Supporting AdaCamp and the Ada Initiative

If you’ve never been to a feminist conference, you’re missing out. If you’ve never found yourself surrounded by dozens of brilliant, empathetic, creative and determined women, you should consider giving it a try. If you’ve never gone from learning about how open source cloud computing platforms work straight to a discussion of microaggressions and how to deal with them, finishing things off by sharing your favorite feminist response gifs - well, maybe you should come to AdaCamp.

I’ve been to a number of open source and technical conferences over the last few years, most of which I’ve thoroughly enjoyed. But AdaCamp is a special kind of experience. It’s given me so much:

It gave me the ability to see how a major conference’s code of conduct was deeply flawed and the confidence to approach them with suggestions for how to fix it.

It’s encouraged me to speak frankly about diversity in our communities and how to improve it. (Including tomorrow!)

And it’s helped me to meet so many incredible women who are now my colleagues and my friends.

For all of this, I was glad to donate today to the Ada Initiative. If you’d like to do the same, you can do so here: