Ada Lovelace Update

Today I had the amazing experience of participating in an online experiment of sorts. It all started several months back when Suw Charman-Anderson created a pledge. It said, 'I, Suw Charman-Anderson, will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same.' I got to be one of those 1000+ other people, and it was great! I've had visitors read my post from around the world: India, Italy, Finland, Sweden, the UK, the USA, and many cities in Canada. Many people tweeted our participation and at one point in the day, we were in the top-2 trends on Twitter.

Here I'm going to list some of the inspiring posts I had the pleasure of reading today:

• Fellow GHC collaborators Aakriti Agarwal on Mary Lou Jepsen and Sunayana Sitaram on Jeannette Wing
• Fellow WICSian and co-conspirator Kerry Penner on Margo Leight
• The fabulous (and famous) SFU alumnus Angelica Lim on her mom, Delia Lim (aww)
  
• SFU Instructor Greg Baker and SFU student Dave Hughes on WICS Girls
• WICS member Karey posted on Twitter
• WICS supporter Sumo on Robin Jeffries - she even started a brand new blog in honour of the day!
• SFU Grad student extroardinaire Crystal on Chinese cryptographer Xiaoyun Wang
  

Others wrote too:

• Computer Weekly
• Yahoo

And *blush* two of the most touching for me:

• BJ Whishinsky from the Anita Borg Institute on us
• Winona Wu on me ♥
  

Being a member of the Systers mail list, following the Anita Borg Institute, and participating in WICS has really enriched my experience in technology, and today really brought that home to me!