inc.

June 19th – 22nd: New York City: Lesbians Who Tech 25% w/ LWTWWC

June 21st – 22nd: SF, CA DebugDC: Growathon for Immigration Reform

June 23rd – 25th: SF, CA: Cloud DevCon $200 off w/ WWC

June 24th – 26th: Santa Clara, CA Velocity 20% WWC20

July 9th – July 10th: New York City: DevCon5 HTML and Mobile App Conf 20% off with WomenWhoCode

July 15th – 17th: Chicago, IL: Mobile + Web DevCon

July 25th: Belo Horizonte, Brazil: BH Conference 2014 15% off with FIH2014

WWCode NETWORK GROWTH

San Francisco 5,639

Tel Aviv, Israel: 776

Boulder/Denver, CO: 747

Austin, TX: 427

Seattle, WA: 412

New York, NY: 331

London 322

Atlanta, GA: 313

Washington, D.C.: 301

Toronto, ON: 235

Boston, MA: 212

Belfast, Ireland: 208

Sydney, Australia: 184

Bangalore, India: 171

Santiago, Chile: 140

Dallas, TX: 134

Los Angeles, CA: 116

Waterloo, ON: 106

Recife, Brazil: 98

Colima, Mexico: 71

Hong Kong 71

Stamford, CT: 41

Tampa, FL: 43

Belo Horizonte, Brazil: 40

Kingston, Jamaica: 25

Jerusalem, Israel: 45

WWCode CALL TO ACTION:

Have a positive experience with us? Tell us about it by answering our short survey

Want to help us? Donate here to help us connect 5 million women in tech by 2019

***If you have an update for consideration for future newsletter(s) please summarize it in 140 characters or less and email it to [email protected] with “update for San Francisco newsletter” in the subject line***

Cheers,

Alaina

Women Who Code Inc. | CEO and Board Chair

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Women Who Code (WWCode) is a global non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring women to pursue and excel in technology careers. The organization tripled in size in 2013 and now has 10,000+ members spanning 13 countries. To date, WWCode has produced more than 500 events worldwide, boasts a growth rate of nearly 1,000 members per month.