Ask HN: Women iOS Swift Meetup Group in Oakland, CA. Interested?

[mightybrenden]

My fiance has been teaching herself to code for a while now and is now to the point where she wants to start chatting with other women about coding in Swift. We own a house in Oakland with a nice yard and would love to start hosting swift meetup groups. If you are interested please email me at: [e-mail] or add a comment.

FYI: I'm a Product and UX/UI designer. You can view my work at: http://brendens.work/

Thank you!

[bezalmighty]

Are you guys coming to Swift Summit in SF in a couple weeks? (see: https://swiftsummit.com). I'm one of the organizers, and previously ran a Swift meetup in SF. It would be great to have a chat about this with you there if you're coming!

[mightybrenden]

my fiance and I would love to. Are there any discounts available for the HN community?

[Mz]

FYI, in case she doesn't know:

https://www.womenwhocode.com/east-bay

[blablablame]

Hi

Not in Oakland or a woman (but a swift developer, 1 out of 3 ;)) but if she is learning to code, and wants to chat with other people, won't it be ok for her to just join regular swift groups? (I know there are a few around that general area).

Again, man here, so don't want you to take this the wrong way (might be because my wife actually gets along better with men then women) but won't limiting the meetup to a gender limit the talk and experience options you might get if you host this meetup?

[morgtheborg]

Interesting.

I assumed that this

> chatting with other women about coding in Swift.

meant that it wasn't just a matter of learning Swift (I honestly don't know why anyone would learn a language via a meetup rather than using one of the many great resources online ) but developing relationships with women who share her interest.

A related concern could be that it's often difficult to talk about the side projects you're engaging in if they're focused on more stereotypically female concerns when men are about. The vast majority of time when I discuss my side projects, guys are downright rude about them because their target market isn't male and that often marks the idea as silly or insipid to a fair amount of people right out of the gate.

Add in that it's the rare guy who can interact with women without treating them differently which for many women automatically makes them ACT differently (for me, I go into a social, people pleasing mode) and I can see why limiting the group might be beneficial.

[dragonwriter]

Limiting the gender is probably expressly intended to limit the talk in a particular way as one of its central motivations. (It may limit it in other ways as a side effect, which may either be something the organizers haven't considered or a price they are willing to pay.)