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.
Listening:
This week on The Recompiler Podcast, Christie chats with Meli Lewis, data editor for the Oregonian about data visualization, ham radio, emergency preparedness, and much more.
Greater Than Code recorded possibly the most powerful episode to date with Jenn Schiffer!
The Frontside did an awesome podcast episode on why it’s good to build useless stuff for creativity, accomplishment, and learning purposes.
Reading:
As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, this week another story has surfaced about harassment and discrimination towards women in the workplace. Sad times we live in. However, this isn’t the only recent instance of this type of behavior and it needs to be talked about and addressed across every marginalized group of people.
Last year, Amélie Lamont spoke out about her experience at Squarespace and brought up this thought-provoking conversation on race, gender, and discrimination via Twitter.
These two stories are by no means the only two that matter, but it reminded me of an article that Ashe Dryden wrote back in 2013 about The Risk in Speaking Up and I wanted to share it with everyone because it is such an important read about how to help more people come forward and fix the problem at hand.
Remember: “Lift people up. Don’t put them down.”
Conference Talk of the Week:
This talk is part of our “Favorite Talks” YouTube Playlist. Check it out and subscribe!
“Dealing with Intellectual Trolling” by Alexandra Bowen from AlterConf 2016 **
There is a strong belief amongst many that online life is not real life. Alexandra Bowen gave a great talk urging people to find and defeat the Internet and social media trolls and to not let those trolls define who you are. Fact: 40% of adult Internet users have experienced online harassment and it mostly affects women, people of color, and LGBT people. Anti-harassment automated tools and algorithms need to exist to keep people safe online because community members are completely swamped by attempting to keep up with doing it on their own. Codes of conduct also need to exist and be enforced. The malicious need to be penalized for abusive actions. The bottom line is we need to work together to keep the Internet for everyone. Take the pledge and #HackHarassment.
** I attended AlterConf and you can read more about it here!
Upcoming Events:
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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)
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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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