wsc kickoff
TRANSCRIPT
While You’re Waiting…
• Fill out your name tag In 2015, I hope to…
• Write down five accomplishments (we’ll use these later)
• Add your Twitter handle to bit.ly/wsc-handles
Overview
• 6:30pm Introduction by W/S/C Founder, Rebecca Miller-Webster
• 6:45pm Impostor Syndrome Presentation
• 7:30pm Expertise Presentation
• 8:00pm Write, Speak, Code Discussion
• 8:45pm Closings
Visit bit.ly/wsc-handout for our agenda and slides
Technical Conferences
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Percentage_of_women_speakers_at_technical_conferences
Average: ~10%
What is Impostor Syndrome?
• Inability to internalize accomplishments
• Feeling of “I shouldn’t be here”
• Convinced you are a fraud
• Dismiss successes
Women attribute:
Diversity at work: Research issues in vocational development. Fassinger, 2001.
Success External Factors: Luck, Help, Task difficulty
Failure Themselves: Ability, Effort
Stereotype Threat
Being at risk of confirming, as a self-characteristic, a negative stereotype about one's social group
(Steele & Aronson, 1995)
Girls and Math• Group A: Girl watching a boy
do math
• Group B: Boy watching a girl do math
• Girls in A added numbers more slowly and with less accuracy than B.
• No affect on the boys scores
Amy CuddyYour Body Language Shapes Who You Are
https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are
Thank You Exercise• Find a partner
• Describe one of your accomplishments
• Partner compliments you
• Receive compliment with a simple “Thank you”
• Switch and repeat
• Repeat again (try it with more accomplishments)
What do you know?
• languages (HTML, Java, etc.)
• frameworks (Django, CakePHP)
• tools (make, rake, Wordpress)
• documentation, testing, project management
What have you done?
• jobs
• internships, volunteer positions, organizations
• education
• projects (work or personal)
On Thought Leadership
• teaching
• sharing
• narrating history
• modeling behaviors / social responsibility
Pick an M&M
• Red: A bug you solved recently
• Yellow: Bad advice for beginners
• Orange: A project you’ve worked on
• Blue: Your goal for 2015
• Green: Favorite tool/technique/module/etc.
• Brown: Something you could teach
Answer the question corresponding to your color:
Brainstorming
!Pink: Things you’d like to accomplish related to Write, Speak or Code !Yellow: Things that impede you !Blue: Things that could help you
Grab some Post-its!
When you’re done, stick them to the whiteboard
Agenda
• 6:00pm - Food and Networking
• 6:15pm - Intros and Lightning Talks
• 6:45pm - Presentation, if applicable
• 7:30pm - Small Group Sessions / Workshops
• 8:45pm - Closing
Rotate each month between Write, Speak, and Code
• Topic generation and feedback
• One on One draft reviews
• Small Group draft reviews
• Crafting a compelling bio
• Guest speakers:
• Researching topics
• Getting published / promoting posts
March, June, September, December
Write
• Lightning Talks
• Present in front of a small group, get feedback
• Head Shots
• Guest speakers:
• Writing a CFP
• Finding the right conference
• Storytelling / Improv
• CFP Selection Panel
April, July, October
Speak
• Break into groups by language / project
• Get set up on an Open Source project
• Guest Speakers:
• Facilitated bug bash
May, August, November
Code