by, for, and about women in science, technology, engineering, & math

This weekend I’m going to some of the LibrePlanet events — I met some great ladies at the women in free software dinner last night, and tomorrow we’ll talk more about ways to increase women’s participation in the free software community.

I also gave my first technical presentation yesterday! I gave an introduction to WordPress talk. I was definitely pretty nervous and didn’t know what to expect with this presentation — I can tell that I still have a lot to learn about giving effective presentations, but overall it went pretty well and I am definitely glad I took advantage of this opportunity!

Some links of interest this week:

• Under the Microscope’s “Message 2 a Younger Me” series has collected a bunch of interesting stories
• They also collected information on Women’s History Month events that are science-related
• Lisa Barone at Outspoken Media speaks out against women in tech cutting each other down
• Ada Lovelace Day t-shirts!
• Nola at DevChix blogs about her experiments with remote pair programming