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Women Who Code Newsletter 5/21/2014

WWCoders –

Please see our newsletter for this week below. Enjoy!

UPDATES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Berlin, Germany: May 26th is the deadline to apply for School of Machines, Making & Make Believe’s Art and Tech Programs.Apply here.

San Jose, CA: May 30th is the deadline to submit your nominations (company & individual) for the Techmanity Awards.Submit here

London, UK: May 31st: Support St. Mary’s Children’s Hospital Hackathon, “Give Young Patients a Voice.” Get your free hacker pass

SF, CA: June 1st is the application deadline for Boost VC’s Summer Accelerator class.Take your startup to the next level with an investment, accelerator program, office space & housing for three months!

SF, CA: June 3rd: Support the Indiegogo campaign for the Be Your Own Hero Conference

SF, CA: August 4 – 8: Girls In Robotics Summer Camp at UC Davis is looking for speakers. E-mail Judy [email protected] for more information

SF, CA: June 15th is the deadline to submit for the User Experience Awards. Apply here.

APPLAUD HER:

WWCode D.C. member Jacqueline Kazil is a keynote speaker at PyCon Sweden

WWCode San Francisco Rails Lead Sowju Mudunuri is now a Full-Stack Software Engineer at Dot & Bo

WWCode San Francisco Meetup Group Founder and WWCode NYC member Sasha Laundy was featured in Business Insider’s 100 Most Influential Women In Tech on Twitter

WWCode San Francisco member Lisa Friedman is now an Engineer at Zendesk

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES:

Are you a strong Developer and a Runner, fitness nut, or sports enthusiast? Come develop and innovate with us on the Nike+ platform team! Inquiries + Networking –[email protected] #SiliconForest

Advent Software, Inc. (provider of financial software) is looking for Associate Software Engineers for a new hire program in San Francisco, CA. Apply here

TICKET GIVEAWAYS:

We have a limited number of FREE tickets for the events listed below. Please review the information carefully, fill out our interest formand we will let you know by Tuesday May 27th if you are a winner. We are fortunate enough to receive a large number of applicants, so we are only able to contact those who win.

SF, CA: June 3rd: Be Your Own Hero Conference

Santa Clarita, CA: June 1 – 3: Women In Technology Summit

Belo Horizonte, Brazil: July 26th: BH Conference 2014

CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

MAY 2014:

May 22nd: SF, CA: Solid 20% with discount code “WWC20”

May 22nd: SF, CA: Building Innovation: Wearable, Drones, Hardware Startups and Patents 20% off with discount code “wwcode”

May 22nd: SF, CA: HTML5DevConf

May 22nd: SF, CA: Couchbase Mobile Party

May 22nd: SF, CA: Award Winning UX Case Studies for the UX Awards, Portfolios & hiring

May 24th: Atlanta, GA: Build and Hack A Community Learning Hackathon

May 26th - 27th: Santa Clara, CA:AWE Hacks 2014

May 26th - 29th: SF, CA: Javascript Fundamentals: Objects, Arrays, and Functions $100.00 discount by including WWC or GDI in the comments section of the application.

May 27th: SF, CA: Hackbright: How the Internet Works

May 27th – 30th: Boston, MA AnDevCon $200 off with discount code “ANDROID”

May 28th: SF, CA: Web Security: Attack, Defend, Profit

May 28th: SF, CA: Porter Gale + Hito Unconference 2.0 50% off regular priced ticket with discount code “wwc50”

May 31: London, UK: Children’s Hospital Hackathon

May 31 – June 1: Austin, TX: Hack for Change

May 31 – June 1: (SF, LA, Kansas City, Austin, Bangalor, Dallas, and many more) National Day of Civic Hacking

JUNE & JULY 2014

June 1st – 3rd: SF, CA: WITI Summit $200 off w/ WOMEN

June 3rd: SF, CA: Be Your Own Hero Conference

June 2nd – 6th: Colima, Mexico: Magma Conf 15% WomenWhoCode

June 7th – 8th: Hamburg, Germany: Geekettes Hackathon

June 11th: Austin, TX: MakerSquare front-end course

June 17th: New York City: Spark Workshop with Terraly Inc.

June 19th – 22nd: New York City: Lesbians Who Tech 25% w/ LWTWWC

June 21st – 22nd: SF, CA DebugDC: Growathon for Immigration Reform

June 23rd – 25th: SF, CA: Cloud DevCon $200 off w/ WWC

June 24th – 26th: Santa Clara, CA Velocity 20% WWC20

July 9th – July 10th: New York City: DevCon5 HTML and Mobile App Conf 20% off with WomenWhoCode

July 15th – 17th: Chicago, IL: Mobile + Web DevCon

July 25th: Belo Horizonte, Brazil: BH Conference 2014 15% off with FIH2014

WWCode NETWORK GROWTH

San Francisco 5,639

Tel Aviv, Israel: 776

Boulder/Denver, CO: 747

Austin, TX: 427

Seattle, WA: 412

New York, NY: 331

London 322

Atlanta, GA: 313

Washington, D.C.: 301

Toronto, ON: 235

Boston, MA: 212

Belfast, Ireland: 208

Sydney, Australia: 184

Bangalore, India: 171

Santiago, Chile: 140

Dallas, TX: 134

Los Angeles, CA: 116

Waterloo, ON: 106

Recife, Brazil: 98

Colima, Mexico: 71

Hong Kong 71

Stamford, CT: 41

Tampa, FL: 43

Belo Horizonte, Brazil: 40

Kingston, Jamaica: 25

Jerusalem, Israel: 45

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Cheers,

Alaina

Women Who Code Inc. | CEO and Board Chair

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Women Who Code (WWCode) is a global non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring women to pursue and excel in technology careers. The organization tripled in size in 2013 and now has 10,000+ members spanning 13 countries. To date, WWCode has produced more than 500 events worldwide, boasts a growth rate of nearly 1,000 members per month.

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