Still going. http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7909175
Ada Day posting: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: kirby urner <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:07 AM Subject: Re: [Diversity] " How will [] free software be improved by being developed by a bl ack transsexual woman ?" To: Kÿra <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Kÿra <[email protected]> wrote: > Yesterday was Ada Lovelace Day, and I wanted to bring up the types of > views that we are up against right now. The quote in the subject line is > one among many critical responses on Reddit to the Free Software > Foundations post for Ada Lovelace Day. > FYI. I wrote 'In Defense of Ada' some years ago, when a New Yorker article (the cover article as I recall), tried to take back her "first computer programmer" title / reputation and give it to someone else (a guy). http://www.grunch.net/synergetics/adaessay.html The kind of diversity I work on most is attracting more non-English speakers to open source / free software. This includes many women of course. Kirby On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:51 AM, kirby urner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2407414 > > Interesting thread IMO. > > Kirby > > > PS: also enjoying that Ada Day threads on Diversity (python.org) > > >
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