Welcome, Georgia. :-) Looks interesting. I'll be sure to check it all out.
Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Georgia Guthrie <geor...@thehacktory.org> wrote: > Hi there, > I'm messaging from Philadelphia, where I've been the director of a small > hackerspace named The Hacktory for a number of years. We've developed a > devoted if small following that has a good gender balance, and we continue > to attract people of different genders who value gender equality and > diversity. I attended Adacamp DC two summers ago and thought it was > awesome, and I've really enjoyed the posts Sumana Harihareswara on the > Adacamp list has been sharing about her own reflections on the Gender Gap > issue. > > At The Hacktory we also developed a workshop we call "Hacking the Gender > Gap" to help people talk and understand the Gender Gap, which is been well > received in a number of > technical and community groups. This also lead to me being invited to > write about the topic for Make:Zine (Make Magazine's online blog) and r > recently in their print magazine: > http://makezine.com/magazine/make-40/where-are-the-women/ > > I've found an overwhelming interest in this topic in our local community > and visitors to The Hacktory, and I try to point them towards other > resources > and sources as much as possible. I'm very interested to be part of the > discussion here for that reason but also to keep tabs on the conversation > in general. > > Look forward to hearing more, > Best, > Georgia > > > > -- > Executive Director, The Hacktory <http://www.thehacktory.org/> > (215) 650-7295 > @The_Hacktory > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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