The blogosphere was talking about getting women in technology recently[1]. I propose that we do our part and try to recruit more women to /prog/. Any ideas where to start?
Just about every tech forum or IRC channel has what I call "cyber beggars", people who are enthusiastic about technology and want help from people on how to get good at using it. This can be a good thing or it can be a bad thing depending on how much work people are willing to put in to study this stuff. The worst of these are people who just say "teach me how to program", "teach me how to hack", "teach me how to install XXX Linux". The better of these kind of people are the ones who simply ask advice and then follow up on it on their own. This builds communities of users who help each other. Surprisingly you can go a very long way to becoming tech literate by begging on public forums. But a person is really serious about this they are going to take classes to learn this stuff.