The Inquirer wrote an article about our latest event! Check out the article.

Thanks to The Hacktory and Appzhao for making “Hacking the Gender Gap” newsworthy. Stay tuned for a recap of the event and some resources to help you stay involved!

Now that 2012 has ended, we thought we’d send a little reminder of everything we did last year and where we’re going in 2013 (this also serves as a summary of sorts of what was discussed at our town hall meeting held in November). Please note: our major changes are at the end, including that we will now be charging a nominal fee to be a member of the Meetup group.

2012 – What we accomplished:

• Dinners: 4 dinner events
• Huge thank you to our speakers and hosts!
• Speakers: Jessica Ivins, Maggie Avener, Anita Andrews, Mel Ward
• Hosts: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, NextFab, Cipher Prime, Zivtech

Others

• 2 Board Game Nights
• 2 Books & Brunches
• 2 Comic / Graphic Novel Nights
• 2 Craft Nights
• High T(ech)
• Sweet Swap
• handful of random get togethers (meet Code for America, Systers, turned 1 happy hour)

2013 – THE FUTURE – ChaCha Changes
Events

• Standard GGD Dinners will remain quarterly
• Next event – details coming soon!

Social Events

• We’d like to throw it out there to any ladies who would like to organize events to let us know! There is small stuff you can help out with, like organizing happy hours and some of our smaller events. If anyone is interested, shoot us a message on Meetup!
• We want more happy hours, more craft nights and more fun! Let’s do it!

Misc

• We will continue supporting/partnering with sister groups/events: Girl Develop It, Py*, Web Start Women, Tech Girlz, Women in Tech Summit, and any others we come across
• Hackathon - targeting Feb/March

Content / Website

• Continue adding to GGD PHL website lady geek recaps of tech events in the area
• We need help with this! If you attend a tech event in the city and are willing to write a short review of it, let us know!

Newsletter

• We’d like a volunteer to help aggregate cool and geeky stuff going on in the city into a bi-weekly newsletter for our group. If you’re interested in helping out, let us know!

Stuff we’d like to accomplish in 2013
Get some flyers/postcards/business cards made and advertise!

Major Changes:

THE BIG NEWS
Organization Change – Tristin Hightower will be stepping back as Co-Organizer, and Karissa Demi will be helping Nicole Kline as Co-Organizer of GGD!

Bio: Karissa is a Web Developer at Drexel University and in her spare time teaches Web Design at University of the Arts. She has a bachelors Degree in Digital Media and is currently working towards an M.S. in Technical Communication. She enjoys brewing beer, watching sci-fi, reading graphic novels, and playing with puppies.

NOW CHARGING FOR MEMBERSHIP
We will now be charging members $5 a year to be a part of the Meetup group in order to cover the costs of Meeup.com as well as buying swag and promotional items. We will be making this change in the next week. If you cannot afford the fee, no problem – we have many volunteer opportunities. We are looking for responsible people to handle some of our events, like board game night and comic book night, as well as someone to write our biweekly newsletter (see above for opportunities). If these sound appealing to you, please contact us and let us know and we’ll set you up right away. Other responsibilities, like writing up events and taking photos/video, will also waive the fee. We are working on an organizer kit to help people create events and make things run as smoothly as possible.

Thanks so much!

For a while now, we’ve been sending an email a few times a month on local events that may be of interest to women in the Philadelphia tech and geek communities. To increase exposure to that list, we’re posting those events to the website!

To get this information right in your inbox, sign up for the GGD PHL Announcement List.

