Ladies Night

Projects
Participants	Becha
Skills	Community building
Status	Active
Niche	Community
Purpose	Use in other project

Ladies Night is an initiative to bring more female members to the hackerspace, and to organise activities of interest to women.

Tech Inc Meetings

• Hackerspace Ladies Night, Episode 1 (8 February 2013)
• International Women Day 2013 (8 March 2013)
• International Women Day 2014 (8 March 2014)
• Ladies Night III (5 April 2013)

In Media

http://www.talktoaletta.nu/blog/wat-betekent-ladies-night-amsterdam-hackerspace

Links to other initiatives

Mailing Lists

gca

netggrls

Meet-ups

Geekgirls dinner

Organisations

• http://www.stichtingnimf.nl/about-nimf?lang=en

• rattviseformedlingen.se

Links to resources and news

• http://geekfeminism.org/blog/

• February 2014, https://medium.com/p/6942d29d724 "How to talk about women, as a man"

• http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-rise-of-feminist-hackerspaces-and-how-to-make-your-own

• January 2014: Women in Tech & Bitcoin http://suitpossum.blogspot.nl/2014/01/crypto-patriarchy-problem-of-bitcoins.html

• Can This Children's Book Help Make The Internet A Better Place?

http://www.fastcompany.com/3025659/creation-stories/can-this-childrens-book-help-make-the-internet-a-better-place

• • http://www.girlswhocode.com/about-us/
  • http://blog.ted.com/2013/01/29/10-places-where-anyone-can-learn-to-code/
  • http://www.womenandtechnology.eu/digitalcity/projects/w4ict/homepage.jsp?dom=AAABECDQ&prt=BAAFLAHN&men=BAAFMLPT&fmn=BAAFLALI
  • http://www.codecademy.com/

• Funny : https://bitbucket.org/FeministSoftwareFoundation/c-plus-equality

• December 2013: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/07/anonymous-problem-with-feminism

• November 2013: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/06/four-steps-to-put-an-end-to-all-male-panels-at-conferences

• An app for gender equality http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/27/natascha-mcelhone-casual-sexism

• http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/priya-shetty/sexual-harassment-in-science_b_4102449.html (October 2013)

• "The Petrie Multiplier: Why an Attack on Sexism in Tech is NOT an Attack on Men" http://iangent.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-petrie-multiplier-why-attack-on.html (October 2013)

• Links to conferences with anti-haressment policy

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Adoption#Makerspaces.2FHackerspaces.2FCommunity_workshops

• (October 2013) Nosiebridge anti-haressment policy : https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12cubewzlvsytecs23schrgxrrsy1nsy

• (Sept 2013) Gaming community, we need to talk: sexism is a problem: http://devinandrewwhite.com/2013/09/22/gaming-community-we-need-to-talk-again/

• "To my daughter's high school programming teacher" https://www.usenix.org/blog/my-daughters-high-school-programming-teacher (september 2013)

• http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/girls-tweeting-not-twerking-their-way-to-power/

• August 2013: Over-presence of incompetent men ;-) http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men/

• Hacking the Gender Gap: http://www.thehacktory.org/?page_id=2234

http://adainitiative.org/2013/08/is-impostor-syndrome-keeping-women-out-of-open-technology-and-culture/

http://www.netmagazine.com/features/primer-sexism-tech-industry#null

http://farukat.es/journal/2013/08/694-dear-dave-winer-you-cant-silence-truth

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/internet/2012/07/what-online-harassment-looks

http://www.cc4g.net/ Coding Club for Girls, UK

http://www.ncwit.org/resources/girls-it-facts

lelacoders:

https://n-1.cc/g/donestech+lelacoders

blogs: https://n-1.cc/blog/group/27166/all

https://n-1.cc/blog/view/1640847/adria-richards-pycon-and-how-we-all-lost-by-amanda-blum

https://n-1.cc/blog/view/1644541/sexisme-chez-les-geeks-pourquoi-notre-communaute-est-malade-et-comment-y-remedier-parmarlard

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/03/130325-elise-andrew-i-fking-love-science-women/

• December 2012: http://asherwolf.net/dear-hacker-community-we-need-to-talk/101/

http://dpi.studioxx.org/en

http://dpi.studioxx.org/en/hacktivism-art-practicing-life-and-computer-hacking-feminist-activism

http://dpi.studioxx.org/en/feminist-hackerspaces-safer-spaces

http://dpi.studioxx.org/en/hacking-care-attention-bien-%C3%AAtre-et-politique-de-l%E2%80%99ordinaire-dans-le-milieu-hacktiviste

March 2013

http://roadtociso.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/sexism-in-hacker-culture-or-the-day-i-discovered-i-was-a-man/

http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/21/sendgrid-under-ddos-attack-after-its-developer-evangelist-complains-about-sexual-jokes-at-pycon/

http://juliaelman.com/blog/2013/03/21/because-it-works/

https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/

http://teespring.com/forkmydongle

supporting "girls who code" when ordering a t-shirt that says "fork my dongle" http://www.girlswhocode.com/

http://www.michele.me/blog/archives/2012/10/behaving-like-cavemen-isnt-cool/

• one from a woman in atheism & sceptic community:

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/10/sexism_in_the_skeptic_community_i_spoke_out_then_came_the_rape_threats.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2309812/The-brain-scans-reveal-men-REALLY-dont-understand-women.html

• http://www.shakesville.com/2009/08/terrible-bargain-we-have-regretfully.html

"be vigilant, make yourselves trustworthy. Every day"