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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.

Created in February of 2007, ‘Girls in Tech’ (GIT) was founded by Adriana Gascoigne. GIT and was born out of a need to provide a place for women to cultivate ideas around their careers and business concepts involving technology.

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.
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Website:
http://girlsintech.net
Office:
San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Austin, London, Portland
Location:
Santa Cruz, CA
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For all recent events, news and more information on the organization, please visit:
http://girlsintech.net


WOMEN WHO TECH CONFERENCE
I wanted you to be the first to know that we have set the date for the Women Who Tech TeleSummit. Mark your calendars for May 12th, 2009. The Women Who Tech TeleSummit is going to be packed with thought provoking panels such as running your own start up to dealing with sexism, ageism, and the lack of diversity in the tech sector.

If you have an idea for a fabulous virtual workshop that every woman working in online communications or technology must participate in you still have a couple of days left to submit your panel ideas at http://www.womenwhotech.com/suggest_panel.html

Like last year, Women Who Tech plans to host fun after parties in DC, NYC, SF, and other great cities. We have a limited number of sponsorships available. Please feel free to pass along our affordable and fantastic sponsorship opportunities filled with great benefits to organizations who are looking to connect with women in tech. http://womenwhotech.com/sponsorships.html

In case you missed it, I also wanted to share a couple of cool articles with you highlighting some great women in our field and how one editor fought sexist comments on Digg. Please check out Women Who Tech's Delicious Bookmarks that featured these and other great articles. http://delicious.com/womenwhotech

http://www.womenwhotech.com/

CLOUD COMPUTING: USING THE OPEN SOURCE HADOOP TO GENERATE DATA-INTENSIVE INSIGHTS
Registration: http://www.meetup.com/CIO-IT-Executives/calendar/9528874/

Gaining and keeping a competitive edge in Internet offerings has increasingly become a matter of continuously processing enormous volumes of data about users, user activities, Web sites, ads, and Web searches. There is gold in the mountain of data but it is often impossible to extract in time to make use of it if you are constrained to a single (albeit powerful) computer or database. Hadoop (http://hadoop.apache....) is open source software for creating a cluster of commodity computers from one node to several thousand nodes in size and internally managing petabytes of data. It provides a simple interface for attaching user-written code to be executed in parallel on some or all of the nodes in the cluster. As an option to creating your own Hadoop cluster, there are Hadoop AMIs (Amazon Machine Images - virtual machines) that allow you to create and run Hadoop programs on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure.

Rob will talk about what Hadoop is, options for writing programs that run on a Hadoop cluster, and Yahoo use cases where Hadoop has proved beneficial in dealing with very large data volumes.

Rob Weltman has been Director of Engineering in Enterprise Software at Nescape, Chief Architect at AOL, and Director of Engineering for Yahoo's data warehouse technology. He is currently Director of Grid Services at Yahoo.

Gourmet dinner and wine are included.

RECENT PRESS -

*Move over, boys: this gadget girl's got game
Santa Cruz Sentinel
May 10, 2009
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_12336786?source=most_viewed

*Shop Talk: girls gather, 21st century style
Santa Cruz Sentinel & The San Jose Merc
April 9, 2009
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_12104240

* Mommies on the Run:
Can women have it all? Can mother's have it all? I just went to a "Girls in Tech" mixer where Sarah Lacey spoke about her new book, about having been a tech reporter for the past 10-years, what trends are looking like with this down economy, and balance.
http://mommiesontherun.blogspot.com/2009/02/super-mom.html

*LA Weekly:
The phrase "Girls in Tech" conjures up images of the exceptions (Carly Fiorna of Hewlett Packard, Marissa Mayer of Google, etc.) or the vague peripherals (Julia Allison, namely). Rarely do you get to meet the not so famous ladies working behind the scenes, and by that I mean the programmers, game developers, and social media wizzes who, until the conception of Girls in Tech in February of '07, have lacked a vehicle for exclusive female networking.
http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/events/last-night-girl-on-girl-networ/

*FastCompany.com sat down with GIT Founder, Adriana Gascoigne, to find out what it's like to be a woman working in today's male-dominated tech industry, and what GIT is doing to promote female entrepreneurship and innovation.
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/whats-it-be-girl-tech

*Girls in Tech Launches New U.S. Chapters, Expands Internationally - http://tinyurl.com/9jk5h2