Community Announcement
The Philly chapter of GirlDevelopIt is turning one and she is throwing a BIG party with music, games, contests and surprises. Even better? 100% of your ticket purchase will be donated to TechGirlz — a local non-profit organization helping middle school girls embrace the power of technology! So we’ll see you there, right?
[GET A TICKET OR TWO OR SEVEN]

Girl Geek Dinners Philadelphia Updates

• Recap of GGD PHL #6
  A recap of our Summer 2012 GGD event was posted. If you missed it, all the goodness can be found here: http://bit.ly/Osq6nk
  [READ ME]
• GGD PHL Comics and Cookies :: September 11
  It’s our second Comics and Cookies night! We’ll be meeting at Atomic City Comics on South Street and be reading Petrograd!
  [LEARN MORE]
• GGD PHL Lady Board Game Night :: September 25
  It’s time to take over Redcap’s Corner again! We’ll be meeting there to play some board games – they’ve got a huge bookcase full of games, but everyone is welcome to bring their own games as well.
  [LEARN MORE]
• For the rest of 2012….
  We can’t believe it’s already September! There are only 4 more months of activities before 2012 is over and 2013 is here. Where did the year go? Stay tuned for details on events that will take us through the rest of the year, including our PTBYONPL Town Hall meeting. (Warning, October is going to be a little busy!)

Other Happenings

• September 11: Beginning Steel Band
• September 11: GGD PHL Comics and Cookies
• September 12: Agile Culture Conference – Philly
• September 13: Ignite Philly 10
• September 15-16: Hacks for Democracy
• September 17: Victory Brewing: Girls Just Wanna Have Suds
• September 18: Philly Illustrator User Group Meeting: Creative Cloud
• September 19: Content Strategy Philly/PhillyCHI: Margot Bloomstein—Content Strategy
• September 20: The Hacktory: Tour of Longwood’s LED Installations — NEW DATE
• September 22: GirlDevelopIt Philly: Diving into Server Side Programming
• September 24: NOSH: The Cookbook Club – Featuring FARM CITY by Novella Carpenter
• September 25: GGD PHL Lady Board Game Night
• September 26: Android Alliance: Mark Murphy Presents “App Integration: Strategies and Tactics”
• September 27: GirlDevelopIt Philly: One Year Birthday Party
• September 27: Node Philly: September Meetup & Hack Time
• September 28-29: THATCamp Philly (The Humanities and Technology Camp)
• September 28-30: PostCamp East — Wilmington, DE
• September 28-30: Startup Weekend Philadelphia — GGD PHL Discount!
• September 29: GirlDevelopIt Philly: Build a Blog or Site with WordPress
• September 29: NorthEast PA (NEPA) BlogCon — Nanticoke, PA
• September 29: Philly Zombie Prom
• October 2: Pennsylvania Conference for Women
• October 3: Alpha Girls Screening at the Troc
• October 3-6: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computer — Baltimore
• October 4: Greensgrow Philly Food Swap
• October 5: Making Things Move with CSS and JavaScript
• October 10-14: Design Philadelphia
• October 13: #TECHmunch Philadelphia Food Blogger Conference
• October 15: The Oatmeal Book Signing Tour
• October 20-21: WordCamp Philly
• October 25: Academy of Natural Sciences Mega-Bad Movie Night: You Call It!
• October 27: Philly Zine Fest
• November 10: Barcamp Philly
• April 19-29, 2013 (yes, 2013!): Philly Tech Week
• April 20, 2013 (yes, 2013!): Philly Women in Tech Summit
• June 27-29, 2013 (yes, 2013!): National Homebrewers Conference

Feel free to hit us up if you want your event included in this list!
For a larger list of events in the area, check out Technically Philly’s Event Calendar.

OTHER HAPPENINGS
September 11: Beginning Steel Band
This course requires no previous knowledge of music or any previous musical instrument  study. In Beginning Steel Band you will be introduced to the steel  drum, its history, performance practice, and its role in a steel drum ensemble. In addition, you will study and learn music theory, improvisation, chord reading, note reading, and ear training while learning to play the steel drum.
[LEARN MORE]

September 11: GGD PHL Comics and Cookies
It’s our second Comics and Cookies night! We’ll be meeting at Atomic City Comics on South Street and be reading Petrograd!
[LEARN MORE]

September 12: Agile Culture Conference – Philly
Want more productivity, better products, creativity, and higher quality from your workforce? If you believe that organizational culture is the key to getting all this and more from knowledge workers, this is the conference for you!
[LEARN MORE]

September 13: Ignite Philly 10
Are you ready for Ignite Philly 10? On Thursday September 13th we will again bring you a night filled with inspiring and amazing stories of happenings all around Philadelphia.
[LEARN MORE]

