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08 Mar The Linux Foundation Partners With Women Who Code to Increase Diversity at 2016 Open Source Events

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The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced its partnership with Women Who Code to increase diversity in the technology industry and support women who want to attend Linux Foundation events. The partnership includes free and discounted passes to Linux Foundation events for Women Who Code members, as well as an initial donation to the organization to support its greater efforts to support women in technology.

08 Mar Why diversity in tech is necessary for sustained innovation in America

Posted at 10:27h in News 2, Tech Talk by DigiStaff 0 Comments

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America’s innovation engine is in trouble if we don’t get more females and people of color involved with entrepreneurship and new technology.

07 Mar Women In Technology: The Challenge And The Responsibility – Forbes

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Is it almost reverse logic in some ways to call out ‘women in technology’ as an issue that needs addressing? Surely it should just be people in technology, some of whom are women, right? Speaking as a man married to a female professional software application developer who feels exactly this way, it’s kind of tough not to see women coder initiatives as sexist in their own right.

07 Mar JOBS | Tech “bootcamp” helps create diversity in IT industry

Posted at 13:42h in News 2, Tech Talk by DigiStaff 0 Comments

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Imagine landing a $50,000 a year job in a brand new field, with only three months of training. We Can Code IT, a technology *bootcamp* based out of the Terminal Tower, claims you can do just that.

07 Mar Tech Coalition Will Honor 10 Black Innovators at SXSW

Posted at 10:18h in News 2, Tech Talk by DigiStaff 2 Comments

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What do a vocal diversity in tech advocate, an eleven-year-old entrepreneur, an HBCU professor and a tech novice all have in common?

05 Mar ‘Black Girls Code’ aims to reboot diversity in tech

Posted at 09:44h in News 2, Tech Talk by DigiStaff 3 Comments

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When Kimberly Bryant was in college in the '80s, she felt culturally isolated in her electrical engineering classes. "I was one of maybe two or three students of color," said Bryant, who is African-American. "And I found that representation was still the same when I graduated and began my career."