The Thread | Women+Tech
Women in tech taking up space, sharing stories, and building real connections and bold businesses, one cozy Vancouver meetup at a time. From code to coffee chats, pitches to potlucks, you're invited!
The Thread Code of Engagement
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As The Thread keeps growing, the culture we are shaping only stays strong if we all help protect it. The Thread was built for meaningful connection, genuine giving, and women+ supporting each other across the tech ecosystem.
These agreements help us keep The Thread relevant, generous, and valuable for everyone:
How we connect
Relationships before promotion:
The Thread is a relationship-first community. Prioritize personal connection by participating, engaging, and supporting others before promoting yourself, your event, your service, or your work.
Protect the quality of the community:
Referral links, unrelated content, repeated self-promotion, mass recruiting, cold outreach, and transactional networking dilute the experience for everyone and will be removed by moderators.
Ask before cross-promoting:
We value collaboration and healthy pollination across the ecosystem. If you lead or represent another community, membership program, organization, event, or initiative, please connect with us before sharing it with The Thread community. The Thread’s private channels are intended to connect members with valuable opportunities, not to recruit for or grow another organization without prior approval or a formal partnership. Depending on fit and timing, aligned opportunities may become partnerships, be added to the Community Calendar, or be reviewed case by case. Priority consideration is given to active members, volunteers, partners, and organizations that consistently contribute to The Thread community.
LinkedIn belongs in LinkedIn:
To keep conversations more natural and community-focused, LinkedIn profiles and introduction posts belong in our private LinkedIn group: https://threadwomentech.com/links.
Community access:
Private Thread channels are reserved for active members. Leaving the main WhatsApp community also ends access to the private LinkedIn group and other member-only channels and benefits.
How we grow together
Make clear asks:
If you need support, context helps. Share enough information so members understand how they can help you.
Bring your ideas to The Thread:
Members are welcome to propose initiatives or co-host in-person events with The Thread. Before proposing an event, check The Thread Luma calendar to avoid overlap with existing Thread events. Send your idea to one of the Keepers on WhatsApp so we can start the conversation.
Personal invitations:
If you know a local woman+ in tech who would genuinely benefit from The Thread and contribute positively to our culture, invite her to apply here.
Open aligned doors:
If you know a person, venue, partner, sponsor, collaborator, or opportunity that could help The Thread serve more women+ in tech, we welcome thoughtful introductions. Please connect with us at info@threadwomentech.com.
Support what we are building:
The generosity of our members and allies helps us keep The Thread connected and growing. We welcome financial and in-kind contributions that fund our events, programs, resources, and tools.
Help us amplify our mission:
If The Thread has supported you, help us make our work more visible. Follow, engage with, invite, and tag The Thread on LinkedIn so more people across the ecosystem can discover us and see what we are building.
How we gather
In-person first:
The Thread exists to strengthen local, in-person connections across Greater Vancouver. We don’t usually promote virtual events through our community channels, though we may share recordings or useful resources afterward when they’re relevant to the community.
Keep external memberships outside the group:
We welcome aligned ecosystem events when they are shared through the right channel. To keep The Thread centred on local connection and shared trust, we do not promote external memberships, private groups, or community platforms that recruit members from The Thread community.
Sharing events thoughtfully:
To share an in-person event with the community, fill out our Event Submission Form for consideration on the Community Calendar. This includes events you are organizing or events you think would be valuable to other members.
Honor your RSVP:
When you say yes to a Thread event, we count on you to keep your word and honor your commitment. If your plans change, update your RSVP or notify the host as early as possible. After 3 no-shows, members move to a low-priority list. After 7 no-shows, members lose access to future Thread invitations.
The Thread grows through the trust we protect, the generosity we practice, and the doors we open for one another. Thank you for helping shape the tech community that many of us have been looking for 
