From elaine at cts.wustl.edu  Mon Mar  1 11:25:55 1999
From: elaine at cts.wustl.edu (elaine ashton)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:29:04 2004
Subject: [mnw.pm] MNW Web page ideas
In-Reply-To: <199902262135.QAA18892@force.stwing.upenn.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990301111744.17345m-100000@helen.cts.wustl.edu>

> Some ideas:
> - Links to the essential perl reference sites
> - Links to other geek/tech reference & news
> - Links to list members homepages/projects
> - Events
> - Girls of perl? Maybe we should save that for "fundraising". :-)

I like all of the above...of course, 'essential perl' may be a trademark
of addison-wesley ;). I have been industriously collecting URLs for an
article I'm doing and should be dumping it into html soon. Anyone have
favourite URLs, a homepage to call your own, etc that you would like to
see listed? Do share.

Events would be a good thing to highlight as well. Does anyone here go to
their local monger meetings? I will be attending YAPC and will want to
host some sort of gathering perhaps. It's only $50 and should be way more
affordable and interesting than TPC3. I really hope some of you can go!
Here is the URL for more info http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/yapc.

Also, does anyone know someone (perhaps yourself) who is graphically
talented? I suck at photoshop and, try as I might, cannot create anything
aesthetically pleasing for a logo. 

e.


From th at womensports.com  Tue Mar  2 03:07:37 1999
From: th at womensports.com (Thalia L. Hooker)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:29:04 2004
Subject: [mnw.pm] MNW Web page ideas
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990226112826.19575A-100000@info.census.gov>
Message-ID: <199903021508.JAA01387@baal.visi.com>

Hi,

What about links to other organizations/associations/programming 
groups that have a 'Women in Computing' [I know someone can come up 
with a better title than that!] sections?

Thalia

> Hi,
> 
> SO what are some ideas for things to put on the mnw.pm web page?
> 
> Lisa W. Nyman  <lnyman@census.gov>   Standard Disclaimer applies.

From bkuhn at ebb.org  Mon Mar  8 04:07:21 1999
From: bkuhn at ebb.org (Bradley M. Kuhn)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:29:04 2004
Subject: [mnw.pm] MNW Web page ideas
In-Reply-To: <199903021508.JAA01387@baal.visi.com>; from Thalia L. Hooker on Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 09:07:37AM +0000
References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990226112826.19575A-100000@info.census.gov> <199903021508.JAA01387@baal.visi.com>
Message-ID: <19990308050721.S625@ebb.org>

Thus spoke Thalia L. Hooker:
> Hi,
> 
> What about links to other organizations/associations/programming 
> groups that have a 'Women in Computing' [I know someone can come up 
> with a better title than that!] sections?

I believe that ACM has such a sub-section (it might even be a SIG, I am not
sure).

I apologize for posting with that little, somewhat less-than-helpful
information, but I do know that ACM has focused on the issue of Women in
Computing off and on over the years (but never enough to make a real
impact <SIGH>).
-- 
      Bradley M. Kuhn   |     bkuhn@ebb.org    |   http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn

From ziggy at panix.com  Mon Mar 15 00:22:55 1999
From: ziggy at panix.com (Adam Turoff)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:29:04 2004
Subject: [mnw.pm] MNW Web page ideas
In-Reply-To: <19990308050721.S625@ebb.org> from "Bradley M. Kuhn" at Mar 8, 99 05:07:21 am
Message-ID: <199903150622.BAA18753@panix.com>

Bradley Kuhn wrote:
> Thus spoke Thalia L. Hooker:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > What about links to other organizations/associations/programming 
> > groups that have a 'Women in Computing' [I know someone can come up 
> > with a better title than that!] sections?
> 
> I believe that ACM has such a sub-section (it might even be a SIG, I am not
> sure).

Looking on ACM's site, I saw that they have a video on the subject.
amazon or clbooks probably have more grist for that mill.

In terms of books, Sadie Platt penned 'Zeros and Ones' either on 
gender issues with computing, or on the effect of women on computing.
(I'm not sure which; it's still on one of my to-read shelves.)

> I apologize for posting with that little, somewhat less-than-helpful
> information, but I do know that ACM has focused on the issue of Women in
> Computing off and on over the years (but never enough to make a real
> impact <SIGH>).

The ACM seems to have dropped the ball on this one.  Then again, it may
be a direct effect that many women are too smart to slog away in 
academia and are too busy in the trenches instead....

~50% of the worlds code is written in some dialect of COBOL.  (+/-
some large epsilon of course.  :-)  By that metric, Admiral Grace Hopper
has had a ver', ver' big impact on computing.  But when was the last time 
you saw a book on Algorithms in COBOL?

In terms of impact, the only person with more impact would be 
John von Neumann.  Or maybe Alan Turing.

Z.