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palfrey at 12:10pm on 24/03/2009
palfrey at 12:10pm on 24/03/2009Today is Ada Lovelace Day. For the ignorant, she was the world's first computer programmer (predating even the existence of the first computer, thus proving the notion that Real Programmers would use Turing Machines if they weren't so poor at I/O).
For this, I am to write a post about a woman excelling in technology, and I pick Stormy Peters. She's the current Executive Director of the Gnome Foundation (an organisation I've been meaning to join for a while). I'd been reading her blog for a little while now, and I've been thoroughly enjoying her posts on the interactions between open source projects and the wider world, and also on just generally getting stuff done in these projects. She's helping to guide a project whose end results I use every day, I think they're very lucky to have her, and I look forward to seeing the changes I know she'll manage to do.
For this, I am to write a post about a woman excelling in technology, and I pick Stormy Peters. She's the current Executive Director of the Gnome Foundation (an organisation I've been meaning to join for a while). I'd been reading her blog for a little while now, and I've been thoroughly enjoying her posts on the interactions between open source projects and the wider world, and also on just generally getting stuff done in these projects. She's helping to guide a project whose end results I use every day, I think they're very lucky to have her, and I look forward to seeing the changes I know she'll manage to do.