This year I want to talk about “Aber Comp Sci Ladies”. I’ve long thought it would be nice to have a local group of women in computing- I have been active in the whole “girl geek” field for a long time, and I’m now in Aberystwyth, so obviously the idea<\/i> of a local group is very appealing to me. So I was over the moon when an undergrad decided to start up a women in computing group in my department. The group is called Aberystwyth Computer Science Ladies, or ACS-ladies for short.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The group has a facebook presence, and has had one social, and it’s not clear where they’re going next, but there’s talk of big-sister\/little-sister style mentoring groups, and more socials, and general support. There’s been talk of entering an ACS-ladies group in a programming contest. There’s been talk of tea afternoons and pub crawls and other social activities. They’re contributing to university-level committees on women in science. There’s also been quite a bit of antagonistic banter on social media (“women only groups? that’s sExIst!!!”<\/i>” kinda stuff, and also “I don’t need any support i’m a woman and i’m fine<\/i>” kinda stuff); and the local organisers have been generally very accomplished in their handling of these complaints.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
So my ALD2012 blog post is to the Aber Comp Sci Ladies: Well done with having the idea, acting on it, handling the criticism, and generally being good people trying to do good.<\/p>
I’ll support you much as I can:-) <\/p>
There are as many different ways of being a woman in computing as there are of being a woman. And not everyone wants or needs support. But if you can be there for those who do want support, you’re doing a marvellous thing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging about women in science. I actually started my blog. on 24 march ’09, on ALD writing about\r\nSue Black a post you can find here<\/a>. Then in ’10, also on March 24th, I wrote about\r\nJulie Greensmith https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=433<\/a>. Last year, it moved to 7 October, but I managed to keep track and wrote about Sarah Winmill https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=791<\/a>. This year, it’s today (17 October, or something). So I’m writing about women in science now. I think ALD is a great initiative, but I wish it would stop moving dates:-)<\/p>\r\n<\/small>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This year I want to talk about “Aber Comp Sci Ladies”. I’ve long thought it would be nice to have a local group of women in computing- I have been active in the whole “girl geek” field for a long time, and I’m now in Aberystwyth, so obviously the idea of a local group is very appealing to me. So I was over the moon when an undergrad decided to start up a women in computing group in my department. The group is called Aberystwyth Computer Science Ladies, or ACS-ladies for short. The group has a facebook presence, and has had one social, and it’sRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-wic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}