Ada Lovelace Day 2010 is March 24th!
From findingada.com: Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science.
Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines, whatever they do. It doesn’t matter how new or old your blog is, what gender you are, what language you blog in, or what you normally blog about – everyone is invited.
A lot of developers get into technology because of strong role models (anything varying from "Einstein" to "the Doc from Back to the Future" to "astronauts"). While there are many prominent male models in the tech field, it is less so for women. I do believe that one of the ways to involve women more in the community is starting to do so at a younger age (before college, before high school) and part, not all, of the appeal is having strong role models to reference.
You can help by blogging about a woman in technology on March 24th, 2010. All the cool kids are doing it! Ada wrote the first computer program (to calculate Bernoulli numbers). Do it for Ada!
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