Comments | synecdochic: building your own rockstars

synecdochic

building your own rockstars

Mar 25, 2009 02:47

Yesterday was Ada Lovelace Day, and a number of people pledged to make entries about women in technology that they admire. I never know about or remember these things until I start seeing those posts come by, so mine's a little late...

( Background )

dreamwidth

Comments 33

(The comment has been removed)

synecdochic March 25 2009, 11:09:17 UTC

I didn't know about it until I started seeing it show up in my who's-talking-about-us checks today! But it makes me so happy to see other people talking about the project in the context of how diverse we are, because we set out to be as welcoming and community-focused as we could in development & operations as well as community-building, and it is paying off like whoa.

(The comment has been removed)

synecdochic March 26 2009, 13:24:55 UTC

http://livrelibre.livejournal.com/23436.html
http://jadelennox.livejournal.com/354688.html
http://gblvr.livejournal.com/622106.html

:)

roga March 25 2009, 10:47:18 UTC

All of you guys = ♥.

synecdochic March 25 2009, 11:09:35 UTC

WE HAVE THE BEST TEAM IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE.

Random-Sack-of-Everything #10: I R AWAKE pingback_bot March 25 2009, 10:59:14 UTC

User quivo referenced to your post from Random-Sack-of-Everything #10: I R AWAKE saying: [...] also driving me crazy. Will try to quantify and post what's been going on later today - 's awesome Ada Lovelace day post comes just at the time when I feel confident in the fact that I am trying to learn how to program now. Dreamwidth... [...]

pauamma March 25 2009, 11:52:01 UTC

Here's to all the Lovelaces and the Babbages. :-)

synecdochic March 25 2009, 13:25:15 UTC

Word!

ext_69049 March 25 2009, 12:21:33 UTC

If you asked me a year ago whether I thought someone completely new to Perl could learn on Dreamwidth code, I would've said "hell no".

Well, actually.... that's not quite what you said. *g*

synecdochic March 25 2009, 13:26:01 UTC

Hee! I'd forgotten about that interchange!

It really is a nightmare in there, but we've cleaned it up a lot, and everyone involved has been so incredible in encouraging and teaching and mentoring. I'm so thrilled by the team we've built, you have no idea.

ext_69049 March 25 2009, 23:03:59 UTC

In all seriousness, the extent to which I want to find a grant or something that will allow me to take six months and learn how to program in Perl and Ruby for DW & OTW cannot be rendered by human words. I don't want a goddamn degree in computer science, not in Columbia's CS department, which scares the fuck out of me, I just want to contribute to these projects I care so much about!

synecdochic March 26 2009, 13:29:16 UTC

Yes, and I always wanted to learn on LJ (it would've been a LOT easier to support the code if I could fix things here and there), but LJ always had such a sharp delineation between "support" and "engineering" (I could rant here, but I won't) and there wasn't a lot of support for that.

This, too, is one of the things that we really want to fix with Dreamwidth. :)

Thread 5