Tech, Rebalanced

It's here!✨Registration is open for the 8th Annual @tech_rebalanced! Join us for TWO Saturdays filled with community, collaboration, and fun!!✨ eventbrite.com/e/tech-rebalan…

It's a wrap! ✨✨✨✨ #TechRebalanced Virtual edition. We can't wait to see you all in-person soon 🌻🌸🌺

Helpful resources: - queercon.org - and on Youtube: Hak5, Null Byte, DEFCONConference

"Every field benefits from having different voices"- @kara_h

Our final session w. @kara_h, "Introduction to Information Security/Cyber Security"

@AfroDevGirl Thank YOU for the talk + the great list of resources! 😃

@Tech_Rebalanced Thanks for having me! It was a pleasure speaking for this awesome group 🙂

First up after the break, we have @AfroDevGirl leading us though “Accessibility in Web Applications” It’s not just the front end but we should be looking at full-stack accessibility.

Documentation here! github.com/afrodevgirl/fu…

Thank you Alexis for bringing us into the mindset of an engineer PLUS showing us a live demo 🖥️🖲️⌨️ #a11y #FullStackAccessability

Next up we are hearing from Valentina Subow on “Visualizing data in Python using plotnine” 💻🔬👩‍🏫 Starting with an overview of rare disease and orphan drug development data followed by a live notebook demo!

Thank you Hayley for a great workshop! Many of us are walking away with confidence to start our own R project

@hayleycbbrown started w. a fantastic overview of publicly available datasets followed by a starter tutorial using data from ceprdata.org

First tech session of the day: “Publicly Available Microdata: Why It's Useful and How to Use It in R” github.com/hcbrown/TR_ACS…

This morning we hosted an ad hoc sessions on the good/bad/ugly of the job market. 💾🖱️📀 A few resources and ideas: - @DiversifyTechCo - Recurse.com - @lesbiantech - Tech worker driven recruiting efforts over top-down recruiting - hirethisdev.com/jobboards

Starting our first break this morning with some @Spotify 🎶👩‍🎤💃🕺: open.spotify.com/playlist/3JZAj… open.spotify.com/show/1dWydHoLd…

“If you're in tech, you're always going to be restarting and learning” - @allenderlaura

"Bringing the strengths of a tech background to the nonprofit sphere is very possible, but requires a shift in thinking" - Sarah Berlin

And we saved the best for last on day one! In “how to break into tech/civic tech” we heard from three amazing panelists @nmbudz @allenderlaura and Sarah Berlin ✨

Happy Tech, Rebalanced day, Part 2!!! 🌸✨💕🌺🌻😊 starting at 9am ET this morning. Today our speakers will cover Golang, R, Python, accessibility and cyber security.