Get involved
If you’d like to get involved with Ada Lovelace Day, we’d love to have you! The most important thing you can do is to help us promote the pledge. We are just putting the finishing touches on some badges, buttons and banners, which you can use on your own website. We’ll add links here when they are done.
It would also be great if you to help out by doing some of these things too:
Send a Tweet, update your Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn status
Suggested text for a Tweet or status update:
Blog about a woman in technology or science you admire on Ada Lovelace Day, 24 Mar 2010, details at http://findingada.com (@findingada)
Of course, you can write whatever you like, just remember the pledge URL, http://findingada.com. If you want a shorter link, you can use this one: http://bit.ly/cCdcGq The hashtag for this year is #ALD10.
If you want to add a Twibbon to your Twitter avatar, there is one available. Please be aware that Twibbon will automatically send a Tweet to your Twitter account saying that you’ve just got yourself a Twibbon, though.
Write a blog post about Ada Lovelace Day
You can find out more about Ada Lovelace here on our about page as well as on Wikipedia. If you want to know about how Ada Lovelace Day started, you might find my first blog post about it useful and perhaps also the original pledge. Here’s a round up of Ada Lovelace Day 2009, and a link to last year’s list of participating blog posts. Wikipedia has two photos of Ada that you can use. Both are public domain (click for Wikipedia’s full-size images).
Email your friends and/or relevant mailing lists
If you have friends that you think might enjoy writing a blog post, or doing anything else, for Ada Lovelace Day, why not just send them a quick email and ask them to join the pledge? Equally, if you’re on any tech, science or women-in-tech-or-science mailing lists, and you feel that it would be appropriate, please do send them an email too pointing them to this site and asking them to sign up.
Post an item on LinkedIn or Facebook Groups
Again, if you’re in any tech, science or women-in-tech-or-science LinkedIn or Facebook Groups, why not post a small item about Ada Lovelace Day and point people here so they can sign up?
Encourage other people to do something to promote Ada Lovelace Day!
The more people we have telling their friends, colleagues, acquaintances, family and complete strangers about Ada Lovelace Day, the more likely we are to reach enough people to hit our target of 3072!
Do you know anyone influential?
If you know a tech- or sci-celeb or journalists covering this area, please drop them a line and see if you can convince them to mention/cover Ada Lovaelace Day!
Do you have any more ideas for activities that we can put on this page? Please let us know in the comments!
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I have an idea; maybe a bit cheesy but I think it would raise awareness:
Encourage people to use a photo of Ada as their profile picture on Facebook and to change their last name to Lovelace for the day — or use Lovelace as a middle name.
That may be an easy way for people without blogs to show their support for the cause and would catch people’s attention.
Sorry, should have been more clear: I mean to have people do this on March 24.
Hi –
The University of Bath Department of Computer Science has decided to name our new teaching laboratory \The Lovelace Lab\, and will open it on Ada Lovelace day (this latter was my idea, prompted by one of your emails, but the Department & University Administration are all over it.)
We should have press stuff up about this closer to the day, though so far there isn’t anything to point to or link to.
Meghan – good idea!
Joanna – excellent news! Please let me know when you have something online about it – suw.charman at gmail.com