
The Ada Initiative's logo
The Ada Initiative was founded by Valerie Aurora and Mary Gardiner, and named for Ada Lovelace, the "world's first computer programmer."
History

Ada Lovelace, a woodcut graphic by Colin Adams based on the original watercolor by Alfred Edward Chalon. Created for the Ada Initiative.
After a failed search for a new Executive Director in early 2015 the board decided to shutdown the organization effective mid-October 2015.[4]
Mission
The Ada Initiative is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing participation of women in open technology and culture, which includes open source software, Wikipedia and other open data, and open social media.[5]
Initiatives
The major projects of the Ada Initiative were
- Authoring and advocating for adoption of the Conference anti-harassment policy and other anti-harassment work
- AdaCamp
- The Ally Skills workshop
- Impostor Syndrome training
- Feminist writing
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3923936/Ada-Initiative-Supports-Women-in-Open-Source-Counters-Sexism.htm
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160403172226/http://infotrope.net/2011/06/08/please-donate-to-the-ada-initiatives-seed-100-campaign/
- ↑ https://adainitiative.org/about-us/
- ↑ https://adainitiative.org/2015/08/04/announcing-the-shutdown-of-the-ada-initiative/
- ↑ https://openhatch.org/blog/2011/congratulating-the-ada-initiative-on-its-seed-funding/
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