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Other Side Group to Head the Girls in Tech Boston Chapter

14 January 2009 in Networking by Kate | View Comments

Anya and I are very pleased to announce that we will be heading the newly formed Boston Chapter of Girls in Tech.

“Girls in Tech is a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology. As young women with the capacity to inspire, we made it our personal desire and passion to create and sustain an organization that focuses on the collaboration, promotion, growth and success of women in the technology sector.”

“Girls in Tech aims to offer a variety of resources and tools for women to supplement and further enhance their professional careers and aspirations in technology. Some of these resources include, educational workshops and lectures, networking functions, round table discussions, conferences, social engagements, and recruitment events.”

So far, GiT has been a wild success in its existing San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City chapters.  Along with the Boston Chapter, new chapters were open in Austin, Portland, and London.

We feel that the Boston technology scene would be a perfect one for a group like this, and we’re excited to be a part of it.

We’ll be announcing our advisory team soon, as well as the relaunch of the GiT website to include all new chapters.  In the meantime, please email me at kate@othersidegroup.com for more information or join or Facebook Group!

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Women in Tech: Pledge for Ada Lovelace

8 January 2009 in Outreach by Kate | View Comments

We’ve signed a pact to blog about Women in Tech on 24 March of this year.

According to PledgeBank:

“Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Whatever she does, whether she is a sysadmin or a tech entrepreneur, a programmer or a designer, developing software or hardware, a tech journalist or a tech consultant, we want to celebrate her achievements.”

Who was Ada do you ask?

Ada Lovelace was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She wrote programmes for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a general-purpose computing machine, despite the fact that it was never built. She also wrote the very first description of a computer and of software.

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