Money for Nothing, and the Chicks (work) for Free
Fundraising is almost as hard for me as self-promotion. In fact, it’s easier for me to do the broadcasting I did around the Ada fundraising than I imagine it would be for me to do my own seed round...
View ArticleDaughter wins with Geek Dad who hacks video game gender pronouns
[x-posted from Geek Feminism] Michael Chabon, in “Manhood for Amateurs”, writes an essay telling the story of being at the supermarket with his child, feeling quite run-down and barely hanging on, with...
View ArticleRelease Management gets an Intern!
Thanks to the GNOME Outreach Program for Women, we’ve got ourselves an awesome January intern who will be doing her first Open Source contributions all the way from Australia. Lianne Lee stood out as...
View ArticleCreating a Mozilla workshop for beginner Hacking of Mobile HTML5 Games
Participants in the Mozilla Hacking HTML5 Mobile Games workshop at the 2013 Dare 2B Digital conference. Dare 2B Digital is an annual South Bay conference that brings 300 young women ages 12-16 together...
View ArticleMy Progressive Benefits Dream for Mozilla
Recently I was approached by a co-worker to add my name to a petition about restoring the parental leave for Mozilla’s US employees. At some point between 2009 and 2012 our leave plan changed without...
View ArticleMozilla’s got projects for GNOME OPW Summer 2013
We’ve got 2 projects right now for GNOME Outreach Project for Women to apply to: https://wiki.mozilla.org/GNOME_Outreach_Summer2013 thanks to Liz Henry and Selena Deckelmann If anyone else at Mozilla...
View ArticleWomen Hacking Glass – First SF community meetup
I’ve created an event for the first meeting of Women Hacking Glass in SF at the Mozilla public space. Since I posted in G+ a few weeks ago things got busy and I didn’t have time to lean on Google like...
View ArticleWhy I was part of creating a thing called TransTech(SF)
Last night I helped hold the third local meetup of trans and genderqueer people who are interested in getting together to hack on our projects. This is the third event since the amazing Trans*H4CK...
View ArticleAscend Project Kickoff
Last year I approached Debbie Cohen, our C-level People person, and made a proposal. With all these Hacker School/Dev Boot Camp/Hackbright accelerator programs popping up, I had an idea to create an...
View ArticleTake on the harder problem, Google
This just in: Girls love to make bracelets, right? Google, who recently announced their very disappointing statistics for diversity within their company are trying to remedy that with a $50 million...
View ArticleArtisanal Contributors
Part 1: Start In Person Ascend had very few ‘rules’ but there was one which was non-negotiable: it’s an in-person program. We didn’t do distance learning, online coursework, or video-based classes. We...
View ArticleAscend New Orleans: We need a space!
I’m trying to bring the second pilot of the Ascend Project http://ascendproject.org to New Orleans in February and am looking for a space to hold the program. We have a small budget to rent space but...
View ArticleRelief from relieving stress
Backstory I’ve been at Pinterest just over 4 months and 2 months ago I sent out this email to all the women in my new workplace. I was torn about whether to write this or not when I first joined...
View ArticleLesbians Who Tech 2019 recap
I’ve been to every Lesbians Who Tech summit that has taken place in SF (6 total) at the beautiful Castro Theater and this year was the BEST. I love that this conference is unapologetically Political,...
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