September 15-16: Hacks for Democracy
Do you have an idea for an app that will improve this fall’s election?  What tools do we need to improve citizen engagement?  Is there an app that would get your friends to the voting booth in November?  What app might help mitigate the impact of voter ID laws?  What data would make your local city council and board of elections more transparent? Join civic hackers, election officials, journalists, data analysts and designers to make progress on these and other questions related to elections and politics.
[LEARN MORE]

September 17: Victory Brewing: Girls Just Wanna Have Suds
Attention Ladies! Join us for a mini beer dinner featuring the ever popular Horace Hop Wallop! Each course of the menu will be paired with draft, cask or bottled Hop Wallop showcasing the versatility of one of our favorite beers.
[LEARN MORE]

September 18: Philly Illustrator User Group Meeting: Creative Cloud
Join us to discuss the Creative Cloud. Are you using it? Thinking about it? Learn more at our third Tuesday meeting on September 18!
[LEARN MORE]

September 19: Content Strategy Philly/PhillyCHI: Margot Bloomstein – Content Strategy
Please join us for an evening with content strategist Margot Bloomstein, author of the recently published Content Strategy at Work: Real World Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Project. She’ll detail some of the case studies that show how organizations with a range of visibility and budgets can apply content strategy to ensure greater success in user experience and interactive consulting.
[LEARN MORE]

September 20: The Hacktory: Tour of Longwood’s LED Installations —  NEW DATE
Your ticket gets you a seat on our charter bus to the garden, covers the entry fee to Longwood, and a picnic dinner. Longwood Gardens has provided some excellent programming, including a discussion about bio-inspired energy by Kristina Lynch, Ph.D., Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College, sparks a discussion about the Northern Lights, and a StorySlam by First Person Arts on the theme “Everyday Magic.”
[LEARN MORE]

September 22: GirlDevelopIt Philly: Diving into Server Side Programming
If you want to make mobile or web application, you’ll need to understand how to program the web server. Servers are what make web services work. This introductory class will give you fundamental skills and understanding for programming in the server environment.
[LEARN MORE]

September 24: NOSH: The Cookbook Club – Featuring FARM CITY by Novella Carpenter
Love eating and reading? Then NOSH is for you. On Monday, September 24th NOSH: The Cookbook Club will meet to savor FARM CITY, scrappy urban farmer Novella Carpenter’s bestselling tale of getting her Old MacDonald on in the vacant lot next to her shabby, but not-so chic, apartment in inner city Oakland.
[LEARN MORE]

September 25: GGD PHL Lady Board Game Night
It’s time to take over Redcap’s Corner again! We’ll be meeting there to play some board games – they’ve got a huge bookcase full of games, but everyone is welcome to bring their own games as well.
[LEARN MORE]

September 26: Android Alliance: Mark Murphy Presents “App Integration: Strategies and Tactics”
Android has a rich palette of techniques for allowing applications to integrate with one another, from simple, hyperlink-style handoffs to full IDL-based IPC. Not all of these are necessarily appropriate for all apps, and choosing ones that make sense is an art as much as a science. This presentation reviews the possibilities and talks about how they are implemented.
[LEARN MORE]

September 27: GirlDevelopIt Philly: One Year Birthday Party
GirlDevelopIt Philly is turning 1 year old and we’re throwing a BIG shindig. With 20 Meetups, over 300 attendees and close to 550 members we have a lot to celebrate.
[LEARN MORE]

September 27: Node Philly: September Meetup & Hack Time
Come join us for our second Node.Philly meetup and Hack Time! We will be at another unique space in Philly with some great talks, demos, food and beer. We are also going to kick off “Hack Time” which we hope will become a strong Node.Philly tradition.
[LEARN MORE]

September 28-29: THATCamp Philly (The Humanities and Technology Camp)
THATCamp, The Humanities And Technology Camp, is a free, open, interdisciplinary “unconference” where humanists and technologists meet to work together for the common good.
[LEARN MORE]

