Coming out of lurk mode

2006-03-08 Thread sjb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, While not new, I've been one of the...silent subscribers. 8) Am mostly known as alpha, although the name canuckiwi gets used here. Have been in IT for 10 years, having used various flavours of Linux exclusively for 9 of those. Am re-starting a s

Re: Why the Widening Gender Gap in Computer Science?

2008-11-21 Thread sjb
CS is a pretty damned broad definition (PDBD). Overall, there may be few women studying in the discipline, and it's natural to ask why, but nobody seems (unless there's an article I missed) to be asking about women's involvement in specific streams/ majors/ minors/ concentrations. Is/are the

Re: Why the Widening Gender Gap in Computer Science?

2008-11-25 Thread sjb
Jumping in again, as a Canadian citizen and NZ resident: Jordi, it's probably not a great idea to slag a country you don't live in yet. Wait until you've lived there for six months, and then see who you want to do fractals on. As for the NZ/Aus debate, my experience (so far) is that Aus is li