What would you like to see at an ACMW Social?

* Pizza Parties?
* Museum Visits?
* Arts and Crafts nights?
* World of Warcraft geek session?
* Cultural food Party!

Tell us what you think! Comment on this post.

The ACMW was very happy to see so many people come to our events this quarter. If you have any feedback or suggestions for future events, please let us know!

Survey: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/nancydo/64974

Come hang out with awesome women from Microsoft!

ACM-W is throwing a dinner next Monday (Nov 17) at the Ram, and we’ve invited a bunch of fabulous women to come hang out! Meet women in industry, make new CS gal pals, and girl talk over dinner.

This is a girls only, recruiting free event.
Spots are very limited, so rsvp by Friday the 14th!
Remember to bring cash for food!

Wanna rsvp? Have any questions?
Email Soyoung (soyoung@cs)!

<3 Soyoung

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thanks Will, for the alarming news. I had no idea…

ACMW is holding another chill session on October 30th, 5pm in the Gates Commons (on the 6th floor of the CSE Building). Chill sessions are a fun, informal way of getting people (particularly women) in the CSE department together so that we can all get to know each other.

We’re planning to do YouTube charades next Thursday, but we need your help. Fill out the survey if you have any YouTube videos that you’d like us to use: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/nancydo/63023

Hope to see everyone there!

A friend pointed me to a blog post that comments an article called “Ten easy ways to attract women to your free software project.” I thought it might be interesting to see what you all think about this.

Here’s the blog.

Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod’s humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments, scads of inventory, conflicting prices, and so many customers! It’s all such a confusing mess. But a mysterious book and a helpful fairy promise to solve her organizational problems—with the practical magic of databases.

This book looks so adorable, I want to buy ten!

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Book on Amazon

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