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Finding you feet without losing your head – Alison Young
- Tech writer at redhat
- starting a new job
- make sure people know your name, spelling and what you prefer to be called
- drop nickname you don’t like when switch jobs
- find out dress policy
- hopefully have a buddy to get you going
- preferred communication ways at company ( talk vs email vs IRC vs skype ), need to allign with this
- management style. hands off vs micromanagement
- work from home. at Redhat be qualified
- transitions at workplace (dinners, cake days)
- breaks, present-ism, how intently are you expected to work.
We are here, have always been here – Donna Benjamin
- 5 minute history of feminism
- $7000 to digitise “The Dawn” , fund-raising effort
- In past women more common in computing, cheaper to hire skilled workers
- Less common today since women get less computers when young
- examples of Women in Australian computing she uncovered
- “we are not fucking unicorns”
- Challenge to find women for Ada Lovelace day
Roleplaying Session – Val Aurora
- Roleplaying sessions of people doing sexist activity and options for replying
