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 kmaher@wikimedia.org 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 < jsutherland@wikimedia.org> 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 kmaher@wikimedia.org wrote:
Let's be sure to socialize this.
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