[DIYbio] Fwd: NYC, OHSummit, and Women

Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Subject: [OH Updates] NYC, OHSummit, and Women
To: updates@lists.openhardwaresummit.org


An article from betabeat.com titled "Damn, Girl: New York Has Almost
Double The Female Founders" is trending on HackerNews.

Here's a link to the discussion thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3832095

I wanted to capture one of my impressions from attending the OHSummit last Fall:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3832821
"""
I noticed this last Fall at the Open Hardware Summit in NYC. That
event has become the must-attend event for those involved in open
source hardware. (Arduino team members, et al.) The event was founded
and chaired by Alicia Gibb and Ayah Bdeir. And the speaker list was
way more gender-balanced than your typical SF/SV event. No one was
asking "where are the women?" at OHSummit. (But if they did ask, the
answer was: "Everywhere! And they're leading the charge!")
"""

Feel free to add your own opinions. :-) Side-note: HackerNews doesn't
cover open hardware topics nearly enough as it should.

- Jason
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