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Node + JS Interactive Highlight – Women Pioneers in Colombia


Node + JS Interactive 2019 was held December 11-12, 2019, in Montreal and featured an amazing array of communities and individuals involved in JavaScript development.

Node + JS Interactive Highlight – Women Pioneers in Colombia

Node + JS Interactive 2019 was held December 11-12, 2019, in Montreal and featured an amazing array of communities and individuals involved in JavaScript development. The OpenJS works to facilitate collaboration within the JavaScript development community and has, as its mission, an explicit goal of highlighting and supporting diverse groups from around the world involved in development of key JavaScript and web solutions and related technologies.

0Based in Medellín, Colombia, and holding meetups throughout the country (Medellín, Bogotá, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Neiva, Popayán), Pioneras Dev supports women developers from expert level to beginner. The Pioneras Dev mission: More women actively using tech skills to imagine, empower, vision, create and build a better world through updated computer programming languages.

In 2020, Pioneras Dev will be holding a 12-week bootcamp in Medellín and their first community conference PioConf.

To find out how to get involved: https://en.pionerasdev.co/

What is Pioneras Dev?

Pioneras Dev is the biggest community of women in tech in Colombia with the main purpose of sharing, teaching and learning technologies, computer science, web programming, software engineering and related disciplines. The initiative started 4 years ago in Medellin-Colombia, and in 2018 it expanded to other cities including Cali and Barranquilla.

Pioneras is a group of more than 1200 women across Colombia who share their love for technology. One of our main goals is to unite and increase the number of women in STEM. Among the Pioneras, there are biologists, mathematicians, physicists, systems engineers, electronic engineers, robotics engineers, designers, programmers, data scientists, among others. We are an interdisciplinary group of women passionate about learning and programming, with the desire to increase our participation in areas such as science, innovation, and technology; especially now, in the process of digital transformation that the region and the country is experiencing.

Areas of Action
● Programming for non-engineers
● Update on technologies for engineers and programmers.

Our Dynamics
We hold meetings on the first Saturday of each month in different spaces provided by supporting companies, education entities and coworking spaces located within different cities in which we have grown as a community.

The talks and workshops are open to the public with prior registration on the MeetUp platform. (The PionerasDev community does NOT charge for their meetings or materials used).

Our Plans:

2020
We are planning to have 11 meetups, in six different locations: Medellín, Bogotá, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Neiva, and Popayán. A 12 week Bootcamp in Medellin and the first community conference: PioConf.

‍ How can you get involved?
The women and girls interested in being part of our community can get in touch with our channels:
Article: https://medium.com/@marianvilla/another-community-pionerasdev-a2947f89a592

  • WEB: http://pionerasdev.co/
  • Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/PionerasDevelopers/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/pionerasdev
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pionerasdev/
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pionerasdev/

Depending on the city, they register for events through the Meetup platform and/or required forms.

What are the requirements that a woman must have to access the offer?
You just have to register on our MeetUp page. Depending on the venue it may be necessary to present your ID to enter.

If you like to know more about our work, we invite you to check this compilation of past events: http://bit.ly/2P6Fsap

We believe in the power of education for changing the world. Support education, support women in tech.

TESTIMONIALS

“I got my first job through pioneras, and everything I learned I owned it to the Community.”
@Mileidy1703

Pioneras has been a community that has brought me so much professionally as personally, where I have was able to develop my soft skills and empower myself of my abilities
@Navas96Sofia

Inspire and invite us to ACT, love the code,
empower us with technology, learn from the experience of
others, generate collective and feminine consciousness, and above all
show us that we can add to multiply!
@ktadelinaco

Being able to be a mentor in Coderise, manage to give talks like
NodeCo, PionerasDev in their different meetups, and be
speaker at a conference Droids 4 Droids
Colombia. Met wonderful people, get
valuable friendships really thank you very much for having
Shocked in my life to change it.
@calypso_bronte

Pioneras changed my life  Thanks to the community
I met what would be my opportunity to learn development
web and now I’m happy working on it 
@anyruizd

2020 Global Conference

The OpenJS Foundation has rebranded its global conference to OpenJS World! To learn more, visit the event website.