Women in Tech - Resources

Women's Lunch

• Topics and Readings - DBC San Francisco

Mailing Lists / Blogs

• Women Who Code // (I particularly like the list of Hackathons - it's comprehensive)
• Femgineer // Poornima Vijayashanker started this in 2007 as a place for combine a passion for writing and engineering
• Ellen Chisa's blog
• Diana Kimball's blog

Badass People to Follow on Twitter

• Ellen Chisa - Writes about tech, product design, & women's empowerment; one of my favorite people to follow on twitter
• Diana Kimball - Engineer/product manager at SoundCloud, taught herself to code while in business school, write a great blog about learning coding
• Pamela Fox - now at Kahn Academy, formerly front-end engineer at Coursera, leader of Girl Develop It San Francisco.
• Tracy Chou - Engineer at Pinterest; scored the coveted role of judge at the TechCrunch Disrupt start-up funding competition; her Twitter feed has become a must-follow for tech news and riffs on industry culture; and in May, she landed on the cover of Wired.
• Christina Cacioppo - self taught programmer; used to be an associate at USV working for Fred Wilson; she's built an impressive amount of stuff over the last 18 months. Worth digging back through her blog posts and tweets.
• Rebecca Murphey - JS developer extraordinaire. Amazingly accomplished
• Sarah Allen - developer, entrepreneur, co-founder of Railsbridge.
• Rachel Nabors - designer/front-end developer, CSS animation wizard
• Kate Matsudaira - entrepreneur, technologist, and creator of http://www.thesparknotebook.com
• Caroline Artz - DBC alum, has a lot of great resources for front-end / programming
• Jen Myers - Former teacher at DBC SF, curriculum director at code org in Chicago
• Rebecca Miller Webster​ - Former teacher at DBC Chicago, director of Thoughtbot Chicago ​* Amy Wibowo - ​Formerly at Airbnb, founder of BubbleSort Zines, also known as SailorHG
• Gayle L. McDowell​, author of Cracking the Coding Interview​

Organizations in SF

• ​GDI SF ​* RailsBridge​ - Bridge Troll (Events​ Platform)
• Girl Geek Dinners

Favorite Articles / In the News

• Sarah Adler, CTO of Spoon University, writes about dealing with migroagressions about being female in a senior tech role in "Never Read the Comments"
• Amy Wibowo, former engineer at Airbnb & University of Tokyo, writes about "Coding Like a Girl"

GitHub Repos:

• Tracy Chou's GitHub repo of women in software engineering

Other Topics

• Do you want to create an "alumni list" where we can maintain this after we graduate? For now, this list is only for current students in SF.