Here’s something I found through Facebook.
I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same.
Can’t be too hard, eh? Except that the campaign was launched on January 5th and it still only has 774 people signed up (775 when my pledge gets authorized). I suspect this is because it was started by someone in the UK and consequently hasn’t hit the female IT community in the USA yet. So let’s get moving, eh? I’m sure that I have a lot of tech workers amongst my readership.
Oh, and if anyone knows of specific people you think I should write about, let me know. It might help give other people ideas too. While this started in IT it doesn’t have to be limited to programmers. Any technology field will do.
The campaign’s web site is here, and the Facebook event page here. Go to it, people. And spread the word.
I’m a fan of roboticist Yoky Matsuoka. I always wanted to make a robot ankle, myself, but, well, engineering is hard … for me, anyway.
http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2913825/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id={855A99DE-8277-4E4A-BCC2-10BDCEC1F969
Sorry, that link won’t work and it won’t copy right, but she had a MacArthur grant in 2007 and there’s plenty of info you can find via Google.
Erin: Fabulous suggestion, although of course you could always do a post about her yourself. 🙂