Today is the Ada Lovelace Day - a day to celebrate women in technology and science.
Although I am not much into dividing people into groups based on gender, race, religion, etc, it is a very noticeable fact that there simply are too few women in technology. I noticed it since I first developed an interest for computers, I continued to notice it during the university (hey, in the first year there were maybe 10 girls out of 100 students!) and it is a regular fact in every job that I had. Usually, I was one of the few female programmers, sometimes the only one.
I would like to bring attention to one of my heroes from the BSD community: Dru Lavigne.
Dru is an authority in the BSD world. She is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor and technical writer. She has written several books on BSD, the most famous one, BSD Hacks I happen to own, and has been my reference for most things BSD. I’ve read it cover to cover several times during my early years when I was learning FreeBSD.
Dru writes regulary on her technical blog A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru