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Technology related women's groups
On our first discussion evening. we want to take a look at women's groups with a clear tech aspect. We are going to focus on computer-technology related groups, and have invited guests who are engaged in running such a group and organize larger international gatherings of like-minded women, breaking the mold of geek clubs stereotypically comprised of slightly socially inept males.
Everyone who has ever been at a hackmeeting, a hacklab or
any similar event or place has probably got the impression that
computer user's groups are usually comprised of somewhat socially
challenged - or at least slightly geeky - male individuals with certain
common stereotypical qualities. The programmer, the hardware expert,
the system-administrator ... those words probably conjure up
some sort of male image in most people's minds.
That's not all there is to it, though. They are out there: The geek
girls, the female techies and the media activist women with their customized
laptops running this typical computergeek thing called Linux. They have
their own user's groups, support networks and hackmeetings, and they
become more and more common and widespread.
On this evening we want to introduce you to some of them,
and let them tell you what it is like to be a female computergeek,
hacktivist or just plain Linux user.
The discussion will be going on live on Friday 3rd of March between 19:00 and 20:00 in the ASCII, and streamed online at http://freeteam.nl:9000/ascii.ogg (mp3 player needed)
Check on this page for a recording of this discussion for later download.
the recording of this evening's talk will soon be available