OpenHatch newsletter, February 2013
OpenHatch newsletter number 7. We love you so much we’d offer you a gratis ride into space if it were safe to do so.
It’s been a busy month, as Open Source Comes to Campus for Women in Computing ramps up.
We’re still looking for more women’s colleges and women in CS groups excited about bringing open source teaching to their campuses. If that’s you, or your company wants to sponsor such events, let us know: hello@openhatch.org. You can read more about our plans through the sponsor prospectus.
Events
We ran 2013’s first Open Source Comes to Campus for Women in Computing event, in collaboration with Harvard Women in Computer Science, on Sat February 16! Read more about the event.
Catherine Devlin reports on first Columbus Python Workshop for women and their friends: a success! Catherine also started a great thread on the OpenHatch events list about increasing economic diversity at OpenHatch-style events.
We’re working on the Events section of the OpenHatch wiki to make it an awesome resource for all running events and groups to share and learn from. As Daniel Choi writes:
RailsBridge Boston would be very interested in a good list of local
organizations, events, and resources that our attendees can turn to.
We’re holding a workshop this weekend, for 53 women and 7 men, with 21
teaching assistants. It would be great to give them all really good info
for ways to follow up and follow through.I think if OpenHatch could make wiki pages of resources for each city
that would be like a cave filled with gold.
How could we not add emphasis?
We’re also now welcoming outreach events to affiliate with OpenHatch. It’s a way to show solidarity with other events that aim to measure their impact, work with existing communities, and change open source projects and programming language user groups for the better. We’ll be blogging more about that in the future!
For upcoming Open Source Comes to Campus events, we’ve been wanting to improve our process for identifying good first tasks for newcomers to open source projects. So we’ve worked out a more human-oriented workflow for identifying bitesize bugs that we’ll use for these events. The tasks presented to students at the Harvard event were a combination of ones found via the existing volunteer opportunity finder, and this new process. Stay tuned as we continue to experiment.
OpenHatchy but not OpenHatch things around the web
The Free Software Foundation and Students for Free Culture have started the Empowermentors Collective: a group for women of color and queer people of color.
An update on GNOME’s Outreach Program for Women: 25 in the current class.
Responses to the 2013 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing CFP are due March 15.
Dev Bootcamp Chicago has a short post on learning how to attract women to web development.
The beginnings of a directory of FOSS Groups for Women and Girls at WSIS.
You can now subscribe to improve the quality of bugs, one a day, in a wide variety of projects, hosted on Github, through CodeTriage.
Get involved
The OpenHatch wiki. “It’s a wiki!” That means you can edithelp fill it with gold.