That's great. I wonder what will become of all these things these people spent their time building.
that's not the whole story of a hackathon - tremendous value gets added from the experience/learning/relationships built as well
How We Got 50 Women to Our Hackathon (And You Can, Too)
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#12Awesome a hackathon that is run by a product person(blog owner), marketing/pr woman, banking analyst and one front end dev. Where do I sign up?
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#13It's also really great that they had mentors there to help out beginners. There are a lot of people who want to learn but are too scared of being left behind or not being competent enough to make the most out of their time. If more people helped out those who are driven to learn, we'd have more people on their ways to becoming good developers. Male & Female
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#14The icebreaker is genius. It's awkward enough for normal people, much less some of us who are less socially adept.
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#15From what I understand, the hackathon itself was advertised from the start as "50 men/50 women". When 50 men signed up, they stopped accepting male applicants.
So they did find 50 women that wanted to attend a hackathon, but they did it by leaving the door open for women to attend when otherwise the entire hackathon would have filled up with men. Not mentioning that approach in their blog post seems ... disingenuous.
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#16Awesome a hackathon that is run by a product person(blog owner), marketing/pr woman, banking analyst and one front end dev. Where do I sign up?
I'm sure they'll update http://hacknjill.com/ for the next one in January. I had an amazing time there building Flare!
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#17Check out all the awesome stuff that got built here: https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/hackn-jill/hacks
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#18That's great. I wonder what will become of all these things these people spent their time building.
that's not the whole story of a hackathon - tremendous value gets added from the experience/learning/relationships built as well
+1. Where did this idea that weekend hacks should become startups come from? Hackathons are about building communities and making awesome stuff for the sake of making awesome stuff, not making money.
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#19Is it just me or does all this talk about women in tech and efforts to balance things out (artificially) just devalue what good work women engineers are doing?
It's the classic affirmative action problem: if you lower the bar for one group in the eyes of everyone else members of that group are viewed as having less merit regardless of whether or not its true.
I'm all for having more good female engineers because I'm all for having more good engineers (male or female). The counterargument seems to be that women find the male dominance of tech intimidating or engineering careers aren't presented to women as possibilities. If there is gender bias is science/engineering/maths classes or with career guidance and so forth then I'm all for eliminating that.
But as far as the first goes, I have two words for you: Grace Hopper.
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#20This seems great, but this is my concern: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_lh5fR4DMA.
Fundamentally a psychological problem. Whether the attendee can keep it professional or not would make or break this hackathon