User Group for ITPro Women

[Cathy Moya]

Are you interested in helping support women ITPros, and support women moving into community leadership roles in the ITPro community? We're starting a virtual User Group for ITPro Women.

Join us! 

There are lots of organizations that want to help women code, but we want to focus more on women who keep the code running, doing work like:

• day-to-day operation of networks, servers, clients, and devices
• help desk
• network architecture design
• information security management

We also want to include women who work in other aspects of information technology aimed at keeping clients and servers up and running, like

• program/project/people management related to IT
• technical training
• technical marketing
• technical communications

We'll welcome anyone of any gender who wants to participate in a safe space to talk about the challenges women face in a field with a lack of gender diversity. The goals are to network, support women learning technical and professional skills, and help women find mentors.

If you're interested in participating, reply to this post and tell me:

1. What are the best times of day for you to Skype into a meeting? (please include your time zone)
2. What should we call this new user group? 

If there's interest, I'll pick a time and post the information here for our first virtual meeting.
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Please spread the word!

[#2]

An update! We've been running "#WomenITPros" calls on the 4th Friday at noon Pacific time since May 2018, and in July 2019 we'll have our first Asia/Pacific time zone meeting, at noon Sydney-time, AEST. The Europe meetings sputtered, but if someone wants to take up that agenda and run with it, I can provide advice and support. I'd love to see more meetings around the world, focusing on issues specific to your country/region and at a time that is likely to work for you! Keep watching this User Groups community in Diversity and Tech for invites to the calls, and join the Member Resources group to get access to the recordings of past calls. Hope you can join us! 

[#3]

@Cathy Moya Is this User Group still active? I don't see any posts on this thread in the last year.

[#4]

Hi, @SherylB, yes, very active just not adding on this thread anymore. Click on level up to "Connect with Humans of IT" and you'll see all the events getting posted. 

We also tweet them with #WomenITPros