Ideas for names

Girls go computing
Computing for girls

Girls gone wired

WiredGirls
Scouting the digital world

Girly careers in computing
My future in computing

Wired day for girls

Scouting computing careers

Possible Speakers

Sonal Shah has been appointed to President-Elect Barack Obama’s Advisory Board. There was another woman mentioned in the Merc.

I wrote to Tina Seelig and Bob Sutton. Tina wrote a book about lessons learned. She hasn’t replied yet.

Phone conference April 28

Today I had a phone conference with Jean Fahy from the Girlscouts and the new Girlscouts in Computing seminar leader, Anne Hardy. Anne works at SAP and is heavily involved in the women-in-computing effort there. I am very happy to have won her for this. She already proved to be very well organized, going through the list of questions.

Here some notes from today's meeting:

• the conference will be in November
• the location has to be determined. It should be at a hi-tech company. I am contacting Google and Microsoft, Anne SAP and the Computer History Museum.
• we want to limit attendance at ~300! We need to define minimum attendance.
• Financing may be a problem: Feeding 300 people will cost more than the $600 we have from Max. We need to augment from our funds, sponsorships or an attendance fee.
• Legally we are good: the GS have insurance, and we can ask for additional ACM insurance if required.
• GS can also provide first-aid on site.
• By the end of May, we need: description, date, cost, venue and a name!
• speakers: according to Anne not a problem. We are looking for students, practitioners and older, experienced leaders.
• There should be keynotes and workshops. If you know someone who can teach a workshop, or who has achieved happiness or impressive results, please try to recruite her.

We will have another phone call organized by Anne before May 9 or after May 15.

Jean will check for dates in November.

Martin contacts Microsoft and Google.

Anne contacts SAP and CHM.

Startup

We work on organizing a joint event between the Girlscouts of Northern California and the bay area chapter of the ACM . We want to make a career in  computing attractive to middle and high-school age girls. The one-day event will take place in November and we are aiming for about 300 attendees. The format of the event will be like a conference: speakers will talk about their work in the field. We are planning to have a keynote, topic tracks and workshops.

This blog is to be used as a diary to keep track of things loosely.