September 28-30: PodCamp East — Wilmington, DE
Once upon a time, there was a little event that two guys started in Boston. Named after BarCamp, they called it PodCamp and expected 50 people to show up. Instead 300 people came and started a movement. Today, PodCamps have occurred on every continent except Antarctica and have helped thousands of people around the world learn, share, and grow their new media skills.
[LEARN MORE]

September 28-30: StartUp Weekend Philadelphia — GGD PHL Discount!
It’s that time again, Philadelphia Startup Weekend 4.0 (PHLSW) is just around the corner! It’ll be held September 28–30 at the University of the Arts Hamilton Hall! Startup Weekend is an intense and invigorating creative event where entrepreneurs, developers, and designers work together to build and launch a startup in 54 hours. Sound crazy? It is! In the best possible way! Use the coupon code GGD to get $40 off registration for a developer or designer.
[LEARN MORE]

September 29: GirlDevelopIt Philly: Build a Blog or Site with WordPress
This class is for beginners who want to use WordPress as an easy, fast way to set up a blog or a website. We’ll guide you step-by-step through all the basic aspects of WordPress development.
[LEARN MORE]

September 29: NorthEast PA (NEPA) BlogCon — Nanticoke, PA
NEPA BlogCon is a day-long, not-for-profit blogging conference that benefits The Arc of Luzerne County and the NEPA Veterans Multicare Alliance.
[LEARN MORE]

September 29: Philly Zombie Prom
Performances from Live Not On Evil and The Young Werewolves and DJs Kiltboy, Dave Ghoul and Mike Saga fill the night! Zombie makeup stations, free Prom Photos and more! Host Robert Drake will crown the Zombie King and Queen of Philadelphia as he rings in the official start of HALLOWEEN season in Philadelphia!
[LEARN MORE]

October 2: Pennsylvania Conference for Women
The Pennsylvania Conference for Women, the largest women’s conference in the state, offers community and connection, information and inspiration, motivation and momentum.
[LEARN MORE]

October 3: Alpha Girls Screening at the Troc
Alpha Girls was a 2012 Philadelphia Geek Awards nominee for Feature Length Indie Film of the Year!
Alpha Beta house is the oldest and most elite sorority in the world. Some of the most influential politicians, celebrities and scientists are Alpha Girl alumnae. After performing long hidden rituals, some of the sisters suspect that their good fortune is tainted by demonic evil. They quickly realize firsthand that the consequences of their curiosity are much more gruesome than any of them could have possibly imagined.
[LEARN MORE]

October 3-6: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing — Baltimore
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Presenters are leaders in their respective fields, representing industrial, academic and government communities.
[LEARN MORE]

October 4: Greensgrow Philly Food Swap
A Food Swap is part silent auction/part village marketplace/part fun-loving open house where your homemade creations (breads, preserves, special concoctions, canned goods, etc.) become your own personal currency for use in swapping with other participants. What better way to diversify your pantry and rub shoulders with friends and neighbors?
[LEARN MORE]

October 5: Making Things Move with CSS and JavaScript
It seems like there are a million ways to make things move on the web these days, which makes the why and how behind your animations even more important! In this workshop we’ll look at how to get the most out of your transitions and animations with CSS. Then we’ll add JavaScript into the mix for even more powerful options.
[LEARN MORE]

October 10-14: Design Philadelphia
DesignPhiladelphia demonstrates, supports and promotes the ability that design has to generate innovation, solve problems, enhance daily life, and influence both the perception and economics of the region.
[LEARN MORE]

October 13: #TECHmunch Philadelphia Food Blogger Conference
TECHmunch is making it’s debut in Philly to serve up tasty strategies for food blogger success! The day-long event is an intimate workshop and interactive conversation that will inspire even the most seasoned food blogger. The goal is to provide the ingredients you need to succeed and pursue your passion.
[LEARN MORE]

October 15: The Oatmeal Book Signing Tour
I’ll be giving a short lecture about bigfoot’s nipple hair and then signing some books.
[LEARN MORE]

October 20-21: WordCamp Philly
WordCamps are different. WordCamp Philly is intended to be the premiere WordPress-related technical conference in Philadelphia. It is a larger, two day event, with a Saturday full of learning opportunities.
[LEARN MORE]

