Hopper Conference – Panel Preparation

Carol Muller (MentorNet), Mary Jean Harrold (Georgia Tech), and I met tonight
at the Hopper Conference poster session and opening reception to make final
plans for our “Mentoring by the Numbers” panel tomorrow morning. It was hard
to talk for long because so many interesting people dropped by our table to visit.

I am sorry that our panel will be in the same time slot as Radia Perlman’s
talk “What’s a PKI, Why Would I Want One…”. I would have liked to have
heard that. Radia is always interesting.

It was a pleasure to meet tonight with some of the 30 Sun Engineers and
executives attending, particularly those who have not been to a Hopper
conference before. Watching them look in wonder at over a thousand
technical academic and professional women in the Golden Ballroom here at
San Diego’s Town and Country Convention Center was fun. So
many technical women work in groups where they are the only woman or
one of a very few. When the Hopper conference starts, it is hard not to
say to yourself “so that’s where all the other women are!”

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