December 14, 2011 6:00 PM - 40 attended
Hack Night & Cookie Party (San Francisco)
Hack night! In other words, bring a laptop, charger, and something you want to build or learn.
And COOKIE PARTY! It is the holidays, after all. Please feel free to bring a delicious batch to share with the group as we hack.
This event is ONLY open to people who identify as women. Emphatically queer and trans friendly.
6:00 Hang out, chat to neat ladies, eat pizza/cupcakes/soda/beer (thanks, Twilio!)
6:30 Start splitting up into smaller groups. Ask or offer help on your project, or ask for project ideas.
6:45 Work/chat/eat!
10:00 Go home and get your beauty rest.
Thanks to Twilio for the food, Serve for the registration, and Blazing Cloud for the space!
Logistics: The building has a few steps at the doorway. You can bring bikes into the space. We provide lots and lots of power strips, but bring your chargers.
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Sasha
You can come and work on whatever you like, including tutorials or sample projects. There are a few other Rails learners in the group that may be there so you can find study buddies.
Posted November 28, 2011 at 10:07 AM -
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Judy Tuan
No, it's definitely not Rails-only! While it's true that there is a non-trivial segment of people that are into Rails and learning Rails in the community, there is also vocal support for evangelizing the beauty of node.js (hi harthur!). I've also talked to people that do Java, Python/Djanjo/google app engine, php, perl, c, iOS... lots of variety! I am personally going to be staring at existing open frameworks for the Kinect and trying to learn C# even though I'm pretty much a beginner, haha.
Posted November 28, 2011 at 12:17 PM | 1 like -
Sara G.
Hi Anna, I'm new and learning too. Sounds like about the same level as you. So you are welcome to work with me and we can feel stupid together ;)
Posted November 28, 2011 at 2:44 PM | 1 like -
Anna Jobsis
@Sara G.: hooray for feeling stupid in solidarity! I'll be the one with the kiwi accent. ;)
Posted November 28, 2011 at 2:55 PM | 1 like -
Maria Butylkina
guys i`m also completely new! i`m glad that i`m not alone lol
Posted November 28, 2011 at 5:41 PM -
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Esther Johnson
Bummer, I have an important training. Def next time. ;-)
Posted December 7, 2011 at 11:18 PM -
Liz Henry
I'm thinking of messing around with Mediawiki and php and looking at Mediawiki extensions.... They are having a hackathon in January and I'd like to learn a bit before going to the hackathon! (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Hackathon_Jan...
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Krys
If I make it after the dentist's appt. I'd be happy to lend my help on brainstorming, ideating on someone else's project. Also down to spend some time learning more about PHP or rails with others. Awesome we're gonna be at Jen-Mei's company's office. It's a hectic week so if I don't see you, happy coding!
Posted December 8, 2011 at 8:28 PM | 1 like -
Sasha
I'm going to try to get hosting for womenwhocode.com figured out, and welcome feedback from the group about what would be useful there.
Posted December 9, 2011 at 10:51 AM -
Elizabeth Ford
Sasha: for me, the most useful thing on a wwcode website would be forums where we can all discuss various topics (learning x programming language, giving each other advice/support). :)
Posted December 9, 2011 at 10:54 AM -
Dominique
I haven't coded in 10 years, so will be looking for newbies too! This is my first step back in...love that you guys have a support group for this :) I also am hoping to chat with any passionate engineer who may be interested in joining a women empowerment-focused internet/mobile ecommerce start-up (if this is not the right forum to advertise that, by all means, tell me to shut up, but thought I would put it out there!!) Looking forward to tomorrow!
Posted December 13, 2011 at 1:07 PM -
A former member
Aw wish I could make this- I'm moving to new york tomorrow!!! I'll really miss this group, I hope I can find something similar in NYC!!
Posted December 13, 2011 at 3:16 PM -
Sasha
Oh no! I'm sorry to see you go, Ana. Good luck in your travels and come back and visit us soon.
Posted December 13, 2011 at 4:29 PM -
jennyw
Don't have time to bake cookies tonight, so bought a bunch for tomorrow. Vegans won't go cookie-less!
Posted December 13, 2011 at 7:31 PM -
Anna Jobsis
I'm baking some traditional New Zealand ANZAC biscuits (don't listen to Australian - they are totally kiwi ;) ). I figure this will inspire me to get started on those tutorials tonight, LOL.
Posted December 14, 2011 at 12:03 PM -
Adria Richards
w00t! Excited to be attending my first Women Who Code event tonight!
Posted December 14, 2011 at 12:12 PM -
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Kisha Richardson
Last minute emergency. I won't be able to attend. I hope someone can use my spot (Annie :-) - I will "unrsvp" now. Hope to meet everyone at the next one.
Posted December 14, 2011 at 4:10 PM -
Annie
Unless somebody else is late, and coming past tech shop menlo park soon, so I can get a ride, I'm afraid it's too late for me. 8c(
(if you are, I'm at 510 938 916 eight)Posted December 14, 2011 at 4:51 PM -
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Adria Richards
Annie is going to do an Ignite talk on "How To Get A Real Job In A Virtual World"
Posted December 14, 2011 at 8:56 PM | 3 likes -
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Annie
Adria's going to do an Ignite talk on "How To Move To San Francisco".
Posted December 14, 2011 at 9:09 PM | 1 like -
Annie
Somebody at cookie night was looking for beta testers for a dating site. If they would, I'm hoping that person will contact me 8cD (annie66us (at) yahoo)
Posted December 16, 2011 at 10:50 AM -
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SashaEvent HostFounder, OrganizerGreat crowd, great projects, great cookies. The energy, generosity, and talent in this community continually blow me away. Thanks to everyone for coming out.
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AlizaThis was my first WWCode event, and it was fantastic. The group is so diverse, friendly, and generous with knowledge and time.
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Nadia EghbalSo much fun! Everyone was incredibly positive and friendly and contributed to a collaborative environment.
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Adria RichardsThe meetup event was excellent! It was great to meet so many other women developers, learn about their projects and hear their stories. Plus the cookies were delicious!
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Anna JobsisThis was my first #WWCode event, and I thought it was going to be a little intimidating not know anyone, but everyone I talked to was super friendly, and I also got a good chance to sit down and work through the Rails tutorial. Can't wait for the spin off rails tutorial next week!
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Serena NgaiGreat group of ladies! Very welcoming and encouraging for any level of coding experience. Wish I could attend more of these events.
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