T-shirts now available!

March 17, 2010

We have finally got the design for the Ada Lovelace Day 2010 merchandise completed and have opened a Spreadshirt shop.

You can get various t-shirts for women, men and children, plus a mug and tote bag. If there are particularly styles of t-shirt or other bits of merch that you know Spreadshirt does that you [...]

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Ada Lovelace Day on Perpetual Notion Machine

March 17, 2010

If you’re in Madison, WI, you might like to tune in to the Perpetual Notion Machine show on WORT 89.9FM tomorrow, Thursday 18 March, at 7 PM Central Daylight Time to hear me talk about Ada Lovelace Day with Benet Devereux. If you want to, you can listen live over the internet or catch up [...]

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Two weeks to ALD10!

March 10, 2010

There are just two weeks to go until Ada Lovelace Day 2010, and we still have a fair few bloggers, Twitterers, podcasters, web comic artists, and videocasters to recruit. We have 1114 pledgers and need 1958 more people to sign up. That’s a challenge with only 14 days to go, but if everyone recruits just [...]

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Ada Lovelace Day 2010 t-shirt designs

February 21, 2010

The wonderful Sydney Padua, she of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage, has sketched out three possible t-shirts designs for us! Before she goes the whole hog and works up the sketches into proper designs, we thought it would be good to get an idea of which one is most popular, so please take [...]

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Time to pledge for Ada Lovelace Day 2010!

January 28, 2010

Thanks to TechnoPhobia, Stephanie Troeth, Stephanie Booth and the other Ada Lovelace Day volunteers, I’m happy to announce that the new Ada Lovelace Day Pledge is up and running! Please go and sign up, and join us on 24th March 2010 in celebrating your tech heroine. We are hoping to get 3072 people to sign [...]

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New Ada Lovelace Day Facebook group

January 15, 2010

I’ve just started a new Facebook group for Ada Lovelace Day. I won’t be creating a Facebook event this year, because we are in the process of creating a new website that will include the pledge and mapping functionality that we used Pledgebank/Facebook for last year. But I think it’ll be useful for all the [...]

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Byron and Babbage: A Calculating Story

October 5, 2009

Film maker Rosemarie Reed is putting together a feature-length film on Ada Byron Lovelace, called Byron and Babbage: A Calculating Story, and needs your help (especially if you’re in the United States.)
The film will be based on Ada’s letters and is, as Rosemarie describes it, “a documentary with some dramatic readings”. One of Rosemarie’s [...]

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Ada Lovelace Day recognised by Telegraph

September 24, 2009

It was really nice to see Ada Lovelace Day (in the form of me) recognised in the Telegraph’s list of The 50 Most Influential Britons in Technology yesterday. It’s good that the effort to bring more women in tech to the fore has been appreciated, and I feel quite chuffed to have been included on [...]

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The Women of Bletchley Park

August 7, 2009

Like me, you’ve probably seen documentaries about the codebreakers who were based at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. The story of Alan Turing, the father of modern computing, is a deservedly well known one, but it’s rare for us to hear about the thousands of women who also worked at Bletchley Park. These [...]

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Come and visit Bletchley Park – 26 July

July 4, 2009

I’ve been wanting to run a “Women of Bletchley Park” day for a while, and finally we have managed to get it sorted!
The day will include a tour of Bletchley Park by Jean Valentine, and a tour of the National Museum of Computing, including the Colossus and the Bombe. There will be a hands-on Enigma [...]

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