Fridaygram: welcoming women developers, camp for makers, killer cows
By Scott Knaster, Google
Developers Blog Editor
Fumi Yamazaki is
Google Developer Relations Lead in Japan. About a year ago, she noticed that few women
developers were attending developer events, so she decided to do something about it. Fumi and
several female developers organized GTUG Girls to foster a community of women developers in
Japan.
Earlier today, Fumi
posted about
GTUG Girls on her blog. The post contains lots of great tips and tidbits about what
has happened with GTUG Girls over the past year. Fumi’s post includes some of the group’s
principles, such as
teach each other,
create
something, and
have fun. Most importantly the post offer tips
on how to replicate the success of GTUG Girls in other countries. Go for it!
Summer vacation time in the Northern Hemisphere is winding down, but there’s still time left
for some great activities, including another week of
Maker Camp. Every day of Maker
Camp brings a new project. Friday is field trip day, and today’s trip was to
CERN, home of the
Large Hadron Collider. If you’ve missed Maker Camp so far, visit
+MAKE to see recorded
hangouts and other cool stuff.
Finally, and speaking of catching up, spend some time reading the
Cow Week posts over at
Boing Boing. You will never look at dairy products
the same way again.
Each week our Fridaygram
presents cool things from Google and elsewhere that you might not have heard about. Some
Fridaygram items aren't related to developer topics, but all of them are interesting to us
nerds. Huge thanks to my wonderful cow-orkers
Liz Markman, Van Riper, and
Fumi Yamazaki for their help with this week’s post.
