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

Bitcoin community & gender

• "how to explain bit coin to your mom" - hah! http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/02/business/dealbook/How-to-explain-bitcoin-to-your-mom.html

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

• http://theumlaut.com/2013/06/18/the-goddess-of-the-gender-gaps/

Gender at Conferences

• http://forgenderequityatconferences.blogspot.ca/

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

Women in tech

• "For some, "bro" culture offers one explanation for why there are so few women in tech"

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/technology/technologys-man-problem.html http://www.techmeme.com/140406/p2#a140406p2 …

• March 2014, Agism in Tech: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117088/silicons-valleys-brutal-ageism

• http://www.womenandtechnology.eu/digitalcity/projects/w4ict/homepage.jsp?dom=AAABECDQ&prt=BAAFLAHN&men=BAAFMLPT&fmn=BAAFLALI

Feminism

• http://geekfeminism.org/blog/

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

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

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

• (reference to feminist theory within broader society&economy..) http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/26/caring-curse-working-class-austerity-solidarity-scourge?CMP=twt_gu

Women and hackers

• http://makezine.com/2011/07/05/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-woman-hackerspace-member/

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

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

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

Coding

• 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.codecademy.com/

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

• 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

Sexism and harassment

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

• "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

Science

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

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

Gaming

• (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/

Misc

• 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/

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

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

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/

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"