WalmartLabs’s Salima Fassil (right) presents CodeChix Founder Rupa Dachere (left) with the donation.

Tim Kimmet (VP of Platform & Systems and Walmart Global eCommerce) and @WalmartLabs have graciously donated money to help CodeChix purchase both a projector and video camera, along with helping us cover our hosting costs! At our recent Red Hat OpenShift Workshop, @WalmartLabs Staff Engineer Salima Fassil presented our founder, Rupa, with a check for $2,500. The projector and video camera will help us bring our great events to you even if you’re unable to attend them in person.

Thank you, @WalmartLabs, for supporting our mission of helping educate and create a community of women by meeting face-to-face and gadget-to-gadget in a non-alpha, language/os agnostic, supportive environment. We aim to purchase and start using our new equipment soon!

May the code be with you!

(Posting on behalf of Rupa Dachere, CodeChix Founder)

Hi CodeChix!!

I had the great pleasure of attending PyCon 2012 earlier this year and cannot express how fantastic it was. I’m not much of a Python coder (yet) but going to PyCon infused and inspired me to an extent that I’m going to be writing a proposal for 2013!

So, CodeChix will be volunteering in a huge way at PyCon 2013. It is going to be in Santa Clara at the Santa Clara Convention Center from March 13 – 21, 2013 – right in our back yard. I believe I will get some passes which I will distribute to key volunteers.

So, please sign up for the following if you can:

1. Bag stuffing – filling bags with schwag in an assembly line fashion
2. Registration – helping with registration – note that the timings are not firm yet and can change closer to the conf date
3. Program committee – help out with organizing the conference.

It’s still a long way off, but, I wanted to put it on people’s radar so that you can plan for it. It is a great opportunity to learn, network and contribute.

Please let me know if you would like to volunteer and which categories you would like to volunteer for (1-3) above. I will collate a list and coordinate accordingly.

Expectations are that you will be representing CodeChix (wear a t-shirt or some other promo stuff), be punctual and do your part, have fun and learn a lot. If you can share some of your experience with the group after the conference, that would be awesome.

Of course, if you are a Python dev (or, like me, are attempting to be), please do submit a proposal for a talk – that would be super cool.

May the code be with you!

(on behalf of)
Rupa Dachere

Here, Kelley Nielsen talks with attendees about the different components of Android applications.

We recently hosted a great two-part workshop where our own Kelley Nielsen showed us how to install Eclipse and the Android SDK on our laptops and kickstart our own Android app projects!  There were so many women who came to the originally-planned installfest that we needed a follow-up session to finish installing all of the components and actually get to the meat of building Android apps!  Part 1 was held on June 20th at 10gen in Palo Alto, and Part 2 was held on July 11th at VMware.  Thanks also to Crystie, Beth, and Chiu-Ki who helped people get their machines set up.

Stay tuned for our upcoming workshops on RedHat’s OpenShift PaaS on July 26th and Creating Browser Extensions planned for August!