Show notesWatch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqDf4Ru-4EM Ramón and Timea talk about 8 years of Women Techmakers Vienna: why was it created, what happens in the community, how local impact is achieved, what is our target audience, how to get sponsors and venues, how to move to an online conference, how to keep going. Kids workshop photos: https://www.womentechmakers.at/photos/ Women Techmakers Vienna Code of conduct: https://www.womentechmakers.at/cod/ Women Techmakers Vienna team: https://www.womentechmakers.at/team/ Online conference experience & know how from our conference in 2020: https://ramonh.dev/2020/10/25/running-a-conference-online/Some referenced talks: Tissue Engineering by Minu Karthika Ganesan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VsJLeVq3Dw How AI is Enhancing Journalism by Carolyn Stransky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qZCRHwnnbM Creating more Inclusive Products and Services By Andra Bria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Dmkn5E0rEAshe Dryden’s post on why have a Code of Conduct: https://www.ashedryden.com/blog/codes-of-conduct-101-faq#coc101why Are you active in pushing for a more inclusive, intersectional space? Do youknow of someone who would be great for us to talk to? Get in touch with us: [email protected] https://twitter.com/GenderCoffeeTranscript TIMEA: Hey Ramón! RAMÓN: Hey Timea! TIMEA: Let’s talk gender equality. RAMÓN: I love the idea. Gimme a second I just gotta grab my coffee, I hope you’ve got yours, too! TIMEA: Yep, right here. RAMÓN: I think is an excellent moment to segue into what women techmakers vienna is because we’ve got a lot to say about that we are both part of the women techmakers vienna organization and you’ve been around for much longer than I have, Timea! Why why don’t you start by telling us what what women techmakers vienna is? TIMEA: Sure. Actually, I think January we will be have we’ll have our eighth year anniversary since we founded the community in Vienna and it’s it started from the Google Developer Group which is a community of people interested in Google products and frameworks and technology alike and this big conference that happened yearly at Google in San Francisco. Well, the women that participated there were like “but it’s kind of lonely around here where where are all the women” that come to these big tech conferences and I think that’s the where the need actually started to push into “let’s do something about it”. So yeah, Women Techmakers was started at this one of these big Google conferences in San Francisco eight or nine years ago and through the Google Developer Communities they were like “hey, would you like to start a local chapter? We provide you with the name with the visual identity”. We have our logo, colors, brands, all that just you know with the simple goal of bringing more women into STEM- RAMÓN: Sorry, STEM being? TIMEA: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. RAMÓN: Right yes of course. TIMEA: Yeah so that was the beginning. RAMÓN: Awesome, and you been doing this, you said eight years in january. TIMEA: Yeah, I can’t believe it, myself. [Laughter] RAMÓN: Yeah that’s so that’s eight years that you’ve been running a a yearly conference TIMEA: Yes, right, at the beginning we had a 50 participant meet up. To be honest we didn’t call it conference quite the beginning and then it started to grow from 50 to 60 to 70 to 200. RAMÓN: Yeah the ones I’ve been to have had 200 at least! TIMEA: And you were at the beginning were a participant but not at women time makers but the devfest, right? RAMÓN: Yeah it’s… Your memory is better than mine. So I’ve been helping out with Women Techmakers now, this 2020 would have been my third year of participating of being in an organization member. Then in 2017 I gave a talk at the Women Techmakers co