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This community was created by - Cassie McDaniel with the hopes of celebrating women working in the technology industry. It is meant to foster new relationships, share quality articles, and to gather names and contact information in one place to make it easier for folks who organize events to to be inclusive of hardworking ladies in tech.

For at least for the past three years - FITC has hosted a competition for women to win a free ticket to their Toronto conference. 2010 and 2011 called for videos or animations about why women wanted to attend FITC, but this year - in 2012 the call is for "anything you can provide a link to." This wiki is Cassie's contribution to the community, in hopes that a few day's work will snowball and that women will keep contributing to these archives.

Women need to be better represented on the stages at tech conferences and events around the world, so it is to that end that a self-sustaining community in which women can list themselves and/or their inspirational role models in the tech industry will help. It is important that such a list be transparent and social, not only because one moderator may be too busy to keep such a list up-to-date, but because the very act of women stepping up and nourishing the tech community will be what makes all the difference in truly integrating women into male-dominated technology fields.

• The ladies lists women by city who work in technology. These gals could be contacted for collaborations, speaking or judging opportunities, or potential mentorships. I've begun seeding the content of this wiki with women from the major cities in which FITC conferences happen.
  

• Events Board lists all upcoming meetups, conferences or other events that have content focused on women in tech. Please submit your own or others you come across.
  

• Articles is a repository for articles about women in tech.
  

• Friends lists other groups supportive of women in tech. Catching onto the theme?

• The app is an extension of this wiki and is Cassie's contribution to the women in tech community. These app designs are released as Creative Commons files which can be altered or even developed as is to become a Women in Tech mobile app. This way, busy event planners can easily access resources to help them be more inclusive of women in tech events.
  

• The section contains: mockup jpgs and psds
  

• Feel free to take any idea here and absolutely run with it. Send Cassie a link – knockknock [at] cassiemcdaniel [dotcom] to satiate her curiosity.

• Help links to the main help pages on wikispot — useful for reference.
  

• Quick Wiki Tips — At the top of Recent Changes shows randomly selected tips from this page.
  

• Making new pages – To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page."

• Front Page is the page you're currently viewing.
  

• All Pages is an automatically generated list of all the pages in your wiki.
  

• Bookmarks is for your bookmarks on this wiki. Every user has his/her own bookmarks page based on what they choose to bookmark on this wiki. To bookmark a page, simply click "Bookmark" at the bottom of the page! (Interwiki Bookmarks on wikispot shows you all of your bookmarks on all wikis.)
  

• Interwiki Map — link to non-Wiki Spot wikis using interwiki links by adding names and URLs of wikis to this page.
  

• Orphaned Pages contains an automatically generated list of pages with no links to them. Ideally, this page should be empty — keep your wiki well-linked!
  

• Outgoing Links lists all pages sorted by the number outgoing links on each page. This provides a good place to start if you're feeling gnomeish and want to link-up some pages with few to no links.
  

• Recent Changes shows all the recent activity on the wiki in a given time period. This page lets everybody see what's happening in your wiki! (Interwiki Recent Changes on wikispot shows you the recent changes on all the wikis you're watching.)
  

• Random Pages is a randomly generated list of twenty-five pages. Good for finding pages to edit once your wiki grows large.
  

• Site Organization has links to pages that help you keep your wiki well organized.
  

• Templates is a user created list of template pages — pages that you can use as starting blocks for making new pages. Templates/Business is there just to give you an idea of what a template should be.
  

• User Statistics is a page that displays statistics, such as the number of edits, for each person who's edited your wiki.
  

• Wanted Pages contains all the pages that are linked to, but do not yet exist. This is another good place to start gnomeing.
  

• Wiki Sandbox is a place for users to play around with the wiki without disturbing content.