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Issue 149 We are building features for the Women Who Code community and we want to highlight that work with our stakeholders, you! THANK YOU to our contributors for dedicating their valuable time to help us build tech a place where women can excel. You can follow all of our work on github. Below are […]
A Look Back at the Women Who Code Portland — IoT Hackathon 2018
What do soldering irons, bananas, origami trees, and Red Bull have in common? They were all present at the Women Who Code Portland—IoT Hackathon 2018. Over the weekend of March 23rd-25th, almost 100 developers, designers, project managers, and hardware enthusiasts gathered at Puppet to work on IoT (Internet of Things) projects. This year’s hackathon theme […]
On A Journey through Open Source
On a beautiful, balmy September evening, we came together for another fantastic networking event as a part of our monthly Networking Night Series. This speaker series highlights the work of women at a different tech company each month, organized around a selected theme. This event, sponsored by Intel, featured women developers from the Open Source Technology Center […]
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Issue 148 We are building features for the Women Who Code community and we want to highlight that work with our stakeholders, you! THANK YOU to our contributors for dedicating their valuable time to help us build tech a place where women can excel. You can follow all of our work on github. Below are […]
dockerCon EU 2018
I went to DockerCon EU 2018 in Barcelona last week, the conference for containerization strategies with around 1500 participants from all over the world. Barcelona is a cool sunny city adding Docker to it, it is the dream of every developer, systems admin, architect, IT decision maker. Thanks to WomenWhoCode I got a ticket, thanks […]
Women in technology: Have we really advanced in 2018?
This year has been a significant one for women working in tech. The recent protests at Google, the UK’s Payment Transparency Regulations, and an increased awareness of the challenges women face in the workplace as raised by the #metoo movement—all of these things show that, decades after being systematically pushed out of the tech sector, […]
My first #DockerCon
I was beyond excited when I learnt that Women Who Code chose me to receive a free ticket for DockerCon Europe 2018 in Barcelona! width=”624″ height=”832″ class=”fr-fic fr-dii”> It was my first time attending a tech conference. Moreover, I am new to Docker. I work as a junior software developer in a company that uses […]
How recruiters can help close the gender gap within the tech arena
As the wave of digital transformation spreads across the world, the demand for skilled tech workers continues to rise. Tech jobs are being created at an unprecedented rate, and the talent pool is struggling to catch up; skill sets in demand by businesses shift quickly in tech, and workers can’t up skill fast enough to […]
WW Maker Bytes
Issue 147 We are building features for the Women Who Code community and we want to highlight that work with our stakeholders, you! THANK YOU to our contributors for dedicating their valuable time to help us build tech a place where women can excel. You can follow all of our work on github. Below are […]
Fun in an All Female Hackathon, Develop Her
My technology career is a happy accident. Accident because, when I joined Accenture, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I joined because my friends were also hired and I thought it would be interesting to do some programming work. In the end, 21 years later, I still like what I do and I […]