(Marc, I hope you will forgive me mailing you as a way of adding to your blog - we are all a little in shock at losing Leigh and I hope this short tribute will make others aware of her contribution)
MY NAME: Ann Light URL: http://boundaryobjects.tumblr.com/ INSPIRED BY S. Leigh Star Leigh made a great contribution to our understanding of how categories work, what they leave out, how they contribute to creating identities... the technology of 'the system'. She was much more than that - a creative thinker whose rich metaphoric presentations gave depth and breadth to a range of information technology and scientific issues, whose gentle voice belied strong commitments and whose prose is - and will succeed her as - a plea for humanity and a protest against all types of reductionism, through careful and intelligent analysis. Our research community is today reeling from the shock of learning that she has just died. It seems apt to commemorate her with a nomination on Ada Lovelace Day. Her ability to express her sensibility as a woman was one of her many strengths... and she became well known for her investigation into the 'invisible' work that makes the world run, so often supplied by women. I worked alongside her for a couple of days in 2007 and it was inspiring. My blog is named for her. http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/article/star.php Ann -----Original Message----- From: netbehaviour-boun...@netbehaviour.org [mailto:netbehaviour-boun...@netbehaviour.org] On Behalf Of marc garrett Sent: 24 March 2010 18:57 To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Subject: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day, Again! 2010. Ada Lovelace Day, Again! Hi Netbehaviourists - It is March 24th, Ada Lovelace Day, Again! Origianlly conceived by and promoted by Suw Charman-Anderson (http://suw.org.uk/) as a way of "bringing women in technology to the fore". It succeded in motivating nearly 2000 people to publish a blog post about a woman in technology whom they admired.. This blog is now open again to anyone to contribute - http://blog.findingada.com/ We are asking for the Netbehaviour community to get involved again. Last year we made a successful contribution to their project, sharing our own contexts from our own community to the project. http://www.furtherfield.org/ada_lovelace.php There is a limited time period of 50 hours, and it's ticking away... How to proceed: What we'll do is merge everyone's new suggestions to an updated version of last year's edition. Then add it to furtherfield, like we would for a review, as well as link it to the Finding Ada Blog, next other people's thousands of other contributions out there... How to contribute: It's easy - you add your own suggestions to a thread/list added by the last contributor on Netbehaviour. Example of format: MY NAME: Ruth Catlow URL: http://www.furtherfield.org/display_user.php?ID=14 INSPIRED BY Ele Carpenter For tech inspired and facilitated participation with Open Source Embroidery, her curatorial project exploring artists practice that explores the relationship between programming for embroidery and computing. http://www.elecarpenter.org.uk/ Auriea Harvey For her part with Entropy8Zuper in early intimate networked performances http://entropy8zuper.org/wirefire and for Endless Forest, Tale of Tales's bucolic social screensaver. http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest Mary Flanagan For her energetic explorations as academic, educator, artist and programmer at the intersection of games, art and feminism and exploring collaborative approaches to thinking about values. http://www.valuesatplay.org/ Exactly or similar as above. looking forward to seeing who collaborates. Add you suggestions RE: this post... wishing all well. marc _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
