FOSS Wave, Women in Technology: Starting the call focused on the Internet of Things

Starting the call focused on the Internet of Things

This article is a follow-up to an earlier article on the Community Blog: Women in technology: Fedora campus presence.

This week, we took our initiative further. We guided the new women contributors on one of the bleeding edge technologies according to their interest. Sumantro Mukherjee helped me guide the contributors. Some contributors were interested in Internet of Things (IoT) while some wanted to learn Web Development as bleeding edge. So, we decided to have two different calls in a row.

Internet of Things (IoT)

The first hangout call was on Internet of Things. The contributors were explained the meaning and the structure of how IoT is implemented. It was done with the help of a presentation prepared by Sumantro. After going through the details and theory about IoT, we talked about the Arduino and Raspberry Pi. We went through a little intro and application part of the devices. We further explained the concept with the help of a little demo of the project. The details of the call are available on our Etherpad.

FOSS Wave, Women in Technology: Answering the question, what exactly is the Internet of Things?

Answering the question, what exactly is the Internet of Things? What composes it?

FOSS Wave, Women in Technology: Demonstrating the various building blocks that make up IoT devices

Demonstrating the various building blocks that make up IoT devices

FOSS Wave, Women in Technology: Discussing the multiple layers that make up an IoT device

Discussing the multiple layers that make up an IoT device

FOSS Wave, Women in Technology: Where can you find the Internet of Things today?

Where can you find the Internet of Things today?

FOSS Wave, Women in Technology: Building an interactive light to control at home using Sumantro's guide!

Building an interactive light to control at home using Sumantro’s guide!

Web development

The second call was on eeb development. In the call, we introduced and discussed some of the following topics.

  • Importance of a web browser
  • Different web browsers and their pros and cons
  • Structure of web pages
  • Few tags for beginning

Since the contributor was an absolute beginner, we followed up with a hands-on session where we came up with a very basic web page to show how different tags work. The details of the call are available on this Etherpad.

FOSS Wave, Women in Technology: Starting the web development 101 call!

Starting the web development 101 call!

FOSS Wave, Women in Technology: Analyzing a website using the element inspector functionality of the browser

Analyzing a website using the element inspector functionality of the browser

FOSS Wave, Women in Technology: Demonstrating basic web development concepts

Demonstrating basic web development concepts

We’re looking forward to running more of these sessions soon to help introduce more women to various technologies and ways to apply their interests in technology!