Seeding Local Communities Program
See current local groups here.
Thank you! We are excited you are interested in starting a local Women in Agile group, and we’re here to support you! We’ve done everything we can to make it as easy as possible for you to lead and inspire a local community of strong women and allies. Of course, if you have any questions, suggestions, or need any help, please reach out and we’re happy to support. To help you get started, we recommend a few immediate steps:
- Step one – Work through this welcome letter
- Step two – Gather your organizing team
- Step three – Complete a short enrollment form to join
- Step four – Read and sign the code of conduct
- Step five – See what other groups are doing for inspiration here (click the links on each group).
- Step six – Start something amazing!
Who is Women in Agile?
The Women in Agile community drives toward equality and inclusion of diversity representation, expertise, and involvement in the agile community. We value diverse idea representation to empower the agile community and enterprises and believe everyone is better off when more ideas are shared. Through our collective efforts, we recruit, network, promote, and support the work of outstanding women in the agile community through blogging, speaking at events, and building a network among other women and allies.
The Women in Agile non-profit organization is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) that helps organize and champion these efforts. Additionally, we focus energy into five major programs: Finding new voices, inspiring local communities, conference allyship, scholarship, and mentorship. As part of our Seeding Local Communities program, we seek to provide a variety of benefits to local Women in Agile groups and communities. For more information, please see https://womeninagile.org
How the Women in Agile Organization can help
The Local Communities program provides a variety of benefits:
- Brand recognition, that will help with attracting members to your new local group, and establish credibility with notables from the Agile community to come speak at your events.
- A Meetup page for your group.
- Global social media reach: Support from our LinkedIn group, Twitter #WomenInAgile (anyone can use this hashtag), Twitter @womeninagileorg.
- Community Slack channel with other event organizers and global Women in Agile members.
- A community of other local groups, ready to support you and co-promote your events.
- A growing collection of startup assets, including: logos, postcard, event guide, and code of conduct.
What do we expect?
- Abide by our code of conduct, and ask that members of your team and attendees of your group do as well. Our code is fairly straightforward: be supportive, be kind, don’t misuse the group or the brand. Respect our non-for-profit status.
- Be active, create a group, have impact in your community!
- Focus on activities that create positive change by building people up and not tearing others down.
Where to start
- We have found that groups that have an organizing team at their foundation have the most success getting their group started as well as long-term success. It really is easier and more fun with a team! Gather some friends from different companies in your local community.
- Submit this enrollment form to share your basic group information.
- Abide by the code of conduct, and ask that members of your team and attendees of your group do as well. Our code is fairly straightforward: be supportive, be kind, don’t misuse the group or the brand.
- Respect the not-for-profit status, and keep commercial activities separate.
- Be active, create a group, have impact in your community!
- Focus on activities that create positive change by building people up.
- For more inspiration, check out events that our groups are posting on Meetup.
Contact us
For any questions, feel free to contact us at: local@womeninagile.org