Free resources for web designers

Jan 21, 2009 GMT

Nelly Yusupova posted a list of free resources for web designers on the Webgrrls International site. Her list includes links to free web apps, vector packs, tutorials, and themes. You can follow Nelly's posts over on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DigitalWoman

Lifehacker's Gina Trapani: Letter from the Editor

Jan 16, 2009 GMT

Gina Trapani stepped down from her lead editor role at Lifehacker and is taking a couple of weeks off before starting on a new career path. Today Gina posted what she calls "the most personal thing I've ever written on Lifehacker" – a farewell Letter from the Editor: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish Although she's leaving her current position, Gina still plans to contribute to Lifehacker. In her post she writes, "After I take a couple of weeks off, I'll be back here in February publishing a weekly feature series that will detail my latest coding projects, productivity revelations, and favorite life hacks and software tricks." Gina also writes about the fear she...

SCALE 7x: Speaking at WIOS track

Jan 13, 2009 GMT

I'm excited to say that I'll be speaking at the SCALE 7x Women in Open Source track next month. January 23rd marks the one-year anniversary of this ROSE Blog. Shortly after I started my blog, I attended SCALE 6x and the WIOS track. At last year's event, I talked with several of the speakers, including Stormy Peters, Cat Allman, and Danese Cooper, and they all encouraged me to consider public speaking. Meanwhile, I finished my thesis on women in open source and attended quite a few more industry events in 2008, which allowed me to meet other women I'd read about while doing my research, including Dru Lavigne. Over the course of the past year, my blog motivated me to stay current on...

She's Geeky: Tech conference for women

Jan 10, 2009 GMT

The She's Geeky "unconference" for women in technology will be held January 30-31 in Mountain View, California. Visit the She's Geeky homepage to see a video montage of the first conference, which was held in October 2007 at the Computer History Museum. According to the event site: She’s Geeky events are neutral, face-to-face gathering spaces for women who like to geek out. Attendees include women involved in all aspects of technology, including those who like to use geeky tools, not just coders, programmers and engineers. You don’t even have to be from the computer industry. You just have to be a woman who identifies as a geek. If you attend She's Geeky, please leave a...

Kids, cooking, and chemistry

Jan 08, 2009 GMT

I ran across this article on the NYTimes site, Kitchen Chemistry for Middle Schoolers. I wish this class had been around back when I was a kid (and had to walk six miles to school each day, in the snow, uphill and barefoot). The curriculum, Kitchen Science Investigators, was developed by Christina Gardner and Tamara Clegg, who are working towards computer science doctorates at Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing. The article says that students prepared dishes while also experimenting with the ingredients, such as using yeast to blow up a balloon and make pizza crust rise. This class would be a perfect way to combine my desire to teach my daughter how to cook with her desire...

Mark your calendars: Ada Lovelace Day

Jan 08, 2009 GMT

March 24th is Ada Lovelace Day, and you can participate by blogging about women in technology: Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women's contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Whatever she does, whether she is a sysadmin or a tech entrepreneur, a programmer or a designer, developing software or hardware, a tech journalist or a tech consultant, we want to celebrate her achievements. In honor of Ada Lovelace, one of the first women programmers, you can sign up online and pledge to blog about a...

Wise Women

Jan 06, 2009 GMT

If you are a web designer, developer, or programmer, then you might want to check out wise-women.org, "a world-wide, online community of web designers, developers and programmers." Actually, you might want to check out the site anyway because you'll find articles such as Learning Podcasting by Carolyn Wood, Achieve Accessibility with Dreamweaver by Virginia DeBolt, and Logo Primer by Suz Stephens. (link submitted by Marcel Gagné)