Women and TLUG - a personal rant

[Daniel Wayne Armstrong]

Very relevant to the discussion is the story of Dame 'Steve' Shirley,
Freelance Programmer:

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/12/06/dame-steve-shirley-freelance-programmer/

Definitely inspires me to make a better go at things!

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Renata Rocha <natzilla-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Has somewhat inspired me to write the rant, seeing Google dedicate its
> doodle to Grace.
>
> Thanks for the support :)
> Renata Rocha
> http://renata.org
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:22 PM, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Aruna Hewapathirane wrote:
>>> I am yet to attend a TLUG meet so can't really comment. I would like
>>> to apologize to Renata though if anyone did make her feel
>>> uncomfortable. I would put this down as a lesson learnt and experience
>>> gained but I would not stay away, I would get involved and there are
>>> many other ways to do exactly that :-)
>>>
>>> Just a though about there being a 'derth' of women, we do have women
>>> and kernel hackers at that, and this article by one of them who is a
>>> kernel hacker may help:
>>>
>>
>> While not a Linux user, today is Grace Hopper's 107th birthday.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_hopper
>>
>> BTW, check out Google today.
>>
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