October 25: Academy of Natural Sciences Mega-Bad Movie Night: You Call It!
Join us at the Academy after hours to watch this  ”awesomely awful” movie!  The Academy’s own experts will be on stage to comment on the many scientific absurdities–think Mystery Science Theater 3000!
“You Call It”: Bigfoot, 2012: Ice Age, or 2010: Moby Dick?
[LEARN MORE]

October 27: Philly Zine Fest
The Fest showcases local artists and zinesters, as well as zine distros, bringing DIY, radical, whimsical, and artistic small press publications to the public. Ranging from bike repair to poetry to crafts, the Zine Fest is a great place to go to learn new things, connect with local writers, and get involved with creating new forms of accessible media.
[LEARN MORE]

November 10: Barcamp Philly
[SAVE THE DATE]

April 19-29, 2013 (yes 2013): Philly Tech Week
[SAVE THE DATE]

April 20, 2013 (yes 2013): Philly Women in Tech Summit
[SAVE THE DATE]

June 27-29, 2013 (yes 2013): National Homebrewers Conference
An AHA conference is an amazing confluence of incredible beer, knowledge and community. This guide was created to help you get the most out of your time at the conference. It’s a lot to take in; there’s something going on for 16 hours or more a day. So, our best advice is to have a plan, and don’t be greedy. There will be more beers in the next event…and the next…and the next…you get the picture. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
[SAVE THE DATE]

For a while now, we’ve been sending an email a few times a month on local events that may be of interest to women in the Philadelphia tech and geek communities. To increase exposure to that list, we’re posting those events to the website!

To tet this information right in your inbox, sign up for the GGD PHL Announcement List.

Girl Geek Dinners Philadelphia Updates

• Recaps of GGD PHL #6 and our recent book and brunch coming soon (honest, we’re waiting on 2 things — 1 that we want before we post)!
• GGD PHL Comics and Cookies :: September 11
  It’s our second Comics and Cookies night! We’ll be meeting at Atomic City Comics on South Street and be reading Petrograd!
  [LEARN MORE]
• GGD PHL Lady Board Game Night :: September 25
  It’s time to take over Redcap’s Corner again! We’ll be meeting there to play some board games – they’ve got a huge bookcase full of games, but everyone is welcome to bring their own games as well.
  [LEARN MORE]

Other Events of Interest

• September 8: Academy of Natural Sciences Bicentennial Scavenger Hunt
• September 8: Second Annual South Philly Garden Tour
• September 9: Confections, Coding and Community: Philadelphia Meetup for ONE K in 1 DAY hosted by AWeber
• September 11: Beginning Steel Band
• September 11: GGD PHL Comics and Cookies
• September 13: Ignite Philly 10
• September 15-16: Hacks for Democracy
• September 20: The Hacktory: Tour of Longwood’s LED Installations — NEW DATE
• September 22: Girl Develop It Philly: Diving into Server Side Programming
• September 25: GGD PHL Lady Board Game Night
• September 27: Girl Develop It Philly: One Year Birthday Party
• September 28-29: THATCamp Philly (The Humanities and Technology Camp)
• September 28-30: PostCamp East — Wilmington, DE — BE A PRESENTER!
• September 28-30: Startup Weekend Philadelphia — GGD PHL Discount!
• September 29: Girl Develop It Philly: Build a Blog or Site with WordPress
• October 2: Pennsylvania Conference for Women
• October 3-6: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computer — Baltimore
• October 10-14: Design Philadelphia
• October 13: #TECHmunch Philadelphia Food Blogger Conference
• October 15: The Oatmeal Book Signing Tour
• October 20-21: WordCamp Philly
• October 25: Academy of Natural Sciences Mega-Bad Movie Night: You Call It!
• October 27: Philly Zine Fest
• April 19-29, 2013 (yes, 2013!): Philly Tech Week
• April 20, 2013 (yes, 2013!): Philly Women in Tech Summit
• June 27-29, 2013 (yes, 2013!): National Homebrewers Conference

Feel free to hit us up if you want your event included in this list!
For a larger list of events in the area, check out Technically Philly’s Event Calendar.

