Archive for the ‘Equity’ Category
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Via Lin Zhou:
From: Susan Dorward
Google has started offering coaching to most of their employees, and I've been lucky enough to be approved as one of their coaches. They recently sponsored a series of talks given by their coaches and they have posted videos of these talks up on YouTube. ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
I couldn't attend the first SciBarCamp last weekend (I was three time zones away), but Nature magazine said good things, as others. W00t!
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Registration is open for the next Toronto Girl Geek Dinner on Wednesday, February 20. No word yet on whether there are sponsored spots for students...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
The next Toronto Girl Geek Dinner is set for next Wednesday, the 17th, at 7pm and they have sponsored spots for 12 students. It's a great networking opportunity: please visit http://torontogirlgeekdinners.pbwiki.com/ to sign up.
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Thanks to generous sponsorship from TUCOWS, the Toronto Geek Girls dinner series has spots for up to 25 female students (graduate or undergraduate) to attend the next dinner and talk on September 19. Space is limited, so sign up now!
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Tatiana Apandi at O'Reilly has organized a series of "Women in Tech" articles, the first of which is now up on the web. The blurb says:
The timely new series reveals the challenges, rewards, and, sometimes, frustrations of being a woman in an industry still dominated by men. "Each day, we'll ...
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
The second Toronto Girl Geeks Dinner will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 6:00 pm (tentatively, at the Hot House restaurant downtown). The speaker will be Leila Boujnane, co–founder and CEO of Idée Inc. Leila has been instrumental in making Idée the leader in visual search and image ...
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Friday, June 29th, 2007
Girl Scouts of the USA
420 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10018
V 212-852-5049 F 212-852-6515
rfarmer@girlscouts.org
www.girlscouts.org
What influenced you to pursue a career in information technology? What could we learn from you and other women working in IT that will increase the number of girls and women who are interested in the field?
The K-12 ...
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
The first Toronto Girl Geek Dinner (modeled after ones in London) is being held on Wednesday, June 27, at Alice Fazooli's. Sandy Kemsley, a systems architect with 20-odd years of experience, is the featured speaker. I look forward to reports...
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Good post from Tara Hunt (ex-Saskatchewan, ex-Toronto, now doing the Web 2.0 startup thang) about how all the warnings and discussion about the crap women have to deal with online contributes to the climate of fear. Interesting and well-reasoned; comments are worth a read too. (Via Adam Goucher, again.)
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