Dear glugers,
There is a documentary that has been rolled out slowly in the last
year:
"Code: Debugging the Gender Gap". It looks in to the problem of
so few
women going into computer science.
The trailer is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VVb6M8pTvE
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zolhgjOX27A
Among other people interviewd, former Santa Fe Institute hacker
Adam
Messinger (now CTO at Twitter) is one of the people interviewed on
the
sad situation of women in software engineering.
I have been hoping to arrange a screening in Santa Fe for some
time, and
they are finally going unlimited.
Anyone have thoughts/ideas on what's the best way to screen this
and how
to get software-engineering/IT workers and managers to come see
it?
I am also interested in seeing if parents of girls might be
motivated to
think of their daughters for programming courses and not just
their
sons. I wonder if viewing the documentary might help.
First, what happened to the Los Alamos Computers (LAC Linux) site? It
redirects to Lenovo now. Also the phone numbers listed for it seem not to
work.
Second, a company will try to recreate the currently-defunct Baking
Company, where the GLUG met for the first ten years.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/changes-afoot-at-coronado-…
After they open (little word as to when), should we try to resurrect the
free software public-access computer?
Also, should we have a meeting there (even if just one, for 'cafe-warming'
and historical purposes)?
-Arlo James Barnes