OTHER HAPPENINGS
September 8: Academy of Natural Sciences Bicentennial Scavenger Hunt
Explore the past, present, and future of the Academy of Natural Sciences as you race through Philadelphia on this celebratory scavenger hunt!
[LEARN MORE]

September 8: Second Annual South Philly Garden Tour
The Second Annual South Philly Garden Tour is a self-guided ticketed event, featuring a new sampling of community and home gardens throughout South Philadelphia – a total of 20 gardens will be open for the tour. All funds raised through this event will support the South Philly Food Co-op’s efforts to bring a member-owned grocery store where high-quality food and products, including locally sourced and organic, can be found for a fair price.
[LEARN MORE]

September 9: Confections, Coding and Community: Philadelphia Meetup for ONE K in 1 DAY hosted by AWeber
Do you have a great business concept, but lack a website? Are you overwhelmed at the thought of creating and launching your web presence? On September 9th, 1,000 women around the world will be getting their website up and running in StartupTrainingSchool.com’s ONE K in 1 DAY event. For an extra dose of community and support, Philadelphia-area women will be gathering at the Huntingdon Valley headquarters of AWeber Communications to work through the steps together, and access the knowledge of local web experts.
[LEARN MORE]

September 11: Beginning Steel Band
This course requires no previous knowledge of music or any previous musical instrument  study. In Beginning Steel Band you will be introduced to the steel  drum, its history, performance practice, and its role in a steel drum ensemble. In addition, you will study and learn music theory, improvisation, chord reading, note reading, and ear training while learning to play the steel drum.
[LEARN MORE]

September 11: GGD PHL Comics and Cookies
It’s our second Comics and Cookies night! We’ll be meeting at Atomic City Comics on South Street and be reading Petrograd!
[LEARN MORE]

September 13: Ignite Philly 10
Are you ready for Ignite Philly 10? On Thursday September 13th we will again bring you a night filled with inspiring and amazing stories of happenings all around Philadelphia.
[LEARN MORE]

September 15-16: Hacks for Democracy
Do you have an idea for an app that will improve this fall’s election?  What tools do we need to improve citizen engagement?  Is there an app that would get your friends to the voting booth in November?  What app might help mitigate the impact of voter ID laws?  What data would make your local city council and board of elections more transparent? Join civic hackers, election officials, journalists, data analysts and designers to make progress on these and other questions related to elections and politics.
[LEARN MORE]

September 20: The Hacktory: Tour of Longwood’s LED Installations –  NEW DATE
Your ticket gets you a seat on our charter bus to the garden, covers the entry fee to Longwood, and a picnic dinner. Longwood Gardens has provided some excellent programming, including a discussion about bio-inspired energy by Kristina Lynch, Ph.D., Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College, sparks a discussion about the Northern Lights, and a StorySlam by First Person Arts on the theme “Everyday Magic.”
[LEARN MORE]

September 22: Girl Develop It Philly: Diving into Server Side Programming
If you want to make mobile or web application, you’ll need to understand how to program the web server. Servers are what make webservices work. This introductory class will give you fundamental skills and understanding for programming in the server environment.
[LEARN MORE]

September 25: GGD PHL Lady Board Game Night
It’s time to take over Redcap’s Corner again! We’ll be meeting there to play some board games – they’ve got a huge bookcase full of games, but everyone is welcome to bring their own games as well.
[LEARN MORE]

September 27: Girl Develop It Philly: One Year Birthday Party
GirlDevelopIt Philly is turning 1 year old  and we’re throwing a BIG shindig. With 20 Meetups, over 300 attendees and close to 550 members we have a lot to celebrate.
[LEARN MORE]

September 28-29: THATCamp Philly (The Humanities and Technology Camp)
THATCamp, The Humanities And Technology Camp, is a free, open, interdisciplinary “unconference” where humanists and technologists meet to work together for the common good.
[LEARN MORE]

