Show notesWatch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOFDCmXpxvw Women && Code is one of the most successful communities started in Vienna with the purpose of bringing women* into programming in Austria. The vision of the community is to achieve 50-50 gender equality in tech in Austria.Listen to co-founder Eva Lettner, herself a former marketing expert turned tech lead, present the community: how does it work, who is it for, what to expect as a participant, how can it help you in your career, how many women they have helped, how companies can get involved. #cisco Resources and links:Women && Code website: https://womenandcode.org/Follow Women && Code on Twitter: https://twitter.com/womenandcodeConnect with Eva on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eva_trostlosOther communities:https://thenewitgirls.com/https://www.womenwhocode.com/http://blackgirlscode.org/Connect with Eva Lettner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eva_trostlos DISCLAIMER from Ramón:In this episode, I bring up the Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color in Tech (BIPoCiT) Space implemented at JSConf EU in 2019 while discussing the topic of women-only spaces.I initially wanted to talk about how whiteness toxically uses reverse racism as a shield when discussing BIPoC spaces, but didn’t want to go off-topic in this episode, concluding it by saying I didn’t want to open a can of worms. I apologize for not spending more time on it, and would like to cover this topic in a future episode.Please note that this by no means diminishes the importance of the topic, as empowering those who are underrepresented and/or marginalized is our goal. In the meantime, we recommend reading JSConf EU’s page on the topic:https://2019.jsconf.eu/bipocit-space/ TranscriptTIMEA:Hey Ramón! RAMÓN:Hey Timea! TIMEA:Let’s talk, gender equality. RAMÓN:I love the idea. Gimme a second. I just got to grab my coffee. I hope you’ve got yours too. TIMEA:Yeah, right here. RAMÓN:Welcome welcome, everybody. If you were listening before we’ve got a very special guest on the show. Once again here we’ve got Eva Lettner who is amongst other things public speaker Google developer expert and coding instructor at the Women && Code organization. TIMEA:Hi, Eva. Hi, everybody. RAMÓN:Hey, hey, so if you’ve been listening to the show before you probably knew that we had a van to talk about her journey as a polymath and and a public speaker. And what we wanted to do today was cover a little bit about Women && Code as an organization itself. So, yes, this is Women && Code. We covered it shortly before. But could you tell us a little bit about Women && Code once again. For those just joining in. EVA:Sure Women && Code is a nonprofit organization that I found it together with Barbara Ondrisek, I think it was 2018 but I’m not sure because time has no meaning, now. And the idea came to me on a flight where I was really bored and couldn’t sleep. And I came home and Barbara and I had coffee. I told her the idea. And she said okay we’re going to do it I was on my way home. She texted me. We have a domain. We have email addresses and we’re going to do this in two weeks. So that was basically it. How this idea started is. I was a trainer for another nonprofit organization in Vienna. That was called Girls and Code and they were teaching HTML CSS they were teaching JavaScript in WordPress and all kinds of stuff for women and people wanting or women wanting to get into the industry. That was really inspirational for me. Unfortunately, they stopped doing courses because it was just too much for them. Just didn’t have enough time anymore in the resources and so. And I was really sad, because I enjoy teaching. And so having this idea in my head team at the right moment because I had taken a break from training. And I just wanted to get into it and that was the perfect situation to start somethin