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I’ve been helping put together a Data Sharing Workshop and Summit, as part of an ongoing collaboration with DataPortability.org.

The Data Sharing Workshop

As a first step, the Workshop will provide a gathering space for different groups to have in-depth discussions about emerging data sharing standards and initiatives, and continue ongoing work by establishing Action Items to be carried out at subsequent events.

The Workshop will be on April 18th and 18th at the SFSU downtown campus in cooperation with the SFSU Institute for the Next Generation Internet.

The Data Sharing Summit

The Summit will take place a month later, providing enough time to further develop the ideas discussed at the Workshop while still being able to track progress. With the larger venue, participants from the Workshop will be able to share their ideas with a broader audience.

The Summit will be on May 15th at the Computer History Museumy in Mountain View, Ca, immediately following the Internet Identity Workshop.

As with the previous summit, which was facilitated by Kaliya Hamlin, aka Identity Woman, both events will follow the open space (un)conference format.

Sign up

You can register for both of these events at eventbrite.datasharingsummit.com. Additional information is available on the Data Sharing Summit Wiki.

Get Involved

We are looking for volunteers and sponsors to help support this community, so that we can create real value for everyone involved.

If you have any questions about these events, or would like to get involved as a volunteer or sponsor, please contact me at laurierae@datasharingsummit.com.

She’s Geeky was a bit of a whirlwind for me. Kaliya did an amazing job facilitating the event, and I heard a lot of positive feedback from many of the attendees.

I was not able to attend as many sessions as I would have liked, but I had many amazing conversations with some fascinating women, especially Roxanne Darling, Open Source Grrl, Jen Silva, the women from Creative Maven, Anda Abramovici, and Sally Applin.

We’re looking forward to planning another She’s Geeky in New York in the New Year. More information to come in upcoming weeks.

Only six more days until the She’s Geeky (un)conference.

Monday Sessions

A lot of people have signed up this week, and we have a lot of interesting sessions planned for Monday afternoon, including:

• The Future of Technology: Melanie Swan, Christine Peterson from Foresight and Liana Holmberg from Linden Lab.
• Dealing with Analysts — The Good the Bad and the Ugly: Charlene Li , Rachel Chalmers, Julie Ask.
• Owning Your Power — Making it as a Leader: Susan Mernit is coordinating
• Nonprofits and Technology: Beth Kanter and Katrin Verclas
• User Experience Design: Kaari Peterson and Dee Adams
• Online Video / Vlogging: Cheryl Colan, Roxanne Darling, Ryanne Hodson
• Technology and Privacy: Violet Blue
• VC panel: Mary Hodder is coordinating
• How to Lightening Talks: Danese Cooper
• Public Speaking Practice: Lura Dolas

Check out the agenda at shesgeeky.org for more information.

Tuesday Sessions

Tuesday will follow the (un)conference format, and the agenda will be created at 8:30 am on Tuesday. Check out the proposed topics at shesgeeky.org.

Volunteer

We’re still looking for volunteers to help out with food set up and clean up. If you’d like to help out, please contact me at shesgeeky@gmail.com.

Okay, She’s Geeky might not be coming to all the computer history museums near you, but if you are a woman in technology who can be near Mountainview on October 22nd and 23rd, She’s Geeky is an event to check out.

What on earth is She’s Geeky?

Well, it’s an (un)conference designed to provide an agenda-free gathering space for women who self-identify as geeky. The event will provide women from various technology-related domains with the opportunity to exchange ideas, create new connections, and find new ways to support and learn from each other.

I’ve been working with Kaliya Hamlin, Susan Mernit, Mary Hodder, Julia French and many others to put this event together.

To find out more, please check out the She’s Geeky wiki.

Sponsorship

We are looking for sponsors to help make this event as affordable as possible. To contribute, please contact us at shesgeeky@gmail.com or post to the wiki.

Current sponsors include Google, the Nonprofit Technology Network, Atlassian, Purple Tornado, and Citizen Agency. DevChix and LinuxChix have also come on board as media sponsors.

Today is She’s Geeky Link Push Day

We welcome you to support us by blogging about this event today and linking back to this post, Susan’s post, or Kaliya’s post.