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ClojureBridge workshop organizing materials
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Add a list of other feminist and/or women-in-tech organizations #2

Open k4y3ff opened 9 years ago

k4y3ff commented 9 years ago

Post-Strange Loop, I've had a few people email me to mention that they'd have otherwise loved to go to the ClojureBridge event in San Francisco this week, but there's a big intro-to-hardware hackathon for women happening that weekend, too, and they've already signed up to lead a team, mentor, etc.

Any chance we could add a list of women-in-tech organizations--with local contact info, as well--so that ClojureBridge organizers could better target outreach, as well as double-check that two women-in-tech events aren't going to be scheduled simultaneously?

I'd be glad to submit a PR for SF!

seancorfield commented 9 years ago

That would be excellent! When I ran the May event in SF, I listed the Bay Area Clojure meetup and Girl Develop It but wasn't sure, at the time, what else was available. I've since learned about several more organizations but having them listed in the wiki here for each area would be a big help to future organizers.

k4y3ff commented 9 years ago

Great! Also, should this repo be a proper wiki like the community-docs repo, or...?

Not entirely sure what framework, etc. has officially been decided upon, and there's no CONTRIBUTING file for either, soooo... ;)

k4y3ff commented 9 years ago

Added a page here: https://github.com/ClojureBridge/organizing/wiki/Local-Organizations

Any organizations I'm missing for SF?

seancorfield commented 9 years ago

Possibly add Trans*H4CK? http://www.transhack.org/

seancorfield commented 9 years ago

And maybe http://www.sfcenter.org/ which runs workshops, employment fairs, and networking clubs. In particular they run bi-weekly events with http://transcodesf.org/ for co-working, mentoring, coding projects etc.

k4y3ff commented 9 years ago

Ooh, thanks! Added them all.

And, I'd actually never heard of Transcode before! So many groups. :+1:

bridgethillyer commented 9 years ago

This would work as a page in the wiki. Thanks, @kpfell. And I see your comment about lack of orientation in this repository, so I'll update the README to be clear that we use the wiki here.

transistorize commented 9 years ago

I started building a similar list for New York, and noticed some overlap with the SF list: Girl DevelopIt, Women Who Code, etc. How should we deal with the overlap? Should I repeat these entries under a NY section, but add NY specific emails, if any?

seancorfield commented 9 years ago

Good question! I think a lot of these organizations have local chapters and we can point students to the relevant local group. I believe both GDI and WWC fall into that category?

k4y3ff commented 9 years ago

A lot of these organizations do have local chapters, along with an overarching group that arranges global mailing lists, etc.

I don't know what everyone else would prefer regarding the descriptions of the organizations, but definitely repeat the organizations themselves under your city, with as much NYC-specific contact information you can provide.

We should also have a list of links to the individual cities at the top of the page, so folks don't have to scroll through the entire page to get to their region.

transistorize commented 9 years ago

I added several NY outfits for everyone's perusal. Please feel free to help me improve the wording or facts.