Write/Speak/Code

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Check out NYC’s LiveStream of their August event!

On Thursday, August 27th, Write/Speak/Code NYC held their event “Developing Blog Posts Workshop for Women Devs” at Intent Media in Manhattan.

Intent Media has a great set up in there cafeteria area and was able to set up a livestream so that we had a recording of the night’s activities.

Melissa Wannish started off the evening by giving her lightning talk about Contributing to Open Source. Her slides and an additional post is available at her website at Ruby Thursday! Be sure to stop by her site and thank her for the useful information.

Luna took the stage next and presented on what she learned from reading The Healthy Programmer (you can find the book from The Pragmatic Bookshelf.) She has also graciously shared her slides on GitHub, you can download them here.

The rest of the evening was spent generating topics that we were experts at writing about. We then spent a good portion of the evening writing our first blog post and reviewing it with other women in attendance!

A reply of the night’s event can be found on LiveStream sites: please check it out!

Our next Meetup in NYC is Wednesday, September 30 at ThoughtWorks and we’ll be talking about
Learn & Teach Tech with Write/Speak/Code. Register on Meetup.com so you don’t miss out on the fun. 🙂

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Thoughts From a Lady Who Wants To Learn To Code More

There is a burning desire to grow more in technology and spread my wings. Coding is calling me but I have become overwhelmed at the different programs. By attending meetups such as Write/Speak/Code, I feel I may get reinsurance to hurl myself in and do something and feel good about where ever I start.

I come from a tech background in health technology, hardware, network support, troubleshooting and application setups/upgrades, testing. Working in the IT field has been most of my career path. Prior, I was an exercise instructor. Similarities with both of these careers is the passion to build, to fix, maintain, to revise the output with diligence.

This leads me to believe that I have to move toward coding…It is calling me. But I get doubts and think ” I am not the typical woman coder type?” I am not out of college, or in the common age group, and I am a single mom of two kids (almost tween/ older teen). However, I have a passion to expand my love of applications and configurations of front end software to working behind it to further improve the quality, the output.

As I reflect from my second Write/Speak/Code meetup, there is hope and there is a way. Networking with other women feels good and is necessary to break negative stereo thoughts that run in a female mind, dominated by their male allies. I appreciate the group’s involvement in empowering me and need to keep coming to keep the desire burning and eventually produce the desired output in the coding and programming field like I have done in other fields.

Dawn Feintuch
Application Analyst, Software Tester, Inspiring Coder