On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Jeff Elkner<j...@elkner.net> wrote: > I've just written a blog post reflecting on what a learned in teaching > Summer enrichment classes about girls and programming: > > http://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2009/07/where-to-all-geek-girls-go.html > > Thoughts and/or feedback would be much appreciated! > > Thanks! > > jeff elkner
Appreciate it jeff, doing a reply-to-all expecting a lot of rejection notices, as some of these look like lists I'm not signed up for. But that's easier than culling. I read through your posting with interest, looks like you're on the right track. I'll end with some URLs to my stash, as this has likewise been a focus of my writings and teaching career, starting with two years right out of college in an exclusive Catholic academy for young women, me one of maybe just five male faculty, the rest of us nuns, lay women. Put another way: I've been trained by some of the best in this business, plus this was Jersey City, so all American and multi-cultural to boot (add in the fact that I went to high school in the Philippines following a wild boyhood in Rome, and you see where I might have some exotic perspectives, want to bring those to the table for whatever they're worth). To make a long story short: I think we're solving it in Portland, Oregon, OS Bridge a case in point (recent conference, at the convention center). Once you minus the Californian spin (lots at OSCON), add in more Canada, then amp up around local FOSS bosses, you get scheduled talks hammering directly on this topic, and hosted by well qualified women (as was OS Bridge itself, with all XX top leadership I'm happy to report). My new friend Josh from Chicago wasn't used to it, got his back up a bit, to see Gabrielle in alpha geek mode, clearly 2nd to none, a FOSS witch talking about her FOSS coven, where men are invited, but have to sit in the back. I'm just as bad, talking about this nebulous Coffee Shops Network (CSN), branch Cult of Athena, where we have this glass ceiling most men never see, let alone rise through. So that's Portlandia for ya, bad to the bone (lots of out-of-the-closet pirates), and XX-centric (she's a she, Portlandia is). Multiply that by Christian Science Monitor's saying we're a FOSS world capital, and you here's your new poster child (think "Pythonista"): http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2008/11/wild-america.html (note CS RR in the background) I'm also proud of these two, some of the best pro-XO PR on the block, consistent with the message of G1G1: http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2009/01/saving-children.html Anyway, that's enough off the top. Here're the promised pointers. Gabrielle and Selena had some words of advice: stick to "world domination" as our shared goal of our geek subculture, and we'll all get along just fine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157...@n00/3639256600/in/set-72157619963850814/ Kirby Urner in Portland Related blog posts: http://coffeeshopsnet.blogspot.com/2009/06/os-bridge-conference.html (re a marketing campaign) http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=6769590&tstart=0 (re Portland as hotbed) http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2006/09/yar.html (out of the closet) > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > -- ндсжег воss _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig