Also, not specific to software: http://leanin.org
HTH, -Alex On 5/23/16, 6:36 AM, "Patricia Shanahan" <p...@acm.org> wrote: >Systers, http://anitaborg.org/get-involved/systers/ > >More generally, the Wikipedia article on "Women in Computing", >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing, has some possible >resources. > >On 5/23/2016 3:45 AM, Sharan Foga wrote: >> Hi All >> >> Just a quick update. I've sent out an email to the following groups so >>far: >> >> - Pyladies >> - Phpladies >> - Women Who Code >> - Girls Who Code >> - Black Girls Code >> >> I'll post any feedback I get. Also if anyone thinks of any other groups >> they'd like me to contact then please let me know. >> >> Thanks >> Sharan >> >> On 20/05/16 14:26, Sharan Foga wrote: >>> Thanks very much to everyone for their feedback and support. >>> >>> Rich - I will contact these groups to see what feedback and advice >>> they can give. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Sharan >>> >>> On 20/05/16 14:05, Rich Bowen wrote: >>>> I would suggest that the most constructive thing we could do would be >>>>to >>>> reach out to pyladies and phpwomen and other similar organizations >>>> and ask >>>> for recommendations and assistance in setting up a similar entity >>>>here. >>>> On May 19, 2016 11:18, "Sharan Foga" <sharan.f...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi All >>>>> >>>>> I'm interested in finding out how we could encourage more women to >>>>> participate on Apache projects. It's a discussion topic that came up >>>>> last >>>>> week while I was at Apachecon. My understanding is that we don't >>>>> have any >>>>> current strategies in place so I think it could be good to look at >>>>> gathering some ideas about how to tackle the problem and also hear >>>>> about >>>>> any lessons learned from any previous or similar strategies. >>>>> >>>>> What do people think? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> Sharan >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>
