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Computing skills boot camp in Boston June 24-25 10 Apr 2013 | 08:14 am
On June 24-25, 2013, Software Carpentry will run a computing skills boot camp in Boston for women in science, engineering, and medicine. With three rooms and six instructors, it will be one of the b...
Joseph Reagle on the gender gap in geek culture 27 Feb 2013 | 09:34 am
Is geek culture sexist? Joseph Reagle, Assistant Professor of Communications Studies at Northeastern University and author of a new paper entitled, “Free as in Sexist? Free culture and the gender gap,...
A #tbldownunder tip jar for Pia 11 Feb 2013 | 03:04 am
A year ago, when Pia thought it might be cool to bring Tim Berners-Lee to Australia for linux.conf.au 2013, she didn’t foresee quite how much work the project would involve... But in addition to her ...
Happy Birthday Alan Turing! 24 Jun 2012 | 01:19 am
Let's celebrate Alan Turing's 100th birthday by writing a piece of code, breaking a piece of code or just reading up on his various inventions. The BBC is celebrating with publications that celebrates...
AdaCamp DC applications close tomorrow (June 22) 23 Jun 2012 | 12:43 am
Tomorrow (Friday June 22) is the final application deadline to attend AdaCamp DC . Applications are open to people from any region, but we especially encourage people from Washington DC and surroun...
linux.conf.au 2013: Call For Proposals (closes July 6) 5 Jun 2012 | 06:09 am
=== linux.conf.au Call For Proposals === We are pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals for linux.conf.au 2013 is now open! The conference will showcase the best of open source and communit...
PyCon Australia 2012 and Google Australia announce gender diversity grants 5 Jun 2012 | 05:53 am
PyCon Australia and Google Australia are pleased to announce that they're joining forces to offer gender diversity delegate grants to women who wish to attend PyCon Australia in 2012. These grants w...
AdaCamp July 10 - 11 in DC, Applications are open 29 Apr 2012 | 11:11 am
Applications for AdaCamp DC are now open - apply now! http://dc.adacamp.org/apply/ AdaCamp DC will be July 10 - 11, 2012, in Washington DC, co-located with Wikimania 2012. We are likely to have mor...
Etsy sponsors ten $5,000 scholarships for women in Hacker School 18 Apr 2012 | 05:52 am
Applications are open for the Summer 2012 batch of Hacker School. The deadline to apply is May 7, though we'll accept late applications. It will run from June 4 to August 25. The batch will be hosted ...
'C Programming For Absolute Beginners' has started on the Courses list 5 Feb 2012 | 11:00 pm
Come one, come all, come learn the basics of C programming in a nice bite-sized course that speaks plain English, and has fun examples. All you do is register for the Courses mailing list. All lessons...