The wonderful double-x (and other) geek people that I know
Today is Ada Lovelace day, and somebody started a pledge to make bloggers of all genders tell their human readers (and all the bots) about the women that made a difference in tech, and more specific in computing/science/communication. Ada Lovelace was the first programmer, and she was a woman. Today with a majority of male people in the computer science field, it is hard to imagine how this environment could not be dominated by men and have the connotation of success, innovation and power. There were times when this was different and it could be different again.
Being in the men/women paradigm, or within the binary system of gender roles, it is natural that many point to successful or important women, where they are not as visible as the men. I think this is an important thing to do.
But I would like to emphasize the many people that I am lucky and happy to know, that try to get over this binary and discrimintating system of gender roles. Those who try to not make it matter. Those who encourage people to do stuff, to think and act in new ways. Regardless of whatever attributes they might have. Those who help each other out, and not make situations of giving or receiving help uncomfortable. Those who are knitting, guerilla gardening, communicating, tinkering with circuits and microcontrollers. Those who do hacking in all sorts of ways and different stages and situations in life. Those who want to make the world better, bit by bit. Those who live to learn.
So this blog post is to all my friends and those who care. Many of them are great minds, others are great tinkerers. Some are both. It is a gift to have met them. And it is a gift to learn from them and share my thoughts with those people. They are girls, grrlz, women, men, ladies, femmes, butches, in-betweens.
Tonight I will hopefully get to know more of these special people, tonight is the first geek girl dinner in Bergen.
Feel free to write about your or my geek friends in the comments. 
