On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 22:02:47 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:
On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 20:03:08 UTC, John Carter wrote:
https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/
Google, Intel, HP, Bloomberg, etc are sponsoring this outreach.
D does not have any such luxury.
Listen, I would love that more women were interested in
programming languages. I've seen many good women programmers
(my wife was one) but it is usually for a paid job. I doubt
you'll find many women who program out of the sheer pleasure of
it, or who will spend their free time holed up in front of a
workstation figuring out the inner working of mixins or traits.
But don't feel too bad. Females vastly outnumber men in the
veterinary and biology fields. I don't see their web sites
going out of their way to "welcome" me.
This is very true. I know that, particularly in academia, there
is an enormous amount of additional funding to entice women to
enter the STEM subjects, particularly engineering/computer
science. I don't believe many, if any, other fields have similar
outreach programs.
D's community is very open and welcoming, certainly focusing on
merit above all.
