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The Future of Web and Visions of Equality
For years I’ve been a minority in our field. In graduate school I was one of two females. The program pushed Java but I studied PHP and my co-female-student studied XML. Why is that? Why would the two women select another language than the standard object oriented fare served to the students? Is it possible there is a feminine friendly language that helps retain women in computer science?
This is the future of our field. The is the future of the web. Bringing technology, the joy of development, the art of mobile application development: these are the true places women can excel and find balance in a male dominated field.
WebVisions 2011 is about “exploring the future of the web” and I can see no better reason to join those who are passionate about the future of a field we’re growing from the ground up. After ten years of developing sites and recently joining the dev team at EllisLab, Inc., the chance to attend WebVisions is a dream come true. That and because Aaron Gufstason is begging me.
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I should clarify that I’m trying to win a ticket to Web Visions. http://www.adpulp.com/here’s-your-chance-to-attend-webvisions-2011-for-free/
Come help me? Tweet with the hashtag #sendflingertowebvisions and #WebVisions and/or #wv11 hashtags.
Tweeted. Good luck! P.S. We have one female in our IT department. Sad but true. Kind of like teaching but in reverse. I think we have one male teacher in our school. Sad and also odd.
Well, I’m not on twitter any more, so I can’t do the tweet a hashtag thing…but I can say ‘SEND_MRS-FLINGER_TO_THE_BALL…I MEAN,_ERR,_WEB_VISIONS!’ (right, I’m taking caps-lock off now!)