I arrived earlier tonight in Orlando, Florida, to attend the
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing from today
through Saturday morning. Sun Microsystems is a Platinum Sponsor of the
conference. Sun has 10 panelists and BOF leaders as well as three of the
ten official bloggers.
Both of my flights were delayed. The most pleasant part of the trip
here was meeting the first woman cab driver I have ever had. An
auspicious start! The first person to meet me was
my daughter Jessica, also an official GHC blogger, whom I have
not seen since August when she went to college. It was a delight
to see her! We are rooming together and looking forward to
the visit as well as the conference.
I was one of the opening speakers tonight and I got to the hotel about 10
minutes before stepping up to the microphone. Robin Jeffries talked after
me and announced the 20th anniversary of
Systers, then
cut the huge chocolate Systers birthday cake. The introductory
remarks were followed by the reception and poster session.
I am still trying to make the network access in in our hotel room work.
Neither the wireless nor the cable work so far, so I am down in the
lobby using the wireless (which works fine). There are quite a
few other women sitting here in the lobby taking advantage of the
network access. Tomorrow is
our official Official Bloggers briefing but I want to get started
early. I took some good photos tonight which I will post as soon
as I get the mechanics of the hotel’s wireless sorted out.
Official
GHC 2007 Blogger. You may comment on this blog by visiting the
GHC Forum. You
can find me at
http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog.
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