Civic hacknight #138 with Women and Color
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Presenter: Mohammed Asaduallah & Sharon Kennedy of Women and Color
Women and Color is a community of talented women and people of colour who are available for speaking opportunities at tech-related events. The goal of the organization is to foster more and better representation of diverse voices in the tech industry. The website started out as a Toronto-specific Wordpress site, and through the help of the Civic Tech community has been redeveloped as a custom web app that’s ready to scale to cities across North America.
Last week, Women and Color had its soft launch. Today, we’ll talk about some of the challenges we faced (and are still facing) and lessons we learned from the past year of volunteer-driven product development at Civic Tech.
https://beta.womenandcolor.com
Special shoutout to our contributors: Erin, Mark, Matt, Rose, Sarah, Eric, Maju, and everyone else who has supported us!
*** SOCIAL MEDIA CHEAT CODES:
@WomenAndColor @codeandcanoes @heymosef #diversityintech
*** BIOGRAPHIES:
Sharon is a full-stack developer and co-founder of Nomadic Labs. She has been one of the lead developers on the Women and Color project.
Mohammed is a designer at Tulip and the founder of Women and Color.
*** THIS MONTH'S VENUE SPONSOR:
Secret Location
The Emmy award-winning Secret Location combines cutting-edge technology with traditional storytelling to create powerful experiences for the web, mobile, tablet, and new platforms like Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR).
Check-in details: No sign-in necessary. South service elevator is unlocked for us. If you run into any issues, then please send a message to our "doorbell" at 780-652-2649 (780-6LAB-6IX), and the organizers will get a notification.
Accessibility: The venue is fully accessible (washrooms included).
*** ABOUT US:
Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, and all other Torontonians who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable and equitable, through design, tech, and data. (Coders are welcome, but you don’t have to be a coder to contribute!) Come and be part of it!
Agenda:
6:30-7: Welcome and intros
7-7:30: Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:30-9: Breakout groups (make something!)
For more info, visit http://civictech.ca
Here's our Code of Conduct: http://civictech.ca/about-us
Hope to see you Tuesday!
Civic hacknight #138 with Women and Color