I think Grace Hopper would have thought open-source development to be great. She had a serious populist streak that would have resonated.
I'm not so certain she would admire a certain lack of discipline, but we might never know. She was not into complexification at all. This reminds me that I did know her in person, to the extent she knew me by name and wrote me a great at-a-boy letter once. I promised someone, while at the ACM Turing Centennial event to talk about that at a Seattle event and neither of us followed up about it. -----Original Message----- From: Billie Rinaldi [mailto:bil...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 12:15 To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Grace Hopper talk Hi ComDev, I wanted to let you know that I've volunteered to give a talk on getting involved with open source at the ASF for the upcoming Grace Hopper Conference (http://gracehopper.anitaborg.org). I was excited to hear the conference has an entire track on open source this year. Hopefully we will get some new people interested in the ASF! Billie
