Some of you have probably seen me write or speak about various underrepresented
and marginalized sub-sets both inside our industry and external to it.
One of the notable sub-sets are the women in our industry and there are many
ways they are underrepresented or marginalized.
Some of the causes are particular practitioners and their actions as well as
various urban legends that are presented as common knowledge, all of which need
to be addressed. It is our desire to help raise attention and help assist in
improving things as best we can to bring more women into the industry and
ensure their voices are heard.
LOPSA is pleased that USENIX shares our goal of bringing attention to the
various issues facing women in our industry by hosting the Women in Advanced
Computing Summit. This summit is part of their Federated Conferences week,
which also includes the ATC conference and others.
LOPSA would like to show our support in this area and provide something
concrete toward the topic. Board-member Matt came up with a great idea to
provide a stipend to assist someone in attending the conference. We will award
based on submission of an essay, but I'll leave those details to the posting
about it.
I just wanted to make sure you saw it and also point out that there is a very
short lead-time on it, so the submission deadline is already extremely close (a
week from now).
If you want to make a submission or just learn more about it, please check out
the info page at:
https://lopsa.org/content/stipend-competition-attend-2012-usenix-women-advanced-computing-summit
That links to the conference and summit details at the official site as well.
Helping one sub-set often goes a long way at helping the others as well, and I
expect and hope there will be many topics raised that apply for everyone.
Thank you,
Philip Kizer
President, LOPSA
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