{"id":585,"date":"2009-03-24T15:52:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T22:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=585"},"modified":"2009-03-24T15:52:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T22:52:51","slug":"ada-lovelace-day-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2009\/03\/24\/ada-lovelace-day-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Ada Lovelace Day Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay… it’s Ada Lovelace Day<\/a> and the goal is…<\/p>\n

I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Having just been (gently) ambushed to post something, I have only been mulling this over for a few minutes. It’s a tall order.<\/p>\n

Old profs? All I’d really have to say is “she taught that course well” (and I don’t have many examples since I was a math major in undergrad and took relatively few CS courses). Colleagues? I certainly admire some of the women I work with, but it would be a little weird to write about them.<\/p>\n

It took be a while, but I finally figured it out: the SFU WICS<\/acronym><\/a> girls<\/strong> (but only if I can apply the label “WICSies” to them).<\/p>\n

I have hung around university student groups in one capacity or another for the last 15 years. I have seen ups and downs, highs and lows, frantic activity and stagnation. I have never dealt with a group like WICS before.<\/p>\n

The whole group is uniformly positive and constructive. They all understand the group’s mission and have a huge variety of ways to work towards it. I count many former members as friends and as some of my most interesting students.<\/p>\n

I certainly wish we had 50% women in CS. Still, I can’t help but thinking that if we did, WICS wouldn’t be as wonderful as it is, and I’d be a little sad about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay… it’s Ada Lovelace Day and the goal is… I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire… Having just been (gently) ambushed to post something, I have only been mulling this over for a few minutes. It’s a tall order. Old profs? All I’d really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}