#ladycoders

Kickstarter link

As you already know, the LadyCoders site was attacked and taken down last night. Although we quickly had it back up, we experienced some serious trolling on Twitter, including some really awful porn and foul language. We're trying to stay positive and on message; this is about women who don't know how to get from skills to getting a job, not about us fighting solid inequity on ephemeral social media.  

We still need your help. We've got reach goals set; the first one is to reduce the price of all women's attendance at the seminar, and we will hit that at 30K. Help us help them, and thank you for your support. We're grateful, but we're also motivated, and we're going to stay motivated until we've actually done something about the gender inequity in coding. 

Kickstarter link

Just 6 hours to go to bring down the ticket costs to our seminar attendees!

If we can get to $30k, we will drop the cost for attendees by $50!  $50 may not seem like much to you, but that's a huge deal to someone trying to find work.

Please consider corporate sponsorship of the LadyCoders seminar. If you have contacts in industry, please ask yourselves if there are any opportunities for us to partner with them, and after doing so, please feel free to give them my email:[email protected].

Our Kickstarter has started popping up on the strangest sites. I had no idea most of these places existed: Teknoids, Inagist, Mojoify, Kicktraq, and others. We're all learning a great deal about the Internet, but the most fascinating part is how many people we've met since the beginning of this campaign.

We've been in contact with hundreds of people all around the world, and found complementary projects and people who are deeply encouraging in spreading the word. The most exciting news we have is that we've had more than 1,000 shares on Facebook!