Only about 1.5% of the people involved in open source are women, leaving us terribly underrepresented. In the Drupal world, we're up to a whopping 7% 10% 17%, which only gets us to awfully unrepresented. ;) This group is for anyone (male, female, or otherwise) who believes that we can do better and wants to help.
So if you:
- are a woman who needs some help/guidance in order to get (more) involved with Drupal and the Drupal community
- are a woman who wants to network and get to know other women involved in Drupal
- are anyone who has ideas on things we can do to help encourage women to participate in Drupal
...then this is the group for you. :)
Inaugural Melbourne Drupalchix meetup
All Drupal women are invited to join us for the inaugural Melbourne Drupalchix meetup!
Site builders, themers, content editors, project managers, community builders, plain old interested parties, whatever your role may be you are all welcome. We have an ambitious goal to find all the hidden women of Drupal to help build and strengthen the wider Melbourne Drupal community, as well as provide a forum for women to network and learn about Drupal.
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Help plan a Drupal workshop for high school-aged young women!
Come on board to help plan a Drupal workshop for a group of high school-aged young women!
A local non-profit organization is in the process of planning and organizing a two-day event specifically for high school-aged young women that exposes them to various tech fields. One workshop will have attendees creating their own website using Drupal.
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Seeking crashpad &/or roommates for 2012 Badcamp
Hi All! I'm excited to be hitting up my first Badcamp this year and am looking for a crashpad &/or roommates to split the cost of a room and transportation if necessary to and from the event. I plan to be in San Francisco Thursday, November 1st through Sunday, November 4th. I've couchsurfed before and am a very appreciative and respectful guest/roommate. :) If you have space in your home or are interested in sharing a room, message me on IRC (nick: uniqorn / channels: #drupal-pdx, #drupal-pnw), Skype (nick: pixfights) or via email (heather@opensourcery.com). Thanks!!
Read moreJen Lampton on Drupal 8 and Twig - Lullabot Podcast
I loved this interview with Jen Lampton about Drupal 8 and Twig. From Lullabot's new Drupalize.me podcast series. Highly recommend listening to it--for themers and non-themers alike! http://www.lullabot.com/podcasts/drupalizeme-podcast-2-jen-lampton-and-t...
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Drupal Web Developer/Programmer Position in Rockville, MD
Employment type: Full time
Telecommute: Not allowed
Will consider PHP Professionals with a desire to grow in Drupal field
TerpSys offers an excellent benefits package including:
-Health/Dental/Vision available 1st day of work, do not have to wait for coverage
-10 paid holidays
-Compressed work schedule option
-Flex time
-Certification and Training Reimbursement
-Tuition Reimbursement
-Involvement in Community Service activities (American Cancer Society/Alzheimer's Association/FLOC/and many more)
-Company sensitive to employee needs for work-life balance
-Free coffee and soda
Gender Diversity in Tech Requires Applicant Diversity
I would like to see more diversity at my company, but representation by women (not surprisingly) stays representative of the percentage of female applicants we see. That is too say, not very high. I would like to encourage more female applicants to apply to our development shop and to tech positions more generally.
So, here are my questions:
- Are there any recommendations on what an employer can do to make his/her company more attractive to female applicants?
- How can a business do more to encourage more women choosing tech as a career path?
DrupalCon Munich Demographic Stats
For those who are interested: 79% men 11% women
This is based off our tshirt report. Though this doesn't take into consideration how many women picked men's tshirts.
This is information from The DA ... :)
Read moreLearn Ladder Sprint
Hello Denver Area Drupalistas --
The bi-monthly Denver Learn Ladder DBUG Meetup, which takes place on the third Thursday of every other month. This meetup can also be joined in Google Plus Hangouts at: https://plus.google.com/events/c7ajr6t071jb09nb7pfi99kf5u8 Please let me know if you will be remote so I can get a head count.
Don't forget your computers, this is a working meeting! We will be working on the Drupal Ladder, which teaches everyone how to be able to successfully and confidently contribute to Drupal, and specifically to Drupal core.
Read moreNew Women in Drupal FB Group Created
Hi Ladies -
I've created a new FB Group for Women in Drupal. All posts have been set to private, so another place we can privately discuss issues facing Women in Drupal specifically or technology as a whole. Hope those of you on FB will consider joining us in the group.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/DrupalWomen
Excited about the continued growth of this awesome group of women!
