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Reading:
Fitting In: The Benefits and Setbacks of Being A Woman in A Male-Dominated Workplace: A woman reflects on how the way she dressed surprised her coworkers and why that was problematic for her because she didn’t want compliments on how she dressed, she wanted them to acknowledge and compliment her work.
Revisiting #DisabilityTooWhite One Year Later (Hint: There’s Still A Problem): An article revisiting a tweet from a year ago from Vilissa Thompson on her goal for the hashtag #DisabilityTooWhite to continue the conversation that it started — to address the erasure, exclusion, harm, and invisibility disabled people of color experience in [the larger disabled] community.
Holyoke Teens Develop Anti-Bullying App: A group of teenage girls worked together to develop an anti-bullying app called AllSides. It includes advice for victims and perpetrators of bullying, motivational videos, and contact information for emergencies.
This Oakland high school robotics club should be the future of a more diverse tech industry: “When we go to competitions, we really don’t look like the other teams that are there,” said Kai Drayton-Yee, one of the leaders of Oakland Tech’s robotics team, who is Chinese, Japanese, and black.
Listening:
Greater Than Code Episode @033: Mental Illness with Greg Baugues: Greg Baugues talks about how mental illness affected his life and early career as a software developer. Collectively, we (myself included this week!) discuss stigma, shame, fear, personal experiences, and coping mechanisms.
Conference Talk of the Week:
This talk is part of our “Favorite Talks” YouTube Playlist. Check it out and subscribe!
“Understanding ‘Spoon Theory’ and Preventing Burnout” by Jameson Hampton
Upcoming Events:
All conferences have been screened and abide by clear and strict Codes of Conduct.
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
Out Of Office: An Online Remote Work Event
Tuesday, May 30th: Virtual Conference!
Music City Code:
Thursday, June 1st – Saturday, June 3rd: Nashville, Tennessee
PyCon CZ:
Thursday, June 8th – Saturday, June 10th: Prague
CircleCityCon 4.0:
Friday, June 9th – Sunday, June 11th: Indianapolis, Indiana
RubyNation:
Friday, June 16th: Arlington, VA
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
Open Source Bridge
Tuesday, June 20th – Friday, June 23rd: Portland OR
We RISE Women in Tech Conference:
Friday, June 23rd – Saturday, June 24th: Atlanta Georgia
GORUCO:
Saturday, June 24th: New York City
Joy of Coding:
Friday, June 30th: Rotterdam, Netherlands
PolyConf: The Universe of Programming Languages
Friday, July 7th – Sunday, July 9th: Paris, France
An Event Apart:
Monday, July 10th – Wednesday, July 12th: Washington, D.C.
360|AnDev:
Thursday, July 13th – Friday, July 14th: Denver, CO
GopherCon: The Largest Go Conference in the World
Wednesday, July 12th – Saturday, July 15th: Denver, CO
Kansas City Developer Conference:
Thursday, August 3rd – Friday, August 4th: Kansas City, Missouri
PyCon Australia:
Thursday, August 3rd – Tuesday, August 8th: Melbourne, Australia
That Conference: Summer Camp for Geeks:
Monday, August 7th – Wednesday, August 9th: Wisconsin Dells, WI
Deccan RubyConf:
Friday, August 12th: Pune, India
DjangoCon
Sunday, August 13th – Friday, August 18th: Spokane, Washington
FOSS4G: International Conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial
Monday, August 14th – Saturday, August 19th: Boston, MA
Uptime Conf: by Code & Supply
Thursday, August 24th – Friday, August 25th: Pittsburgh, PA
Write/Speak/Code:
Wednesday, August 23rd – Saturday, August 26th: Portland, Oregon
An Event Apart:
Monday, August 28th – Wednesday, August 30th: Chicago, IL
Full Stack Fest:
Monday, September 4th – Friday, September 8th: Barcelona, Spain
Pacific Northwest PHP:
Thursday, September 7th – Saturday, September 9th: Seattle, WA
Connect.Tech:
Wednesday, September 22nd – Friday, September 24th: Atlanta, GA
Strange Loop:
Thursday, September 28th – Saturday, September 30th: St. Louis, MO
EuRuKo:
Friday, September 29th – Saturday, September 30th: Budapest
NCDevCon:
Saturday, October 7th – Sunday, October 8th: Raleigh, NC
All Things Open:
Monday, October 23rd – Tuesday, October 24th: Raleigh, NC
ZendCon:
Monday, October 23rd – Thursday, October 26th: Las Vegas, NV
LISA17:
Sunday, October 29th – Friday, November 3rd: San Francisco, CA
An Event Apart:
Monday, October 30th – Wednesday, November 1st: San Francisco, CA
Øredev:
Monday, November 6th – Friday, November 10th: Malmö, Sweden
An Event Apart:
Monday, December 11th – Wednesday, December 13th: Denver, CO
Call For Proposals:
Tech Inclusion – Apply Anytime!
Twilio SIGNAL: London – Closes May 31st
Seattle JS – Closes May 31st
Utah JS – Closes May 31st
RubyConf Colombia – Closes June 1st (Offers Travel Assistance!)
Non Binary in Tech – Closes June 1st (Offers Travel Assistance!)
Wonder Woman Tech – Long Beach: Closes June 1st; Washington DC: Closes September 15th
DevOpsDays Chicago – Closes June 17th
DevOpsDays Kansas City – Closes June 30th
Elixirocks – Closes June 30th
.NET/FRINGE/ – (Travel Expense Reimbursement Opportunities!)
DevFest Siberia – Closes July 1st (Travel Expenses Covered!)
DevOps Days Madison – Closes August 1st
Keep Ruby Weird – Closes August 27th
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Mandy Moore, also known around the Internets as @therubyrep, is a podcast production expert, mother of orange tabbies, and sucker for bad reality television. 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. She is also the show manager and maintainer of Greater Than Code.
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