September 28-30: PodCamp East — Wilmington, DE | BE A PRESENTER
Once upon a time, there was a little event that two guys started in Boston. Named after BarCamp, they called it PodCamp and expected 50 people to show up. Instead 300 people came and started a movement. Today, PodCamps have occurred on every continent except Antarctica and have helped thousands of people around the world learn, share, and grow their new media skills. 
[LEARN MORE] 

September 28-30: StartUp Weekend Philadelphia — GGD PHL Discount!
It’s that time again, Philadelphia Startup Weekend 4.0 (PHLSW) is just around the corner! It’ll be held September 28–30 at the University of the Arts Hamilton Hall! Startup Weekend is an intense and invigorating creative event where entrepreneurs, developers, and designers work together to build and launch a startup in 54 hours. Sound crazy? It is! In the best possible way! Use the coupon code GGD to get $40 off registration for a developer or designer.
[LEARN MORE]

September 29: Girl Develop It Philly: Build a Blog or Site with WordPress
This class is for beginners who want to use WordPress as an easy, fast way to set up a blog or a website. We’ll guide you step-by-step through all the basic aspects of WordPress development.
[LEARN MORE]

September 29: Philly Zombie Prom
Performances from Live Not On Evil and The Young Werewolves and DJs Kiltboy, Dave Ghoul and Mike Saga fill the night! Zombie makeup stations, free Prom Photos and more! Host Robert Drake will crown the Zombie King and Queen of Philadelphia as he rings in the official start of HALLOWEEN season in Philadelphia!
[LEARN MORE]

October 2: Pennsylvania Conference for Women
The Pennsylvania Conference for Women, the largest women’s conference in the state, offers community and connection, information and inspiration, motivation and momentum. 
[LEARN MORE] 

October 3: Alpha GIrls Screening at the Troc
Alpha Girls was a 2012 Philadelphia Geek Awards nominee for Feature Length Indie Film of the Year!
[LEARN MORE]

October 3-6: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing — Baltimore
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Presenters are leaders in their respective fields, representing industrial, academic and government communities.
[LEARN MORE]

October 13: #TECHmunch Philadelphia Food Blogger Conference
TECHmunch is making it’s debut in Philly to serve up tasty strategies for food blogger success! The day-long event is an intimate workshop and interactive conversation that will inspire even the most seasoned food blogger. The goal is to provide the ingredients you need to succeed and pursue your passion.
[LEARN MORE]

October 10-14: Design Philadelphia
DesignPhiladelphia demonstrates, supports and promotes the ability that design has to generate innovation, solve problems, enhance daily life, and influence both the perception and economics of the region.
[LEARN MORE] October 15: The Oatmeal Book Signing Tour
I’ll be giving a short lecture about bigfoot’s nipple hair and then signing some books.
[LEARN MORE]

October 20-21: WordCamp Philly
[SAVE THE DATE]

October 25: Academy of Natural Sciences Mega-Bad Movie Night: You Call It!
Join us at the Academy after hours to watch this  “awesomely awful” movie!  The Academy’s own experts will be on stage to comment on the many scientific absurdities–think Mystery Science Theater 3000!
“You Call It”: Bigfoot, 2012: Ice Age, or 2010: Moby Dick?
[LEARN MORE]

October 27: Philly Zine Fest
The Fest showcases local artists and zinesters, as well as zine distros, bringing DIY, radical, whimsical, and artistic small press publications to the public. Ranging from bike repair to poetry to crafts, the Zine Fest is a great place to go to learn new things, connect with local writers, and get involved with creating new forms of accessible media.
[LEARN MORE]

April 19-29, 2013 (yes 2013): Philly Tech Week
[SAVE THE DATE]

April 20, 2013 (yes 2013): Philly Women in Tech Summit
[SAVE THE DATE]

June 27-29, 2013 (yes 2013): National Homebrewers Conference
An AHA conference is an amazing confluence of incredible beer, knowledge and community. This guide was created to help you get the most out of your time at the conference. It’s a lot to take in; there’s something going on for 16 hours or more a day. So, our best advice is to have a plan, and don’t be greedy. There will be more beers in the next event…and the next…and the next…you get the picture. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
[SAVE THE DATE]