Read moreDrupalChix name upgrade
There was feedback at the DrupalChix BoF today in Munich that the name DrupalChix may not be the best name for this group. After some discussion it was noted that the original name was really decided upon due to not having a better name. We further discussed this and decided to add Women in Drupal to the name.
You will start seeing these changes in all places, including the @DrupalChix Twitter account. The account name will not be changing, just the definition or "real name" as in the case of the Twitter account.
Read moreFuture DrupalCon Keynote Speakers
At the DrupalCon Munich DrupalChix BoF we discussed how do we get more women as keynote speakers for DrupalCons. One idea was to create a Wiki of women we would like the Drupal Association to consider inviting to be keynote speakers.
If you know of a woman who you think would make a great keynote at a DrupalCon please list her here, why you'd think she'd make a good speaker, and as much information as you may know about reaching this person.
This is our opportunity to make this difference.
Possible speakers mentioned in the BoF were:
Divya (@divya / http://nimbupani.com/)
Drupal Ladder Online Meetup
The Denver/Boulder DrupalChix are hosting the bi-monthly Denver Learn Ladder DBUG Meetup, which takes place on the third Thursday of every other month.
This is going to be 100% virtual!
We will be working on the Learn Drupal Ladder, which teaches everyone how to be able to successfully and confidently contribute to Drupal, and specifically to Drupal 8 core.
Check it out at: https://plus.google.com/events/cbtt0op3vgta6oi53grdktd2lio/107457451405033304355
Read moreDrupalCon Munich DrupalChix BoF
I am about to schedule the DrupalChix BoF for Munich. I'm open for suggestions on when to schedule it.
Read moreCommons Site Builder Guide or Manual
Hi,
Has anyone found or created a manual or guide (no matter how big or small) for Commons site builders, community managers, and/or content creators and admins?
Less interested in things having to do with development, themeing, or admin that are covered here . . .
http://commons.acquia.com/wiki/installing-drupal-commons#More
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Roommate for Capital Camp in DC
Hello all,
I'm wondering if there are any females looking to share a room for Capital Camp in DC, July 27-28. I'll be there Wed., Thurs., and Fri. nights, but you are welcome to share for only 1 or 2 nights if you need to.
http://capitalcamp.org/
The hotel is conveniently located just 2 blocks away from Capital Camp - HOTEL LOMBARDY, which is providing Drupalistas with a preferred rate of $209. They are selling that limited block for Wed/Thurs as high as $349.00 per night. Rates in DC are as follows:
Read moreDo Front-end Developers need to code custom modules, too?
I have 4 years experience in building and theming Drupal websites. I also like creating new designs in Photoshop and converting them to beautiful, interactive themes. My specialty is called Front-end Development and my skills are in HTML5/CSS, jQuery, some PHP/mySQL. Recently, as I've been browsing the Drupal job ads, I noticed several companies were advertising for Front-end Developers who also can do custom module development.
Read moreBoulder DBUG Drupal Ladder Meetup
Hello Denver Area Drupalistas --
The Denver/Boulder DrupalChix invite you to the bi-monthly Boulder DBUG Learn Ladder Meetup, which takes place on the third Thursday of every other month.
This Meetup is open to all DBUG members and their guests.
Don't forget your computers, this is a working meeting!
We will be working on the Drupal Ladder, which teaches everyone how to be able to successfully and confidently contribute to Drupal, and specifically to Drupal core.
Agenda:
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Increasing diversity in local meetups
Hi chix & rainbows,
Last week I wrote a blog post (http://drnikki.org/node/9), that I won't paste here for the sake of brevity. tl;dr: my local drupal meetup is too homogenous and it sucks so I want to fix it.
The post got a lot of hits but not a lot came of it. The next step for me is to create a survey to ask the underrepresented people in the NYC community why they don't participate in the meetups.
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Acquia Drupal Gardens in a Day Training
I'm not sure how many people who are already well into Drupal are going to want to shell out a bunch of money to learn Drupal Gardens, but I figured some of you might be getting tired of people asking you how to get started with it, and if that's the case we'd love it if you referred them to our training session later this month. Lunch is included, as is a printed manual and an all-day training course.
Click for deets: http://www.buckeyeinteractive.com/events/679/plant-a-website-grow-your-b...
(You can register on that site too.)
Read moreAny Drupalchix going to Drupal Dev Days in Barcelona next week?
Hi :)
Is anyone here going to be at Drupal Developer Days in Barcelona (http://barcelona2012.drupaldays.org/) next week?
It would be nice to have a meet up or something, what do you say?
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