Mandy Moore, also known around the Internets as @therubyrep, is a podcast production expert, mother of orange tabbies, sucker for bad reality television, and boxed wine connoisseur. She adores her 7-year-old daughter, Reese’s peanut butter cups, and sitting around fire pits while listening to country music. She is a huge advocate for STEM education and women in technology.
Shoutouts:
The Recompiler’s Hardware Issue (Number 5) is now online in its entirety for your reading enjoyment!
Code Like a Girl announced that going forward they will accept stories written in both English and Spanish! They also want input on other languages there is a high demand for.
Tech Ladies is offering super affordable headshots in NYC and San Francisco for your LinkedIn, online portfolio, or profile picture.
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Reading:
I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you.
Another great article on security and why we need to be at our most vigilant right now by Quincy Larson of Free Code Camp. We often rely on security tools and encryption to protect us, but at border crossings that may not be enough.
We Are The Scientists Against A Fascist Government
This examines “what is our moral duty as scientists?” Insisting on keeping our work ‘apolitical’ creates the space fascism needs to function.
Conference Talk of the Week:
This talk is part of our “Favorite Talks” YouTube Playlist. Check it out and subscribe!
“Battling Unconscious Bias” by Neem Serra from AlterConf 2016 **
Neem Serra talked about unconscious bias and how it affects our perceptions, decisions, and interactions on a day to day basis. She discussed biases other than the usual sexism and racism that we’ve unfortunately come to expect during the hiring process and highlighted many others that may disqualify a job applicant. She then went on to encourage people to amend the process by squashing these biases with six concrete suggestions that people could use themselves or recommend to people within their companies who do hire people.
** I attended AlterConf and you can read more about it here!
Upcoming Events:
All conferences have been screened and abide by clear and strict Codes of Conduct.
DevNexus 2017: Connecting developers from all over the world, providing affordable education, and promoting Open Source values
Wednesday, February 22nd – Friday, February 24th: Atlanta, Georgia
MisinfoCon: A Summit & Creative Studio on Misinformation
Friday, February 24th – Sunday, February 26th: Cambridge, Massachusetts
ElixirDaze
Thursday, March 2nd – Friday, March 3rd: St. Augustine, Flordia
nz.js(con);: New Zealand’s National JavaScript Conference
Thursday, March 9th – Friday, March 10th: Wellington, New Zealand
RubyConf Phillipines
Thursday, March 16th – Friday, March 18th: Bohol, Phillipines
MagmaConf: (Save 30% Now! Includes conference, housing & meals)
Wednesday, March 29th – Friday, March 31st: Manzanillo, Colima Mexico
Render Conference: A 2-day conference for front-end developers – Scholarships Available! Apply by January 13th, 2017.
Thursday, March 30th – Friday, March 31st: Oxford, UK
AlterConf
Saturday, April 1st: London, England
DjangoCon Europe – Financial Assistance Available! Apply by January 16th, 2017.
Monday, April 3rd – Friday, April 7th: Florence, Italy
An Event Apart: Seattle – Three Days of Design, Code, and Content
Monday, April 3rd – Wednesday, April 5th: Seattle, Washington
Women Techmakers Montreal
Saturday, April 8th – Sunday, April 9th: Montreal, Canada
Codeland (a CodeNewbie Conference)
Friday, April 21st — Saturday, April 22nd: New York City
DrupalCon – Scholarship Opportunities Available! Apply.
Monday, April 24th – Friday, April 28th: Baltimore, Maryland
csv,conf,v3: A community conference for data makers everywhere
Tuesday, May 2nd – Wednesday, May 3rd: Portland, Oregon
DevOpsDays Austin
Thursday, May 4th – Friday, May 5th: Austin, Texas
Salt Lake City DevOpsDays
Tuesday, May 16th – Wednesday, May 17th: Salt Lake City, Utah
Continuous Lifecycle London: DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Containerization
Wednesday, May 17th – Friday, May 19th: London
PyCon
Wednesday, May 17th – Thursday, May 25th: Portland, Oregon
self.conference
Friday, May 19th – Saturday, May 20th: Detroit, Michigan
ChefConf
Monday, May 22nd – Wednesday, May 24th: Austin, Texas
Monitorama: An Open Source Monitoring Conference & Hackathon
Monday, May 22nd – Wednesday, May 24th: Portland, Oregon
PHP[tek]: The Premier PHP Conference
Wednesday, May 24th – Friday, May 26th: Atlanta, Georgia
O’Reilly’s Fluent Conference: Building a Better Web
Monday, June 19th – Thursday, June 22nd: San Jose, California
O’Reilly’s Velocity Conference: Build Resilient Distributed Systems
Monday, June 19th – Thursday, June 22nd: San Jose, California
We RISE Women in Tech Conference: Super Early Bird Tickets Available until March 12th!
Friday, June 23rd – Saturday, June 24th: Atlanta Georgia
Write/Speak/Code
Wednesday, August 23rd – Saturday, August 26th: Portland, Oregon
Call For Proposals:
Capital Golang Conference: Closes February 28th, 2017 02:23 EST (Offers Travel Assistance!)
Wonder Woman Tech – London: Closes March 1st; Long Beach: Closes June 1st; Washington DC: Closes September 15th
Music City Agile 2017 – Closes March 2nd, 2017 00:00 EST (Offers Travel Assistance!)
Music City Code 2017 – Closes March 2nd, 2017 00:00 EST (Offers Travel Assistance!)
CircleCityCon 4.0 – Closes March 3rd, 2017 11:59PM EST
Kansas City Developer Conference – Closes March 5th, 2017 19:00 EST (Offers Travel Assistance!)
Code(her) Conference – Closes March 31st
7in7 Digital Nomad Conference: Closes in April
We RISE Women in Tech Conference – Closes April 01, 2017 02:59 EDT (Offers Travel Assistance!)
DjangoCon – Closes April 11th, 2017 08:00 EDT
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