Systers Code Sprint
Twelve hours into the day and two Starbucks stops behind me, I’m hanging out at the Systers Code Sprint. I met Robin Jeffries!! She’s super nice and we had a very good discussion about why Systers uses their current system rather than say the Groups developed by the company Robin works for (Google). ;-)
The goal for this session is to get folks engaged long term and to teach people about open source projects and why they might care about them. You can learn more about their efforts on their wiki. Right now we’ve broken into smaller groups and the experts are coaching each group individually. It seems like it’ll be a great learning experience for some of the students here. If you’re interested in getting involved, there’s still time!
If you know me, you might really be wondering why I’m here. I <3 Systers. More about Systers from their site:
“Systers is the world’s largest email community of technical women in computing. It was founded by Anita Borg in 1987 as a small electronic mailing list for women in “systems”. Today, Systers broadly promotes the interests of women in the computing and technology fields. Anita created Systers to “increas[e] the number of women in computer science and mak[e] the environments in which women work more conducive to their continued participation in the field.”
To get involved on the dev side, you can subscribe to Systers-dev – their public development mailing list.
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