Comments on: BarCamp Baltimore 2009

By: nevans

nevans — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:24:14 +0000

I'm very sad I missed Barcamp (and it would have been great to catch up with you, as well). Hopefully I'll be at the next one. At any rate, I did have a great day-before-father's-day trolling for Rockfish in the Chesapeake Bay with my wife and father-in-law (and I even have a fish-story about the enormous one that got away).

My current plan for directly contributing to the women-in-tech solution is to breed a female technophile or two of my own. I figure my wife and I are good stock for this. (I suppose this falls into the “Mentoring, Mentoring, Mentoring” category.) We'll see how that turns out in a decade or two. Keeping my big mouth shut when others can and should contribute is also a good step.

*MY* concrete takeaway from Barcamp Baltimore is that I need to do a better job with long-term scheduling, so I can have my barcamp and family fishing outings too.

By: ecogordo

ecogordo — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:12:59 +0000

Good insight. A lot of social gatherings like Green Drinks seem to be a majority female. Cross pollination between Greens and Geeks might be a good thing.

By: nevans

nevans — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:24:14 +0000

*MY* concrete takeaway from Barcamp Baltimore is that I need to do a better job with long-term scheduling, so I can have my barcamp and family fishing outings too.

By: ecogordo

ecogordo — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:12:59 +0000

Good insight. A lot of social gatherings like Green Drinks seem to be a majority female. Cross pollination between Greens and Geeks might be a good thing.

By: Nathan Powell

Nathan Powell — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:31:11 +0000

Wow, the hackerspace thing is so rad. I wish there was one in the Harrisburg area.