Comments on: Who do you represent?

By: Raptor 7

Raptor 7 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:25:17 +0000

oh and the answer for the question, If I’m going to a conference on behalf of a project I would represent that project, that means all the hackers (female and male), code, h/w, ideas…..

By: Raptor 7

Raptor 7 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:38:52 +0000

by “girl” I meant “female person”, woman, lady…. no disrespect!

By: Raptor 7

Raptor 7 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:37:08 +0000

I’m the one on the right, on the 1st drawing….
btw what would happen if you replace the guy who says “you suck” with a girl??

By: Valerie

Valerie — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:52:59 +0000

I feel the same, Stormy. Always representing. I, too, turned down a management position in order to remain in tech for several reasons, including the fact that I wanted to remain a woman who techs (hrm, back to that always representing thing…)

By: TGM

TGM — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:51:24 +0000

There's been a few on xkcd, this was the one I was thinking of... Fitting punishment. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pix_plz.png

By: James Salsman

James Salsman — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:49:44 +0000

I’ve known for a while that the use of speech recognition in education has been seriously underfunded relative to its proven cost/benefit ratio, but looking at the problem in terms of gender inequity has really focused in on the problems. Like many problems in software, it has to do with a patent. But what’s the solution? What are the steps to the solution? Is contacting the government responsible for the patent a good first step? What’s a good second step? How can we get more women involved in using open source speech recognition technologies to teach reading, speech, and other subjects. I feel like tossing everything at Wikipedia’s strategy process and hoping some of it sticks might not be the best idea.

By: Jack Repenning

Jack Repenning — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:08:04 +0000

> she was worried there would be no technical female role models left.
I LOVE this! That company needs to create a technical position/ladder to recognize and reward this wisdom!

By: Sense Hofstede

Sense Hofstede — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:28:51 +0000

It’s a good comic; it makes you think about the way you look at groups and what you use to base your image on.
Realising every now and then that everyone, even you, have prejudices is a good thing, and something of vital importance in an international environment.
So thank you for this post!