A day for marginalized genders / sexes to gather for civic hacking and training in a supportive environment (formerly Tech Lady Hackathon)
Washington, DC
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It's here!✨Registration is open for the 8th Annual @tech_rebalanced! Join us for TWO Saturdays filled with community, collaboration, and fun!!✨
eventbrite.com/e/tech-rebala…
It's a wrap! ✨✨✨✨ #TechRebalanced Virtual edition. We can't wait to see you all in-person soon 🌻🌸🌺
ALT a screengrab of the Zoom room of people!
Our final session w. @kara_h, "Introduction to Information Security/Cyber Security"
Helpful resources:
- queercon.org/
- and on Youtube: Hak5, Null Byte, DEFCONConference
First up after the break, we have @AfroDevGirl leading us though “Accessibility in Web Applications”
It’s not just the front end but we should be looking at full-stack accessibility.
Thank you Alexis for bringing us into the mindset of an engineer PLUS showing us a live demo 🖥️🖲️⌨️ #a11y #FullStackAccessability
Next up we are hearing from Valentina Subow on “Visualizing data in Python using plotnine” 💻🔬👩🏫
Starting with an overview of rare disease and orphan drug development data followed by a live notebook demo!
First tech session of the day: “Publicly Available Microdata: Why It's Useful and How to Use It in R”
github.com/hcbrown/TR_ACSexe…
@hayleycbbrown started w. a fantastic overview of publicly available datasets followed by a starter tutorial using data from ceprdata.org/
This morning we hosted an ad hoc sessions on the good/bad/ugly of the job market. 💾🖱️📀
A few resources and ideas:
- @DiversifyTechCo
- Recurse.com
- @lesbiantech
- Tech worker driven recruiting efforts over top-down recruiting
- hirethisdev.com/jobboards
Starting our first break this morning with some @Spotify 🎶👩🎤💃🕺:
open.spotify.com/playlist/3J…
open.spotify.com/show/1dWydH…
And we saved the best for last on day one! In “how to break into tech/civic tech” we heard from three amazing panelists @nmbudz @allenderlaura and Sarah Berlin ✨
"Bringing the strengths of a tech background to the nonprofit sphere is very possible, but requires a shift in thinking" - Sarah Berlin
“If you're in tech, you're always going to be restarting and learning” - @allenderlaura
Happy Tech, Rebalanced day, Part 2!!! 🌸✨💕🌺🌻😊 starting at 9am ET this morning. Today our speakers will cover Golang, R, Python, accessibility and cyber security.
