WomenNonBinaryCoding
What is Women and Non Binary Hack Night?
"Coding Owls" is a weekly event for gender minorities in tech (women, nonbinary, trans, and gender non-conforming people) to discuss and work on projects together. Bring your computer and a coding project and have fun!
The event takes place at Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace at Omni Commons.
The Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace at Omni Commons, invites all Women/NB people for “Coding Owls – A WNB Coding Night”: bring your computer and a coding project and have fun!
We can help each other if you have coding related questions/bugs or just keep company while hacking! If you are a beginner, we can help you get started (even if you’ve never coded before!). And if you’re an intermediate programmer looking for a challenge, we can help you find problems to work on.
No computer? No problem: we can provide one for the night. Coders of all abilities are welcome!
All coding languages are welcome! Bringing a WNB friend is highly recommended.
Coding is more fun with friends! Join in person if you’re in Oakland or online anywhere else in the world!
The idea is also to be a safe space for WNB in the tech world, besides promoting empowerment, also to provide emotional support for those facing challenges in a work environment, tech job search or anything else related.
Path to Freedom
We are creating some “pathways” to freedom for women at the space. typically women tend to get sucked into the predictable buckets at tech and hackerspaces - the den mom who organizes meetings, takes notes and provides emotional support. The crafting circle that doesn’t touch on the fine arts or larger ideas. The education section that only focuses on caretaking of kids, doing chores and doesn’t explore larger ideas such as the theory of the mind or educational academic papers.
While everyone is welcome to explore what we want, we’d like to “jam” the default channels that automatically send women into caretaking roles, mindless administration, and instead of provoke them to use their minds in new ways!
The first 3 pathways would be:
- Women Audio Engineering path to Freedom - women tend to be restricted to singing and dancing in electronic music and beyond, with very little visibility in audio engineering and DJing. What would happen if we create a path to freedom where they get to explore?
- Women theory of the mind - If you get into education are you automatically getting channeled into roles around childcare of children’s education? Why not work further and instead explore academics and educational theory?
Instead of being pushed into teaching kids, maybe women can study LearningtToLearn - why should women be routed into mindless childcare when instead they might be inclined to do things more cerebral?
- Women in the Fine Arts - There is a wealth of women’s crafts, but what if women could go to hackerspaces and go beyond sewing, knitting and crafting and also explore color theory, abstraction and conceptual art? Why stay hedged into one area just because traditional and social pressure demands it? We can also introduce reading art theory papers and visiting museums.
Host
Your host: Juliana A. (pronouns she/her) is originally from Brazil, has been living in the US for 10 years, and has been working as a software engineer since 2020, after finishing a software engineering bootcamp for women/nb people only. She has worked with Ruby on Rails, Python, SQL, JavaScript, React, Typescript.
When and Where
Coding Owls – A WNB Coding Night
- Every Monday from 7pm to 9pm Pacific Time (check with the calendar to make sure)
Sudo Room at Omni Commons 4799 Shattuck Avenue – Oakland
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2060837779
Omni Commons and Sudoroom policy is presently that EVERYONE MUST WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THE BUILDING.
If you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can’t get in, call 510-844-0014 or 510-740-5758.
