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A curated list of inclusive events/projects/initiatives for women in the tech area. :rose: :computer: :gift_heart:

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A curated list of awesome inclusive events/projects/initiatives for women in the tech area.Awesome4Girls

Meetups/Events

Go-lang

Description: We are women in the #golang community. From Tweeter

Java

Description: Duchess is a global organization for women in Java technology, currently with members in over 60 countries. Duchess provides a platform through which women who work with Java can connect with each other and get involved in the greater Java community.

Javascript

Description: A brazilian iniciative to provide FREE classes of javascript for women in a Man-Free environment.

Python

Description: We want to inspire women to fall in love with programming. We organize free Python and Django workshops, create open sourced online tutorials and care about curating amazing first experiences with technology.

Description: An international mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community.

PHP

Description: We're an inclusive, global user group providing a support network within the PHP community.

Ruby

Description: Workshops are a free and fun way to get started or level up with Rails, Ruby, and other web technologies. Our events focus on increasing diversity in tech, so that people of all backgrounds can feel welcome and comfortable in our industry.

Description: Multinacional community to give tools for girls and women to build their ideas.

Description: Getting more women into Open Source!

UX

Description: Ladies that UX is a monthly meet up that creates a welcoming, transparent community of women that work in UX, who positively promote and teach each other.

Description: The first XX+UX event was held at Google HQ in October 2013, where attendees created “story cards” that represented themselves or their journey into UX.

General/Summits/Conferences

Description: App Camp For Girls is a place where girls can put their creative powers to work, designing and building apps, while learning more about the business of software and being inspired by women mentors in the field.

Description: To increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology.

Description: We facilitate hands-on technology-centric events to empower, support, and increase the confidence of women and girls. Through our events, we build community, empower participants to see themselves as leaders, and provide networking and mentoring opportunities in the rapidly growing high tech industry.

Description: Girls runs free part-time coding courses for young women across the UK, from St Andrews to Southampton. Most courses are run as University chapters, with graduate courses run in London.

Description: Event for women with papers and classes to inspire the female public to the tech area.

Description: DIY (“Do-It-Yourself”) Girls’ mission is to increase girls’ interest and success in technology, engineering and making through innovative educational experiences and mentor relationships. DIY Girls develops and implements educational programs and events designed to encourage engagement with technology, promote self-confidence and support aspiration to technical careers.

Description: Girl Develop It is a nonprofit organization that provides affordable programs for adult women interested in learning web and software development in a judgment-free environment.

Description: We are a not-for-profit organization with the mission to be the leading resource for women and youth to become passionate builders - not just consumers - of technology by learning technical skills in a hands-on, social, and collaborative way

Description: The unConference for women geeks of all kinds to share, connect, network, learn, inspire and have lots of fun.

Description: We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to reducing — and, we hope, ultimately eliminating — the gender gap in technology occupations. We hold workshops and an annual entrepreneurial summer camp aimed at giving middle-school girls hands-on experience with different kinds of technology and enable them to interact with women who have carved out successful careers in technology fields.

Description: WITI is the premier global organization helping tech-savvy women attain their professional goals. WITI organizes events and summits for women.

Description: Women Who Code (WWCode) is a U.S. based 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers. We connect amazing women with other like minded amazing women around the globe who unite under one simple notion – the world of technology is much better with women in it.

  • Women Who Tech

    Description: Organizers of the yearly Women Who Tech TeleSummit, with talks by women in technology, startups, and social media. Creators of the #Women2Follow hashtag on Twitter.

Others Initiatives

Awards

Description: Honor. Celebrate. Inspire. We believe that open source is the future of technology—and that it's time to recognize the contributions women are making.

Communities/Groups

Description: Enthusiastic group of Ladies with a focus on web-technologies who want to learn to code, need support in coding, or simply want to understand how the web is made. They meet regulary every two weeks. Everyone is welcome.

Description: The Debian Women project was founded in May 2004. We seek to balance and diversify the Debian Project by actively engaging with interested women and encouraging them to become more involved with Debian.

Description: KDE Women is a group of women in the KDE community. We are here to help increase the number of women in Open Source and to support each other.

Description: Lambda Ladies is an online community for anyone who identifies as a girl or woman and is interested in functional programming. Complete beginners are welcome.

Description: is a women-oriented Linux community. It is designed to provide both technical and social support for women Linux users, although men are encouraged to help and contribute

Description: The Ubuntu Women Project was founded in 2006 and aims to foster Women contributors and community involvement through mentoring and inspiration. The Ubuntu Women Team has many projects with which we attempt to boost the visibility of women within all areas of Ubuntu, and we invite you to help out.

Description: The Womoz Blog. Program updates and news from the women and mozilla project.

Documentaries/Movies

  • Code Girls: Documentary about girls who code and develop app ideas for the Technovation Challenge address issues in their community and try to solve problems through the use of technology.

  • She started it: Meet five young women determined to pursue their start-up dreams. She Started It is a documentary by Nora Poggi and Insiyah Saeed following Stacey Ferreira, Thuy Truong, Brienne Ghafourifar, Sheena Allen and Agathe Molinar over the course of 2+ years, illuminating the ups and downs these entrepreneurs face in building new businesses.

Jobs

  • Outreach Program for Women: Outreach Program for Women has been helping women (cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people get involved in free and open source software. It provided a supportive community for beginning to contribute any time throughout the year and offered focused internship opportunities twice a year with a number of free software organizations.

  • Women in Tech: Women in Technology is a commercial organisation committed to assisting suitably qualified and experienced women in their search for career opportunities in information technology.

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