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How I partnered with an Afghan NGO to grow women engineers

11 points by wutania 3y ago

wutania 3y ago
We're launching a mentorship program for our developers at GitStart with mentors from outside our community. If you have experience building such programs, know excellent mentoring platforms, or would like to be a mentor yourself, I’d love to hear from you at: tania+mentorship@gitstart.com or reply below
5mv2 3y ago
That's an intense story! Pragmatic engineer has a great article on where to find technical mentors, such as Coding Coach, Mentoring Club, Mentors in Tech. Would be curious to get people who used them. Link to the whole article: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/developers-mentoring-other-developers/#places-to-find-mentors https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/developers-mentoring-othe...
- wutania 3y ago
  Thanks! Huge fan of Pragmatic Engineer's blog post. There are plenty of paid mentorship programs listed, which is totally different from what we are looking for as we're trying to build a mentorship program that's free for our developers (and ofc we will pay the mentors). But paid mentorship with exclusivity is not reaaally what we're looking for as they're structured very differently. The free ones seems cool, gonna check them out and probably reach out to folks there.
nunobrito 3y ago
Oh well.. Another shiny example of completely failing to understand why after +20 years of liberal/progressive occupation got completely reverted in a couple of weeks. Nevertheless, a truly fantastic for initiative for winning virtue signaling points and NGO employment for the next years. Keep up the good work! +1
wildspoon 3y ago
happy that this exists.
mmvora 3y ago
What a great way to 'inspire' not just the women in Afghanistan, but women everywhere that are finding ways to break into tech!
- wutania 3y ago
  Imo the typical “women in tech” issues only really applies to US (and maybe some other typical western countries). It’s really different elsewhere, case in point in Afghanistan. Hope that the small things we’re doing at GitStart can break down the barriers of language, merit, class, culture, and political situation and let anyone who wants to learn coding can learn, and those who want to make money from it can!

11 points by wutania 3y ago

We're launching a mentorship program for our developers at GitStart with mentors from outside our community. If you have experience building such programs, know excellent mentoring platforms, or would like to be a mentor yourself, I’d love to hear from you at: tania+mentorship@gitstart.com or reply below

5mv2 3y ago

That's an intense story! Pragmatic engineer has a great article on where to find technical mentors, such as Coding Coach, Mentoring Club, Mentors in Tech. Would be curious to get people who used them. Link to the whole article: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/developers-mentoring-other-developers/#places-to-find-mentors https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/developers-mentoring-othe...

wutania 3y ago
Thanks! Huge fan of Pragmatic Engineer's blog post. There are plenty of paid mentorship programs listed, which is totally different from what we are looking for as we're trying to build a mentorship program that's free for our developers (and ofc we will pay the mentors). But paid mentorship with exclusivity is not reaaally what we're looking for as they're structured very differently. The free ones seems cool, gonna check them out and probably reach out to folks there.

nunobrito 3y ago

Oh well.. Another shiny example of completely failing to understand why after +20 years of liberal/progressive occupation got completely reverted in a couple of weeks. Nevertheless, a truly fantastic for initiative for winning virtue signaling points and NGO employment for the next years. Keep up the good work! +1

wildspoon 3y ago

happy that this exists.

mmvora 3y ago

What a great way to 'inspire' not just the women in Afghanistan, but women everywhere that are finding ways to break into tech!

wutania 3y ago
Imo the typical “women in tech” issues only really applies to US (and maybe some other typical western countries). It’s really different elsewhere, case in point in Afghanistan. Hope that the small things we’re doing at GitStart can break down the barriers of language, merit, class, culture, and political situation and let anyone who wants to learn coding can learn, and those who want to make money from it can!