Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Fwd: Event: Manchester Girl Geek Dinner #2 - 7:00 PM Friday, July 25, 2008

[Paul Robinson]

On 29 Jul 2008, at 14:39, Paul Waring wrote:

> Whilst I wouldn't advocate building an entire assumption round one  
> quote
> from a report, perhaps this lends a bit of weight to the suggestion  
> that
> women are not intentionally excluded from F/LOSS or IT in general.


Whether it's intentional or not is irrelevant in this context: it  
exists and needs addressing, which is where we came in. ;-)


> I don't know if we do something particularly special

You're in academia. End of mystery. :-D


For what it's worth, a large group of GeekUp types are trying to get  
involved in outreach work with kids (teaching them to code), unskilled  
workers (ditto), graduates (teaching industry best practice) and so  
on, with our first area in need of help - whilst I wait for the  
council regeneration team to get back to me - being the voluntary/ 
community sector. If you want to help charities now, or increase  
diversity down the line, consider signing up here:

http://geekup.org/wiki/index.php?title=Geekup_School

The idea is we're going to initially run a surgery for charities and  
the voluntary sector to attend staffed with geeks who can answer  
questions on IT, strategy, online marketing, whatever. It would be  
good to see some FSUK peeps there.

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Paul Robinson

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