When this is your evening walk… Sunsets (and rises) here are something I don’t think we will ever tire from watching. This is by Black Wattle Bay Park.
And apparently the end of the rainbow is in Canberra. This is from Saturday morning, just outside Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve.
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Two days, two cities. We held our first She Builds on AWS Community Day events this week in Sydney and Melbourne. I’m excited about what is next, and working to create more opportunities for women to present their experiences as engineers, developers and learners. The eagerness and energy from the sessions has me determined to do more.
Communities can bring change – because of how we choose to support one another. The most powerful feedback for me- was folks asking- What’s the next event? Where can we continue this? and (best of all) Can I present? I want to create a platform for others- where voices who have not yet had the mic- do. Our voices matter. They need a platform.
The community we are building has many parts- from sharing technical knowledge and experience on solving real world problems, to working together with hands on builders sessions, to talking through challenges we face with cement or glass ceilings, or bias and false assumptions on our expertise.
Learning the stories and challenges of others- from the very brave questions asked during our fireside is at the core of what community means. If we can create opportunities for people to ask frank (and raw) questions about their challenges, and in that same moment be a network of support, advice and help- then we will make a difference.
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Helping others and building community is how we make change. I have been privileged to support students in high school and university with internships and as a mentor, and to mentor and support colleagues in tech. The ability to do so, at scale and with support changes everything. It’s an honor to be an Amazon Web Services Community hero. My focus is to create more vibrant communities throughout the ANZ region, and to work on specifically supporting females in tech and university students. Let’s build on- together!
https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/aileen-gemma-smith/
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Nine years ago on the first day of spring, my best friend and me got into the rumble seat of Dad’s 1931 Model A Roadster and drove over to the Staten Island Ferry. Captain Arnold married us en route to Manhattan on the Barbieri boat, then we stopped downtown for espresso and pastries and then to midtown for slices at Mariella’s Pizza before heading over to JFK for Rome.
And in that nine years we have laughed, moved house, raised kids, changed cities- and countries, built and supported one another and always, always walked onward hand in hand.
Funny to think that last year at this time we were traveling from Adelaide to Perth for multi city road show presentations with AWS and this year we are here in Sydney building and doing more. Grateful for every day together. Which all of course started with a typo and our shared desire to solve problems.
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