BWiC -- Black Women in Computing, Engineering and related sciences

 

About BWiC
English (USA)

Black Women in Computing (BWiC) is an online community created to provide online support, resources and to increase the number of black women in computing related fields. BWiC is the product of the GHC2010 Women of Color luncheon themed, "Building Our Community: Moving Vision into Reality". In continuation of this effort, we invite all Black women in engineering and computing fields to join this list.

To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the BWiC Archives.

Using BWiC
The mailing list is organized around conversations. To begin a new conversation, send email to bwic+new@systers.org. Alternately, if you would like to specify a name for your new conversation, send your message to bwic+new+name@systers.org, replacing name with the name you would like (e.g., bwic+new+greetings@systers.org).

To continue an existing conversation, simply use your mailer's "reply-all" command.

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Subscribing to BWiC

Subscribe to BWiC by filling out the following form. You will be sent email requesting confirmation, to prevent others from gratuitously subscribing you. Once confirmation is received, your request will be held for approval by the list moderator. You will be notified of the moderator's decision by email. This is also a private list, which means that the list of members is not available to non-members.

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