viewing "Code: Debugging the Gender Gap" in Santa Fe
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.
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Mark Galassi <mark@galassi.org> wrote:
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?
Maybe make it a special edition of the Santa Fe Software Developers (Santa Fe, NM) | Meetup <http://meetup.com/sf-dev>, to start with. It will probably take multiple showings to start a conversation rolling, though. -Arlo
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