Ada Initiative end of year report

Happy December! We come with good news for women in open technology and
culture, and we hope you're as happy about it as we are!

Since our last update in mid-2014 , we announced that we are growing by
hiring a new executive director, a Linux kernel contributor donated
$100,000, we ran 2 more AdaCamps (for a total of 3 AdaCamps on 3
continents), and taught 9 more Ally Skills Workshops. Keep reading for more
details, and thanking you for being part of another fantastic year for
women in open technology and culture!

** The Ada Initiative is growing! **
** Help our search for our new Executive Director! **

Valerie Aurora and Mary Gardiner founded the Ada Initiative in 2011 to
increase the participation and status of women in open technology and
culture.  After decades of seeing volunteers burning out, they wanted to
know: if we applied the feminist principle of paying people for their work
to our activism, could we make more progress for women in open
tech/culture? The answer: unequivocally yes!

When we reviewed our programs late this year, we realized that there was
more demand for our work than we had the ability to supply. Each of our
AdaCamp unconferences, held on three continents this year, sold out several
weeks earlier than expected. Our Ally Skills Workshops are booked solid
into 2015.  And we can't launch our standalone Impostor Syndrome Training
soon enough for everyone emailing us about it!

That's why we've just announced the search for our most important hire yet:
a new Executive Director , who will lead the Ada Initiative as we grow to
15 staff members over the next few years. We're so excited to meet the
person who will take the Ada Initiative to the next level!

More info:
http://adainitiative.org/2014/12/the-ada-initiative-is-gr...

** Anonymous Linux kernel contributor gives $100,000 to support women in
   Linux **

In mid-December, we were proud to announce that, on top of the $215,000
given by 1100 donors in our 2014 fundraising drive , a Linux kernel
contributor who wishes to remain anonymous gave $100,000 to help us create
a Linux community that is more diverse and more inclusive than proprietary
software, not less.  Linux is the world's leading free and open source
software project, and serves as a model to other open source software
projects around the world.

Thanks to this donation, the Ada Initiative will be able to teach 4 Ally
Skills Workshops at Linux-related conferences free of charge in 2015, and
give 100 hours of free consulting to Linux-related organizations working on
making the community more welcoming. If your Linux-related conference or
organization is interested in either of these offers, email us at
contact@adainitiative.org.

More info:
http://adainitiative.org/2014/12/anonymous-donor-gives-10...

** Ally Skills Workshops for all! **

Our Ally Skills Workshops are going from strength to strength. Since June
2014, we have run 9 more workshops teaching over 160 people how to respond
to (or prevent) sexism in their communities, including one at the Skepticon
conference for skeptics and atheists. We are now scheduling Ally Skills
Workshops starting in January 2015. If your organization or event is
interested in an Ally Skills Workshop, email us at contact@adainitiative.org .

More info: http://adainitiative.org/what-we-do/workshops-and-training/

** Three AdaCamps on three continents! **

We've been delighted this year to gather women in open technology and
culture not only in the United States, but in Germany and India too! Learn
more about our 2014 AdaCamps in the post-event reports for AdaCamp
Portland, AdaCamp Berlin, and AdaCamp Bangalore! http://adacamp.org/

And keep an eye out for the of our 2015 locations, coming soon!

Pssst, don't tell anyone who hasn't read this in a public blog post and
widely distributed email but we think we can say this : we're working to
bring AdaCamp to Montréal just after a certain major programming language
conference in April! Later in the year, we're hoping to announce AdaCamps
in Central America, the US West Coast and Australia/New Zealand. Stay tuned
for announcements!

** Supporting our work in 2015 **

2015 will be another huge leap forward for the Ada Initiative and women in
open technology and culture. We're shortly announcing 2015's AdaCamps and
the availability of our Impostor Syndrome training workshops, with more to
come!

Your end of year gift will let us provide low-cost tickets and travel
grants to AdaCampers, develop Ally Skills and Impostor Syndrome training
materials and provide free consulting to open technology and culture
programs and events on how to include women contributors.

And if you donate $256 (or $20 monthly) before January 1, we will give you
one of our beautiful "Not Afraid to Say the F-word: Feminism" t-shirts!

** DONATE NOW: https://supportada.org/?campaign=2014yearendemail **

If you've donated already in 2014, you can still help out: your employer's
matching program just might double your donation Our donation FAQ has the
info your employer may need to match your gift. You often need to make a
matching requests soon after the year ends, so check your employer's
program today.

More info: http://adainitiative.org/faq/donation-help-and-faq/

We hope you're looking forward to finding out what 2015 holds as much as we
are!

Small print:

For those of you making end-of-year donations to charity, the Ada
Initiative is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit. Your donation may be
tax-deductible in the U.S. For general information, see our donation FAQ at
http://adainitiative.org/faq/donation-help-and-faq/, but please ask your tax
advisor for individual advice.

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