Joining the software industry after a break
In the last few years, I met many women who were either on a break from their career in the software industry or were planning to take one. It’s not unusual to take a break
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I have got my skirt blinking!
I have been thinking of doing a project in wearable electronics. Adding lights that blink on a skirt when I move seemed a good one to start. I had a white skirt lying in my
Continue reading »Technically Speaking Goal in 2016
I have been a silent and pretty much a passive follower of Technically Speaking since the time they started. If you are wondering what’s that – it’s an email digest to help and inspire people
Continue reading »Creating my first website on a Sunday evening
Yes! It was as easy was that! Although it took me one year to think and ponder upon the idea of creating a website, when I got down to writing one it took me one
Continue reading »womENcourage 2015 at Uppsala
I attended womENcourage2015 at Uppsala University last month. First, I thank Google for supporting me to attend this conference. It’s a wonderful program by Google where they give women in STEM grants for attending technical
Continue reading »What organizing tech talks at the office taught me
Around June 2014, I started organizing technical talks at my office. The organization I work for is not small and we do have a technical council that organizes trainings and an annual coding competition. The
Continue reading »Women in tech industry in India
After an year of starting Women in Free Software and Culture in India, I created a new group named Women in Tech Industry in India on Facebook. The trigger point was GHC India and Adacamp
Continue reading »The elusive memory error
It involved a crash with 32 bit optimized build of an executable which was running fine with 32 bit or 64 bit debug build and even with 64 bit optimized build. No crash with debug
Continue reading »IRC planning meeting to promote FOSS among women in India
Who should join? If you are enthusiastic about FOSS and sometimes/always wondering why there are so few women in India contributing/working in FOSS, please do join. People in the meeting would love to hear your
Continue reading »How to get started in FOSS
I’ve started contributing to FOSS projects since the last month and I’ve already found myself telling two newbies how to get started in FOSS. Although I love to give “gyans” and explain stuff to people,
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