I’m delighted to see that the pledge is now up to over 1300, so we are well past the target, though more are always welcome. In the meantime you may be wondering how all this got started, and indeed who started it. Well, the whole thing is the brainchild of a British IT consultant, Suw Charman-Anderson, and you can get to know her a little better thanks to this podcast interview by Christine Burns. Suw also talks a bit about women she might have written about had she not felt honor-bound to write about Ada herself. I don’t suppose that danah boyd reads my blog, but if one of you knows her please let her know she’s admired over this side of the pond.

And if you have forgotten what the whole thing is about, the details are all here.