Sounds good but I'm not 100% on how to fit that into a tweet. :) "STEM" is a term that might be alien to a lot of people (it certainly is to me).
• Happy Ada Lovelace Day, named after the leading figure for women in science, technology, engineering and maths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace • Happy Ada Lovelace Day, named after a computing pioneer and key figure for women in STEM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace On 13 October 2015 at 15:44, Katherine Maher <[email protected]> wrote: > Would like it if we can recognize her as leading figure for women in STEM, > as we're a tech organization that has diversity as a value. > > Other neat fact to share today: > > The computer language Ada > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)>, created on > behalf of the United States Department of Defense > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense>, was > named after Lovelace. > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Joe Sutherland < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> • Happy Ada Lovelace Day, named after the writer of the world's first >> "computer program" in 1843 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace >> >> Perhaps? >> >> On 13 October 2015 at 15:28, Katherine Maher <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Let's be sure to socialize this. >>> >>> http://findingada.com/ >>> >>> -- >>> Katherine Maher >>> Chief Communications Officer >>> Wikimedia Foundation >>> 149 New Montgomery Street >>> San Francisco, CA 94105 >>> >>> +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 >>> +1 (415) 712 4873 >>> [email protected] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Social-media mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Joe Sutherland* >> Communications Intern [remote] >> m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: >> JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > > > -- > Katherine Maher > Chief Communications Officer > Wikimedia Foundation > 149 New Montgomery Street > San Francisco, CA 94105 > > +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 > +1 (415) 712 4873 > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- *Joe Sutherland* Communications Intern [remote] m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)>
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