Getting Started with the Women of Sitecore

It’s been a slow (but steady) progression to our kick off at Sitecore Symposium 2018 in Orlando, Florida. Not only did we get started with a breakfast meetup on Ada Lovelace day, but we started seeing women (and men) popping up all over the place with Women of Sitecore enamel pins, glittery stickers and Rosie Symposie t-shirts. What started as idea, has grown into a community with a great deal of support and commitment to growth. Amy Winburn (if you didn’t learn about data sources for Sitecore fields from Amy, the person that taught you did) got us started by launching the idea, initial website and slack channel that saw the leadership team connect together. Whilst this was happening a group of female MVPs connected through Isabel Tinoco and submitted a session proposal for Symposium that was (eventually) accepted and saw 18 of us on stage discussing the challenges and benefits of being a woman in technology. Continue reading “Getting Started with the Women of Sitecore”