[Edu-sig] "dot notation" (in favor of sharing it)

[kirby urner]

Still going.

http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7909175

Ada Day posting:


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Diversity] " How will [] free software be improved by being
developed by a bl ack transsexual woman ?"
To: Kÿra <kxra at fsf.org>
Cc: women at lists.fedoraproject.org, ubuntu-women at lists.ubuntu.com,
womoz at lists.womoz.org, issues at linuxchix.org, diversity at python.org,
womeninfreesoftware at gnu.org


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Kÿra <kxra at fsf.org> wrote:
> Yesterday was Ada Lovelace Day, and I wanted to bring up the types of
> views that we are up against right now. The quote in the subject line is
> one among many critical responses on Reddit to the Free Software
> Foundations post for Ada Lovelace Day.
>

FYI.

I wrote 'In Defense of Ada' some years ago, when a New Yorker article
(the cover article as I recall), tried to take back her "first
computer programmer" title / reputation and give it to someone else (a
guy).

http://www.grunch.net/synergetics/adaessay.html

The kind of diversity I work on most is attracting more non-English
speakers to open source / free software.  This includes many women of
course.

Kirby

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:51 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

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> http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2407414
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> Interesting thread IMO.
>
> Kirby
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> PS: also enjoying that Ada Day threads on Diversity (python.org)
>
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