Tips on how to create a hub for your community’s programmers, engineers, designers, and other curious folks from a woman who did exactly that. By Grace Belangia (Co-founder, HACKAugusta & Founding Member, theClubhou.se) The Maker Movement continues to build around...
A New Delhi-based group of journalists and developers contributes to 16-days of activism against gender-based violence. By Shobha S V (Multimedia Manager, Breakthrough) A little less than a year ago, Delhi witnessed a gruesome rape and death of a 23-year-old woman,...
Level the Coding Field aims to bring a new innovation to Silicon Valley: more diverse engineers, programmers and entrepreneurs. By Betsy Mikel (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) When you envision a hackathon, it’s likely you picture a bunch of white dudes hunched over...
Organizers of an all-women hackathon respond to critics who call such events discriminatory or are skeptical of their value. By Tina Egolf (Co-founder & CEO, wellcome:familie.unternehmen) and Diana Kondel (Product Owner, XING) A few weeks ago, the second Berlin...
A Women 2.0 survey sheds light on why women should attend their first hackathon & startup competition and what organizers can do to encourage more women to attend. By Lauren Kim (Events Coordinator, Women 2.0) A couple months ago, Women 2.0 collected 97 responses...