Welcome to LinuxChix
LinuxChix is a community for women who like Linux and Free Software, and for women and men who want to support women in computing. The membership ranges from novices to experienced users, and includes professional and amateur programmers, system administrators and technical writers.
See About LinuxChix for more information, and Join LinuxChix to join.
AdaCamp July 10 - 11 in DC, Applications are open
Applications for AdaCamp DC are now open - apply now!
AdaCamp DC will be July 10 - 11, 2012, in Washington DC, co-located
with Wikimania 2012. We are likely to have more applications than
available slots, so apply now to have the best chance of attending.
Applications close June 15 (May 11 for those requesting travel
assistance).
Who should apply
AdaCamp DC will bring together a wide variety of people from open
technology and culture, all of whom are working to support women in
open tech/culture. We're looking for people who:
Etsy sponsors ten $5,000 scholarships for women in Hacker School
Applications are open for the Summer 2012 batch of Hacker School. The deadline to apply is May 7, though we'll accept late applications. It will run from June 4 to August 25. The batch will be hosted at Etsy, which is also sponsoring $50,000 worth of scholarships for female programmers (Hacker School remains free for all students; the scholarship money is for living expenses). We're trying to make this batch at least 50% women.
We're hoping to make our summer batch our biggest yet with 40 students. That number would have seemed absurd to us last year when we started with six students, but now it seems quite doable.
We're going to run the batch in two cohorts of 20 students each. We think this will give people the best of all worlds. Day to day it will feel a lot like this batch, which has 20 students, but we'll have social and other events where the two groups come together, and they'll be able to draw on the collective intelligence of a much larger group.
Read complete details here https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/1-summer-2012-applications-open
'C Programming For Absolute Beginners' has started on the Courses list
Come one, come all, come learn the basics of C programming in a nice bite-sized course that speaks plain English, and has fun examples. All you do is register for the Courses mailing list. All lessons and messages are archived. Come one come all!
http://mailman.linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/courses
Call for Participation: Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 2012 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
http://gracehopper.org/2012/participate/call-for-participation/
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The 12th annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC)
has opened its Call for Participation. The annual conference,
presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, is the
world’s largest gathering of women in computing. The Grace Hopper
Celebration will take place from October 3 – 6, 2012 at the Baltimore
Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. This year’s theme “Are We
There Yet?” recognizes that technology and the culture of technology
are continuously evolving but there are also concrete goals we are
striving to achieve.
She's Geeky 10, Mountain View, CA, Jan. 27-29
She's Geeky 10 is coming back to the Mountain View Computer History Museum!
It's a great unconference for geeky women -- come hear about cool projects other women are working on, social issues related to working in tech, and all sorts of other topics. And share your stories and expertise!
January 27-29, 2012
Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043
More info and registration: http://www.shesgeeky.org
