If you have followed the issue of women in tech, you may have heard the name 鈥淛ulie Ann Horvath鈥� come up in the past few months. Ms. Horvath went public with what she felt was sexual harassment and intimidation at GitHub, a software development company where she worked as a developer.
Many credit Horvath with increasing the number of women that GitHub hired. While at GitHub, which brings in women speakers from the tech community to talk about what they had been working on at events in San Francisco. Passion Projects speakers have included a senior engineer at Twitter and a developer who was named one of the most influential women in technology.
In the end, after Horvath left GitHub, the company conducted an internal investigation and while they first found there was no evidence of harassment, they later issued a lengthy apology, which Horvath accepted (though she added that she is happy the environment at the company 鈥渋s no longer her problem鈥�). She also accepted a job at &yet, another development firm.
鈥淚鈥檒l be postponing Passion Projects this year to explore new ways to help tell the stories of incredible women and people of color in the technology industry,鈥� Horvath says in an e-mail.
Outside of the Bay Area, a similar organization is , which hosts events in Washington, New York, and overseas in London and other cities. Upcoming meet-ups include 鈥淗ow to Build Flappy Bird 鈥� an iOS workshop鈥� and 鈥淗ack the Night Away.鈥�
